David Courpasson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 258231 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Courpasson |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Courpasson |
| ASSINATURA | COURPASSON D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | École de management de Lyon |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1961-0496 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The power of lore
Drawing on 55 interviews with professional opera singers, we consider the role that occupational myths play in helping the precariously employed make sense of their work and sustain their commitment to it. We advance our theoretical understanding in this area in two distinct ways. First, by theorizing occupational myths as a powerful social device that helps to rescript the intelligibility of precarious work, along with normative responses to it.…
Bloody suffering and durability
In this article, we elaborate on the significance of suffering in processes of embodied identity construction. Drawing on interviews with 62 chefs employed in elite kitchens around the world, we make two main contributions. First, we extend our understanding of suffering as a traumatic, alienating experience by theorizing it as a distinctive form of embodied identity work. We show how suffering can function as a mechanism through which people for…
Objectal resistance
Flexwork, that is, the combination of shared offices and telework, is one of the major changes affecting the workplace these days. But how do employees react to these transformations of their work environment? In this article, we investigate employees’ resistance to the introduction of flexwork in a large Belgian organization. We show employees resisting this workspace transformation through the use of personal objects as means to physically reco…
Collective ethics of resistance
This article aims to shed light on how ‘powerless’ people can organize to survive in situations of mass oppression. Research on powerlessness often explains compliance and political inaction by a culture of silence, generated from the sedimentation of numerous experiences of defeat. We question this assertion by drawing from an illustration of certain inhabitants of the Warsaw Ghetto, who managed to create a micro-society and reclaim the social r…
Politics of place
The meaningfulness of the physical place within which resistance is nurtured and enacted has not been carefully considered in research on space and organizations. In this article, we offer two stories of middle managers developing resistance to managerial policies and decisions. We show that the appropriation and reconstruction of specific places by middle managers helps them to build autonomous resisting work thanks to the meanings that resister…
Democracy and Organization
Still a controversial issue, the idea that the “civilian” world might be becoming more democratic is juxtaposed with an opposite trend with respect to the organizational world. As Rousseau and Rivero, among others, put it: “Although we are increasingly likely to be governed by democratic political systems, our workplaces are seldom democratic.” The increasing dominance of corporate power, the persistence and refurbishment of hierarchy and bureauc…
The Sage Handbook of Resistance
Democracy and Organization
This entry explores the different definitions of democracy and the complex problems of democratic rule. These issues are then related to the dynamics of corporate governance and the extent to which democratic arrangements can offset hierarchy, oligarchy, and bureaucracy in modern organizations.
Resisters at Work
Research has recognized the transformative dimension of resistance in the workplace. Yet resistance is still seen as an adversarial and antagonistic process that management can accept or reject; thus, understanding how resistance can actually influence workplace change remains a challenge for research. In this paper, we offer an analysis of two situations of resistance wherein resisters, organized in temporary enclaves, are able to influence top …
Rethinking Power in Organizations, Institutions, and Markets
In this volume we strive to go beyond the dual approach of power opposing structural/oversocialized perspectives and situational perspectives, through theoretical and empirical contributions stressing power as a. continuously 'living' phenomenon. In particular, the volume will address issues including integrating the various forms of power in Organization Sociology. How can we reconsider the exercise of power as polymorphic and multidimensional? …
Entretien avec David Courpasson
Ressources humaines pour sortie de crise
Dissolving the Iron Cages? Tocqueville, Michels, Bureaucracy and the Perpetuation of Elite Power
Modern management theory often forgets more than it remembers. ‘What's new?’ is the refrain. Yet, we suggest, there is much that we should already know from which we might appropriately learn, ‘Lest we forget’. The current paper takes its departure from two points of remembrance that bear on the sustained assaults on bureaucracy that have been unleashed by the critiques of recent years. These critiques include the new public management literature…
