The performance of authority in organizations: an example from management consulting

Alaric Bourgoin and Nicolas Bencherki
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Alaric Bourgoin: Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Mines ParisTech
Nicolas Bencherki: Polytechnic Institute of New York University

No 29, CSI Working Papers Series from Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), Mines ParisTech

Abstract: Sketches a pragmatist model of authority by studying the case of a consultant faced with the issue of establishing his authority in the actual context of a consulting assignment, and showing how the consultant invokes various “figures” that lend weight to his actions.

Keywords: authority; boundaries; consultancy; ethnography; client relationship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M14 M42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2013-01
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