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2. CHALLENGING ANGLO-SAXON DOMINANCE IN MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE
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Ernesto R. Gantman, Hèla Yousfi, and Rafael Alcadipani
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Business ,HF5001-6182 - Abstract
Forum Presentation on challenges relating to Anglo-Saxon hegemony in knowledge about organizations.
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- 2015
3. Desafiando a hegemonia Anglo-Saxã no conhecimento organizacional e de gestão
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Ernesto R. Gantman, Hèla Yousfi, and Rafael Alcadipani
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Business ,HF5001-6182 - Abstract
Apresentação do fórum sobre desafios relativos à hegemonia anglo-saxã no conhecimento sobre as organizações.
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- 2015
4. Introduction
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GREGOR BOUVILLE and HÈLA YOUSFI
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- 2022
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5. Remerciements
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Gregor Bouville and Hèla Yousfi
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- 2022
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6. Reshaping state/local communities relations in Tunisia: The socio-cultural and institutional challenges of the decentralization project
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Hèla Yousfi, Dauphine Recherches en Management (DRM), Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Tunisia ,decentralization ,Strategy and Management ,institutional change ,JEL: N - Economic History/N.N4 - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation/N.N4.N47 - Africa • Oceania ,public management ,JEL: L - Industrial Organization/L.L3 - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise/L.L3.L38 - Public Policy ,Public administration ,Decentralization ,Appropriation ,Good governance ,national cultures ,Political science ,0502 economics and business ,Legitimacy ,Modalities ,JEL: H - Public Economics/H.H7 - State and Local Government • Intergovernmental Relations/H.H7.H77 - Intergovernmental Relations • Federalism • Secession ,Corporate governance ,05 social sciences ,16. Peace & justice ,governance ,13. Climate action ,[SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration ,050211 marketing ,International development ,050203 business & management ,Meaning (linguistics) - Abstract
International development agencies believe that by adopting institutional reforms based on the best practices that have proved effective elsewhere, so-called « developing countries » could take their places in the globalised economy. Based on a case study carried out on the implementation challenges of a decentralization project in Tunisia, I will argue by using an interpretive approach that this thesis is not sustained. This article shows that institutions cannot be reduced to their technical functions but that they are based on particular collective imaginaries that ground what is legitimate or not and structure the relationship of individuals to power and the meaning given to their actions. It encourages the consideration of cultural framework of meaning; these local cultural references structure the governance modalities of a society, understood in terms of the modalities of exercise of power in a given group (state, company, local authority, etc.). It advocates the necessity to move from a technic-prone approach in the implementation of institutional changes towards a socio-cultural approach that integrates the local expectations of what “good governance” should be and on which depends the legitimacy of institutions and their appropriation by local populations.
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- 2019
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7. Organization and organizing in revolutionary times: The case of Tunisian General Labor Union
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Hèla Yousfi, Dauphine Recherches en Management (DRM), Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Tunisia ,UGTT ,Movement (music) ,JEL: J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J5 - Labor–Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining/J.J5.J51 - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects ,Strategy and Management ,05 social sciences ,JEL: N - Economic History/N.N4 - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation/N.N4.N47 - Africa • Oceania ,16. Peace & justice ,General Business, Management and Accounting ,0506 political science ,social movement theory ,Arab Spring ,Management of Technology and Innovation ,Political economy ,Political science ,trade unions ,0502 economics and business ,050602 political science & public administration ,[SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration ,Marxist philosophy ,N - Economic History::N4 - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation::N47 - Africa ,Oceania ,050203 business & management ,Labor union ,Social movement - Abstract
Adopting Barker’s (2011) Marxist approach of a social movement “as a whole”, this article addresses the question of whether and how mass-membership movement organizations can break out of oligarchic authority and support a radical political protest movement. Using an ethnographic approach, this article explores how the UGTT (the Tunisian General Labor Union) responded to organizational challenges during the Tunisian popular uprising in 2010 by examining its intra-organizational processes as well as its interactions with other parts of the protest movement and how their struggles mutually aided the fall of Ben Ali’s regime. The findings highlight that two correlated aspects were critical to a radical transformation of UGTT’s conservative goal. First, unionists with activism experience outside the labor organization played a key role as “mediators,” deriving meaning from the organizational culture of the union to interpret the course of the event, supporting the popular uprising, and forcing the union leadership to join the revolutionary process. Second, the unpredictable and unprecedented regime repression radicalized the protest movement and its claims, and ruptured the union’s traditional bureaucracy. The article concludes by elaborating on the potential of organizational studies to help us understand the role of trade unions in protest movement organizing and, more broadly, the role of formal mass-membership organizations in social movements.
