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Rethinking Power in Organizations, Institutions, and Markets : Classical Perspectives, Current Research, and the Future Agenda

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  • David Courpasson

    (EM - EMLyon Business School)

  • Damon Golsorkhi

    (EESC-GEM Grenoble Ecole de Management)

  • Jeffrey J. Sallaz

    (University of Arizona)

Abstract

Power and domination once occupied center stage in organizational sociology. But as the field developed, the concept of power was marginalized and its overall significance for the drama of organization life neglected. Normative critiques of domination were recast as puzzles of obedience to authority, while scholars wishing to study the concrete workings of power regimes found themselves groping in the shadows. In this introduction, we advocate putting power and domination back on the agenda. Following the lead of classical theorists of power, we argue that organizations should be seen as scenes of struggles and as political projects to be constantly achieved and reconstructed. We critique structural and abstract perspectives that neglect the constant engagement of people in the negotiation of rules, meanings, and destinies. And we survey novel ideas that can help us to see power not as an abstract entity but as a pattern of interactions and social relationships that is instantiated in specific projects of domination and resistance. It is through this lens that power studies can be reinvigorated.

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  • David Courpasson & Damon Golsorkhi & Jeffrey J. Sallaz, 2012. "Rethinking Power in Organizations, Institutions, and Markets : Classical Perspectives, Current Research, and the Future Agenda," Grenoble Ecole de Management (Post-Print) hal-02312215, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:gemptp:hal-02312215
    DOI: 10.1108/S0733-558X(2012)34
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