Pierre Bourdieu, Organization, and Management

262 Pages·2015·1.049 MB·English

by  Ahu Tatli, Mustafa Ozbilgin, Mine Karatas-Ozkan

Pierre Bourdieu, Organisation,
and Management
Pierre Bourdieu, the French sociologist, philosopher, and anthropologist, has been
widely studied and analysed in academic circles, particularly in sociology, where his
ideas about power relations in social life helped to defi ne the contemporary fi eld.
While many other sociological theories and fi gures have been extensively discussed
and analysed within the contexts of organisation studies and management, Bour-
dieu’s ideas have, until recently, been largely ignored. Offering an authoritative eval-
uation of Bourdieu’s work, this book provides readers with conceptual frameworks,
empirical examples, and methodological considerations for advancing theory and
research in management and organisation studies.
This book presents an in-depth review of the relevance of Bourdieu’s social theory
for organisation and management studies, outlining the key aspects of Bourdieu’s
approach and situating his work in its historical and intellectual context of the time.
An outline of the treatment of Bourdieusian theory by management and organisation
scholars and a critique of the selective reception of his work are offered. The fi rst
edited collection to explore the benefi ts of Bourdieusian sociology for a management
audience, this book is relevant for theory, research, and practice, and will appeal to
an international scholarly audience of academics and research students.
Ahu Tatli is a reader in international human resource management in the School of
Business and Management at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. Her research
interests are in the fi eld of equality and diversity with a particular focus on disadvantage
and privilege in organisational settings, and inequality and discrimination in employ-
ment. She has published a large number of papers in edited collections, practitioner and
policy outlets, and peer-reviewed journals. She has co-authored (with M. Özbilgin) a
research monograph, G lobal Diversity Management: An Evidence-Based Approach.
Mustafa Özbilgin is a professor of organisational behaviour at Brunel Business School,
Brunel University, London, UK, and the co-chair of Management et Diversité, Uni-
versité Paris-Dauphine, France. His research focuses on equality, diversity, and inclu-
sion at work from comparative and relational perspectives. His most recent book,
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, brings together papers from over 30 scholars in
the fi eld, and his other text, Global Diversity Management (co-authored with Ahu
Tatli), provides evidence from international fi eld studies. He has authored and edited
10 books and is widely published in journals.
Mine Karatas-Özkan is a senior lecturer in strategy and entrepreneurship at the Fac-
ulty of Business and Law at the University of Southampton, UK. Her research focuses
on social and diversity dimensions of entrepreneurship. She serves on the editorial
boards of the British Journal of Management, I nternational Journal of Gender and
Entrepreneurship, J ournal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, and International
Journal of Business and Globalisation .
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Pierre Bourdieu, Organisation,
and Management
Edited by Ahu Tatli, Mustafa Özbilgin,
and Mine Karatas-Özkan
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Pierre Bourdieu, organisation and management / edited by Ahu Tatli,
Mustafa Özbilgin and Mine Karatas-Özkan.
pages cm. — (Routledge studies in management, organizations
and society ; 34)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930–2002. 2. Organizational sociology.
3. Management. 4. Industrial sociology. I. Tatli, Ahu. II. Özbilgin,
Mustafa. III. Karatas-Özkan, Mine
HM479.B68P545 2015
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2014048794
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Contents
List of Figures ix
List of Tables xi
Foreword by Jean-François Chanlat xiii
List of Contributors xix
Introduction: Management and Organisation Studies
Meet Pierre Bourdieu 1
AHU TATLI, MUSTAFA ÖZBILGIN, AND MINE KARATAS-ÖZKAN
PART I
New Frontiers in Research and Theory
1 Careers as Sites of Power: A Relational Understanding of
Careers Based on Bourdieu’s Cornerstones 19
THOMAS M. SCHNEIDHOFER, MARKUS LATZKE, AND
WOLFGANG MAYRHOFER
2 Change and Inertia in (re)Formation and Commodification
of Migrant Workers’ Subjectivities: An Intersectional Analysis
across Spatial and Temporal Dimensions 37
BARBARA SAMALUK
3 Bourdieu’s ‘Carnal Theorising’ in Organisations and
Management: Bridging Disembodiment and Other
Old Dichotomies 55
KANELLOS-PANAGIOTIS NIKOLOPOULOS AND KATERINA NICOLOPOULOU
4 “ Turning the Lens on Ourselves ” : Bourdieu’s Reflexivity
in Practice 70
BORIS H.J.M. BRUMMANS
viii Contents
PART II
Empirical Insights
5 Reintroducing Power and Struggles within Organisational
Fields: A Return to Bourdieu’s Framework 97
KARIM HAMADACHE
6 Bourdieu, Representational Legitimacy, and Pension
Boardrooms: A Contested Space? 119
SUSAN SAYCE
7 Of Trump Cards and Game Moves: Positioning Gender
Equality as an Element of Power Struggles in Universities 139
JOHANNA HOFBAUER, ANGELIKA STRIEDINGER, KATHARINA KREISSL,
AND BIRGIT SAUER
8 Illusio in the Game of Higher Education: An Empirical
Exploration of Interconnections between Fields and
Academic Habitus 162
LUCY TAKSA AND SENIA KALFA
9 Exploring Different Forms of Capitals: Researching Capitals
in the Field of Cultural and Creative Industries 187
BARBARA TOWNLEY
10 Strategies of Women Managers in Sport Organisations:
A Way of Subversion or Reproduction of the Existing
Gendered Field? 207
MUSTAFA ŞAHIN KARAÇAM AND CANAN KOCA
Index 229
Figures
7.1 Players and Their Stakes in the Tenure Track
Implementation 154
9.1 Researching Capitals in the CCI Field 201