Bernard Leca
Biographic Data
| ID | 1316914 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernard Leca |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernard |
| FAMILY NAME | Leca |
| SIGNATURE | LECA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | École Supérieure des Sciences Économiques et Commerciales |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Expanding public sector performance measurement and management research with actor-centred approaches in new institutionalism
Purpose In his 2022 paper, in the Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management , Sven Modell reviews and reflects on the public sector's institutional research dealing with performance measurement and management (PMM) over the past decade. Modell suggests potential extensions of this body of research. This paper seeks to contribute to the path that Modell initiated. It offers directions in which institutional theory might cont…
Organized Decoupling of Management Control Systems
Designing Ethical Management Control
Enabling critical performativity
Critical performativity has become a promising notion for critical scholars who want to have concrete impact on society. Although the number of studies contributing to this literature has significantly increased in recent years, most of them are still restricted to theoretical debates. Rarely are those who have analyzed empirical cases and explored the institutional context that strengthen or limit the chances of critical projects to be successfu…
Justification, Evaluation and Critique in the Study of Organizations
Prelims -- Introduction -- Managing organizational pluralism : how individuals navigate moral contradictions and compromise -- Looking at organizations critically : rhetoric, justification and criticism-as-practice -- Reconsidering valuation and evaluation in organizations -- Pushing the boundaries of pragmatic sociology's theoretical agenda -- Index
Is corporate social responsibility a new spirit of capitalism
Our study casts doubt on whether the managerial literature on corporate social responsibility is currently capable of developing a persuasive discourse to bring about change in corporate capitalism. By applying the framework and methodology of the spirit of capitalism, introduced by Boltanski and Chiapello, to a corpus of managerial books, we suggest that corporate social responsibility exhibits the core characteristics that together exemplify th…
Animated Times
Recent research has pointed to the challenge facing recurrent field-configuring events (FCEs) in trying to remain dominant in their fields over sustained periods. Based on a revelatory historical case study of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, the leading FCE in its field, this paper explores how a field-configuring role can be maintained over time. We focus specifically on the FCE organization, and highlight the importance of cri…
Pour une approche par les ressources et les compétences du travail institutionnel
Cette note de recherche propose de prendre en compte les ressources et les compétences impliquées dans le travail institutionnel. En partant de la littérature existante nous identifions quatre phases du travail institutionnel. Pour chacune de ces phases nous identifions l’usage de ressources et de compétences utiles à leur bon déroulement. Les problèmes posés, et les perspectives de recherche futures ouvertes, par un rapprochement entre approche …
Building ‘Critical Performativity Engines’ for deprived communities
Although worker cooperatives offer an organizational model that critical management scholars could adopt to demonstrate the utility of their normative ideals, little is known about how academia can contribute to the creation of worker cooperatives. Building on the concept of performativity and the case of the Technological Incubators for Popular Cooperatives in Brazil, we provide an account of constructing incubators for worker cooperatives acros…
Institutional Work
The study of institutional work has emerged as a dynamic research domain within organization studies. In this essay, we situate the papers published in the Special Issue. We first review the evolution of institutional work as a scholarly conversation within organization studies. We then introduce the papers in the Special Issue, focusing in particular on where they fit into the current scholarly conversation and how they move us in important new …
Institutional Work
In this paper, we discuss an alternative focus for institutional studies of organization - the study of institutional work. Research on institutional work examines the practices of individual and collective actors aimed at creating, maintaining, and disrupting institutions. Our focus in this paper is on the distinctiveness of institutional work as a field of study and the potential it provides for the examination of new questions. We argue that r…
Institutional Work
The 'institutional' approach to organizational research has shown how enduring features of social life - such as marriage and bureaucracy - act as mechanisms of social control. Such approaches have traditionally focused attention on the relationships between organizations and the fields in which they operate, providing strong accounts of the processes through which institutions govern action. In contrast, the study of institutional work reorients…
Introduction
T he concept of institutional work describes “the purposive action of individuals and organizations aimed at creating, maintaining and disrupting institutions” (Lawrence & Suddaby, 2006: 215). Institutional work represents an exciting direction for institutional studies of organization, not because it represents a “new” idea, but because it connects a set of previously disparate ideas, and in doing so points to new questions and opens up space fo…
How Actors Change Institutions
As well as review the literature on the notion of institutional entrepreneurship introduced by Paul DiMaggio in 1988, we propose a model of the process of institutional entrepreneurship. We first present theoretical and definitional issues associated with the concept and propose a conceptual account of institutional entrepreneurship that helps to accommodate them. We then present the different phases of the process of institutional entrepreneursh…
