C Hardy
Biographic Data
| ID | 244206 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Hardy |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Hardy |
| SIGNATURE | HARDY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2612-7304 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 521 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
« Attrape-moi si tu peux ! »: Proposition méthodologique de capture de logiques institutionnelles en matière d’engagement social au sein du sport professionnel français
La création de Structures Dédiées à l’Engagement Social (SDES) telles que les fondations et/ou les fonds de dotation par les clubs professionnels français pour développer leur stratégie sociétale est une pratique en voie d’institutionnalisation. Ce phénomène questionne le(s) rôle(s) de ces SDES, raison pour laquelle nous mobilisons le concept de logiques institutionnelles (LI), emprunté à la théorie néo-institutionnelle, afin de montrer comment l…
La transition des politiques culturelles territoriales
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Struggling to make sense of it all: The emotional process of sensemaking following an extreme incident
Organizations operating in extreme contexts regularly face dangerous incidents they can neither prevent nor easily control. In such circumstances, successful sensemaking can mean the difference between life and death. But what happens afterwards? Our study of emergency management practitioners following a major bushfire reveals a process of post-incident sensemaking during which practitioners continue to make sense of the incident after it ends, …
The Discourse of Risk and Processes of Institutional Change: The Case of Green Chemistry
In this chapter the authors explore the role that the dominant discourse of risk has played in the processes of institutional change that have taken place in the field of chemistry as a result of the emergence and expansion of “green” chemistry. The aim of green chemistry is to replace hazardous substances with benign ones so as to eliminate chemical risks to human health and the environment. They show how significant institutional changes have o…
The Routledge Companion to Risk, Crisis and Emergency Management
Commercial gambling activities, as they currently exist on the market, are a product of rationalized decision-making, not only by individual consumers, who have a choice in whether or not to take part in such a risky activity, but also by operators, ocials and politicians, who have choices in whether or not and under which conditions to oer gambling opportunities. Social actors in all of these categories are involved in gambling ventures against …
Institutional Entrepreneurship and Change in Fields
The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism brings together extensive coverage of aspects of Institutional Theory and an array of top academic contributors.
Organizations: Authority and Power
What’s Age Got to Do With It? On the Critical Analysis of Age and Organizations
Age, as an embodied identity and as an organizing principle, has received scant attention in organization studies. There is a lack of critical appreciation of how age plays out in organizational settings, the material and discursive dynamics of age practices, how age discourses impact on the body, and how age and ageing intersect with other identity categories. This is curious since age works as a master signifier in contemporary society and is s…
Conclusion: Representations
Readers beware: Provocation, problematization and … problems
In their recent Human Relations article and subsequent rejoinder to three commentators, Alvesson and Kärreman make a number of assertions concerning the development of organizational discourse analysis and the current state of research in this area. We believe their emphasis on provocation results in an unsatisfactory problematization of discourse-based work with the result that there are significant problems with both their analysis of the liter…
Discourse, Field-Configuring Events, and Change in Organizations and Institutional Fields: Narratives of DDT and the Stockholm Convention
We explore the discursive processes through which a field-configuring event can change an institutional field and organizations. Our case study is of the United Nations conference leading to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, which established new global regulations for several dangerous chemicals but excepted the insecticide DDT. Our study highlights how the production, distribution, and consumption of texts in the multip…
Discourse and Deinstitutionalization: The Decline of DDT
Drawing on institutional theory emphasizing translation and discourse, we explore outsider-driven deinstitutionalization through a case study of the abandonment of widespread, taken-for-granted practices of DDT use between 1962 and 1972. Our findings illustrate how abandonment of practices results from "problematizations" that—through subsequent "translation"—change discourse in ways that undermine the institutional pillars supporting practices. …
Mind over body: Physical and psychotherapeutic discourses and the regulation of the older worker
We examine how physical and psychotherapeutic discourses regulate the identity work of older workers. We show that they have separate effects: physical discourse inferred that the loss of work for older workers would be permanent whereas psychotherapeutic discourse suggested that the solution to unemployment lay in the mind of older workers themselves. They also have combined effects through the notion of grief: older workers are expected to prog…
Reflecting on Reflexivity: Reflexive Textual Practices in Organization and Management Theory
This paper identifies four sets of textual practices that researchers in the field of organization and management theory (OMT) have used in their attempts to be reflexive. We characterize them as multi‐perspective, multi‐voicing, positioning and destabilizing. We show how each set of practices can help to produce reflexive research, but also how each embodies limitations and paradoxes. Finally, we consider the interplay among these sets of practi…
Institutional Entrepreneurship
The Enterprising Self: An Unsuitable Job for an Older Worker
