Lisa Buchter
Biographic Data
| ID | 282097 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Buchter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Buchter |
| SIGNATURE | BUCHTER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | École de management de Lyon |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7899-6061 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From Individual Tragedy to Institutional Moral Harassment: Endogenous Legal Mobilization for Constructing Employer Accountability in Workplace Deaths by Suicide
Scholars have demonstrated how managerial elites circumvent legal mandates through symbolic compliance, decoupling, or regulatory capture. Yet less is known about how labor and occupational activists resist this weakening of laws within organizations, as most legal mobilization research focuses on labor and social movements’ exogenous strategies to target organizations (lobbying for regulations or using litigation). Drawing on archival data, we e…
When the state managerializes the law: Enforcing and commodifying disability inclusion
While disability inclusion is promoted in many countries, policy reforms in France have shifted the conversation about anti-discrimination laws toward financial concerns by increasing financial penalties for non-compliance and developing various accounting techniques to reduce these penalties. In this article, we explore the unintended consequences of focusing on accounting in the design of disability laws, specifically, the commodification of di…
“We are Our Own Best Advocates”: When Disability Rights Activists Constructed Legal Compliance to Address Ableism in France
How Activists Collaboratively Divide the Labor of Making Change: The Case of LGBT Rights
While theories at the crossroads of social movements and organizations have explored different strategies and challenges faced by insider and outsider activists, research examining their collaborations is just emerging. We contribute to this literature by introducing the concept of collaborative division of labor, which theorizes how social movement organizations (SMOs) collaborate through adoption of different roles, leveraging their distinct po…
Internships and sexual harassment: How the status of interns reinforces vulnerability in cases of sexual harassment at work
While scholarship has explored the limitations of programs to address sexual harassment at work, this article highlights how these limitations have a disproportionate impact on the youngest and most precarious workers. Taking the specific case of interns in France—meaning students who must engage in temporary and underpaid work to validate their diplomas—we demonstrate how these precarious workers both disproportionately face sexual harassment an…
The Strength of Pushback Collective Identity in a Fragmented Mass Movement
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 concept of reactive identity to describe two key mechanisms. First, we show this movement’s collective identity crystallized through the actors’ shared reactions to the broader sociopolit…
Militer de l'intérieur: Les stratégies des réseaux professionnels LGBT
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 par des entretiens, l'article examine les stratégies de cinq réseaux internes portés par des « salarié·e·s militant·e·s », engagé·e·s de manière visible pour la cause lgbt sur leur lie…
Remettre les vieilles de la marge au centre avec une recherche participative
Cet article explore l’invisibilisation, puis la remise en lumière des femmes – et plus particulièrement des vieilles – dans une recherche action participative (RAP) qui pense les nouvelles façons d’habiter dans les vieillesses. Il rend compte des méthodes mises en place pour rendre visibles et audibles les vieilles de cette RAP. L’article poursuit un objectif double. D’une part, remettre au cœur du dispositif d’enquête les rapports sociaux de gen…
Educating the sighted: When activists reorganize solidarity by prefiguring new social scripts of help and interaction
Based on research on the French disability rights movement, this article explores how activists use awareness campaigns to prefigure new social scripts for help and solidarity. Although help and solidarity are fundamental in our society, the manner in which they are performed toward minorities (e.g., providing unsolicited help, signaling solidarity as a token of pity, implying inferiority or dependence) may reproduce hierarchization and distance …
Escaping the Ellipsis of Diversity: Insider Activists’ Use of Implementation Resources to Influence Organization Policy
Researchers have explored in depth how social movement actors strive to pass laws to change organizations exogenously or to demand that they make commitments or policy changes. But ensuring that organizations implement such commitments or policies is challenging. Insider activists may be influential for implementation processes, and I explore how they can increase that influence. I contend that insider activists influence such processes by offeri…
Ball (Carlos A.), The Queering of Corporate America: How Big Business Went from lgbtq Adversary to Ally. . Boston ( ma ), Beacon Press, 2019, 256 p., 18 $
Tell Me Your Story: How Recruitment Practices Implementing Affirmative Action Laws May Undermine the Laws’ Goals
Scholars pointed out that antidiscrimination laws do not fully undermine workplace discrimination and that affirmative action policies mostly benefit overqualified or advantaged individuals within minorities. To elucidate this paradox, this case study analyzes how some companies adopted specific selection and assessment processes for job seekers after the reinforcement of a quota for workers with disabilities in France. I observed the creation of…
Repolitiser la diversité ? Une étude des répertoires d’endogénéisation militante des lois antidiscriminatoires
Les théories des politiques diversité au travail peinent à expliquer les cas où l’organisation surpasse ses obligations légales ou les améliore dans le temps : indéterminées, ces politiques se font « à la carte » et diluent l’importance de certaines catégories au profit d’autres ; non-performatives, elles mettent en place des actions de communication, qui visent en priorité à améliorer la réputation de l’entreprise. Afin d’offrir une perspective …
Lauren B. Edelman, Working law. Courts, corporations, and symbolic civil rights
Educating the sighted: When activists reorganize solidarity by prefiguring new social scripts of help and interaction
Based on research on the French disability rights movement, this article explores how activists use awareness campaigns to prefigure new social scripts for help and solidarity. Although help and solidarity are fundamental in our society, the manner in which they are performed toward minorities (e.g., providing unsolicited help, signaling solidarity as a token of pity, implying inferiority or dependence) may reproduce hierarchization and distance …
The Strength of Pushback Collective Identity in a Fragmented Mass Movement
