Fields in organization studies: relational approaches?

Author(s)

Silvio Eduardo Alvarez Candido ^[1] ; Mauro Rocha Côrtes ^[2] ; Oswaldo Mário Serra Truzzi ^[3] ; Mário Sacomano Neto ^[4]

Affiliation

^[1] Universidade Federal de São Carlos - Brasil

^[2] Universidade Federal de São Carlos - Brasil

^[3] Universidade Federal de São Carlos - Brasil

^[4] Universidade Federal de São Carlos - Brasil

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: Gestão & Produção; v. 25, n. 1, p. 68-80, 2017-08-17.

Abstract

Abstract: This paper analyzes how different approaches of organizational analysis use the notion of ‘field’. The philosophical grounds and proposals that motivated the usage of this concept in the social sciences, associated to a specific relational approach illustrated by the sociological approach of Bourdieu, are taken as a reference. Identifying the genesis and paying particular attention to the configuration of scientific concepts in this approach, theoretical tools of sociological institutionalism in organizational analysis and the strategic action field approach are discussed. The paper concludes that overcoming limitations commonly associated to neoinstitutionalism involves reconfiguring its conceptual tools. A broader and more flexible concept of field, intrinsically articulated with conceptions of action and power, is considered to be particularly relevant. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 12/23317-7 - The social construction of a market: the rise of the plastic recycling industry in Brazil
• Grantee: Silvio Eduardo Alvarez Candido
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate