Ismael Al‐amoudi
Biographic Data
| ID | 361037 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ismael Al‐amoudi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ismael |
| FAMILY NAME | Al‐amoudi |
| SIGNATURE | AL AMOUDI I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Grenoble Ecole de Management |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4548-3125 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Margaret Archer's legacy to business and management studies: A bibliometric analysis
This paper explores Margaret Archer’s enduring influence on business and management studies (BMS) while offering a methodological blueprint for other applied social sciences. Through a systematic bibliographic analysis of 241 articles, it shows how Archer’s realist social theory – especially the morphogenetic approach, critical realism, and concepts of reflexivity and relationality – has shaped sub-fields including organization studies and inform…
In memoriam: Margaret Archer (1943–2023)
Introduction to the special issue commemorating the work of Margaret Archer
This special issue of the Journal of Critical Realism (JCR) is a commemoration of the work and intellectual leadership of Margaret Archer by her associates at the Centre for Social Ontology (CSO)
Facing the facts of the Gaza genocide: Refusing complicity, organizing solidarity
As a collective, Organization has a strong commitment to exposing and challenging domination and oppression, to amplifying scholarly activism, and to standing in solidarity with the oppressed, the dispossessed, and the Indigenous peoples of the world. Therefore, we cannot remain silent observers of the genocide in Gaza, of the oppression of the Palestinian people, and of the political, academic and organizational systems that are complicit in it.…
Managing stigma together: Relationality in the wound clinic
Our paper contributes to studies of stigma and dirty work by asking ‘how can workers and clients of dirty work manage stigma together?’ With the purpose of appreciating the worker/client relational dynamics in an organisation characterised by stigma, we conducted an ethnography in a wound healing clinic where clinicians do the dirty work of caring for patients with socially stigmatising wounds. To guide and subsequently interpret our ethnographic…
Strangers in conversation: Judith Butler with gender, work and organization
Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study
The politics of post-human technologies: Human enhancements, artificial intelligence and virtual reality
This essay encourages fellow scholars to consider critical organizational studies of post-human technologies. While these nascent technologies hold many promises, they also risk exacerbating several unacceptable organizational features that have been regularly documented, discussed and combated in Organization over the past 30 years. These features include, among other evils, corporate domination and colonization; further erosion of organic solid…
Ontological unpredictability: What can realists say about unpredictability, contingency and catastrophe
This paper introduces the original research articles that constitute the present Forum issue on unpredictability, contingency and catastrophe. In doing so, it also identifies and discusses the specificity of realist approaches to the above questions. It is argued that attentiveness to the ontological dimension of (un)predictability opens promising avenues for reflexive approaches to social science and collective action
Are post-human technologies dehumanizing? Human enhancement and artificial intelligence in contemporary societies
Post-human technologies, such as human enhancements and artificial intelligence, blur or displace the boundaries of our common humanity. While these technologies enhance many valuable human powers, there is limited philosophical discussion as to whether and how they can also be dehumanizing? To answer this question, I start from a philosophical discussion of the concept of ‘dehumanization' and argue that it conflates three social mechanisms throu…
Introduction: De/humanization and critical realism
This short paper introduces the special issue of the Journal of Critical Realism on de/humanisation and critical realism. It discusses the significance of studying contemporary processes of dehumanisation as well as attempts to reorganise groups, organisations and societies. It provides a sketchy summary of the contributions to the special issue by Douglas Porpora, Peter Kahn, LAkshman Vimalasena, Hans Despain, Harvey Shoolmann and Alan Norrie
Accumulation through derealization: How corporate violence remains unchecked
This study examines the alleged organization of violence by Coca-Cola through a field study conducted in a village in India. It draws on the works of Judith Butler to show how subaltern groups are derealized and made into ungrievable lives through specific, yet recurrent, practices that keep violence unchecked. Many participants attempt to resist derealization through protest activities that showcase their vulnerability. However, the firm appropr…
How can the loggerhead sea-turtle survive? Exploring the journeys of the Caretta caretta using ANT and critical realism
The endangered loggerhead sea-turtle ( Caretta caretta) nests on the shores of the Mediterranean, but faces threats to its existence from a variety of sources. Answering the question of how this species can survive is complex as it involves examining the relationships between the turtle, its natural environment, local tourists, property developers, conservation organisations, governments and law-makers. We argue that actor-network theory provides…
Death Contested: Morphonecrosis and Conflicts of Interpretation
The arbitrariness and normativity of social conventions
This paper investigates a puzzling feature of social conventions: the fact that they are both arbitrary and normative. We examine how this tension is addressed in sociological accounts of conventional phenomena. Traditional approaches tend to generate either synchronic accounts that fail to consider the arbitrariness of conventions, or diachronic accounts that miss central aspects of their normativity. As a remedy, we propose a processual concept…
Corporate Institutions in a Weakened Welfare State: A Rawlsian Perspective
