Justification, evaluation and critique in the study of organizations : contributions from French pragmatist sociology /

• Other Authors: Lounsbury, Michael (Editor), Cloutier, Charlotte (Editor), Gond, Jean-Pascal (Editor), Leca, Bernard (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017.
• Series: Research in the sociology of organizations ; v. 52.
• Subjects: Organizational sociology.; Business & Economics > Organizational Behavior.; Organizational theory & behaviour.

The papers included in the volume explore how mobilizing Boltanski and Thévenot's EW framework helps address questions regarding the premises and dynamics of agreement and disagreement in coordinated action, both within and across organizations, and by so doing, help advance our understanding...

Table of Contents:

• 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.