Bounded freedom: From small to medium-sized family firms to human resource management in a major industrial group in Europe

Une quête de liberté sous contrainte

Michel Villette ()
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Michel Villette: ETT-CMH - Enquêtes, Terrains, Théorie (ETT) / Equipe du Centre Maurice Halbwachs - CMH - Centre Maurice Halbwachs - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Département de Sciences sociales ENS-PSL - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres

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Abstract: Bounded freedom: From small to medium-sized family firms to human resource management in a major industrial group in Europe Any economic system creates a type of person who is made to succeed. With reference to Hobbes and Locke, the work of the Scottish philosopher C. B. MacPherson on "possessive individualism" (1962) identified the characteristics of the accomplished agent of free enterprise: emancipation, voluntary commitments, self-ownership, the alienation of labor via market relations, and the tendency to reduce social relations to market relations. The annotated interview transcript presented herein is part of a series dedicated to the study of upwardly mobile, international careers in big firms. Insider skills, unconditional acceptance of the profession's constraints and strong lucidity all let us glimpse the business world and what it means to be a person in search of achievement in the context of globalized capitalism.

Date: 2020-12-06
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Published in Gérer et Comprendre. Annales des Mines, 2020, 142, pp.50-61

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