This paper re-examines the import of Rawls’s theory of justice for private sector institutions in the face of the decline of the welfare state. The argument is based on a Rawlsian conception of justice as the establishment of a basic structure of society that guarantees a fair distribution of primary goods. We propose that the decline of the welfare state witnessed in Western countries over the past forty years prompts a reassessment of the bound…
Where Constructionism and Critical Realism Converge: Interrogating the Domain of Epistemological Relativism
The paper interrogates the status, nature and significance of epistemological relativism as a key element of constructionism and critical realism. It finds that epistemological relativism is espoused by authorities in critical realism and marginalized or displaced in the field of management and organization studies, resulting in forms of analysis that are empirically, but not fully critically, realist. This evaluation prompts reflection on the qu…
Immanent Non‐Algorithmic Rules: An Ontological Study of Social Rules
What kind of things are social rules? The paper starts from the critique of social rules articulated by ethnomethodologists and proposes an alternative conception of rules as situated, often tacit, imperatives. This ontological theorization borrows insights from critical realism and post-structuralism to explore general features of rules. For instance: they under-determine fields of legitimate actions, are prone to logical stratification, are anc…
Redrawing Foucault's Social Ontology
I propose that Foucault's works, since he wrote Discipline and Punish , rely on an implicit meta-theory that is compatible with the fundamentals of critical realism. To this end I examine the status of truth, methodology and social ontology used by Foucault. If this thesis is correct, then a critical realist reading of Michel Foucault would avoid some of the pitfalls that have been attributed to his works—such as constructivism, determinism, loca…
Where Constructionism and Critical Realism Converge: Interrogating the Domain of Epistemological Relativism
The paper interrogates the status, nature and significance of epistemological relativism as a key element of constructionism and critical realism. It finds that epistemological relativism is espoused by authorities in critical realism and marginalized or displaced in the field of management and organization studies, resulting in forms of analysis that are empirically, but not fully critically, realist. This evaluation prompts reflection on the qu…
Accumulation through derealization: How corporate violence remains unchecked
This study examines the alleged organization of violence by Coca-Cola through a field study conducted in a village in India. It draws on the works of Judith Butler to show how subaltern groups are derealized and made into ungrievable lives through specific, yet recurrent, practices that keep violence unchecked. Many participants attempt to resist derealization through protest activities that showcase their vulnerability. However, the firm appropr…
How can the loggerhead sea-turtle survive? Exploring the journeys of the Caretta caretta using ANT and critical realism
The endangered loggerhead sea-turtle ( Caretta caretta) nests on the shores of the Mediterranean, but faces threats to its existence from a variety of sources. Answering the question of how this species can survive is complex as it involves examining the relationships between the turtle, its natural environment, local tourists, property developers, conservation organisations, governments and law-makers. We argue that actor-network theory provides…
The arbitrariness and normativity of social conventions
This paper investigates a puzzling feature of social conventions: the fact that they are both arbitrary and normative. We examine how this tension is addressed in sociological accounts of conventional phenomena. Traditional approaches tend to generate either synchronic accounts that fail to consider the arbitrariness of conventions, or diachronic accounts that miss central aspects of their normativity. As a remedy, we propose a processual concept…
Immanent Non‐Algorithmic Rules: An Ontological Study of Social Rules
What kind of things are social rules? The paper starts from the critique of social rules articulated by ethnomethodologists and proposes an alternative conception of rules as situated, often tacit, imperatives. This ontological theorization borrows insights from critical realism and post-structuralism to explore general features of rules. For instance: they under-determine fields of legitimate actions, are prone to logical stratification, are anc…
Strangers in conversation: Judith Butler with gender, work and organization
Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study
Redrawing Foucault's Social Ontology
I propose that Foucault's works, since he wrote Discipline and Punish , rely on an implicit meta-theory that is compatible with the fundamentals of critical realism. To this end I examine the status of truth, methodology and social ontology used by Foucault. If this thesis is correct, then a critical realist reading of Michel Foucault would avoid some of the pitfalls that have been attributed to his works—such as constructivism, determinism, loca…
Immanent Non‐Algorithmic Rules: An Ontological Study of Social Rules
What kind of things are social rules? The paper starts from the critique of social rules articulated by ethnomethodologists and proposes an alternative conception of rules as situated, often tacit, imperatives. This ontological theorization borrows insights from critical realism and post-structuralism to explore general features of rules. For instance: they under-determine fields of legitimate actions, are prone to logical stratification, are anc…
Where Constructionism and Critical Realism Converge: Interrogating the Domain of Epistemological Relativism
The paper interrogates the status, nature and significance of epistemological relativism as a key element of constructionism and critical realism. It finds that epistemological relativism is espoused by authorities in critical realism and marginalized or displaced in the field of management and organization studies, resulting in forms of analysis that are empirically, but not fully critically, realist. This evaluation prompts reflection on the qu…
Corporate Institutions in a Weakened Welfare State: A Rawlsian Perspective
