Resisting the Tide: The Roles of Ideology in Sustaining Alternative Organizing at a Self-managed Cooperative

IF 4.1 4区 管理学 Q2 MANAGEMENT
Aurélie Soetens, B. Huybrechts
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Abstract

This paper examines how organizational ideology can be collectively mobilized to sustain an alternative organizational form—a self-managed cooperative—in resistance to institutional prescriptions perceived as hostile. Based on an ethnographic study of the Venezuelan cooperative Cecosesola, we identify three roles through which ideology enables the reproduction of the alternative form over time: ideology as a mobilizing normative framework to justify resistance; as a cultural-cognitive framework to engage members and integrate them into the resistance project; and as a regulatory framework ensuring member compliance. However, we find that in parallel with sustaining self-management as an alternative form, mobilizing ideology may also paradoxically entail costs in terms of individual sacrifices, exclusion of members and reduction of group heterogeneity, leading to the creation of an authoritarian system. These findings shed light on the ideological drivers of institutional resistance and bring new insights to understand the challenge of sustaining self-management and other alternative organizational forms within a hostile institutional context.
抵制潮流:自我管理合作社中意识形态在维持替代性组织中的作用
本文考察了组织意识形态如何被集体动员起来,以维持一种替代的组织形式——自我管理的合作——以抵抗被认为是敌对的制度处方。基于对委内瑞拉合作社Cecosesola的民族志研究,我们确定了意识形态随着时间的推移使替代形式得以再生产的三种作用:意识形态作为一种动员规范框架,为抵抗辩护;作为一个文化认知框架,吸引成员并将他们融入抵抗项目;并作为确保成员遵守的监管框架。然而,我们发现,在维持自我管理作为一种替代形式的同时,动员意识形态也可能矛盾地带来个人牺牲、排斥成员和减少群体异质性方面的成本,从而导致威权制度的建立。这些发现揭示了制度阻力的意识形态驱动因素,并为理解在敌对制度背景下维持自我管理和其他替代组织形式的挑战带来了新的见解。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Management Inquiry, sponsored by the Western Academy of Management, is a refereed journal for scholars and professionals in management, organizational behavior, strategy, and human resources. Its intent is to explore ideas and build knowledge in management theory and practice, with a focus on creative, nontraditional research as well as key controversies in the field. The journal seeks to maintain a constructive balance between innovation and quality, and at the same time widely define the forms that relevant contributions to the field can take. JMI features six sections: Meet the Person, Provocations, Reflections on Experience, Nontraditional Research, Essays, and Dialog.
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