For a Sociology of Work Activity of executives of Large Businesses

Pour une sociologie de l’activité au travail des dirigeants de grandes entreprises

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: This paper proposes a methodology for an integrated analysis of top executives practices: the process of professional socialization; how s/he handles her/his business and pursues financial goals; the process of personal enrichment during her/his career; and the way s/he legitimizes the social position s/he occupies. This research strategy combines biographical sources, grey literature, ethnographic observations inside companies and secondary analysis of accounting data and public relations data. We conclude on the irony of such a research procedure caught between the ideal of a scientific analysis of practices and the social imperatives of the staging of power.

Keywords: Economic Sociology Business Elites Management Situation Work Analysis Habitus Biography Ethnography Participant Observation; Economic Sociology; Business; Elites; Management; Situation; Work Analysis; Habitus; Biography; Ethnography; Participant Observation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-07
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Published in Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique / Bulletin of Sociological Methodology, 2010, 107, pp.74 - 93. ⟨10.1177/0759106310369979⟩

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DOI: 10.1177/0759106310369979

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