Analysing, Accounting for and Unmasking Domination
Over the last 30 years, there has been an increasing interest in organizational analysis for the work of Pierre Bourdieu. However, the consequent body of literature often lacks an integrated comprehension of Bourdieusian theory and therefore fails to fully exploit its potentialities. In this essay, we argue for a more systematic engagement with the work of Bourdieu by organizational scholars and emphasize the opportunity to develop cumulative res…
L'évolution des lieux de la concurrence
L’évolution récente du marché de l’art contemporain est intéressante à plus d’un titre. Tout d’abord, concernant les sommes d’argent en jeu, les prix des œuvres des artistes nés après 1945 ont augmenté de 132 % entre 1991 et 2008, alors que le produit des ventes mondiales d’art actuel sur la période juin 2007-juillet 2008 a atteint 980 millions d’euros, en progression de 50 % sur un an pour un volume de transactions relativement stable (données A…
A Critical Realist Approach To Institutional Entrepreneurship
Recent works in institutional analysis have challenged the traditional deterministic view, whereby institutional pressures explain actors’ actions and behaviours, and have called for the restoration of agency to this analysis. This presents institutional analysis with a major challenge: how to consider simultaneously the influence of both actors’ actions and the structures in which they are embedded, without conflating them? This issue is especia…
Measuring the Unmeasured
The organizational literature on emerging industries has emphasized the need for institutional entrepreneurs - actors who give the new activity legitimacy and determine its patterns of behaviour. However, little empirical research has been carried out on the strategies that institutional entrepreneurs employ in order to achieve legitimacy for their activity. In this article, we suggest that an institutional entrepreneur can use the development of…
Architecture de marché et régulation dans l'exploitation cinématographique française
Cultural activities depend upon organizations ruled by strict regulations either public or parapublic. One can conclude that these organizations severely constrained are limited by a narrow freedom of manoeuvers. The analysis of the French cinematographic industry tends to prove the contrary. The main actors of this industry, actually build the space in which they develop their sophisticated strategies through interactions and negociations, not o…
Measuring the Unmeasured
The organizational literature on emerging industries has emphasized the need for institutional entrepreneurs - actors who give the new activity legitimacy and determine its patterns of behaviour. However, little empirical research has been carried out on the strategies that institutional entrepreneurs employ in order to achieve legitimacy for their activity. In this article, we suggest that an institutional entrepreneur can use the development of…
Justification, Evaluation and Critique in the Study of Organizations
Prelims -- Introduction -- Managing organizational pluralism : how individuals navigate moral contradictions and compromise -- Looking at organizations critically : rhetoric, justification and criticism-as-practice -- Reconsidering valuation and evaluation in organizations -- Pushing the boundaries of pragmatic sociology's theoretical agenda -- Index
Architecture de marché et régulation dans l'exploitation cinématographique française
Cultural activities depend upon organizations ruled by strict regulations either public or parapublic. One can conclude that these organizations severely constrained are limited by a narrow freedom of manoeuvers. The analysis of the French cinematographic industry tends to prove the contrary. The main actors of this industry, actually build the space in which they develop their sophisticated strategies through interactions and negociations, not o…
Measuring the Unmeasured
The organizational literature on emerging industries has emphasized the need for institutional entrepreneurs - actors who give the new activity legitimacy and determine its patterns of behaviour. However, little empirical research has been carried out on the strategies that institutional entrepreneurs employ in order to achieve legitimacy for their activity. In this article, we suggest that an institutional entrepreneur can use the development of…
A Critical Realist Approach To Institutional Entrepreneurship
Recent works in institutional analysis have challenged the traditional deterministic view, whereby institutional pressures explain actors’ actions and behaviours, and have called for the restoration of agency to this analysis. This presents institutional analysis with a major challenge: how to consider simultaneously the influence of both actors’ actions and the structures in which they are embedded, without conflating them? This issue is especia…
Institutional Work
The 'institutional' approach to organizational research has shown how enduring features of social life - such as marriage and bureaucracy - act as mechanisms of social control. Such approaches have traditionally focused attention on the relationships between organizations and the fields in which they operate, providing strong accounts of the processes through which institutions govern action. In contrast, the study of institutional work reorients…
Introduction
T he concept of institutional work describes “the purposive action of individuals and organizations aimed at creating, maintaining and disrupting institutions” (Lawrence & Suddaby, 2006: 215). Institutional work represents an exciting direction for institutional studies of organization, not because it represents a “new” idea, but because it connects a set of previously disparate ideas, and in doing so points to new questions and opens up space fo…
How Actors Change Institutions
