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Conducting a diversity policy as an organizational change process: a theoretical model going from organizational legitimation to institutionalization dynamics

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  • Maria Giuseppina Bruna

    (DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris sciences et lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Jean-François Chanlat

    (DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris sciences et lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

This theoretical paper addresses the implementation of a diversity policy as an organizational change process, overtaking the laterality of ad-hocratic initiatives to embrace a transformative movement. Following a diachronic, multi-dimensional and multi-level perspective, the phenomenology of a diversity policy is analyzed as a complex socio-organizational dynamics inspired by institutional constraints duly "endogeneised" and "managerialised, embedded in actors' role-games and perhaps contributing to the legitimation of the firm.Theoretically, the paper crosses managerial and sociological theories to investigate the actors' role-games (Crozier & Friedberg, 1977) and the processes of social regulation and collective learning that underlie an organizational change (Reynaud, 1997; Alter, 2005; Babeau & Chanlat, 2008; Lazega et al., 2008, Bruna, 2013). The investigation is enlightened by qualitative data collected during an exploratory research focused on the French case.

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  • Maria Giuseppina Bruna & Jean-François Chanlat, 2015. "Conducting a diversity policy as an organizational change process: a theoretical model going from organizational legitimation to institutionalization dynamics," Post-Print hal-01399919, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01399919
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