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- 2021
8. Decolonizing Arab organizational Knowledge: 'Fahlawa' as a Research Practice
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Hèla Yousfi, Dauphine Recherches en Management (DRM), Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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representation ,Strategy and Management ,media_common.quotation_subject ,F - International Economics::F5 - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy::F54 - Colonialism ,Imperialism ,Postcolonialism ,Organizational knowledge ,Management of Technology and Innovation ,Reflexivity ,Arab management ,0502 economics and business ,050602 political science & public administration ,Sociology ,media_common ,critical ethnography ,JEL: M - Business Administration and Business Economics • Marketing • Accounting • Personnel Economics/M.M0 - General/M.M0.M00 - General ,05 social sciences ,JEL: N - Economic History/N.N2 - Financial Markets and Institutions/N.N2.N25 - Asia including Middle East ,Representation (systemics) ,reflexivity ,border thinking ,postcolonial and decolonial studies ,General Business, Management and Accounting ,0506 political science ,Epistemology ,culture ,Negotiation ,Critical ethnography ,[SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration ,JEL: N - Economic History/N.N2 - Financial Markets and Institutions/N.N2.N27 - Africa • Oceania ,050203 business & management ,JEL: F - International Economics/F.F5 - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy/F.F5.F54 - Colonialism • Imperialism • Postcolonialism - Abstract
This article draws attention to how management scholars “the outsiders within” who are structurally positioned within the academies of dominant powers might negotiate the complexities of producing a locally rooted and meaningful knowledge, emancipated from the U.S. hegemony while carrying organization studies in Arab countries. Drawing upon my different ethnographic journeys as a researcher, brought up in an Arab country with a Francophone intellectual mindset and studying Arab management practices, I will discuss both the potential for and the difficulties of critical engagement with a decolonizing management research agenda. Then, and building on critical border thinking tradition, I will propose the Egyptian term “Fahlawa” as a metaphor for better describing the challenges of a decolonizing research practice that privileges contestation and perpetual bricolage over formal and universal design. Finally, I will conclude by highlighting the potential of “Fahlawa” as a survival/resistance practice to theorize what is unthought and invisible in management literature and to build situated knowledge less organized by U.S. domination.
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- 2021
9. Crisis Ethnography: Emotions and Identity in Fieldwork during the Tunisian Revolution
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Hèla, Yousfi, Chahrazad, Abdallah, Dauphine Recherches en Management (DRM), Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département Management et Technologie (UQAM), and Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM)
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social movement theory ,Tunisia ,trade unionism ,JEL: J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J5 - Labor–Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining/J.J5.J51 - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects ,JEL: N - Economic History/N.N4 - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation/N.N4.N47 - Africa • Oceania ,[SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration - Abstract
This paper describes an ethnographic journey in a crisis context. Using ethnographic data gathered at the Union Générale Tunisienne du Travail (UGTT), the biggest union organization in Tunisia during three specific episodes (December 2010, February 2011 and December 2011), it aims to explore the emotional challenges facing anthropologists/ethnographers who study social movements in a crisis context and to reflect upon possible ways of dealing with them. In this chapter, we build upon our reflexion on doing ethnographic work in crisis contexts by addressing the subject of emotions from two different methodological angles: first as a resource, and second, as a critical tool in identity work for the ethnographer.