This paper re-examines the import of Rawls’s theory of justice for private sector institutions in the face of the decline of the welfare state. The argument is based on a Rawlsian conception of justice as the establishment of a basic structure of society that guarantees a fair distribution of primary goods. We propose that the decline of the welfare state witnessed in Western countries over the past forty years prompts a reassessment of the bound…
The arbitrariness and normativity of social conventions
This paper investigates a puzzling feature of social conventions: the fact that they are both arbitrary and normative. We examine how this tension is addressed in sociological accounts of conventional phenomena. Traditional approaches tend to generate either synchronic accounts that fail to consider the arbitrariness of conventions, or diachronic accounts that miss central aspects of their normativity. As a remedy, we propose a processual concept…
Death Contested: Morphonecrosis and Conflicts of Interpretation
Accumulation through derealization: How corporate violence remains unchecked
This study examines the alleged organization of violence by Coca-Cola through a field study conducted in a village in India. It draws on the works of Judith Butler to show how subaltern groups are derealized and made into ungrievable lives through specific, yet recurrent, practices that keep violence unchecked. Many participants attempt to resist derealization through protest activities that showcase their vulnerability. However, the firm appropr…
How can the loggerhead sea-turtle survive? Exploring the journeys of the Caretta caretta using ANT and critical realism
The endangered loggerhead sea-turtle ( Caretta caretta) nests on the shores of the Mediterranean, but faces threats to its existence from a variety of sources. Answering the question of how this species can survive is complex as it involves examining the relationships between the turtle, its natural environment, local tourists, property developers, conservation organisations, governments and law-makers. We argue that actor-network theory provides…
Introduction: De/humanization and critical realism
This short paper introduces the special issue of the Journal of Critical Realism on de/humanisation and critical realism. It discusses the significance of studying contemporary processes of dehumanisation as well as attempts to reorganise groups, organisations and societies. It provides a sketchy summary of the contributions to the special issue by Douglas Porpora, Peter Kahn, LAkshman Vimalasena, Hans Despain, Harvey Shoolmann and Alan Norrie
Are post-human technologies dehumanizing? Human enhancement and artificial intelligence in contemporary societies
Post-human technologies, such as human enhancements and artificial intelligence, blur or displace the boundaries of our common humanity. While these technologies enhance many valuable human powers, there is limited philosophical discussion as to whether and how they can also be dehumanizing? To answer this question, I start from a philosophical discussion of the concept of ‘dehumanization' and argue that it conflates three social mechanisms throu…
The politics of post-human technologies: Human enhancements, artificial intelligence and virtual reality
This essay encourages fellow scholars to consider critical organizational studies of post-human technologies. While these nascent technologies hold many promises, they also risk exacerbating several unacceptable organizational features that have been regularly documented, discussed and combated in Organization over the past 30 years. These features include, among other evils, corporate domination and colonization; further erosion of organic solid…
Ontological unpredictability: What can realists say about unpredictability, contingency and catastrophe
This paper introduces the original research articles that constitute the present Forum issue on unpredictability, contingency and catastrophe. In doing so, it also identifies and discusses the specificity of realist approaches to the above questions. It is argued that attentiveness to the ontological dimension of (un)predictability opens promising avenues for reflexive approaches to social science and collective action
Strangers in conversation: Judith Butler with gender, work and organization
Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study
Facing the facts of the Gaza genocide: Refusing complicity, organizing solidarity
As a collective, Organization has a strong commitment to exposing and challenging domination and oppression, to amplifying scholarly activism, and to standing in solidarity with the oppressed, the dispossessed, and the Indigenous peoples of the world. Therefore, we cannot remain silent observers of the genocide in Gaza, of the oppression of the Palestinian people, and of the political, academic and organizational systems that are complicit in it.…
Managing stigma together: Relationality in the wound clinic
Our paper contributes to studies of stigma and dirty work by asking ‘how can workers and clients of dirty work manage stigma together?’ With the purpose of appreciating the worker/client relational dynamics in an organisation characterised by stigma, we conducted an ethnography in a wound healing clinic where clinicians do the dirty work of caring for patients with socially stigmatising wounds. To guide and subsequently interpret our ethnographic…
Margaret Archer's legacy to business and management studies: A bibliometric analysis
This paper explores Margaret Archer’s enduring influence on business and management studies (BMS) while offering a methodological blueprint for other applied social sciences. Through a systematic bibliographic analysis of 241 articles, it shows how Archer’s realist social theory – especially the morphogenetic approach, critical realism, and concepts of reflexivity and relationality – has shaped sub-fields including organization studies and inform…
In memoriam: Margaret Archer (1943–2023)
Introduction to the special issue commemorating the work of Margaret Archer
This special issue of the Journal of Critical Realism (JCR) is a commemoration of the work and intellectual leadership of Margaret Archer by her associates at the Centre for Social Ontology (CSO)
Sociology (13 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Critical Realism in Sociology (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (6 works) · Realism (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (4 works)