Toward a Bourdieusian Perspective on the Tribe and Organisations

William Phanuel Kofi Darbi and Charles Agyei

Journal of African Business, 2023, vol. 24, issue 3, 509-528

Abstract: The article aims to contribute to the under-developed research on pro-tribal behavior in organizations, by building on existing studies that focus either on economic or non-economic motivations and drivers of pro-tribal behavior at either individual, organizational, or societal levels of analysis. Drawing on Bourdieu’s social practice theory, we show how a multiplicity of drivers and motivations for pro-tribal behavior in the organization could emerge, interrelate and evolve by offering a new perspective that account for the interplay between economic and non-economic motivations; agency and structurally constrained aspects of human action; and the multiple levels of influences on pro-tribal behavior that extant studies have yet to fully explicate.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2022.2131031

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