Framing Liberation Management as the Bundling of Practices: An Adoption Process with a Two-Fold Coherence

Libérer l’entreprise en lâchant les grappes ? Vers une double cohérence du processus d’adoption des pratiques managériales

Matthieu Battistelli (), Anne-Sophie Dubey () and Caroline Mattelin-Pierrard ()
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Matthieu Battistelli: IREGE - Institut de Recherche en Gestion et en Economie - USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry] - Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Anne-Sophie Dubey: CRG I3 - Centre de recherche en gestion I3 - X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, La Fabrique de l'Industrie
Caroline Mattelin-Pierrard: PRISM Sorbonne - Pôle de recherche interdisciplinaire en sciences du management - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

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Abstract: This article examines how the process of adopting or rejecting liberated company management practices is constructed; this process is often portrayed as long, difficult, and complex. To address this question, we use a qualitative study based on narratives (Dumez, 2016) from two cases of companies in the process of liberation. Our results show that it is important for the process to be doubly coherent in order to sustain the adoption of liberation practices. We first show that the process involves three bundles of practices. These communication, support, and empowerment bundles have content coherence, i.e., configurations of interdependent practices. We then observe temporal coherence in the adoption of management practices, i.e., the preferred timeline for sustaining liberation. Beyond this double coherence, our analysis shows that adapting the process to the idiosyncrasies of the organisation is still necessar

Keywords: Liberated company; Management practices; Bundles of practices; Adoption process; Management innovation; Entreprise libérée; pratique managériale; grappe de pratique; Processus d’adoption; innovation managériale (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-03-15
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Published in M@n@gement, 2023, 26 (1), pp.69-84. ⟨10.37725/mgmt.2023.6497⟩

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DOI: 10.37725/mgmt.2023.6497

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