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- 2020
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10. Les dimensions oubliées de la gestion. Mélanges en l’honneur de Jean-François Chanlat
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Hèla Yousfi, Gregor Bouville, Hèla Yousfi, and Gregor Bouville
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- Social sciences and management, Organizational sociology, Diversity in the workplace, Corporate culture, Intercultural communication
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L'objectif général de cet ouvrage est de faire le point sur les avancées récentes des recherches que Jean-François Chanlat avait entamées il y a 30 ans et de rendre compte des principaux débats qui portent sur les dimensions oubliées de la gestion, d'en identifier de nouvelles, et ce, afin d'envisager un prolongement à ses réflexions pionnières.
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- 2022
11. Les dimensions oubliées de la gestion Échanges autour des travaux de Jean-François Chanlat, 31 janvier 2019, Université Paris-Dauphine PSL
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Bouville, Gregor and Hèla Yousfi
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- 2019
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12. Trade Unions and Arab Revolutions : The Tunisian Case of UGTT
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Hèla Yousfi and Hèla Yousfi
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- Arab Spring, 2010-, Labor unions--Tunisia--History--21st century
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This book traces the role of the UGTT (the Tunisian General Labour Union) during Tunisia's 2011 revolution and the transition period that ensued – Tunisia being the Arab country where trade unionism was the strongest and most influential in shaping the outcomes of the uprising. The UGTT; From its role as the cornerstone of the nationalist movement in the colonial era, has always had a key place in Tunisian politics: not so much a labour union but as an organisation that has always linked social struggles to political and national demands. Examining the role played by the UGTT in Tunisia's revolution and more generally in the restructuring of the Tunisian political arena during the three years following the popular uprising. This book asks searching questions such as; how did UGTT interact with the popular uprising that led to the departure of Ben Ali? What was the role played by the UGTT in the'political transition'leading to the adoption on January 26, 2014 of the first democratic constitution in the country's history? How successful was the UGTT in neutralizing the risk of self- implosion caused by the different political and social crises? And what are the challenges that the UGTT faces in the new political landscape?This volume will be of key reading interest to scholars and researchers of social movements, labour movements, organizational studies, political transitions and Arab revolutions and also likely to be of interest to practitioners especially among activists, unionists and advocates within civil society.
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- 2018
13. CHALLENGING ANGLO-SAXON DOMINANCE IN MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE
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Hèla Yousfi, Rafael Alcadipani, Ernesto R. Gantman, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Mayor de San Simón [Cochabamba, Bolivie] (UMSS), Dauphine Recherches en Management (DRM), Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Fundação Getúlio Vargas - Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo (FGV-EAESP), and Fundacao Getulio Vargas [Rio de Janeiro] (FGV)
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management ,Information Systems and Management ,Hegemony ,Anglo saxon ,Strategy and Management ,JEL: O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth/O.O3 - Innovation • Research and Development • Technological Change • Intellectual Property Rights/O.O3.O32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D ,Language of publication ,Management Science and Operations Research ,lcsh:Business ,Organizational knowledge ,Anglo-Saxon dominance ,Management of Technology and Innovation ,JEL: O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth/O.O3 - Innovation • Research and Development • Technological Change • Intellectual Property Rights/O.O3.O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences • Diffusion Processes ,Hegemony construction ,Sociology ,Business and International Management ,Social science ,Marketing ,Organization studies production ,Management and organizational knowledge (MOK) ,JEL: M - Business Administration and Business Economics • Marketing • Accounting • Personnel Economics/M.M1 - Business Administration/M.M1.M10 - General ,Dominance (economics) ,Postcolonial theorists ,Industrial relations ,Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) ,[SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration ,lcsh:HF5001-6182 - Abstract
Forum Presentation on challenges relating to Anglo-Saxon hegemony in knowledge about organizations.
