Justification, Evaluation and Critique in the Study of Organizations: Contributions from French Pragmatist Sociology

The papers included in the volume explore how mobilizing Boltanski and Th?venot's EW framework helps address questions regarding the premises and dynamics of agreement and disagreement in coordinated action, both within and across organizations, and by so doing, help advance our understanding of organizational processes more generally. The book is organized into four sections, each with contributions that address one of the four core theoretical objectives around which the volume is structured (1) to clarify how individuals manage the contradictions and compromises inherent to organizational pluralism; (2) to look at organizations critically by unpacking the roles of rhetoric and justification in the practice of critique; (3) to reconsider valuation and evaluation in organizations; and (4) to push the boundaries of the EW framework. These four objectives provide a scaffolding that helps further embed the framework in our contemporary thinking about organizations.

Author: Michael Lounsbury

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited

Publication Date: May 31, 2017

Number of Pages: 416 pages

Binding: Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10: 1787143805

ISBN-13: 9781787143807