The lion and fox animal spirits of Machiavelli and Pareto
A framework for studying organisational micro-politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7372474 |
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| Authors | Alasdair Marshall (0000-0002-9789-8042, University of Southampton), Patrick Brown (0000-0001-6392-1630, Department of Sociology, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)), Udechukwu Ojiako (0000-0003-0506-2115, INRACollege of Engineering, University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 58-1 |
| Issue | 58-1 |
| Pages | 13-40 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revue européenne des sciences sociales (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-8046 • E-ISSN: 1663-4446 |
| Publisher | Librairie Droz (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.4000/ress.6226 |
| OpenAlex | W3039681339 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 72 |
In seeking a nuanced grasp of affective “animal spirits” that shape micro-political management behaviours viscerally, while locating their emergence within broad sociocultural contexts, the present paper draws on the “lion” and “fox” animal spirits, whose inspiration for Pareto’s psychologistic sociological project we clarify from Chapter XVIII of Machiavelli’s The Prince. Our corresponding managerial ideal-types are initially explored for their heuristic allegorical potential, considering also how particular organisational risk conditions may inculcate and challenge them. These contextualised psycho-affective tendencies are then refined and grounded within recent behavioural-psychology research, through which their suitability for various socio-organisational risk contexts is further elaborated. The resulting framework, connecting emotional dispositions of leaders to longer term contexts, is held up as viable for focusing academic management and organisational research towards practice-related interventions, while also highlighting the Machiavellian-Paretian realist tradition as a source of living theory for social science
Epistemology · Heuristic · Ideal (ethics · Pareto principle · Political science · Politics · Psychological intervention · Sociology · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Engineering · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology
Individual Differences in Machiavellianism as a Mix of Cooperative and Exploitative Strategies
The Managed Heart
Beyond Power and Resistance
The White (Male) Effect and Risk Perception
Changes in Dispositional Empathy in American College Students Over Time
Trust in Risk Management
Moving Management
Sex, Power, and Money
Development and Validation of the Political Skill Inventory
The dirty dozen
Out of Control
Maps of Bounded Rationality
Non-Ethnocentric Authoritarianism
Prince
Knowing the Unknowable
Critical trust
Frameworks of Power
Heading into the unknown
The Institutional Entrepreneur as Modern Prince
Power Posing
Gender, race, and perceived risk
Risk and Culture
Trust as a Social Reality
Discourses on Livy
Perspectives on Power in Organizations
Perceptions of intragroup conflict
Managing risk through the veil of ignorance
Risk, danger, and trust
If we have wrong perceptions of our area, we cannot be surprised if others do as well.’ Representing risk in Teesside's environmental politics
Political will, political skill, and political behavior
Abusive supervision and feedback avoidance
The dark side of personality at work
Trust, regulatory processes and Nice decision-making
When the tongue slips it tells the truth’
The Dark Triad of personality
The Culture of Narcissism
Dogmatism in relation to sub‐types of conservatism
Resistance leadership
Reactions to Organizational Politics
Coping processes linking the demands-control-support model, affect and risky decisions at work
The emotional implications of organizational politics
Animal Spirits
The Impact of Social Threat on Worldview and Ideological Attitudes
Political conservatism as motivated social cognition
Stewart Clegg
The Concept of the Political
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