Power and Organizations
International audience
Power and Organizations (Foundations for Organizational Science)
Introduction
Nicolas Flamant, Une anthropologie des managers
Voilà un ouvrage qui réjouira tous ceux qui déplorent l’absence d’analyses approfondies et argumentées sur les dimensions sociales de la gestion et du management d’entreprise. Avec beaucoup de maestria, l’auteur nous y dévoile l’intimité d’une organisation et la façon dont de multiples processus sociaux produisent, par leurs interactions et interpénétrations, des formes d’action managériale institutionnalisées et fortement structurantes. Le parti…
L'action contrainte. Organisations libérales et domination
Managerial Strategies of Domination. Power in Soft Bureaucracies
This paper discusses the emergence and reinforcement of organizational political regimes based on domination and centralization in French organizations. Domination and power are old concepts in organizational sociology, but the confrontation of two well-known approaches to politics in organizations, that of Weber and that of Crozier, suggests that an `archaic' notion such as domination is still very useful for understanding how business leaders `…
L'action contrainte
L'objectif de cet ouvrage est de rompre avec les évidences « libérales-entrepreneuriales » des discours sur le management des entreprises. L'idée qui est défendue est en effet que les réformes organisationnelles de ces dernières décennies ont produit plus de contrainte et de domination que ne le disent ou ne l'acceptent les analystes et les managers eux-mêmes. L'auteur démontre comment les dynamiques managériales récentes renforcent le pouvoir ce…
Cultures et mondialisation. Gérer par-delà les frontières
Entre fascination et dénonciation. Sociologie et management des organisations
Concernant l’étude du gouvernement des organisations, la sociologie et les sociologues oscillent schématiquement entre deux tendances assez opposées. D’une part, ils construisent des théories visant à dénoncer, parfois de façon militante, les finalités oppressives et répressives du management. De l’autre côté, ils peuvent sombrer dans une fascination de la capacité des organisations à générer des innovations instrumentales ou mieux, à inventer le…
Régulation et gouvernement des organisations. Pour une sociologie de l'action managériale
Cet article propose une sociologie de l'action managériale qui se démarquerait de la sociologie de l'action organisée avec son principe d'autonomie, et de la sociologie de l'entreprise et ses principes de participation et de confiance. Il propose de placer la contrainte au centre de l'analyse. Dans des organisations de plus en plus décentralisées, la question du contrôle et de la surveillance localisée des principes de gouvernement, devient centr…
Éléments pour une sociologie de la relation commerciale
À partir de deux enquêtes dans une banque régionale, l'auteur retrace l'évolution de la relation commerciale dans le secteur bancaire, et plus particulièrement les changements ayant affecté le métier de vendeur dans les quarante dernières années. Alors que dans les décennies cinquante et soixante, la relation au client était marquée par une insertion locale forte et le poids de compétences internes, les années quatre-vingt-dix verront se développ…
Marché concret et identité professionnelle locale
David Courpasson, Marché concret et identité professionnelle locale: La construction de l'identité par le rapport au marché, Revue française de sociologie, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1994), pp. 197-229
Politics of place
The meaningfulness of the physical place within which resistance is nurtured and enacted has not been carefully considered in research on space and organizations. In this article, we offer two stories of middle managers developing resistance to managerial policies and decisions. We show that the appropriation and reconstruction of specific places by middle managers helps them to build autonomous resisting work thanks to the meanings that resister…
Régulation et gouvernement des organisations. Pour une sociologie de l'action managériale
Cet article propose une sociologie de l'action managériale qui se démarquerait de la sociologie de l'action organisée avec son principe d'autonomie, et de la sociologie de l'entreprise et ses principes de participation et de confiance. Il propose de placer la contrainte au centre de l'analyse. Dans des organisations de plus en plus décentralisées, la question du contrôle et de la surveillance localisée des principes de gouvernement, devient centr…
Rethinking Power in Organizations, Institutions, and Markets
In this volume we strive to go beyond the dual approach of power opposing structural/oversocialized perspectives and situational perspectives, through theoretical and empirical contributions stressing power as a. continuously 'living' phenomenon. In particular, the volume will address issues including integrating the various forms of power in Organization Sociology. How can we reconsider the exercise of power as polymorphic and multidimensional? …
