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| Titre : |
The struggle for places: study of top managers’ behavior to maintain their spatial privilege |
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| Numéro : |
75 |
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| Année : |
2022 |
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| Volume : |
XXVIII |
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| Auteur(s) : |
Delphine MINCHELLA, Sébastien BOURDIN |
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| Résumé : |
This article exposes how the top managers of a large banking group behaved when confronted to the execution of a major spatial development project, during the construction of their organization’s new headquarters and how it failed the business project that underpinned it: namely, constructing a single building for all their central services capable of promoting formal and informal exchanges amongst individuals from these different departments, so as to bring out more collaboration and greater esprit de corps. From a multidisciplinary literature review combining social geography, philosophy and management sciences, and by mobilizing a methodology combining interviews with the key actors of the project and numerous internal documents kept in the organization’s archives (such as meeting minutes and internal publications), the authors were able to go back to the underlying reasons for defending the symbolic privileges of top managers: preserving their personal place as close as possible to General Management, even if it could jeopardize the business project that they had to carry and support. This case shows the importance of this spatial dimension, which is still under explored. From this observation, we put forward the idea that the concept of place – in the sense of space for oneself located in the organization – should be further examined because it is essential in the organizational experience, and for this we propose to rely on social geography. |
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| DOI : |
https://www.cairn.info/revue-internationale-de-psychosociologie-de-gestion-des-comportements-organisationnels-2023-75-page-81.htm |
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| Type : |
Research paper |
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| Keywords : |
space, symbolical privilege, location, place, headquarters, spatial justice |
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| APA : |
Minchella, D. et BOURDIN, S. (2022) La lutte des places : étude des comportements des top-managers pour maintenir leur privilège spatial. Revue Internationale de Psychosociologie et de Gestion des Comportements Organisationnels (RIPCO), XXVIII(75), pp. . DOI : https://doi.org/10.3917/rips1.075.0081 |
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| Citations : |
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| CAIRN : |
https://www.cairn.info/revue-internationale-de-psychosociologie-de-gestion-des-comportements-organisationnels-2023-75-page-81.htm |
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