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Understanding organisational gestures: Technique, aesthetics and embodiment

Understanding organisational gestures:

Technique, aesthetics and embodiment

Y. Bazin – y.bazin@istec.fr  – ISTEC

Abstract:

By defining gestures as recognisable patterns of recurring oriented body movements, this article aims to offer a conceptual framework that accounts for the features of organisational gestures. Viewing them as routines of bodily movements is proposed, and technique, aesthetic and embodiment will appear to constitute their three generative dimensions. This article participates to the corporeal and aesthetic perspectives on organisations and enriches the literature on routines through an extension to gestures and embodied artefacts. Choosing a field study that is embedded in the repetitive lines of factory production will offer a challenging context to observe the inclusion of an aesthetic dimension within every gesture and leads to discuss dynamics of learning, control and elegance.

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Problematizing Goldman Sachs: indoctrination, paradigm shift and revolving doors

Problematizing Goldman Sachs:

indoctrination, paradigm shift and revolving doors

 

Y. Bazin – y.bazin@istec.fr  – ISTEC

Abstract:

Purpose – The aim of this article is to open a dialogue between several books written on Goldman Sachs and the academic literature.
Design/methodology/approach – Greg Smith’s “Why I Left Goldman Sachs” and the French investigation of Marc Roche entitled “THE Bank: How Goldman Sachs Rules the World” are closely studied to identify recurring topics regarding the investment bank.

Findings – Three major dynamics are identified: the intense socialisation that every new employee encounters (almost an indoctrination), the cultural paradigm shift that Goldman Sachs underwent during the 1990s and 2000s and the intensity of the revolving doors between Goldman Sachs’ managers and the public regulatory sector.

Originality/value – Focusing on revolving door dynamics, this article opens a dialogue with the academic literature allowing for a problematization: the constant circulation of personnel between regulatory institutions and regulated organisations generates a convergence of actors’ habitus that weakens regulation as a whole.

Yoann Bazin, (2014) « Problematizing Goldman Sachs: indoctrination, paradigm shift and revolving doors », Society and Business Review, Vol. 9 Iss: 1, pp.98 – 105

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Problematizing revolving doors: conflicts of interests, regulatory capture and habitus convergence

Problematizing revolving doors:

conflicts of interests, regulatory capture and habitus convergence

Y. Bazin – y.bazin@istec.fr  – ISTEC

Abstract:

Focusing on investment banks in the financial sector, this paper aims at understanding the underlying dynamics of convergence amongst interests and worldviews between regulatory institutions and regulated organizations. The concept of revolving doors between public and private sectors will appear as problematically central, especially considering that their intensification in the last 30 years. Using Bourdieu’s framework, we will consider these continuous revolving doors as strong participants to the convergence of actors’ habitus between financial corporations and their regulatory institutions.

Texte : Problematizing revolving doors

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