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Mark Learmonth - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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what do we mean by Performativity in organizational and management theory the uses and abuses of Performativity
International Journal of Management Reviews, 2016Co-Authors: Jeanpascal Gond, Laure Cabantous, Nancy Harding, Mark LearmonthAbstract:John Austin introduced the formulation ‘performative utterance’ in his 1962 book How to Do Things with Words. This term and the related concept of Performativity have subsequently been interpreted in numerous ways by social scientists and philosophers such as Lyotard, Butler, Callon and Barad, leading to the coexistence of several foundational perspectives on Performativity. This paper reviews and evaluates critically how organization and management theory (OMT) scholars have used these perspectives, and how the power of Performativity has, or has not, stimulated new theory-building. In performing a historical and critical review of Performativity in OMT, the authors’ analysis reveals the uses, abuses and under-uses of the concept by OMT scholars. It also reveals the lack of both organizational conceptualizations of Performativity and analysis of how Performativity is organized. Ultimately, the authors’ aim is to provoke a ‘performative turn’ in OMT by unleashing the power of the Performativity concept to generate new and stronger organizational theories.
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critical essay reconsidering critical Performativity
Human Relations, 2016Co-Authors: Laure Cabantous, Jeanpascal Gond, Nancy Harding, Mark LearmonthAbstract:In recent years, we have witnessed the emergence of ‘critical Performativity’, a concept designed to debate relationships between theory and practice and encourage practical interventions in organizational life. Notwithstanding its laudable ambition to stimulate discussion about engagement between critical management studies researchers and practitioners, we are concerned that critical Performativity theory is flawed as it misreads foundational Performativity authors, such as Austin and Butler, in ways that nullify their political potential, and ignores a range of other influential theories of Performativity. It also overlooks the materiality of Performativity. We review these limitations and then use three illustrations to sketch out a possible alternative conceptualization of Performativity. This alternative approach, which builds on Butler’s and Callon’s work on Performativity, recognizes that Performativity is about the constitution of subjects, is an inherently material and discursive construct, and happens through the political engineering of sociomaterial agencements. We argue that such an approach – a political theory of organizational Performativity – is more likely to deliver on both theoretical and practical fronts than the concept of critical Performativity.
Jaime Lester - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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performing gender in the workplace gender socialization power and identity among women faculty members
Community College Review, 2008Co-Authors: Jaime LesterAbstract:Organizational cultures shape and reinforce socially appropriate roles for men and women. Drawing on a Performativity framework, which assumes that gender is socially constructed through gendered “...
Jeanpascal Gond - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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what do we mean by Performativity in organizational and management theory the uses and abuses of Performativity
International Journal of Management Reviews, 2016Co-Authors: Jeanpascal Gond, Laure Cabantous, Nancy Harding, Mark LearmonthAbstract:John Austin introduced the formulation ‘performative utterance’ in his 1962 book How to Do Things with Words. This term and the related concept of Performativity have subsequently been interpreted in numerous ways by social scientists and philosophers such as Lyotard, Butler, Callon and Barad, leading to the coexistence of several foundational perspectives on Performativity. This paper reviews and evaluates critically how organization and management theory (OMT) scholars have used these perspectives, and how the power of Performativity has, or has not, stimulated new theory-building. In performing a historical and critical review of Performativity in OMT, the authors’ analysis reveals the uses, abuses and under-uses of the concept by OMT scholars. It also reveals the lack of both organizational conceptualizations of Performativity and analysis of how Performativity is organized. Ultimately, the authors’ aim is to provoke a ‘performative turn’ in OMT by unleashing the power of the Performativity concept to generate new and stronger organizational theories.
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critical essay reconsidering critical Performativity
Human Relations, 2016Co-Authors: Laure Cabantous, Jeanpascal Gond, Nancy Harding, Mark LearmonthAbstract:In recent years, we have witnessed the emergence of ‘critical Performativity’, a concept designed to debate relationships between theory and practice and encourage practical interventions in organizational life. Notwithstanding its laudable ambition to stimulate discussion about engagement between critical management studies researchers and practitioners, we are concerned that critical Performativity theory is flawed as it misreads foundational Performativity authors, such as Austin and Butler, in ways that nullify their political potential, and ignores a range of other influential theories of Performativity. It also overlooks the materiality of Performativity. We review these limitations and then use three illustrations to sketch out a possible alternative conceptualization of Performativity. This alternative approach, which builds on Butler’s and Callon’s work on Performativity, recognizes that Performativity is about the constitution of subjects, is an inherently material and discursive construct, and happens through the political engineering of sociomaterial agencements. We argue that such an approach – a political theory of organizational Performativity – is more likely to deliver on both theoretical and practical fronts than the concept of critical Performativity.
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building critical Performativity engines for deprived communities the construction of popular cooperative incubators in brazil
Organization, 2014Co-Authors: Bernard Leca, Jeanpascal Gond, Luciano Barin CruzAbstract:Although worker cooperatives offer an organizational model that critical management scholars could adopt to demonstrate the utility of their normative ideals, little is known about how academia can contribute to the creation of worker cooperatives. Building on the concept of Performativity and the case of the Technological Incubators for Popular Cooperatives in Brazil, we provide an account of constructing incubators for worker cooperatives across multiple universities. Our study uncovers the challenges that scholars face in performing the model of worker cooperatives by cognitively embedding actors within both economic and cooperative principles through teaching. Our results clarify the role of feedback loops, knowledge circulation, and the building of 'chains of translation' in the concrete manufacturing of worker cooperatives, and we show how universities can help develop a multilevel, flexible, and complex support network that enhances the Performativity of the worker cooperative model. We advance the concept of a 'critical Performativity engine' to describe the process whereby the first method for incubating cooperatives was developed and then translated across settings.
