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Organizational Memorialization: Spatial History and Legitimation as Chiasms

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  • François-Xavier de Vaujany

    (DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Emmanuelle Vaast
  • Stewart Clegg
  • Jeremy Aroles

    (Durham Business School - Durham University)

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to understand how historical materialities might play a contemporary role in legitimation processes through the memorialization of history and its reproduction in the here-and-now of organizations and organizing.The authors briefly review the existing management and organization studies (MOS) literature on legitimacy, space and history; engage with the work of Merleau-Ponty to explore how organizational legitimacy is managed in time and space; and use the case of two Parisian universities to illustrate the main arguments of the paper.The paper develops a history-based phenomenological perspective on legitimation processes constitutive of four possibilities identified by means of chiasms: heterotopic spatial legacy, thin spatial legacy, institutionalized spatial legacy and organizational spatial legacy.The authors discuss the implications of this research for the neo-institutional literature on organizational legitimacy, research on organizational space and the field of management history.This paper takes inspiration from the work of Merleau-Ponty on chiasms to conceptualize how the temporal layers of space and place that organizations inhabit and inherit (which we call "spatial legacies"), in the process of legitimation, evoke a sensible tenor.

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  • François-Xavier de Vaujany & Emmanuelle Vaast & Stewart Clegg & Jeremy Aroles, 2021. "Organizational Memorialization: Spatial History and Legitimation as Chiasms," Post-Print hal-03346954, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03346954
    DOI: 10.1108/QROM-01-2020-1887
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