Reintroducing Power and Struggles within Organisational Fields

Karim Hamadache ()
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Karim Hamadache: CEPN - Centre d'Economie de l'Université Paris Nord - UP13 - Université Paris 13 - USPC - Université Sorbonne Paris Cité - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This research offers several contributions to the study of organizational field construction by: highlighting power relations and the role of agents in the process of field construction; illustrating this process through the case of Orphan Drug field in the United States, and relating Bourdieuan concepts of field, habitus and capital to the current research in new-institutionalism in organizational analysis. It also shows that organizational field construction is a political and strategic activity which involves agents, possessing different capitals and endowed with different habitus, in a struggle for the legitimation and de-legitimation of alternative issues that may structure field construction process.

Keywords: New Institutional Theory; Organizational field; Orphan drugs; Pierre Bourdieu (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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Published in Ahu Tatli; Mustafa Ozbilgin; Mine Karatas-Ozkan. Pierre Bourdieu, Organization, and Management, 34, Routledge, pp.97-118, 2015, Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society, 9780415737265

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