Carsten Herrmannpillath - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a neurolinguistic approach to Performativity in economics
Voprosy Economiki, 2011Co-Authors: Carsten HerrmannpillathAbstract:What makes institutions "real" ? One central notion has been emerging recently in sociology, which is ‘Performativity’, a term borrowed from the philosophy of language. The author proposes a neurolinguistic approach to Performativity that is based on John Searle’s theory of institutions, especially his concept of a "status function" and his explanation of rule-following as a neurophysiological disposition. Positing a status function, the article shows, is a performative act. The author applies the concept of "conceptual blending" borrowed from cognitive science to the status function, and gives empirical applications from the research on Performativity in financial markets. He also sketches the underlying neuroscience framework following the neural theory of metaphor, which is illustrated empirically with examples from behavioral finance and neuroeconomics.
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a neurolinguistic approach to Performativity in economics
Journal of Economic Methodology, 2010Co-Authors: Carsten HerrmannpillathAbstract:What makes institutions ‘real’? One central notion has been emerging recently in sociology, which is ‘Performativity’, a term borrowed from the philosophy of language. I propose a neurolinguistic approach to Performativity that is based on John Searle's theory of institutions, especially his concept of a ‘status function’ and his explanation of rule-following as a neurophysiological disposition. Positing a status function is a performative act. I proceed in two steps to establish the neurolinguistic framework. First, I apply the concept of ‘conceptual blending’ borrowed from cognitive science on the status function, and give empirical applications from the research on Performativity in financial markets. Second, I sketch the underlying neuroscience framework following the neural theory of metaphor, which I illustrate empirically with examples from behavioral finance and neuroeconomics.
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a neurolinguistic approach to Performativity in economics
Research Papers in Economics, 2009Co-Authors: Carsten HerrmannpillathAbstract:In recent sociological studies of markets, especially financial markets, researchers have argued that economics is performative (MacKenzie, Callon et al.). By this they refer to the observation that theories such as the Black-Scholes formula do not simply describe reality, but contributed to the regulatory creation of financial markets in which the agents started to adopt behavioral patterns that correspond to the theory, also relying on artefacts that have been created by the originators of the theory. This notion of Performativity fits also other recent uses of language theory in economics, such as the theory of organizational forms in organizational ecology (Carroll and Hannan) or John Searle's theory of institutions. The paper builds on this, especially Searle's approach, and explores the underlying cognitive operations. It is argued that Performativity builds on the human capacity to generate new meanings from existing concepts. This is elaborated in the theory of conceptual blending that has been developed by Fauconnier and Turner. For example, blends are a typical phenomenon in the emergence of new business models, such as in the dotcom bubble. The theory of conceptual blending can be based on neuroscientific insights into the operations of the human brain, corresponding to Searle's proposal to ground institutions in neurophysiological dispositions.
Laure Cabantous - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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what do we mean by Performativity in organizational and management theory the uses and abuses of Performativity
International Journal of Management Reviews, 2016Co-Authors: Jeanpascal Gond, Laure Cabantous, Nancy Harding, Mark LearmonthAbstract:John Austin introduced the formulation ‘performative utterance’ in his 1962 book How to Do Things with Words. This term and the related concept of Performativity have subsequently been interpreted in numerous ways by social scientists and philosophers such as Lyotard, Butler, Callon and Barad, leading to the coexistence of several foundational perspectives on Performativity. This paper reviews and evaluates critically how organization and management theory (OMT) scholars have used these perspectives, and how the power of Performativity has, or has not, stimulated new theory-building. In performing a historical and critical review of Performativity in OMT, the authors’ analysis reveals the uses, abuses and under-uses of the concept by OMT scholars. It also reveals the lack of both organizational conceptualizations of Performativity and analysis of how Performativity is organized. Ultimately, the authors’ aim is to provoke a ‘performative turn’ in OMT by unleashing the power of the Performativity concept to generate new and stronger organizational theories.
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critical essay reconsidering critical Performativity
Human Relations, 2016Co-Authors: Laure Cabantous, Jeanpascal Gond, Nancy Harding, Mark LearmonthAbstract:In recent years, we have witnessed the emergence of ‘critical Performativity’, a concept designed to debate relationships between theory and practice and encourage practical interventions in organizational life. Notwithstanding its laudable ambition to stimulate discussion about engagement between critical management studies researchers and practitioners, we are concerned that critical Performativity theory is flawed as it misreads foundational Performativity authors, such as Austin and Butler, in ways that nullify their political potential, and ignores a range of other influential theories of Performativity. It also overlooks the materiality of Performativity. We review these limitations and then use three illustrations to sketch out a possible alternative conceptualization of Performativity. This alternative approach, which builds on Butler’s and Callon’s work on Performativity, recognizes that Performativity is about the constitution of subjects, is an inherently material and discursive construct, and happens through the political engineering of sociomaterial agencements. We argue that such an approach – a political theory of organizational Performativity – is more likely to deliver on both theoretical and practical fronts than the concept of critical Performativity.