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- 2015
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14. Conclusion
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Hèla Yousfi
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15. The Tunisian General Labor Union
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Hèla Yousfi
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Labour economics ,Economics ,Labor union - Published
- 2017
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16. The Tabarka Congress
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Hèla Yousfi
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- 2017
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17. The UGTT’s Polarizing Role During the Transition
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Hèla Yousfi
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Materials science ,Condensed matter physics ,Transition (fiction) - Published
- 2017
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18. Unionists Recount the December 17, 2010 Uprising From the Outbreak of the Revolt to Efforts to Organize the Movement
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Hèla Yousfi
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History ,Movement (music) ,Outbreak ,Ancient history - Published
- 2017
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19. The UGTT as a Counterbalance
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Hèla Yousfi
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- 2017
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20. Redessiner les relations état/collectivités locales en Tunisie : enjeux socio-culturels et institutionnels du projet de décentralisation
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Hèla Yousfi
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Institutional change ,Public management ,Political science ,Humanities - Abstract
La revolution tunisienne du 17 decembre 2010, partie des regions de l’interieur a devoile l’ampleur des disparites regionales en matiere de developpement et a remis la question territoriale au centre des debats politiques. La decentralisation qui doit mettre fin a cette injustice sociale et territoriale compte parmi les reformes qui font indeniablement l’objet d’un consensus national. Ainsi, la nouvelle constitution tunisienne de 2014 consolide les principes de la decentralisation et de la bonne gouvernance et stipule, dans son article 12, que « l’Etat agit en vue d’assurer la justice sociale, le developpement durable et l’equilibre entre les regions, en tenant compte des indicateurs de developpement et du principe de l’inegalite compensatrice ». Les principes de la decentralisation desormais inscrits dans la constitution font du developpement des capacites des collectivites locales un enjeu majeur. C’est l’une des etapes les plus cruciales de la construction de la deuxieme Republique.Les autorites publiques ont donc decide avec le concours financier et technique de la Banque mondiale de mettre au point un programme de developpement urbain a moyen terme dont l’enjeu est la redistribution des fonctions de decision entre pouvoir central et pouvoir local pour repondre aux besoins de la population locale tout en accordant la priorite au developpement et a la justice sociale. Les deux objectifs principaux assignes a ce projet par la Banque mondiale sont l’amelioration des performances des collectivites locales par le renforcement des capacites administratives et financieres, d’une part, la participation des citoyens a la prise des decisions, d’autre part. La question centrale qui se pose est la suivante : Comment passer du discours general et universel sur les vertus de la decentralisation a un nouveau contrat social entre l’Etat, les collectivites locales et les citoyens, accepte et partage par tout le monde ?Cette reforme qui redessine aussi bien le rapport entre Etat et collectivites locales que les relations entre citoyens et collectivites locales cristallise les tensions qui marquent le processus en cours de reinvention du rapport au pouvoir en Tunisie qui est cense rompre avec l’ancien regime. Elle offre un laboratoire particulierement riche pour explorer les conditions de la mise en place d’institutions viables, legitimes et acceptees par tout le monde et invite a repenser le role de l’Etat de maniere a repondre aux attentes locales des Tunisiens pour un « bon gouvernement des hommes ». Comprendre la nature et l’impact du changement institutionnel en cours sur le fonctionnement des collectivites locales et sur les relations entre Etat et collectivites locales necessite un detour par la perception de ceux qui en sont les vecteurs, a savoir les autorites publiques, les acteurs de la societe civile, les administrations locales et les conseils municipaux. Sans meconnaitre les difficultes classiques que rencontrent tous les pays qui vivent un processus revolutionnaire dans la stabilisation d’un nouvel ordre politique, social et institutionnel, ce rapport entend etudier, en adoptant une approche ethnographique et a travers l’exemple de la reforme du code des collectivites locales, la facon dont la culture politique et la trajectoire historique regissant l’organisation des rapports sociaux en Tunisie peuvent etre prises en compte dans la nouvelle