Pierre Bourdieu in Studies of Organization and Management

There is increasing academic interest in how Pierre Bourdieu's sociology can be applied to management and organization studies (MOS). This book aims to take a specific focus on the relational nature of Bourdieu's work and its relevance for contemporary organizations.

Sarah Robinson is Professor in Management and Organization Studies at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, Scotland. Jette Ernst is Associate Professor at the Department of Business and Social Sciences, Roskilde University, Denmark. Kristian Larsen is Professor at the University of Copenhagen and Research Leader at The University Hospitals Centre for Health Research (UCSF), Denmark, and Adjunct Professor at OsloMet University, Norway. Ole Jacob Thomassen is Associate Professor in the School of Business, Department of Economy, History and Social Sciences at the University of South-East of Norway, Norway.

Introduction: Taking Bourdieu further into studies of Organizations and Management Sarah Robinson, Jette Ernst, Ole Jacob Thomassen, and Kristian Larsen Part I Neoliberalism, fields and hysteresis 1. Caught between times: Explaining resistance to change through the tale of Don Quixote Henrik Koll & Jette Ernst 2. Recalling or Reactivating the Past? A Habitus-based Conceptualization of Temporality in Organizations Ole Jacob Thomassen and Ansgar Ødegård 3. 'The human bottom line': New institutionalism and Bourdieu's field theory on the growing prominence of healthiness in Nordic work organizations Kristian Larsen and Ivan Harsløf Part II Transnational and national movements as sites for competition and symbolic domination 4. Converting capital? A Bourdieu perspective of wasta in careers in the insurance sector in Jordan and the implications for symbolic power Susan Sayce, Mohammad Ta'Amnha and Olga Tregaskis 5. Appropriating symbolic space: the Camp for Climate Action occupation of the Royal Bank of Scotland corporate campus Ron Kerr and Sarah Robinson 6. 'Capital breeds capital' - Bourdieu and the Cross-National Importation of Organizational Models Ruomei Yang, Charles Harvey, Frank Mueller and Mairi Maclean 7. Crafting Globalization - A Bourdieusian Historical Approach to Studying International Organizations and Global Governance in Education Christian Ydesen Part III The emergence and transformation of professional fields 8. Professional habitus and fields Erna Nairz-Wirth and Klaus Feldmann 9. Homologies between sets of healthcare professionals' collaborative working practices in hospitals Anette Hindhede and Vibeke Andersen 10. Structuring the alternative weddings entrepreneurial field in France Paul Lasalle and Eleanor Shaw 11. "You will never be able to be as good as we are": Male midwives' career boundaries, condition, and chronology Thomas M. Schneidhofer, Stephanie Kainrath and Katrin Preuner 12. In the midst of a storm: forging future paths for Bourdieu inspired Organizational and Management Studies Kristian Larsen, Jette Ernst, Ole Jacob Thomassen and Sarah Robinson