Jean-Pascal Gond
Biographic Data
| ID | 290909 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean-Pascal Gond |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean-Pascal |
| FAMILY NAME | Gond |
| SIGNATURE | GOND J |
| AFFILIATIONS | City, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9331-6957 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 269 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Making Better Uses of Classics? Evaluating Critically the Legacy of Howard R. Bowen’s 1953 Social Responsibilities of the Businessman (1953–2023)
Although Howard R. Bowen’s 1953 book Social Responsibilities of the Businessman (hereafter SRB ) is regarded as a classic in the fields of business ethics and management, the impact of SRB has been taken for granted and has rarely been evaluated. Problematizing the use of classics as core to the advancement of scholarly fields, we analyze the purpose underlying the citation of SRB ( why it is cited) as well as the breadth ( what is cited) and the…
Engaging Stakeholders During Intergovernmental Conflict: How Political Attributions Shape Stakeholder Engagement
Consultants as discreet corporate change agents for sustainability: Transforming organizations from the outside‐in
Despite their central role in the construction and development of the market for virtues as well as in the design, implementation, and evaluation of corporate sustainability strategies and governmental sustainability policies, sustainability consultants remain at best “hidden” corporate change agents. In this paper, we bring sustainability consultants back to the fore to account for how these actors discreetly regulate and shape contemporary sust…
Fast and spurious: How executives capture governance structures to prevent cooperativization
Although workers’ cooperatives are regarded as credible alternatives to private companies to reform capitalism, scholars have only started to document the struggles inherent to cooperativization – the process by which private companies transition to cooperative forms. This article analyses how executives prevent actual cooperativization in practice by shaping and capturing governance structures. Relying on 35 interviews, observations, and focus g…
Mirroring and switching authoritative personae: A ventriloquial analysis of shareholder engagement on carbon emissions
We examine how the authority of investors to speak about climate change with corporations is established. Leveraging the ‘communication as constitutive of organisations’ (CCO) perspective, we analyse who speaks on behalf of whom (or what) in shareholder engagement on corporate carbon emissions. Based on access to private dialogues between an engager acting on behalf of a pool of investors with 20 utility corporations, we identify how three author…
Critical Essay: The reconciliation of fraternal twins: Integrating the psychological and sociological approaches to ‘micro’ corporate social responsibility
Aguinis and Glavas’ call for a deeper understanding of the microfoundations of corporate social responsibility has spurred a growing number of empirical micro-CSR (corporate social responsibility) studies. Micro-CSR scholars share the common goal of developing a clear picture of the microfoundations of CSR—a holistic theoretical and empirical understanding of how individual actions and interactions drive CSR-related activity—but pursue this objec…
La responsabilité sociale de l'entreprise
L’entreprise peut-elle s’affranchir de toutes obligations autres que légales et économiques à l’égard de son environnement social, humain, politique et écologique ? À l’heure du réchauffement climatique, des scandales financiers à répétition, de la globalisation des échanges, l’essor de l’idée de « responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise » (RSE) est révélatrice d’une nouvelle conception de la place de la firme au sein de la société. Jean-Pascal Go…
How do external regulations shape the design of ethical tools in organisations? An open polity and sociology of compliance perspective
In response to the numerous hard and soft ethical regulations that have emerged in the wake of recurrent corporate scandals, Multinational Corporations (MNCs) have adopted ethical tools. This move is often interpreted as a means to garner legitimacy and as loosely coupled to corporate activities. Little is known, however, about the processes by which external regulations affect the design of ethical tools. Approaching organisations as open politi…
Encouraging Investors to Enable Corporate Sustainability Transitions: The Case of Responsible Investment in France
This article studies the case of the socially responsible investment industry in France. This case accounts for how the socially responsible investment category and practices have successfully moved from the margins of the industry in the late 1990s to become mainstream over two decades. We bring to the forefront the importance of three complementary factors in the process of causing corporations to transition toward more sustainable businesses: …
How Do Employees Perceive Corporate Responsibility? Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Corporate Stakeholder Responsibility Scale
Recent research on the microfoundations of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has highlighted the need for improved measures to evaluate how stakeholders perceive and subsequently react to CSR initiatives. Drawing on stakeholder theory and data from five samples of employees (N = 3,772), the authors develop and validate a new measure of corporate stakeholder responsibility (CStR), which refers to an organization’s context-specific actions and …
Supporting alternative organizations? Exploring scholars’ involvement in the performativity of worker-recuperated enterprises
