The metamorphosis of management approaches to instruments

Franck Aggeri () and Julie Labatut ()
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Franck Aggeri: CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Julie Labatut: LISIS - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences, Innovations, Sociétés - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Université Gustave Eiffel, GABI - Génétique Animale et Biologie Intégrative - AgroParisTech - Université Paris-Saclay - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Focusing on instrumentation in management, this chapter argues that it has also been inspired by Foucault and Science and Technology Studies. Examining the development of a research agenda on management instruments in the UK during the Thatcher era, it suggests that instrumentation raises questions and produces similar outcomes in large public and private organisations. Indeed, studies on the private sector as well as those on public policy have long favoured more or less rational decisions and decision-makers. Yet the chapter shows that the most political and critical perspective on management instruments has been adopted notably in two domains: first in Management Sciences, then in Public Policy research. First, it identifies how different points of convergence are highlighted; second, it argues that managerial instrumentation applies both to companies and to public policy; Third, it shows how instrumentation research has been fruitful to make sense of the transformation of both types of organisations.

Keywords: Dispositive; Instrumentation; Management sciences; Public policies; Policy instruments; Management instruments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-08-18
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Published in Charlotte Halpern; Pierre Lascoumes; Patrick Le Galès. Policy Instrumentation: Theoretical Debates and Controversies, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.132-151, 2026, 9781035372508. ⟨10.4337/9781035372508.00012⟩

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DOI: 10.4337/9781035372508.00012

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