architecture institutionnelle. Cette etude s’interesse d’abord au diagnostic que les differents acteurs presentent des dysfonctionnements rencontres dans la gestion des collectivites locales. Ensuite, elle vise a eclairer, au-dela de la diversite des sources de legitimite du pouvoir, les criteres de jugement et les referentiels communs utilises par les acteurs pour interpreter et juger les reformes institutionnelles en cours. Une telle analyse permet de comprendre les processus historiques qui produisent la combinaison de continuite et de changement, de resistances et d’innovations qui marquent l’evolution des institutions en Tunisie. Un interet particulier est accorde aux lectures locales sous-jacentes aux succes et aux echecs des innovations institutionnelles en cours pour eclairer les conditions d’une mise en œuvre efficace du projet de decentralisation.Plus generalement, cette etude montre que les institutions ne peuvent pas etre reduites a leurs fonctions officielles universelles mais qu’elles reposent sur des imaginaires collectifs particuliers qui fondent ce qui est legitime ou non et structurent le rapport des individus au pouvoir et le sens donne a leurs actions. Un tel constat permet de confirmer que les enjeux d’un changement institutionnel ne peuvent pas se reduire uniquement a la nature des defis politiques et socio-economiques auxquels une societe est confrontee a chaque epoque de son histoire et incite a prendre en compte les referentiels culturels qui structurent les modalites de gouvernance d’une societe, comprises au sens des modalites d’exercice du pouvoir dans un groupe donne (Etat, entreprise, collectivite locale, etc.). Il s’agit donc de passer d’une approche techniciste dans la mise en place des changements institutionnels vers une approche socio-culturelle qui integre les attentes locales d’un « bon gouvernement » des hommes et dont depend la legitimite des institutions et leur appropriation par les populations locales.Classification JEL : N470 ; R58 ; R59
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- 2017
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21. L’UGTT et l’UTICA : Entre conflit ouvert et union sacrée
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Hèla Yousfi, Dauphine Recherches en Management (DRM), Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Tunisia ,JEL: J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J5 - Labor–Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining/J.J5.J51 - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects ,JEL: N - Economic History/N.N4 - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation/N.N4.N47 - Africa • Oceania ,Ocean Engineering ,lcsh:Political science ,révolutions arabes ,organisation patronale ,mouvement syndical ,Tunisie ,050601 international relations ,060104 history ,050602 political science & public administration ,Employers’ Organization ,0601 history and archaeology ,Social Movements ,lcsh:Social sciences (General) ,N - Economic History::N4 - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation::N47 - Africa ,Oceania ,arab Revolutions ,Water Science and Technology ,UGTT ,05 social sciences ,mouvements sociaux ,Geology ,06 humanities and the arts ,16. Peace & justice ,0506 political science ,Trade Union Movement ,Arab Revolutions ,[SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration ,lcsh:H1-99 ,UTICA ,lcsh:J - Abstract
The role played by the UGTT and the UTICA on the Tunisian political scene since the uprising from December 17, 2010 until today has been the subject of debates that are at least passionate. This article proposes, from their history since independence until today, to analyze the continuities and breaks in the functioning of the two most powerful organizations in Tunisia, in order to grasp the way in which the post- Ben Ali has transformed both their identity and the nature of the relationship that binds them. More specifically, it is a question of exploring how the open conflicts or the negotiated cooperation that took place at different times between 2011 and 2015 have reconfigured the place of these two organizations in a rapidly changing political and social field. We will also discuss the impact of these political developments on the relationship between the two organizations and the new economic and social challenges they face.; Le rôle joué par l’UGTT et l’UTICA sur la scène politique tunisienne depuis le soulèvement du 17 décembre 2010 jusqu’à aujourd’hui n’a cessé de susciter des débats pour le moins passionnés. Cet article se propose, à partir de leur histoire depuis l’indépendance jusqu’aujourd’hui d’analyser les continuités et les ruptures dans le fonctionnement des deux organisations les plus puissantes en Tunisie, afin de saisir la manière dont l’ère post-Ben Ali a transformé aussi bien leur identité que la nature du rapport qui les lie. Plus particulièrement, il s’agit d’explorer comment les conflits ouverts ou les coopérations négociées qui ont eu lieu à différents moments entre 2011 et 2015 ont reconfiguré la place de ces deux organisations dans un champ politique et social en pleine mutation. Nous nous interrogerons également sur l’impact de ces évolutions politiques sur les rapports entre les deux organisations et les nouveaux défis économiques et sociaux auxquels elles doivent faire face.