The discourse of enterprise has permeated contemporary society with significant implications for government, organizations and individuals alike. In particular, enterprise prescribes an ideal identity, that of the `enterprising self'. This study examines the ability of the older worker to become part of this enterprise culture through the analysis of an Australian government inquiry. Our findings show that certain categories of identity—such as o…
Institutional Entrepreneurship as Embedded Agency: An Introduction to the Special Issue
We are delighted to introduce this special issue of Organization Studies ,t he purpose of which is to develop a deeper understanding of the concept of institutional entrepreneurship and to offer new avenues for future research. This concept has been attracting considerable attention in recent years, as was reflected in the record number of papers that were submitted - the largest number that this journal has received for any of its special issues…
The Sage Handbook of Organization Studies
Some Dare Call it Power
Power has typically been seen as the ability to get others to do what you want them to, if necessary, against their will (Weber 1978). This seemingly simple definition, which presents the negative, rather than the positive, aspects of power has been challenged, amended, critiqued, extended and rebuffed over the years but it, nonetheless, remains the statting point for a remarkably diverse body of literature. Behind it lies a series of important s…
Representation and Reflexivity
Discourse and Collaboration: The Role of Conversations and Collective Identity
We explore the relationship between discourse and interorganizational collaboration, arguing that interorganizational collaboration can be understood as the product of sets of conversations that draw on existing discourses. Specifically, we argue that effective collaboration, which we define as cooperative, interorganizational action that produces innovative, synergistic solutions and balances divergent stakeholder concerns, emerges out of a two-…
Discourse and Institutions
In this paper, we argue that the processes underlying institutionalization have not been adequately investigated and that discourse analysis provides a coherent framework for such investigation.Accordingly, we develop a discursive model of institutionalization that highlights the relationship between texts, discourse, institutions and action.Our model begins with the relationship between action and discourse, and argues that action primarily affe…
Institutional Entrepreneurship in Emerging Fields: Hiv/Aids Treatment Advocacy in Canada.
In a qualitative study of the emerging field of HIV/AIDS treatment advocacy in Canada, we found that institutional entrepreneurship involved three sets of critical activities: (1) the occupation of “subject positions” that have wide legitimacy and bridge diverse stakeholders, (2) the theorization of new practices through discursive and political means, and (3) the institutionalization of these new practices by connecting them to stakeholders’ rou…
Scaling up and Bearing Down in Discourse Analysis: Questions Regarding Textual Agencies and Their Context
This paper assesses the contributions that discourse analysis and organizational discourse theory can make to our understanding of organization and organizing. By clarifying the theoretical assumptions that underpin this work, especially its social constructivist credentials, it is possible to show the potential of this methodology. A discursive approach can help answer a series of questions that interest organizational theorists: the constitutio…
The Sage Handbook of Organizational Discourse
Institutional Entrepreneurship as Embedded Agency: An Introduction to the Special Issue
We are delighted to introduce this special issue of Organization Studies ,t he purpose of which is to develop a deeper understanding of the concept of institutional entrepreneurship and to offer new avenues for future research. This concept has been attracting considerable attention in recent years, as was reflected in the record number of papers that were submitted - the largest number that this journal has received for any of its special issues…
Discourse as a Strategic Resource
In this article, we outline a model of how discourse can be mobilized as a strategic resource. The model consists of three circuits. First, in circuits of activity, individuals attempt to introduce new discursive statements, through the use of symbols, narratives, metaphors, etc. aimed at evoking concepts to create particular objects. These activities must intersect with circuits of performativity. This occurs when, for example, concepts are cont…
Managing Multiple Identities: Discourse, Legitimacy and Resources in the UK Refugee System
In this article, we examine how the concept of a `refugee' is discursively constituted within the UK refugee system. We examine the actions and interactions of four organizations in particular: the British government, the Refugee Legal Centre, the British Refugee Council and the Refugee Forum, as they struggle to establish an understanding of `refugee' conducive to their goals and interests. Within this institutional field, the social constructio…
The Power Behind Empowerment: Implications for Research and Practice
The 1990s have been called the "empowerment era," yet growing evidence suggests that empowerment programs often fail to meet the expectations of both managers and employees. To provide a better understanding as to why empowerment programs often fail and to suggest how such failures may be averted, we examine the power behind empowerment. Ironically, although power and empowerment are inextricably linked, much of the work on empowerment in the bus…
Reflexivity in Organization and Management Theory: A Study of the Production of the Research `Subject
In this article, we draw on actor-network theory (ANT) to reflexively investigate the role of the researcher and the research community in the production of a research subject. We review our earlier work, which explores how the dynamics of refugee systems help to produce the research subject - in this case, the refugee. We then use ideas from ANT to move beyond the more conventional institutional and discursive analyses that are used in these art…
Critical discourse analysis and identity: Why bother
