Research Methods for Non-Representational Approaches to Organizational Complexity: The Dialogical Mediated Inquiry

Lorino, Philippe; Tricard, Benoît; Clot, Yves

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“…For a sign to acquire meaning, it has to have a meaningful context, a previous system that gives meaning to any subsequent interpretation [Lorino, Clot, and Tricard 2010].…”

Section: Methodological Aspects: Semiotics As Logic For Establishing mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Pragmatism is a philosophical perspective that aims to identify concepts of reality through their consequences [Lorino, Clot, and Tricard 2010]. It connects thought on a continuum with action giving experience a fundamental role in the construction of knowledge.…”

Section: Epistemological Aspects: Pragmatism As a Philosophy Applied mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Whilst abduction is the weakest form of reasoning it involves the highest level of creative thinking. According to Lorino, Clot, and Tricard [2010]:…”

Section: Epistemological Aspects: Pragmatism As a Philosophy Applied mentioning

confidence: 99%

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An analytical methodology from management research: insights from semiotics

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2016

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Abstract:In the field of business management, managers have a tendency to think in a linear fashion that is restricted to cause and effect relationships. This mindset limits understanding of complex phenomena, including those that managers and business people face in their activities. This article proposes an Analytical Methodology for Management Research (AMMR) using a triadic logic gleaned from semiotics. The AMMR tool used herein diagnoses the meaning people assign to complex concepts such as "business success" and is based on three logical categories within semiotics where success is understood as business sustainability over time. This article applies the AMMR to an empirical sample comprised of managers and business people. The results highlight the similarities and differences in attributing meaning to the concept of sustainability. The study also analyses the knowledge, behaviours and values that respondents considered most important for the success of an enterprise, i.e. its sustainability. This article concludes that the applied methodology creatively enriches the analysis of the phenomenon studied opening up many possible responses. The AMMR can be applied to the assessment of managers and business people from different organisations or people working in the same organisation at different hierarchical levels. In addition, the analysis can be performed individually or collectively. The classification of the responses obtained by applying the AMMR is open for future research, following 10 possible configurations, with each of them emerging as a logical combination that allows for the organisation of the emphasis given to concepts, behaviours and values.

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“…For a sign to acquire meaning, it has to have a meaningful context, a previous system that gives meaning to any subsequent interpretation [Lorino, Clot, and Tricard 2010].…”

Section: Methodological Aspects: Semiotics As Logic For Establishing mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Epistemological Aspects: Pragmatism As a Philosophy Applied mentioning

confidence: 99%

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An analytical methodology from management research: insights from semiotics

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2016

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“…Past, present and future are present in activity itself, constituted and constitutive of it with it not being necessarily the intentional effect of a creative human agent: devices can act. Furthermore, performative stances are in clear opposition to 'representational philosophies' (Lorino et al, 2011). Representational approaches see language and signs as direct and unmediated representations of reality.…”

Section: Performativity: Back To Key Social Materials and Temporal Dementioning

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Towards a Political Philosophy of Management: Performativity & Visibility in Management Practices

Vaujany

Aroles

Laniray

2018

Philosophy of Management

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Phenomenological, process-based and post-Marxist approaches have stressed the immanent nature of the ontogenesis of our world. The concept of performativity epitomizes these temporal, spatial and material views. Reality is always in movement itself: it is constantly materially and socially 'performed'. Other views lead to a pre-defined world that would be mostly revealed through sensations (i.e. 'representational perspectives'). These transcendental stances assume that a subject, although pre-existing experience, is the absolute condition of possibility of it. In this paper, we develop another view of performativity (either complementary or interrelated to an immanent stance), one that re-introduces transcendence in the analysis but sees in it something dialogical to the process itself. We draw from the notions of visibility-invisibility and continuity-discontinuity (Merleau-Ponty, 1945, 1964 in order to show how everyday activity both performs and makes visible the world.From that perspective, modes of visibility appear as emergent conditions of possibility of performativity itself. We draw some implications for the conceptualization of management practices.

