Legitimation Process in Organizations and Organizing: An Ontological Discussion

Vaujany, François‐Xavier de

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“…Lawrence et al (2013) regret the absence of materiality and artefacts in institutional analysis more generally. Deeper historical, material, emotional and embodied consideration of institutional dynamics may be made by considering the spatial and material underpinnings of organizational legitimacy management, as we argue in this paper (also see De Vaujany, 2019; De Vaujany and Vaast, 2014; Lawrence et al , 2013; Raviola and Norbäck, 2013).…”

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“…into Dauphine. The embodied practice assumed by the vocabulary was very different (de Vaujany andVaast, 2014, 2016).…”

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“…History is a retrospective and prospective process of remembering and forgetting at the same time (Ibid.). Importantly, this chiasmatic dimension of both spacing and temporalizing is rarely addressed in the contemporary MOS literature on space, place and organizational history, in particular in the study of organizational legitimation (De Vaujany, 2019).…”

Section: Managing Organizational Legitimacy In Space and Time: A Merleau-pontian Approachmentioning

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Organizational memorialization: spatial history and legitimation as chiasms

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Vaast

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PurposeThe 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.Design/methodology/approachThe 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.FindingsThe 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.Research limitations/implicationsThe 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.Originality/valueThis 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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“…into Dauphine. The embodied practice assumed by the vocabulary was very different (de Vaujany andVaast, 2014, 2016).…”

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“…Discursive designation. By discursive designation we mean any claim the actors made in labelling a space strategic, which is conceptually related to the idea of discursive legitimation (Vaara & Tienari, 2008;Vaara, Tienari, & Laurila, 2006) but with a spatial dimension (de Vaujany, 2019).…”

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Space and the Dynamic Between Openness and Closure: Open strategizing in the TV series Borgen

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Rantakari

2022

Organization Studies

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In this paper we examine how the use of space shapes the dynamic between openness and closure in open strategizing. To do this, we draw from research that has defined organizational space as a process that is both a social product and produces social relations. We analyzed the use of space in open strategizing in the Danish TV series and political drama ‘Borgen’. In our analysis we focused on three building blocks of space: boundaries, distance, and movement that allowed us to elaborate how the dynamic between openness and closure is shaped. Drawing on our analysis, we revealed three spatial features – physical visibility, strategizing artefacts, discursive designation – that play a role in the dynamic between openness and closure in strategizing. We constructed a conceptual framework that shows how these spatial features, and their different combinations are associated with pivots between openness and closure. Thus, our findings advance prior open strategy research by providing potential explanations of why openness turns to closure, despite the attempts to keep the strategizing process open. We argue that taking space seriously provides a more nuanced understanding to some of the contingencies and possibilities related to the dynamics of openness and closure in strategizing.

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Discourses of Globalisation and the Politics of History School Textbooks

Zajda

2022

Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research

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Legitimation Process in Organizations and Organizing: An Ontological Discussion

Cited by 5 publications

References 58 publications

Organizational memorialization: spatial history and legitimation as chiasms

Organizational memorialization: spatial history and legitimation as chiasms

Space and the Dynamic Between Openness and Closure: Open strategizing in the TV series Borgen

Discourses of Globalisation and the Politics of History School Textbooks

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