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- 2017
22. Le climat d'investissement en Egypte les conditions d'une réforme durable : institutions, ou relations ?
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Hèla Yousfi
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General Medicine - Abstract
Les pays dits « en developpement » se voient de plus en plus sommer de reformer leur « climat d’investissement ». En ce sens, les bailleurs de fonds affirment que c’est grâce a des reformes courageuses s’inspirant des bonnes pratiques institutionnelles, qui ont fait leur preuve ailleurs, que ces pays pourraient prendre leur place dans l’economie mondialisee. Or, l’experience montre qu’il ne suffit pas d’importer de « bonnes » institutions pour que celles-ci produisent leurs bienfaits de maniere mecanique.Dans cet article, en nous appuyant sur une etude de cas realisee en Egypte, nous montrerons, en utilisant une approche ethnographique, que l’amelioration du climat de l’investissement (et plus particulierement les relations de confiance entre investisseurs prives et pouvoirs publics) est, certes, une question d’institutions, mais encore faut-il que ceux qui les mettent en œuvre y adherent et les trouvent suffisamment legitimes pour ne pas etre tentes de les contourner.
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- 2010
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23. Gérer en Jordanie. Une coexistence problématique entre système hiérarchique et idéal religieux
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Hèla Yousfi
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Economics and Econometrics ,Strategy and Management ,Business and International Management - Abstract
Cet article analyse la facon dont sont mis en oeuvre les principes d’action de Lafarge dans une filiale jordanienne. Il fait apparaitre principalement deux visions de la vie en societe en Jordanie. D’une part, une vision que l’on peut qualifier de « tribale » marquant l’organisation de la societe jordanienne: pluralite de groupes sociaux rigoureusement hierarchises, forte solidarite de groupe et attachement a une forme d’honneur, sensibilite a la maniere dont on est traite et au rang que l’on occupe. D’autre part, une vision d’inspiration religieuse pronant l’egalite comme prealable a une societe « juste » ou les individus sont unis par un ideal commun et des regles communes ennemies de tout favoritisme. Ces exigences peuvent se contredire et etre a l’origine de difficultes dans la gestion. C’est a la lumiere de cette coexistence souvent problematique que les principes d’action Lafarge ont ete lus et reinterpretes
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- 2007
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24. Crisis Ethnography: Reflections on the Tunisian Revolution
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Hèla Yousfi, Chahrazad Abdallah, Dauphine Recherches en Management (DRM), Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Political crisis ,Mouvements sociaux ,Media studies ,Ethnography ,Context (language use) ,Recherche ,General Medicine ,16. Peace & justice ,Ethnologie ,Crisis ,Social movement ,Politics ,Transformational leadership ,Work (electrical) ,Crises ,Social level ,JEL: A - General Economics and Teaching/A.A1 - General Economics/A.A1.A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values ,[SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration ,Sociology ,Social science - Abstract
The paper addresses the theoretical and methodological challenges of doing ethnographic work in a political crisis context. Using ethnographic data gathered at the Union Generale Tunisienne du Travail (UGTT), the biggest union organization in the country on three specific episodes (December 2010, February 2011 and December 2011), we explore the entanglements of personal and political elements when doing research in a crisis context. The following questions are addressed in this paper: How can an ethnographic approach be true to the events it is purposed to describe in the context of a popular upheaval? How can ethnographic work render the complexity of a transformational event on the personal as well as the political and social level? How is it possible to convey the multiple layers of personal involvement with the political and social stakes at hand?