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“…D'autres chercheurs font apparaître la distinction plus explicitement, en différenciant, par exemple, « pratique revendiquée » ("espoused practice ») et « pratique effective » ("actual practice ») (Brown & Duguid, 1991, p. 41), « théorie revendiquée » et « théorie en usage » (Argyris & Schön, 1978), ou « routine ostensive » et « routine performative » (Feldman & Pentland, 2003), mais ces dichotomies, qui laissent deviner un lien mimétique entre l'activité située et ses représentations génériques, ressemblent fort au dualisme rationaliste classique entre « représentation » et « réalité », ou « conception » et « exécution » dans le taylorisme. Il s'agit aussi d'un débat méthodologique : des méthodes fondées sur l'observation suffisent-elles à étudier l'activité, ou la dimension signifiante de l'activité, beaucoup plus complexe que l'acte observable, exige-t-elle des méthodes d'enquête spécifiques (Lorino, Tricard & Clot, 2011) ? Schatzki (2002, source d'inspiration du courant de recherche "practice-based », distingue certes soigneusement entre « activité », processus situé, et « pratique », qu'il définit comme le « site social de l'activité », mais il tend à caractériser la relation entre activité et pratique comme une relation d'inclusion : « les activités humaines font intrinsèquement partie des pratiques sociales » (2005, p. 468), ce qui ne rend guère compte de la complexité de la relation dynamique entre activité située et types sociaux.…”

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Collective activity, an organizing process: a discursive process based on the pragmatist language of habit

Lorino¹

2013

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Collective activity, an organizing process: a discursive process based on the pragmatist language of habit. Recent streams in organization research have developed an action-based view of organizing, whereby actors' actions make organization emerge as a dynamic construct. They stress the process by which discourses make the sense of action emerge and generate "organizing" practical effects. This article adopts the symmetric view, focused on activity itself as a discourse in acts, rather than on language practices and objects which are involved in activity. Echoing the theory of "speech acts" (Austin, 1970;Searle, 1971) which explores the "performativity of discourse", i.e. its power of transforming situations, this article sketches a theory of "act speeches", exploring the "discursivity of action", i.e. its power to make meaning. Acts are not only operations which transform the situation, but also signs pointing at socially constructed meanings.Resorting to the pragmatist theories of habit (Peirce, 1931(Peirce, -1958(Peirce, , 1992Dewey, 1922Dewey, -1957 and inquiry (Peirce, 1992; Dewey, 1938 Dewey, -1980, collective activity is analyzed as a discursive process, combining stabilized and socially shared segments of signification ("habits") and situated inquiries to adapt or recreate habits. A case study (implementation of an integrated management information system in a large firm) shows that major organizational changes may reveal habits and their discursive coherence by disturbing them. Actors face the task, difficult because unanticipated, of rebuilding the discursive frames of their collective activity. The conclusion summarizes the theoretical, practical and methodological contributions of this approach to activity.KEY WORDS collective activity, organizing process, habit, inquiry, pragmatism.Introduction : mettre l'activité collective au coeur de la recherche en organisation Des courants de recherche récents sur les organisations, notamment l'approche fondée sur les pratiques (l'organisation vue comme « faisceau de pratiques ») et les approches orientées « processus » (l'organisation comme processus organisant plutôt que comme structure), prêtent une attention particulière à la manière dont l'action des acteurs fait émerger l'organisation comme un construit dynamique, en évolution permanente. Dans une telle Pourtant les courants dominants de la recherche sur les organisations s'étaient détournés de l'activité comme objet théorique, à la faveur de choix historiques successifs qui tendirent à détacher la question de l'organisation de celle de l'activité. Le paradigme informationnel de l'organisation, centré sur la prise de décision, le traitement de l'information et la cognition, se trouvait ainsi préféré aux vues de l'organisation fondées sur l'activité. Les nouveaux courants théoriques mentionnés précédemment mettent l'accent sur le lien étroit entre action collective et émergence continue du sens. Ils s'intéressent notamment à la manière dont les discours, la communication et les récits font émerge...

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Research Methods for Non-Representational Approaches to Organizational Complexity: The Dialogical Mediated Inquiry

Cited by 124 publications

References 48 publications

An analytical methodology from management research: insights from semiotics

An analytical methodology from management research: insights from semiotics

Towards a Political Philosophy of Management: Performativity & Visibility in Management Practices

Collective activity, an organizing process: a discursive process based on the pragmatist language of habit

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