This article analyses the role of academics in the production and maintenance of alternative organizations within the capitalist system. Empirically, we focus on academics from the University of Buenos Aires who, through the extension programme Facultad Abierta, have supported worker-recuperated enterprises since their emergence in Argentina in the early 2000s. Conceptually, we build on prior studies on worker-recuperated enterprises as well as t…
The psychological microfoundations of corporate social responsibility: A person‐centric systematic review
This article aims to consolidate the psychological microfoundations of corporate social responsibility (CSR) by taking stock and evaluating the recent surge of person‐focused CSR research. With a systematic review, the authors identify, synthesize, and organize three streams of micro‐CSR studies—focused on (i) individual drivers of CSR engagement, (ii) individual processes of CSR evaluations, and (iii) individual reactions to CSR initiatives—into…
Justification, Evaluation and Critique in the Study of Organizations: Contributions from French Pragmatist Sociology
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
What Do We Mean by Performativity in Organizational and Management Theory? The Uses and Abuses of Performativity
John Austin introduced the formulation ‘performative utterance’ in his 1962 book How to Do Things with Words . This term and the related concept of performativity have subsequently been interpreted in numerous ways by social scientists and philosophers such as Lyotard, Butler, Callon and Barad, leading to the coexistence of several foundational perspectives on performativity. This paper reviews and evaluates critically how organization and manage…
La responsabilité sociale de l'entreprise
L’entreprise peut-elle s’affranchir de toutes obligations autres que légales et économiques à l’égard de son environnement social, humain, politique et écologique ? À l’heure du réchauffement climatique, des scandales financiers à répétition, de la globalisation des échanges, l’essor de l’idée de « responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise » (RSE) est révélatrice d’une nouvelle conception de la place de la firme au sein de la société. Cet ouvrage ex…
Moving critical performativity forward
In this rejoinder, we draw attention to some of the possible performative effects of Spicer et al.’s (2016) commentary and reaffirm the importance, in our eyes, of the fundamentally political and material dimensions of performativity
Critical Essay: Reconsidering critical performativity
In recent years, we have witnessed the emergence of 'critical performativity', a concept designed to debate relationships between theory and practice and encourage practical interventions in organizational life. Notwithstanding its laudable ambition to stimulate discussion about engagement between critical management studies researchers and practitioners, we are concerned that critical performativity theory is flawed as it misreads foundational p…
La responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise
Building ‘Critical Performativity Engines’ for deprived communities: The construction of popular cooperative incubators in Brazil
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…
The visible hand of consultants in the construction of the markets for virtue: Translating issues, negotiating boundaries and enacting responsive regulations
Although the resurgence of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been described as the development of ‘markets for virtue’, little is known about the social construction of CSR markets. Prior works either focus on the economic potential of these markets or criticize the social commodification they reflect, denying them any virtue other than generating profit or maintaining the capitalist status quo. This article uses the case of the market fo…
La responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise
L’entreprise peut-elle s’affranchir de toutes obligations autres que légale et économique vis-à-vis de son environnement social, humain, politique et écologique ? À l’heure du réchauffement climatique, des scandales financiers à répétition, de la globalisation des échanges, l’essor de l’idée de « responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise » (RSE) est révélatrice d’une nouvelle conception de la place de la firme au sein de la société. Cet ouvrage expl…
The government of self-regulation: On the Comparative Dynamics of Corporate Social Responsibility
This paper explores the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and government. CSR is often viewed as self-regulation, devoid of government. We attribute the scholarly neglect of the variety of CSR-government relations to the inadequate attention paid to the important differences in the way in which CSR has 'travelled' (or diffused), and has been mediated by the national governance systems, and the insufficient emphasis given …
La responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise
Decision Theory as Practice: Crafting Rationality in Organizations
This paper explores the underlying practices whereby rationality - as defined in rational choice theory - is achieved within organizations. The qualitative coding of 58 case study reports produced by decision analysts, working in a wide range of settings, highlights how organizational actors can make decisions in accord with the axioms of rational choice theory. Our findings describe the emergence of 'decision-analysis' as a field and reveal the …
La responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise
La responsabilité sociale de l'entreprise (RSE), pratique institutionnalisée au début des années 2000, propose une représentation élargie de l'environnement des firmes (dimensions économiques, financières, mais aussi sociales, humaines, culturelles politiques et écologiques). Cet ouvrage présente de façon théorique et pratique la RSE et met en lumière son importance autant que ses limites.