Critical discourse analysis (CDA) and other forms of discourse analysis are regularly used to study identity, but rarely do researchers systematically compare and contrast them with other theories to identify exactly what a discursive approach contributes. In this paper, we take the example of a particular identity – the older worker – and systematically compare the contribution of CDA with other approaches, including economics, labour market res…
Mind over body: Physical and psychotherapeutic discourses and the regulation of the older worker
We examine how physical and psychotherapeutic discourses regulate the identity work of older workers. We show that they have separate effects: physical discourse inferred that the loss of work for older workers would be permanent whereas psychotherapeutic discourse suggested that the solution to unemployment lay in the mind of older workers themselves. They also have combined effects through the notion of grief: older workers are expected to prog…
Struggling to make sense of it all: The emotional process of sensemaking following an extreme incident
Organizations operating in extreme contexts regularly face dangerous incidents they can neither prevent nor easily control. In such circumstances, successful sensemaking can mean the difference between life and death. But what happens afterwards? Our study of emergency management practitioners following a major bushfire reveals a process of post-incident sensemaking during which practitioners continue to make sense of the incident after it ends, …
Readers beware: Provocation, problematization and … problems
In their recent Human Relations article and subsequent rejoinder to three commentators, Alvesson and Kärreman make a number of assertions concerning the development of organizational discourse analysis and the current state of research in this area. We believe their emphasis on provocation results in an unsatisfactory problematization of discourse-based work with the result that there are significant problems with both their analysis of the liter…
Refugee Determination: Power and Resistance in Systems of Foucauldian Power
This article examines the dynamics of power in refugee determination systems in three countries. It challenges both the view that determination systems encompass rational decision-making processes and the critical view that sees determination procedures as an instrument of the state. It argues that if we use a Foucauldian analysis of power, we are better placed to understand how refugee systems work and to understand the implications for differen…
Configuration and Strategy Making in Universities: Broadening the Scope
This article examines configuration and strategy making in universities. Previous work has often focused on the university as a generic form of professional organization. This study attempts to broaden the scope of existing frameworks by using the concept of configuration to illustrate university forms that differ from the professional bureaucracy and provide a mechanism that facilitates comparisons between different institutions. The second part…
Management in the NHS: Using Politics Effectively
A "Comic" History of America
Responses to industrial closure
From a high point in the early seventies resistance to plant closure, especially in the form of the occupation, progressively declined throughout the rest of the decade. This article attempts to explain this trend in terms of changing socioeconomic contexts and management strategies.
Fighting cutbacks: Some issues for public sector administrators
Administrators of many publicly funded organizations are facing the need to implement cutbacks in the light of current budgetary restrictions. An alternative or supplementary course of action to making cuts is to resist them. This article examines four organizations ‐ a Montreal university, a Montreal social service centre and two British health authorities ‐ to see how they dealt with this issue of resistance. Resisting cutbacks requires the use…
Management in the NHS: Using Politics Effectively
Managing Organisational Closure
La gestion des restrictions budgétaires dans les universités: Deux Expériences Canadiennes
Des cinq universités canadiennes qu'elle a étudiées de manière empirique, qualitative et approfondie, Fauteur choisit de comparer les stratégies de restriction des coûts adoptées par les universités de Toronto et McGill face à la diminution des fonds publics décidée par les gouvernements provinciaux. Il apparaît que le mode de fonctionnement de chacun des établissements avant les restrictions budgétaires, collégial à McGill et plus politique et c…
Configuration and Strategy Making in Universities: Broadening the Scope
This article examines configuration and strategy making in universities. Previous work has often focused on the university as a generic form of professional organization. This study attempts to broaden the scope of existing frameworks by using the concept of configuration to illustrate university forms that differ from the professional bureaucracy and provide a mechanism that facilitates comparisons between different institutions. The second part…
Managing Multiple Identities: Discourse, Legitimacy and Resources in the UK Refugee System
In this article, we examine how the concept of a `refugee' is discursively constituted within the UK refugee system. We examine the actions and interactions of four organizations in particular: the British government, the Refugee Legal Centre, the British Refugee Council and the Refugee Forum, as they struggle to establish an understanding of `refugee' conducive to their goals and interests. Within this institutional field, the social constructio…
Handbook of Organization Studies
Strategies of Engagement: Lessons from the Critical Examination of Collaboration and Conflict in an Interorganizational Domain
Many writers advocate interorganizational collaboration as a solution to a range of organizational and intersectoral problems. Accordingly, they often concentrate on its functional aspects. We argue that collaboration deserves a more critical examination, particularly when the interests of stakeholders conflict and the balance of power between them is unequal. Using examples from a study of the UK refugee system, we argue that collaboration is on…
The Power Behind Empowerment: Implications for Research and Practice