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 concept of reactive identity to describe two key mechanisms. First, we show this movement’s collective identity crystallized through the actors’ shared reactions to the broader sociopolit…
Tell Me Your Story: How Recruitment Practices Implementing Affirmative Action Laws May Undermine the Laws’ Goals
Scholars pointed out that antidiscrimination laws do not fully undermine workplace discrimination and that affirmative action policies mostly benefit overqualified or advantaged individuals within minorities. To elucidate this paradox, this case study analyzes how some companies adopted specific selection and assessment processes for job seekers after the reinforcement of a quota for workers with disabilities in France. I observed the creation of…
Lauren B. Edelman, Working law. Courts, corporations, and symbolic civil rights
Repolitiser la diversité ? Une étude des répertoires d’endogénéisation militante des lois antidiscriminatoires
Les théories des politiques diversité au travail peinent à expliquer les cas où l’organisation surpasse ses obligations légales ou les améliore dans le temps : indéterminées, ces politiques se font « à la carte » et diluent l’importance de certaines catégories au profit d’autres ; non-performatives, elles mettent en place des actions de communication, qui visent en priorité à améliorer la réputation de l’entreprise. Afin d’offrir une perspective …
Tell Me Your Story: How Recruitment Practices Implementing Affirmative Action Laws May Undermine the Laws’ Goals
Scholars pointed out that antidiscrimination laws do not fully undermine workplace discrimination and that affirmative action policies mostly benefit overqualified or advantaged individuals within minorities. To elucidate this paradox, this case study analyzes how some companies adopted specific selection and assessment processes for job seekers after the reinforcement of a quota for workers with disabilities in France. I observed the creation of…
Escaping the Ellipsis of Diversity: Insider Activists’ Use of Implementation Resources to Influence Organization Policy
Researchers have explored in depth how social movement actors strive to pass laws to change organizations exogenously or to demand that they make commitments or policy changes. But ensuring that organizations implement such commitments or policies is challenging. Insider activists may be influential for implementation processes, and I explore how they can increase that influence. I contend that insider activists influence such processes by offeri…
Ball (Carlos A.), The Queering of Corporate America: How Big Business Went from lgbtq Adversary to Ally. . Boston ( ma ), Beacon Press, 2019, 256 p., 18 $
Remettre les vieilles de la marge au centre avec une recherche participative
Cet article explore l’invisibilisation, puis la remise en lumière des femmes – et plus particulièrement des vieilles – dans une recherche action participative (RAP) qui pense les nouvelles façons d’habiter dans les vieillesses. Il rend compte des méthodes mises en place pour rendre visibles et audibles les vieilles de cette RAP. L’article poursuit un objectif double. D’une part, remettre au cœur du dispositif d’enquête les rapports sociaux de gen…
Educating the sighted: When activists reorganize solidarity by prefiguring new social scripts of help and interaction
Based on research on the French disability rights movement, this article explores how activists use awareness campaigns to prefigure new social scripts for help and solidarity. Although help and solidarity are fundamental in our society, the manner in which they are performed toward minorities (e.g., providing unsolicited help, signaling solidarity as a token of pity, implying inferiority or dependence) may reproduce hierarchization and distance …
The Strength of Pushback Collective Identity in a Fragmented Mass Movement
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 concept of reactive identity to describe two key mechanisms. First, we show this movement’s collective identity crystallized through the actors’ shared reactions to the broader sociopolit…
Militer de l'intérieur: Les stratégies des réseaux professionnels LGBT
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 par des entretiens, l'article examine les stratégies de cinq réseaux internes portés par des « salarié·e·s militant·e·s », engagé·e·s de manière visible pour la cause lgbt sur leur lie…
“We are Our Own Best Advocates”: When Disability Rights Activists Constructed Legal Compliance to Address Ableism in France
How Activists Collaboratively Divide the Labor of Making Change: The Case of LGBT Rights
While theories at the crossroads of social movements and organizations have explored different strategies and challenges faced by insider and outsider activists, research examining their collaborations is just emerging. We contribute to this literature by introducing the concept of collaborative division of labor, which theorizes how social movement organizations (SMOs) collaborate through adoption of different roles, leveraging their distinct po…
Internships and sexual harassment: How the status of interns reinforces vulnerability in cases of sexual harassment at work
While scholarship has explored the limitations of programs to address sexual harassment at work, this article highlights how these limitations have a disproportionate impact on the youngest and most precarious workers. Taking the specific case of interns in France—meaning students who must engage in temporary and underpaid work to validate their diplomas—we demonstrate how these precarious workers both disproportionately face sexual harassment an…
From Individual Tragedy to Institutional Moral Harassment: Endogenous Legal Mobilization for Constructing Employer Accountability in Workplace Deaths by Suicide
Scholars have demonstrated how managerial elites circumvent legal mandates through symbolic compliance, decoupling, or regulatory capture. Yet less is known about how labor and occupational activists resist this weakening of laws within organizations, as most legal mobilization research focuses on labor and social movements’ exogenous strategies to target organizations (lobbying for regulations or using litigation). Drawing on archival data, we e…
When the state managerializes the law: Enforcing and commodifying disability inclusion
While disability inclusion is promoted in many countries, policy reforms in France have shifted the conversation about anti-discrimination laws toward financial concerns by increasing financial penalties for non-compliance and developing various accounting techniques to reduce these penalties. In this article, we explore the unintended consequences of focusing on accounting in the design of disability laws, specifically, the commodification of di…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Education, sociology, and vocational training (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social movement (4 works) · Social Sciences and Governance (4 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (3 works)