The government of self-regulation: On the Comparative Dynamics of Corporate Social Responsibility
This paper explores the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and government. CSR is often viewed as self-regulation, devoid of government. We attribute the scholarly neglect of the variety of CSR-government relations to the inadequate attention paid to the important differences in the way in which CSR has 'travelled' (or diffused), and has been mediated by the national governance systems, and the insufficient emphasis given …
Critical Essay: Reconsidering critical performativity
In recent years, we have witnessed the emergence of 'critical performativity', a concept designed to debate relationships between theory and practice and encourage practical interventions in organizational life. Notwithstanding its laudable ambition to stimulate discussion about engagement between critical management studies researchers and practitioners, we are concerned that critical performativity theory is flawed as it misreads foundational p…
The psychological microfoundations of corporate social responsibility: A person‐centric systematic review
This article aims to consolidate the psychological microfoundations of corporate social responsibility (CSR) by taking stock and evaluating the recent surge of person‐focused CSR research. With a systematic review, the authors identify, synthesize, and organize three streams of micro‐CSR studies—focused on (i) individual drivers of CSR engagement, (ii) individual processes of CSR evaluations, and (iii) individual reactions to CSR initiatives—into…
Measuring the Unmeasured: An Institutional Entrepreneur Strategy in an Emerging Industry
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…
The visible hand of consultants in the construction of the markets for virtue: Translating issues, negotiating boundaries and enacting responsive regulations
Although the resurgence of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been described as the development of ‘markets for virtue’, little is known about the social construction of CSR markets. Prior works either focus on the economic potential of these markets or criticize the social commodification they reflect, denying them any virtue other than generating profit or maintaining the capitalist status quo. This article uses the case of the market fo…
Critical Essay: The reconciliation of fraternal twins: Integrating the psychological and sociological approaches to ‘micro’ corporate social responsibility
Aguinis and Glavas’ call for a deeper understanding of the microfoundations of corporate social responsibility has spurred a growing number of empirical micro-CSR (corporate social responsibility) studies. Micro-CSR scholars share the common goal of developing a clear picture of the microfoundations of CSR—a holistic theoretical and empirical understanding of how individual actions and interactions drive CSR-related activity—but pursue this objec…
Decision Theory as Practice: Crafting Rationality in Organizations
This paper explores the underlying practices whereby rationality - as defined in rational choice theory - is achieved within organizations. The qualitative coding of 58 case study reports produced by decision analysts, working in a wide range of settings, highlights how organizational actors can make decisions in accord with the axioms of rational choice theory. Our findings describe the emergence of 'decision-analysis' as a field and reveal the …
How do external regulations shape the design of ethical tools in organisations? An open polity and sociology of compliance perspective
In response to the numerous hard and soft ethical regulations that have emerged in the wake of recurrent corporate scandals, Multinational Corporations (MNCs) have adopted ethical tools. This move is often interpreted as a means to garner legitimacy and as loosely coupled to corporate activities. Little is known, however, about the processes by which external regulations affect the design of ethical tools. Approaching organisations as open politi…
Moving critical performativity forward
In this rejoinder, we draw attention to some of the possible performative effects of Spicer et al.’s (2016) commentary and reaffirm the importance, in our eyes, of the fundamentally political and material dimensions of performativity
Justification, Evaluation and Critique in the Study of Organizations: Contributions from French Pragmatist Sociology
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
Fast and spurious: How executives capture governance structures to prevent cooperativization
Although workers’ cooperatives are regarded as credible alternatives to private companies to reform capitalism, scholars have only started to document the struggles inherent to cooperativization – the process by which private companies transition to cooperative forms. This article analyses how executives prevent actual cooperativization in practice by shaping and capturing governance structures. Relying on 35 interviews, observations, and focus g…
Mirroring and switching authoritative personae: A ventriloquial analysis of shareholder engagement on carbon emissions
We examine how the authority of investors to speak about climate change with corporations is established. Leveraging the ‘communication as constitutive of organisations’ (CCO) perspective, we analyse who speaks on behalf of whom (or what) in shareholder engagement on corporate carbon emissions. Based on access to private dialogues between an engager acting on behalf of a pool of investors with 20 utility corporations, we identify how three author…
Measuring the Unmeasured: An Institutional Entrepreneur Strategy in an Emerging Industry
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…
Construire la relation (positive) entre performance sociétale et financière sur le marché de l'ISR: De la performation à l’autoréalisation ?