The 1990s have been called the "empowerment era," yet growing evidence suggests that empowerment programs often fail to meet the expectations of both managers and employees. To provide a better understanding as to why empowerment programs often fail and to suggest how such failures may be averted, we examine the power behind empowerment. Ironically, although power and empowerment are inextricably linked, much of the work on empowerment in the bus…
No Joking Matter: Discursive Struggle in the Canadian Refugee System
Organizations often engage in discursive struggle as they attempt to shape and manage the institutional field of which they are a part. This struggle is influenced by broader discourses at the societal level that enable and constrain discursive activity within the institutional field. We investigate this relationship by combining a study of political cartoons, as indicators of the broader societal discourse around immigration, with a case study o…
Discourse as a Strategic Resource
In this article, we outline a model of how discourse can be mobilized as a strategic resource. The model consists of three circuits. First, in circuits of activity, individuals attempt to introduce new discursive statements, through the use of symbols, narratives, metaphors, etc. aimed at evoking concepts to create particular objects. These activities must intersect with circuits of performativity. This occurs when, for example, concepts are cont…
Reflexivity in Organization and Management Theory: A Study of the Production of the Research `Subject
In this article, we draw on actor-network theory (ANT) to reflexively investigate the role of the researcher and the research community in the production of a research subject. We review our earlier work, which explores how the dynamics of refugee systems help to produce the research subject - in this case, the refugee. We then use ideas from ANT to move beyond the more conventional institutional and discursive analyses that are used in these art…
Discourse Analysis
Institutional Effects of Interorganizational Collaboration: The Emergence of Proto-Institutions.
Institutional Effects of Inter-organizational Collaboration:The Case of Mre et Enfant (Palestine)In this paper, we explore the institutional effects of interorganizational collaboration.We argue that collaboration can act as a source of change in institutional fields through the generation of proto-institutions: new practices, rules and technologies that transcend the particular collaborative relationship and may become new institutions if they d…
Refugee Determination: Power and Resistance in Systems of Foucauldian Power
This article examines the dynamics of power in refugee determination systems in three countries. It challenges both the view that determination systems encompass rational decision-making processes and the critical view that sees determination procedures as an instrument of the state. It argues that if we use a Foucauldian analysis of power, we are better placed to understand how refugee systems work and to understand the implications for differen…
Discourse and Institutions
In this paper, we argue that the processes underlying institutionalization have not been adequately investigated and that discourse analysis provides a coherent framework for such investigation.Accordingly, we develop a discursive model of institutionalization that highlights the relationship between texts, discourse, institutions and action.Our model begins with the relationship between action and discourse, and argues that action primarily affe…
Institutional Entrepreneurship in Emerging Fields: Hiv/Aids Treatment Advocacy in Canada.
In a qualitative study of the emerging field of HIV/AIDS treatment advocacy in Canada, we found that institutional entrepreneurship involved three sets of critical activities: (1) the occupation of “subject positions” that have wide legitimacy and bridge diverse stakeholders, (2) the theorization of new practices through discursive and political means, and (3) the institutionalization of these new practices by connecting them to stakeholders’ rou…
Scaling up and Bearing Down in Discourse Analysis: Questions Regarding Textual Agencies and Their Context
This paper assesses the contributions that discourse analysis and organizational discourse theory can make to our understanding of organization and organizing. By clarifying the theoretical assumptions that underpin this work, especially its social constructivist credentials, it is possible to show the potential of this methodology. A discursive approach can help answer a series of questions that interest organizational theorists: the constitutio…
The Sage Handbook of Organizational Discourse
Critical discourse analysis and identity: Why bother
Critical discourse analysis (CDA) and other forms of discourse analysis are regularly used to study identity, but rarely do researchers systematically compare and contrast them with other theories to identify exactly what a discursive approach contributes. In this paper, we take the example of a particular identity – the older worker – and systematically compare the contribution of CDA with other approaches, including economics, labour market res…
Discourse and Collaboration: The Role of Conversations and Collective Identity
We explore the relationship between discourse and interorganizational collaboration, arguing that interorganizational collaboration can be understood as the product of sets of conversations that draw on existing discourses. Specifically, we argue that effective collaboration, which we define as cooperative, interorganizational action that produces innovative, synergistic solutions and balances divergent stakeholder concerns, emerges out of a two-…
The Sage Handbook of Organization Studies
Some Dare Call it Power
Power has typically been seen as the ability to get others to do what you want them to, if necessary, against their will (Weber 1978). This seemingly simple definition, which presents the negative, rather than the positive, aspects of power has been challenged, amended, critiqued, extended and rebuffed over the years but it, nonetheless, remains the statting point for a remarkably diverse body of literature. Behind it lies a series of important s…
Political science (29 works) · Sociology (25 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (19 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Business (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Public relations (10 works) · Linguistics (8 works)