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Beyond the Hidden/Public Resistance Divide : How Bloggers Defeated a Big Company

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  • David Courpasson

    (EM - EMLyon Business School, Cardiff University)

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In recent decades, organizational research on resistance has been largely characterized by a strict divide between hidden and public forms of resistance. We contend that this division impedes a full understanding of how resistance can be efficacious. We suggest that hidden and public forms of resistance are in fact interrelated and mutually reinforced along processes of struggle. In order to study this relationship, we analyze the four-and-a-half-year struggle of a group of dismissed employees against their former employer. This study aims to contribute to the literature in three ways. First, we show that the development of public resistance is nourished by discrete individualistic and non-confrontational expressions of dissent. Second, we demonstrate how the efficacy of resistance is influenced by the meaningfulness of the resisting space constituted by the blog, because of the intricacies between private lives and public roles. Finally, we show that the outcome of resistance is also influenced by the politics of the resisters themselves. We analyze resistance as a dynamic and ambivalent process during which the resisting group can disagree on strategy, thus triggering diverging initiatives that can develop into radicalization.

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  • David Courpasson, 2017. "Beyond the Hidden/Public Resistance Divide : How Bloggers Defeated a Big Company," Post-Print hal-02311987, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02311987
    DOI: 10.1177/0170840616685363
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    Cited by:

    1. Girei, Emanuela, 2023. "Managerialisation, accountability and everyday resistance in the NGO sector: Whose interests matter?," CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, Elsevier, vol. 92(C).
    2. Rafael Alcadipani & John Hassard & Gazi Islam, 2018. "“ I Shot the Sheriff ”: Irony, Sarcasm and the Changing Nature of Workplace Resistance," Grenoble Ecole de Management (Post-Print) halshs-01959081, HAL.
    3. Nina van Douwen & Marieke van den Brink & Yvonne Benschop, 2022. "Badass marines: Resistance practices against the introduction of women in the Dutch military," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 29(5), pages 1443-1462, September.
    4. Weinfurtner, Tania & Seidl, David, 2019. "Towards a spatial perspective: An integrative review of research on organisational space," Scandinavian Journal of Management, Elsevier, vol. 35(2).
    5. Rafael Alcadipani & John Hassard & Gazi Islam, 2018. "“ I Shot the Sheriff ”: Irony, Sarcasm and the Changing Nature of Workplace Resistance," Post-Print halshs-01959081, HAL.
    6. Dima Younes & David Courpasson & Marie-Rachel Jacob, 2020. "Ethics from Below: Secrecy and the Maintenance of Ethics," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 163(3), pages 451-466, May.

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    blog; politics; resistance; Scott;
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