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Article Dans Une Revue Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal Année : 2021

Organizational Memorialization: Spatial History and Legitimation as Chiasms

Emmanuelle Vaast
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Stewart Clegg
  • Fonction : Auteur
Jeremy Aroles

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The purpose of this paper is to understand how historical materialities might play a contemporary role in legitimation processes through the memorialization of history and its reproduction in the here-and-now of organizations and organizing.The authors briefly review the existing management and organization studies (MOS) literature on legitimacy, space and history; engage with the work of Merleau-Ponty to explore how organizational legitimacy is managed in time and space; and use the case of two Parisian universities to illustrate the main arguments of the paper.The paper develops a history-based phenomenological perspective on legitimation processes constitutive of four possibilities identified by means of chiasms: heterotopic spatial legacy, thin spatial legacy, institutionalized spatial legacy and organizational spatial legacy.The authors discuss the implications of this research for the neo-institutional literature on organizational legitimacy, research on organizational space and the field of management history.This paper takes inspiration from the work of Merleau-Ponty on chiasms to conceptualize how the temporal layers of space and place that organizations inhabit and inherit (which we call “spatial legacies”), in the process of legitimation, evoke a sensible tenor.

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hal-03346954 , version 1 (16-09-2021)

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François-Xavier de Vaujany, Emmanuelle Vaast, Stewart Clegg, Jeremy Aroles. Organizational Memorialization: Spatial History and Legitimation as Chiasms. Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal, 2021, 16 (1), pp.76-97. ⟨10.1108/QROM-01-2020-1887⟩. ⟨hal-03346954⟩
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