Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904)

The financial crisis of 2007-2008, which spread from the United States to other parts of the world, gave impetus to a renewed interest in the concepts of contagion and imitation. These are concepts that figure prominently in the work of the French criminologist and sociologist Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904). Since the late 1990s, Tarde's work has witnessed a rebirth in social theory. This chapter offers an interpretation of Tarde and highlights some of its implications for thinking about processes and organizations, with an emphasis on the distinction between organizations and organizing and Tarde's contribution to contemporary organization theory. It first considers some of Tarde's key ideas, along with biographical details and information about the intellectual climate in which he worked, including Emile Durkheim's critique of Tarde. It then examines Tarde's key notion of imitation and discusses imitative economic dynamics

Management and Organizational Studies · Management · Organization · Organizational behavior · Organizational sociology · Philosophy · Process philosophy

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