Soft constraint : liberal organizations and domination / David Courpasson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Courpasson, David, author.

Series:

Advances in organization studies.

Advances in Organization Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational sociology.

Industrial management.

Power (Social sciences).

Leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Frederiksberg, Denmark : Copenhagen Business School Press, 2006.

Summary:

This book seeks to understand precisely how current organizations are governed, based on the analysis of three managerial reforms: the implementation of marketing practices in the banking sector, project management, and the management of competences in the field of HRM.

Contents:

Intro

Soft Constraint: Liberal Organizations and Domination

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Table of contents

Preamble

Introduction

The conformity that lies behind diversity

Behind competency, the order of reputations

Behind decentralisation, guilt

Chapter 1: Defence of bureaucracy

1.1 Bendix and Taylor: against arbitrary managerial power

1.2 The ideology of co-operation: Chester Barnard

1.3 The neo-Weberianism of Simon: control, constraint and domination

1.4 At the end of the road: Perrow and the defence of bureaucracy

Chapter 2: The rejection of determinism

2.1 Crozier, Friedberg: the games with constraints

2.1.1 Organisation is made-up of constraints

2.1.2 The organisation is made up of games with constraints

2.1.3 Crozierian aversion to domination

2.1.4 Friedberg and organised action in a liberal context

2.3 The institutional strength of the firm

2.3.1 The foundations of the institutionalist project

2.3.2 The influence of constraints

2.3.3 The fearful rejection of domination

2.4 The firm as a form of agreement

2.4.1 Agreement 'against' domination

2.4.2 From bureaucratic organisation to managerial enterprise

Chapter 3: Rehabilitation of the Idea of Domination

3.1 Durkheim and Weber: two theories of domination

3.1.1 Constraint and coercion: Durkheim's social fact

3.1.2 Domination and legitimacy in Weber

3.2 Domination as an instrument of government

3.2.1 Domination and power in Aron

Chapter 4: Domination as a political dynamic

4.1 Domination as a dynamic and not as an abstraction

4.2 The three dimensions for action

4.3 Hypotheses for the study of the dynamic of domination

Chapter 5: The modernisation of Banks and individual experiences: A centralised policy for the evolution of commercial professions.

5.1 Developments in the government of banking organisations over the past fifteen years

5.2 Struggles for legitimacy

5.3 The stakes of market segmentation

5.4 The experience of the actors in the modernisation

5.5 The paradox of the responsibility for action: between professionalism and bureaucracy

Chapter 6: Competency and project Management through soft constraint

6.1 Project and competency: a new method of government

6.2 Project management: the production of a corporate profession

6.2.1 Project and professional normalisation

6.2.2 The experience of soft constraint

6.2.3 The relationship with the organisation: between obedience and disloyalty

6.3 Competency and policies for the selection of people

6.3.1 The sociological concept of competency

6.3.2 Competency and domination

6.3.3 Competency, reputation and normalisation

Chapter 7: Risk, community, tools: the liberal organisation revisited

7.1 Action against risk

7.1.1 The 'struggle for position'

7.1.2 Making the threat commonplace?

7.1.3 Two attitudes in the face of threat

7.1.4 Why act?

7.2 'Loosened' communities

7.2.1 The 'short term'

7.2.2 Community and network

7.2.3 The rational retreat towards the team and the affective impoverishment of the organisation

7.2.4 To summarise

7.3 Instrumentation and domination

7.3.1 The objective instrumentation of threats

7.3.2 Bureaucratic effects of instrumentation

7.3.3 An area of possible resistance?

Chapter 8: The political regimes of the organisation

Sociological theory of liberal management

8.1 Liberal bureaucracies

8.2 The nature of legitimacy in the liberal organisation

8.3 Soft despotism

General Conclusion

References.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 5, 2016).

ISBN:

87-630-0308-2