Bloody suffering and durability
In this article, we elaborate on the significance of suffering in processes of embodied identity construction. Drawing on interviews with 62 chefs employed in elite kitchens around the world, we make two main contributions. First, we extend our understanding of suffering as a traumatic, alienating experience by theorizing it as a distinctive form of embodied identity work. We show how suffering can function as a mechanism through which people for…
Éléments pour une sociologie de la relation commerciale
À partir de deux enquêtes dans une banque régionale, l'auteur retrace l'évolution de la relation commerciale dans le secteur bancaire, et plus particulièrement les changements ayant affecté le métier de vendeur dans les quarante dernières années. Alors que dans les décennies cinquante et soixante, la relation au client était marquée par une insertion locale forte et le poids de compétences internes, les années quatre-vingt-dix verront se développ…
Marché concret et identité professionnelle locale
David Courpasson, Marché concret et identité professionnelle locale: La construction de l'identité par le rapport au marché, Revue française de sociologie, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1994), pp. 197-229
Objectal resistance
Flexwork, that is, the combination of shared offices and telework, is one of the major changes affecting the workplace these days. But how do employees react to these transformations of their work environment? In this article, we investigate employees’ resistance to the introduction of flexwork in a large Belgian organization. We show employees resisting this workspace transformation through the use of personal objects as means to physically reco…
Marché concret et identité professionnelle locale
David Courpasson, Marché concret et identité professionnelle locale: La construction de l'identité par le rapport au marché, Revue française de sociologie, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1994), pp. 197-229
Éléments pour une sociologie de la relation commerciale
À partir de deux enquêtes dans une banque régionale, l'auteur retrace l'évolution de la relation commerciale dans le secteur bancaire, et plus particulièrement les changements ayant affecté le métier de vendeur dans les quarante dernières années. Alors que dans les décennies cinquante et soixante, la relation au client était marquée par une insertion locale forte et le poids de compétences internes, les années quatre-vingt-dix verront se développ…
Régulation et gouvernement des organisations. Pour une sociologie de l'action managériale
Cet article propose une sociologie de l'action managériale qui se démarquerait de la sociologie de l'action organisée avec son principe d'autonomie, et de la sociologie de l'entreprise et ses principes de participation et de confiance. Il propose de placer la contrainte au centre de l'analyse. Dans des organisations de plus en plus décentralisées, la question du contrôle et de la surveillance localisée des principes de gouvernement, devient centr…
Entre fascination et dénonciation. Sociologie et management des organisations
Concernant l’étude du gouvernement des organisations, la sociologie et les sociologues oscillent schématiquement entre deux tendances assez opposées. D’une part, ils construisent des théories visant à dénoncer, parfois de façon militante, les finalités oppressives et répressives du management. De l’autre côté, ils peuvent sombrer dans une fascination de la capacité des organisations à générer des innovations instrumentales ou mieux, à inventer le…
Managerial Strategies of Domination. Power in Soft Bureaucracies
This paper discusses the emergence and reinforcement of organizational political regimes based on domination and centralization in French organizations. Domination and power are old concepts in organizational sociology, but the confrontation of two well-known approaches to politics in organizations, that of Weber and that of Crozier, suggests that an `archaic' notion such as domination is still very useful for understanding how business leaders `…
L'action contrainte
L'objectif de cet ouvrage est de rompre avec les évidences « libérales-entrepreneuriales » des discours sur le management des entreprises. L'idée qui est défendue est en effet que les réformes organisationnelles de ces dernières décennies ont produit plus de contrainte et de domination que ne le disent ou ne l'acceptent les analystes et les managers eux-mêmes. L'auteur démontre comment les dynamiques managériales récentes renforcent le pouvoir ce…
Cultures et mondialisation. Gérer par-delà les frontières
L'action contrainte. Organisations libérales et domination
Introduction
Nicolas Flamant, Une anthropologie des managers
Voilà un ouvrage qui réjouira tous ceux qui déplorent l’absence d’analyses approfondies et argumentées sur les dimensions sociales de la gestion et du management d’entreprise. Avec beaucoup de maestria, l’auteur nous y dévoile l’intimité d’une organisation et la façon dont de multiples processus sociaux produisent, par leurs interactions et interpénétrations, des formes d’action managériale institutionnalisées et fortement structurantes. Le parti…
