Research
Entities in constant redefinition
For OCE researchers, organizations are entities in constant redefinition and must therefore be questioned continuously, particularly to nurture the consciousness and reflexivity of those who can influence their destinies.
Our research focuses on questioning dominant representations, investigating power mechanisms, and understanding individual and ordinary experiences. These works aim to develop a critical analysis of contemporary productive ethos focused on systematic profit, evaluation and measurement.
One of OCE’s orientations is to analyze the impact of organizational transformations on both individual and collective experiences.
Another perspective is to explore alternatives to contemporary management, promoting development and emancipation, and thereby allowing a greater number of interests to be taken into account.
OCE Papers – Publications (sélection):
Pénurie de logements pour les étudiants : et si la France s’inspirait du modèle coopératif ?
Buchter, Lisa (2024). https://theconversation.com/penurie-de-logements-pour-les-etudiants-et-si-la-france-sinspirait-du-modele-cooperatif-222662
Dance Your Ph.D.
Hernández Castro, G. Z., Kervyn, N., Mandalaki, E., Pérezts, M., Gómez Zúñiga, R. A. et Rojas Pérez, S. G. (2024). “Dance Your Ph.D.” in VideoConfeDance: Developing a Blended-Method Dance Workshop for the Popularization of Science Through Choreography. Revue...
Fulfilling the process promise in new venture creation research: The ethnography/accelerator approach
Collecting fine-grained, longitudinal data to study new venture creation (NVC) is critical but empirically challenging given the partly invisible, collective, and highly discursive nature of NVC. This article offers the ethnography/accelerator approach as one powerful...
Dumont, G. (2023) “Under threat”: The role of threat in ethnographic fieldwork. Qualitative Research. (Online first).
I make two points about the role of threats for ethnographic fieldwork in contexts suffused by interpersonal violence. First, the experience of implicit and explicit threats operates as a powerful cultural agent that significantly transforms fieldworkers’ relationship...
De Marco Stefano, Dumont Guillaume, Helsper Ellen, Díaz-Guerra Alejandro, Antino Mirko, Rodríguez-Muñoz Alfredo and Martínez-Cantos José-Luis (2023) Jobless and burnt out: digital inequality and online access to the labor market. Social Inclusion, 11 (4). 184 – 197.
We look at how inequalities in digital skills shape the outcomes of online job‐seeking processes. Building on a representative survey of Spanish job seekers, we show that people with high digital skill levels have a greater probability of securing a job online,...
Buchter, Lisa (2023)“Addressing Racism and Islamophobia under the Rules of Colorblindness: When Social Movements Engage in Category Work to Reform the Meanings of Regulatory Categories.” Strategic Organization, 21 (1): 149-185.
Research at the intersection of social movements and categories has stressed how movements initiate and transform categories that influence the emergence, downfall, and restructuring of markets and industries. Yet, this literature tends to underestimate how social...
Buchter, Lisa (2023). Militer de l’intérieur: Les stratégies des réseaux professionnels LGBT. Travail, genre et sociétés, 49(1), 65–81.
En dépit de l’essor des politiques diversité en France depuis les années 2000, peu d’entreprises et d’administrations se sont saisies des questions de lutte contre l’homophobie et la transphobie. Fondé sur une analyse textuelle et longitudinale d’archives complétée...
Lobbedez, Elise and Lisa Buchter (2023) “The strength of pushbacks, Collective Identity In A Fragmented Mass Movement. Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 28(1), 61–88.
This article examines how social movement actors can forge and sustain a collective identity despite heterogeneous backgrounds and the absence of pre-existing commonalities and networks. Based on an ethnography of the French yellow vest movement, we build on the...
Younes D. (2023), “Stigmatizing Commoning: How neoliberal hegemony eroded collective ability to deal with scarcity in Lebanon”, Gender Work and Organizations, 1-19
This paper examines how neoliberalism impedes the emergence of alternative organizations. Via a mix of (auto-)ethnography and memory work, it explains how neoliberal values replacing more traditional ones eroded the collective capacity to bring solutions to scarcity...
