In a world of organisations, “Organisation Studies” is a group of researchers who aim at understanding lives and roles of these changing and expanding institutions. Beyond the hegemonic economic rationality, the organisation is visited through new paradigms of social justice, gender, ethics, deontology and aesthetics. We offer new images that have been silenced hitherto.

Scientific Project

Our research is focused on management and organisations. Beyond issues of economic performance, managerial practices are questioned, on an ethical level, for their acceptability and legitimacy. Managerialism hegemony in organisations is criticized mainly when it subverts practices and discourses in specific institutions such as cultural and artistic entities. Aesthetics offer new ways for making sense in organisations.

The denaturalization of managerial practices and discourses, as socio-political constructs and the denial of their misleading neutrality and of technicism allow for a new understanding of management as an instrument and technology for maintaining the status-quo.

Other research inscribed within “Gender Studies” contributes to the understanding of how gender roles (as social practices associated with masculinity) can still be strongly linked with technology.

Other research is focused on the importance of disciplinary mechanisms, as law enforcement systems, in the quest for legitimacy by several organisations such as ‘professions’.

To conduct our research, we use both qualitative and reflexive methodologies. Besides mainstream economics and organisations theories, we draw on new analytical frameworks from humanities.

Team Members

TEM Researchers

Nihel Chabrak (responsable)
Yannick Fronda
Ghislaine Garmilis
Loréa Hirèche
Marité Milon
Jean-Luc Moriceau
Chantal Morley
Mabel Seijas
Martina McDonnell

PhD Students and Post-doc

Laisa Bragança de Moura
Isabela Dos Santos Paes
Mohamed Karim
Danièle Hourbette (post-doc)