Dissolving the Iron Cages? Tocqueville, Michels, Bureaucracy and the Perpetuation of Elite Power
Modern management theory often forgets more than it remembers. ‘What's new?’ is the refrain. Yet, we suggest, there is much that we should already know from which we might appropriately learn, ‘Lest we forget’. The current paper takes its departure from two points of remembrance that bear on the sustained assaults on bureaucracy that have been unleashed by the critiques of recent years. These critiques include the new public management literature…
Power and Organizations
International audience
Power and Organizations (Foundations for Organizational Science)
Ressources humaines pour sortie de crise
Entretien avec David Courpasson
Resisters at Work
Research has recognized the transformative dimension of resistance in the workplace. Yet resistance is still seen as an adversarial and antagonistic process that management can accept or reject; thus, understanding how resistance can actually influence workplace change remains a challenge for research. In this paper, we offer an analysis of two situations of resistance wherein resisters, organized in temporary enclaves, are able to influence top …
Rethinking Power in Organizations, Institutions, and Markets
In this volume we strive to go beyond the dual approach of power opposing structural/oversocialized perspectives and situational perspectives, through theoretical and empirical contributions stressing power as a. continuously 'living' phenomenon. In particular, the volume will address issues including integrating the various forms of power in Organization Sociology. How can we reconsider the exercise of power as polymorphic and multidimensional? …
Democracy and Organization
This entry explores the different definitions of democracy and the complex problems of democratic rule. These issues are then related to the dynamics of corporate governance and the extent to which democratic arrangements can offset hierarchy, oligarchy, and bureaucracy in modern organizations.
The Sage Handbook of Resistance
Politics of place
The meaningfulness of the physical place within which resistance is nurtured and enacted has not been carefully considered in research on space and organizations. In this article, we offer two stories of middle managers developing resistance to managerial policies and decisions. We show that the appropriation and reconstruction of specific places by middle managers helps them to build autonomous resisting work thanks to the meanings that resister…
Democracy and Organization
Still a controversial issue, the idea that the “civilian” world might be becoming more democratic is juxtaposed with an opposite trend with respect to the organizational world. As Rousseau and Rivero, among others, put it: “Although we are increasingly likely to be governed by democratic political systems, our workplaces are seldom democratic.” The increasing dominance of corporate power, the persistence and refurbishment of hierarchy and bureauc…
Collective ethics of resistance
This article aims to shed light on how ‘powerless’ people can organize to survive in situations of mass oppression. Research on powerlessness often explains compliance and political inaction by a culture of silence, generated from the sedimentation of numerous experiences of defeat. We question this assertion by drawing from an illustration of certain inhabitants of the Warsaw Ghetto, who managed to create a micro-society and reclaim the social r…
Objectal resistance
Flexwork, that is, the combination of shared offices and telework, is one of the major changes affecting the workplace these days. But how do employees react to these transformations of their work environment? In this article, we investigate employees’ resistance to the introduction of flexwork in a large Belgian organization. We show employees resisting this workspace transformation through the use of personal objects as means to physically reco…
Bloody suffering and durability
In this article, we elaborate on the significance of suffering in processes of embodied identity construction. Drawing on interviews with 62 chefs employed in elite kitchens around the world, we make two main contributions. First, we extend our understanding of suffering as a traumatic, alienating experience by theorizing it as a distinctive form of embodied identity work. We show how suffering can function as a mechanism through which people for…
The power of lore
Drawing on 55 interviews with professional opera singers, we consider the role that occupational myths play in helping the precariously employed make sense of their work and sustain their commitment to it. We advance our theoretical understanding in this area in two distinct ways. First, by theorizing occupational myths as a powerful social device that helps to rescript the intelligibility of precarious work, along with normative responses to it.…
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