As well as review the literature on the notion of institutional entrepreneurship introduced by Paul DiMaggio in 1988, we propose a model of the process of institutional entrepreneurship. We first present theoretical and definitional issues associated with the concept and propose a conceptual account of institutional entrepreneurship that helps to accommodate them. We then present the different phases of the process of institutional entrepreneursh…
Analysing, Accounting for and Unmasking Domination
Over the last 30 years, there has been an increasing interest in organizational analysis for the work of Pierre Bourdieu. However, the consequent body of literature often lacks an integrated comprehension of Bourdieusian theory and therefore fails to fully exploit its potentialities. In this essay, we argue for a more systematic engagement with the work of Bourdieu by organizational scholars and emphasize the opportunity to develop cumulative res…
L'évolution des lieux de la concurrence
L’évolution récente du marché de l’art contemporain est intéressante à plus d’un titre. Tout d’abord, concernant les sommes d’argent en jeu, les prix des œuvres des artistes nés après 1945 ont augmenté de 132 % entre 1991 et 2008, alors que le produit des ventes mondiales d’art actuel sur la période juin 2007-juillet 2008 a atteint 980 millions d’euros, en progression de 50 % sur un an pour un volume de transactions relativement stable (données A…
Institutional Work
In this paper, we discuss an alternative focus for institutional studies of organization - the study of institutional work. Research on institutional work examines the practices of individual and collective actors aimed at creating, maintaining, and disrupting institutions. Our focus in this paper is on the distinctiveness of institutional work as a field of study and the potential it provides for the examination of new questions. We argue that r…
Institutional Work
The study of institutional work has emerged as a dynamic research domain within organization studies. In this essay, we situate the papers published in the Special Issue. We first review the evolution of institutional work as a scholarly conversation within organization studies. We then introduce the papers in the Special Issue, focusing in particular on where they fit into the current scholarly conversation and how they move us in important new …
Building ‘Critical Performativity Engines’ for deprived communities
Although worker cooperatives offer an organizational model that critical management scholars could adopt to demonstrate the utility of their normative ideals, little is known about how academia can contribute to the creation of worker cooperatives. Building on the concept of performativity and the case of the Technological Incubators for Popular Cooperatives in Brazil, we provide an account of constructing incubators for worker cooperatives acros…
Animated Times
Recent research has pointed to the challenge facing recurrent field-configuring events (FCEs) in trying to remain dominant in their fields over sustained periods. Based on a revelatory historical case study of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, the leading FCE in its field, this paper explores how a field-configuring role can be maintained over time. We focus specifically on the FCE organization, and highlight the importance of cri…
Pour une approche par les ressources et les compétences du travail institutionnel
Cette note de recherche propose de prendre en compte les ressources et les compétences impliquées dans le travail institutionnel. En partant de la littérature existante nous identifions quatre phases du travail institutionnel. Pour chacune de ces phases nous identifions l’usage de ressources et de compétences utiles à leur bon déroulement. Les problèmes posés, et les perspectives de recherche futures ouvertes, par un rapprochement entre approche …
Is corporate social responsibility a new spirit of capitalism
Our study casts doubt on whether the managerial literature on corporate social responsibility is currently capable of developing a persuasive discourse to bring about change in corporate capitalism. By applying the framework and methodology of the spirit of capitalism, introduced by Boltanski and Chiapello, to a corpus of managerial books, we suggest that corporate social responsibility exhibits the core characteristics that together exemplify th…
Justification, Evaluation and Critique in the Study of Organizations
Prelims -- Introduction -- Managing organizational pluralism : how individuals navigate moral contradictions and compromise -- Looking at organizations critically : rhetoric, justification and criticism-as-practice -- Reconsidering valuation and evaluation in organizations -- Pushing the boundaries of pragmatic sociology's theoretical agenda -- Index
Designing Ethical Management Control
Enabling critical performativity
Critical performativity has become a promising notion for critical scholars who want to have concrete impact on society. Although the number of studies contributing to this literature has significantly increased in recent years, most of them are still restricted to theoretical debates. Rarely are those who have analyzed empirical cases and explored the institutional context that strengthen or limit the chances of critical projects to be successfu…
Organized Decoupling of Management Control Systems
Expanding public sector performance measurement and management research with actor-centred approaches in new institutionalism
Purpose In his 2022 paper, in the Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management , Sven Modell reviews and reflects on the public sector's institutional research dealing with performance measurement and management (PMM) over the past decade. Modell suggests potential extensions of this body of research. This paper seeks to contribute to the path that Modell initiated. It offers directions in which institutional theory might cont…
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (15 works) · Social science (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Institutional theory (6 works) · Accounting and Organizational Management (5 works) · Business (5 works)