Constructing the (positive) relationship between social and financial performance on the SRI market : from performation to self-realization ? This paper provides a theoretical framework to investigate « CSP-FP relationship » as a social construction on financial markets. These processes of beliefs’ framing could be analysed building on insights from new-institutional theorists and from Callon (1998)’s concept of performativity. Moreover, the diff…
La responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise
La responsabilité sociale de l'entreprise (RSE), pratique institutionnalisée au début des années 2000, propose une représentation élargie de l'environnement des firmes (dimensions économiques, financières, mais aussi sociales, humaines, culturelles politiques et écologiques). Cet ouvrage présente de façon théorique et pratique la RSE et met en lumière son importance autant que ses limites.
La responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise
Decision Theory as Practice: Crafting Rationality in Organizations
This paper explores the underlying practices whereby rationality - as defined in rational choice theory - is achieved within organizations. The qualitative coding of 58 case study reports produced by decision analysts, working in a wide range of settings, highlights how organizational actors can make decisions in accord with the axioms of rational choice theory. Our findings describe the emergence of 'decision-analysis' as a field and reveal the …
The government of self-regulation: On the Comparative Dynamics of Corporate Social Responsibility
This paper explores the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and government. CSR is often viewed as self-regulation, devoid of government. We attribute the scholarly neglect of the variety of CSR-government relations to the inadequate attention paid to the important differences in the way in which CSR has 'travelled' (or diffused), and has been mediated by the national governance systems, and the insufficient emphasis given …
La responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise
L’entreprise peut-elle s’affranchir de toutes obligations autres que légale et économique vis-à-vis de son environnement social, humain, politique et écologique ? À l’heure du réchauffement climatique, des scandales financiers à répétition, de la globalisation des échanges, l’essor de l’idée de « responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise » (RSE) est révélatrice d’une nouvelle conception de la place de la firme au sein de la société. Cet ouvrage expl…
La responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise
Building ‘Critical Performativity Engines’ for deprived communities: The construction of popular cooperative incubators in Brazil
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…
The visible hand of consultants in the construction of the markets for virtue: Translating issues, negotiating boundaries and enacting responsive regulations
Although the resurgence of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been described as the development of ‘markets for virtue’, little is known about the social construction of CSR markets. Prior works either focus on the economic potential of these markets or criticize the social commodification they reflect, denying them any virtue other than generating profit or maintaining the capitalist status quo. This article uses the case of the market fo…
Critical Essay: Reconsidering critical performativity
In recent years, we have witnessed the emergence of 'critical performativity', a concept designed to debate relationships between theory and practice and encourage practical interventions in organizational life. Notwithstanding its laudable ambition to stimulate discussion about engagement between critical management studies researchers and practitioners, we are concerned that critical performativity theory is flawed as it misreads foundational p…
What Do We Mean by Performativity in Organizational and Management Theory? The Uses and Abuses of Performativity
John Austin introduced the formulation ‘performative utterance’ in his 1962 book How to Do Things with Words . This term and the related concept of performativity have subsequently been interpreted in numerous ways by social scientists and philosophers such as Lyotard, Butler, Callon and Barad, leading to the coexistence of several foundational perspectives on performativity. This paper reviews and evaluates critically how organization and manage…
La responsabilité sociale de l'entreprise
L’entreprise peut-elle s’affranchir de toutes obligations autres que légales et économiques à l’égard de son environnement social, humain, politique et écologique ? À l’heure du réchauffement climatique, des scandales financiers à répétition, de la globalisation des échanges, l’essor de l’idée de « responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise » (RSE) est révélatrice d’une nouvelle conception de la place de la firme au sein de la société. Cet ouvrage ex…
Moving critical performativity forward
In this rejoinder, we draw attention to some of the possible performative effects of Spicer et al.’s (2016) commentary and reaffirm the importance, in our eyes, of the fundamentally political and material dimensions of performativity
Supporting alternative organizations? Exploring scholars’ involvement in the performativity of worker-recuperated enterprises