Clavijo N., Perray-Redslob L., Mandalaki E. (2023). “Cracking a brick in the master’s house: counter practices as counter-accounts of difference and survival”, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, DOI 10.1108/AAAJ-07-2022-5936
Purpose – This paper aims to examine how an alternative accounting system developed by a marginalised group of women enables them to counter oppressive systems built at the intersections of gender, class and race. Design/methodology/approach – The authors draw on...
Pérezts, M. (2022). Unlearning organized numbness through poetic synesthesia: A study in scarlet. Management Learning, 53(4), 652–674.
I define “organized numbness” as the organized inability to perceive sensations, a learned desensitization operating in the way our (1) bodies, (2) language, and (3) knowledge are organized. I propose poetic synesthesia’s power to associate several sensory perceptions...
Mandalaki, E., & Pérezts, M. (2023). “Abjection overruled! Time to dismantle sexist cyberbullying in academia”. Organization, 30(1), 168–180
In this essay, we draw on a personal experience of sexist cyberbullying unleashed, on social media, against one of our academic papers, to act up against increasing instances of cybersexism, in the academy. Reading our experience in the context of feminist insights on...
Pérezts, M. & Mandalaki, E. (2023) “Unsilencing silence on business school sexism: a behind-the-scenes narration on regaining voice”, Gender, Work & Organization
Abstract Unsilencing sexism-related silence is not a new need, particularly in academic institutions heavily imbued with patriarchy, where sexist events are often ignored or denigrated. In this paper, we draw on a sexist cyberbullying attack unleashed against part of...
2022 Brochard D., Cottineau C., Didry C., Dupuy C., Giordano D., Simha J. « La négociation d’entreprise en pratiques. Pluralité des configurations et stratégies des acteurs », Socio-économie du travail, 2021-2,10, pp 65-94.
L’abstract La promotion de la négociation collective d’entreprise est au cœur des réformes successives du système français de relations professionnelles. L’objectif affiché est celui de l’instauration d’une régulation de proximité, permettant de construire des...
2023 Didry C., Giordano D. « Extension du domaine de la négociation d’entreprise. La négociation d’entreprise sous l’emprise du groupe ? », La revue de l’IRES, 107-108/2022, pp. 41-69.
L’abstract Les réformes de 2016 (loi El Khomri) et 2017-2018 (ordonnances et loi de ratification) ont aménagé les notions mêmes de négociation et de convention d’entreprise en ajoutant le niveau du groupe à ceux de l’« entreprise » et de l’établissement. Partant d’une...
2023 Dumont, G., De Marco, S., & Elsper, E. Online job search discouragement: How employment platforms and digital exclusion shape the experience of low-qualified job seekers? New Technologies Work and Employment. (In press).
L’abstract How do people experience the platform-mediated job search process? As part of a broader mixed-methods study on digital inequality and the job search process in Spain, we explore this question based on a small sample of in-depth interviews (n = 20) with...
Dumont, G. (2023). The Janus face of organizational knowing. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. (Online first).
L’abstract This article challenges our current understanding of the role of knowing for organizational participation by discussing how, and under which circumstances, knowing hinders participation instead of fostering it. Drawing upon 18 months of fieldwork at a...
Mascena Barbosa, A & Dumont, G. A New Understanding of the Role of Self‑oriented Motivations in the Creation of Social Enterprises. Journal of Business Ethics. Online First.
L’abstract Drawing on two long-term ethnographic fieldworks with social entrepreneurs, this article starts to uncover the multi-layered nature of the motivations underlying the creation of social enterprises. We investigate the following research question: what types...
Buchter, Lisa (2023). “Addressing Racism and Islamophobia under the Rules of Colorblindness: When Social Movements Engage in Category Work to Reform the Meanings of Regulatory Categories.” Strategic Organization, 21 (1): 149-185
L’abstract Research at the intersection of social movements and categories has stressed how movements initiate and transform categories that influence the emergence, downfall, and restructuring of markets and industries. Yet, this literature tends to underestimate how...
Buchter, L., M. Guinchard, & A. Le Roux (2022). “Remettre les vieilles de la marge au centre avec une recherche participative.” Nouvelles Questions Féministes, 41 (1): 83–99
L’abstract This article explores how women, and especially old women, after being rendered invisible were brought back into the spotlight through a participatory action research project designed to rethink how solidarity can increase self-reliance during old age in...
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