Habitus, doxa, and saga: applications of Bourdieu’s theory of practice to organizational history

Lyke, Austin

doi:10.1080/17449359.2017.1329091

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“…I submit that these understandings shall enable one to create sustainable solutions in this regard. Lyke (2017) called Bourdieu’s theory an analytical tool that has the potential to provide sensitivity related to behavior and related social phenomena. Bourdieu’s theory contributes too, ineffaceably, in this space of elucidating an agency–structure arrangement (Walther, 2014).…”

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Synergistic Use of Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice, Queer Theories, and Employment Relation Theories: A Perspective for Sustainable Transgender Inclusion at the Workplace

Mehta

2020

Business Perspectives and Research

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Many transgender employees leave their employment even before they settle themselves in their workplace. Their inclusion in mainstream employment is a sensitive and emerging issue. As Bourdieu’s theory of practice promises to work at both the agency and structure level, I see great potential in integrating it with queer perspectives and employment relations theory. This integration can play a significant role in transgender inclusion in the workplace. Therefore, a potential model has been proposed to build a theoretical model using underpinnings from these theories. Based on the deductive approach, integration of queer theories and employment relation theory may enable one to understand queer habitus, capitals, and practices in the social field. I suggest that in the pursuance of taking forward queer habitus, capital in the social field (employment), Unitarian, Pluralist, and Marxist views from the premise of employment theories can add empathy and sensitivity. Therefore, in this study, I intend to present a perspective through an integrated model derived from concepts from these theories. In the future, this model can be explored for observational confrontation and synergistic use to check workplace reality and to seek sustainable transgender inclusion at the workplace.

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confidence: 99%

Synergistic Use of Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice, Queer Theories, and Employment Relation Theories: A Perspective for Sustainable Transgender Inclusion at the Workplace

Mehta

2020

Business Perspectives and Research

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“…The role of media rankings, specifically, may also affect the pace with which future assessments from stakeholders with prior negative or neutral beliefs turn positive (Dorobantu et al, 2017). To tackle those uncertainties, future research could examine similar phenomena in undergraduate settings, other professional schools, or other environments in the legal industry, as well as the influence of more esoteric aspects of cultural change, such as college and university sagas (Lyke, 2017), on organizational mechanisms including reactivity and cascades. Does, for example, naming a management school after a well-known wealthy donor influence hiring in jobs associated with said donor?…”

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Institutional Effects of Higher Education Acquisitions: The Case of Texas A&M School of Law

Lyke

2018

AERA Open

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This study analyzes the acquisition of the Texas Wesleyan University School of Law by Texas A&M University. In particular, institution-level effects are examined by measuring selectivity, tuition prices, job outcomes, and bar passage rate before and after the law school changed names from a hyperregional institution to one of statewide eminence and national recognition. Difference-in-differences estimations and synthetic control analysis are used to measure effects of the acquisition on various institutional metrics. Results show an increase on school selectivity and null effects on tuition price and job outcomes, suggesting heterogeneity in response to the acquisition. Implications for higher education and legal education, specifically, are discussed.

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“…Let us turn to an example of how the model was difficult to “fit” certain scholarship. Lyke’s (2017) work in MOH used the concept of “organizational saga” as a framework while presenting Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practice as an analytical tool. The paper uses a Bourdieusian reading of organizational saga to offer a unique lens in understanding structural determinants of historical narratives.…”

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Accounting for management and organizational history: strategies and conceptions

Arseneault

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Mills

2021

JMH

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to answer the question of where the course of the collective efforts in historical research on business and organizations has taken this discipline. By raising two key contributions that have sought to reshape the contours of management and organizational history, the authors trace the work of their field since their inception and, in doing so, critique the utility of these typologies as representative of diverse historical knowledge in management and organization studies (MOS). Design/methodology/approach Drawing on elements of an integrative review that seeks to critically appraise the foundation of knowledge built in a scholarly field, the authors interrogate the historical knowledge that has been (and is being) produced in three leading management and organizational history journals by synthesizing the posture history takes as an object and subject of study in MOS. Over 400 articles were closely examined and categorized using Rowlinson et al.’s (2014) research strategies in organizational history and Maclean et al.’s (2016) four conceptions of history. Then, this research was used to examine the integrity of these two typologies and their practice by management historians. Findings The bulk of the work our field has produced mirrors an analytically structured history feel – where “doing history” straddles careful divide between data analysis and narrative construction. Narrating as a conception of history used in organization studies research remains the most subscribed representation of the past. It was found that while some work may fit within these typologies, others especially those considered peripheral of mainstream history are difficult to confine to any one strategy or conception. The authors’ examination also found some potential for a creative synthesis between the two typologies. Research limitations/implications Because only three management history journals are used in this analysis, bracketed by the choice of the periodization (between 2016 and 2019 inclusive), this study must not be viewed as being wholly representative of all historical research on business and organizations writ-large. Practical implications This research attempts to demonstrate the recent direction management and organizational historians have taken in crafting history. The authors embrace the opportunity to allow for this paper to act as a tool to familiarize a much broader audience to understand what has been constituted as historical research in MOS to-date and is especially useful to those who are already contributing to the field (e.g. doctoral students and junior scholars who have demonstrable interest in taking up historically inspired dissertations, articles, chapters and conference activities). Originality/value The research conducted in this article contributes to the debates that have sought to define the scholastic character of management and organizational history. The authors build on recent calls to take part in creating dialogue between and among each other, building on the collective efforts that advance history in both theory and practice.

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Habitus, doxa, and saga: applications of Bourdieu’s theory of practice to organizational history

Cited by 11 publications

References 20 publications

Synergistic Use of Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice, Queer Theories, and Employment Relation Theories: A Perspective for Sustainable Transgender Inclusion at the Workplace

Synergistic Use of Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice, Queer Theories, and Employment Relation Theories: A Perspective for Sustainable Transgender Inclusion at the Workplace

Institutional Effects of Higher Education Acquisitions: The Case of Texas A&M School of Law

Accounting for management and organizational history: strategies and conceptions

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