This article analyses the role of academics in the production and maintenance of alternative organizations within the capitalist system. Empirically, we focus on academics from the University of Buenos Aires who, through the extension programme Facultad Abierta, have supported worker-recuperated enterprises since their emergence in Argentina in the early 2000s. Conceptually, we build on prior studies on worker-recuperated enterprises as well as t…
The psychological microfoundations of corporate social responsibility: A person‐centric systematic review
This article aims to consolidate the psychological microfoundations of corporate social responsibility (CSR) by taking stock and evaluating the recent surge of person‐focused CSR research. With a systematic review, the authors identify, synthesize, and organize three streams of micro‐CSR studies—focused on (i) individual drivers of CSR engagement, (ii) individual processes of CSR evaluations, and (iii) individual reactions to CSR initiatives—into…
Justification, Evaluation and Critique in the Study of Organizations: Contributions from French Pragmatist Sociology
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
How Do Employees Perceive Corporate Responsibility? Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Corporate Stakeholder Responsibility Scale
Recent research on the microfoundations of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has highlighted the need for improved measures to evaluate how stakeholders perceive and subsequently react to CSR initiatives. Drawing on stakeholder theory and data from five samples of employees (N = 3,772), the authors develop and validate a new measure of corporate stakeholder responsibility (CStR), which refers to an organization’s context-specific actions and …
Encouraging Investors to Enable Corporate Sustainability Transitions: The Case of Responsible Investment in France
This article studies the case of the socially responsible investment industry in France. This case accounts for how the socially responsible investment category and practices have successfully moved from the margins of the industry in the late 1990s to become mainstream over two decades. We bring to the forefront the importance of three complementary factors in the process of causing corporations to transition toward more sustainable businesses: …
La responsabilité sociale de l'entreprise
L’entreprise peut-elle s’affranchir de toutes obligations autres que légales et économiques à l’égard de son environnement social, humain, politique et écologique ? À l’heure du réchauffement climatique, des scandales financiers à répétition, de la globalisation des échanges, l’essor de l’idée de « responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise » (RSE) est révélatrice d’une nouvelle conception de la place de la firme au sein de la société. Jean-Pascal Go…
How do external regulations shape the design of ethical tools in organisations? An open polity and sociology of compliance perspective
In response to the numerous hard and soft ethical regulations that have emerged in the wake of recurrent corporate scandals, Multinational Corporations (MNCs) have adopted ethical tools. This move is often interpreted as a means to garner legitimacy and as loosely coupled to corporate activities. Little is known, however, about the processes by which external regulations affect the design of ethical tools. Approaching organisations as open politi…
Critical Essay: The reconciliation of fraternal twins: Integrating the psychological and sociological approaches to ‘micro’ corporate social responsibility
Aguinis and Glavas’ call for a deeper understanding of the microfoundations of corporate social responsibility has spurred a growing number of empirical micro-CSR (corporate social responsibility) studies. Micro-CSR scholars share the common goal of developing a clear picture of the microfoundations of CSR—a holistic theoretical and empirical understanding of how individual actions and interactions drive CSR-related activity—but pursue this objec…
Engaging Stakeholders During Intergovernmental Conflict: How Political Attributions Shape Stakeholder Engagement
Consultants as discreet corporate change agents for sustainability: Transforming organizations from the outside‐in
Despite their central role in the construction and development of the market for virtues as well as in the design, implementation, and evaluation of corporate sustainability strategies and governmental sustainability policies, sustainability consultants remain at best “hidden” corporate change agents. In this paper, we bring sustainability consultants back to the fore to account for how these actors discreetly regulate and shape contemporary sust…
Fast and spurious: How executives capture governance structures to prevent cooperativization
Although workers’ cooperatives are regarded as credible alternatives to private companies to reform capitalism, scholars have only started to document the struggles inherent to cooperativization – the process by which private companies transition to cooperative forms. This article analyses how executives prevent actual cooperativization in practice by shaping and capturing governance structures. Relying on 35 interviews, observations, and focus g…
Political science (17 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (16 works) · Business (13 works) · Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Social Sciences and Governance (8 works) · Ethics in Business and Education (7 works) · Performativity (7 works)