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- 2014
25. Rethinking Hybridity in Postcolonial Contexts: What Changes and What Persists? The Tunisian case of Poulina's managers
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Hèla Yousfi, Dauphine Recherches en Management (DRM), Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management ,Strategy and Management ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Identity (social science) ,Modernization theory ,Colonialism ,Critical management studies ,case study critical management studies cross-cultural studies discursive analysis ,Epistemology ,Hybridity ,Management of Technology and Innovation ,0502 economics and business ,Rhetoric ,Cross-cultural ,[SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration ,050211 marketing ,Sociology ,Social science ,050203 business & management ,media_common ,Meaning (linguistics) - Abstract
Drawing on postcolonial studies of management, this article highlights the importance of adopting a contextualized approach to hybridization processes that, first, takes into account the importance of the historical and cultural contexts from which hybridity emerges and, second, helps to identify the elements that change as well as those that persist when western management practices are imported into developing countries. Using a discursive analysis, this article shows the ambivalent nature of the accounts given by managers (trained in western traditions) of the Tunisian company Poulina as they explain how they modernized their company through the implementation of a US management model. The managers’ ambivalence takes on two distinct forms. First, while they seem to have internalized the rhetoric of modernization in insisting on how they used the US management model to overcome the ‘dysfunctional’ family-based organizational system, they simultaneously express resistance by detaching themselves from the French colonial organizational model. Second, when they describe the implementation of the US management practices and how workers resisted them, it seems that they have implicitly negotiated and reinterpreted these practices via a local cultural framework of meaning. Based on these findings, I argue that hybridity is best understood as an interweaving of two elements – the transformation of practices and cultural continuity – in which identity construction, local power dynamics and cultural frameworks of meaning jointly shape the hybridization process of management practices.
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26. When the North transfers its management practices to the South: the jordanian case of Lafarge
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Hèla Yousfi, Management & Organisation, Dauphine Recherches en Management (DRM), Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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0209 industrial biotechnology ,010401 analytical chemistry ,JEL: L - Industrial Organization/L.L1 - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance/L.L1.L14 - Transactional Relationships • Contracts and Reputation • Networks ,jordanian ,02 engineering and technology ,General Medicine ,Public administration ,Lafarge ,01 natural sciences ,JEL: O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth/O.O1 - Economic Development/O.O1.O19 - International Linkages to Development • Role of International Organizations ,0104 chemical sciences ,South ,North ,020901 industrial engineering & automation ,Jordania ,JEL: M - Business Administration and Business Economics • Marketing • Accounting • Personnel Economics/M.M5 - Personnel Economics/M.M5.M54 - Labor Management ,management practices ,[SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration ,Business ,Administration (government) ,Management practices - Published
- 2012
27. When American Management System meets Tunisian Culture: The Poulina Case
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Hèla Yousfi, Management & Organisation, Dauphine Recherches en Management (DRM), Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Henriett Primecz, Laurence Romani, and Sonja Sackmann
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Process management ,05 social sciences ,Tunisian Culture ,International business ,Critical management studies ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Poulina Case ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Political science ,0502 economics and business ,Management system ,[SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration ,Operations management ,Strategic management ,American Management System ,050203 business & management ,Qualitative research - Published
- 2011
28. Culture and trust in contractual relationships: a French–Lebanese cooperation
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Hèla Yousfi
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Individualistic culture ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Field (Bourdieu) ,Organizational culture ,Public relations ,Management contract ,Power (social and political) ,Honour ,Political science ,Cultural diversity ,Mediation ,business ,media_common - Abstract
This chapter explores how national cultural differences between partners involved in a contractual relationshipmay interfere with the development of trust. This is illustrated through a case study of a management contract signed by a French private company (Promostate) and public Lebanese company (SONAT). Using an ethnographic approach and drawing on a qualitative analysis of field interviews, the author argues that the challenges faced by the French and Lebanese parties in developing a trusting relationship are due to classic issues of personal conflicts, differing organizational cultures and power asymmetries. Because their national cultural backgrounds were different, the parties had different conceptions of what 'good cooperation' should be that shaped their expectations of trustworthy behaviour and hindered the process of resolving the difficulties they encountered. Introduction
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- 2010
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29. Sur le même chantier
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Hèla Yousfi
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General Medicine - Abstract
Quand les equipes d’un meme chantier regroupent des travailleurs immigres africains et maghrebins.
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- 2005
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30. L’UGTT et l’UTICA : Entre conflit ouvert et union sacrée
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Héla Yousfi
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Political science ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Full Text
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31. Question de justice
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Pesqueux, Yvon, Pesqueux, Yvon, and Hèla Yousfi, Gregor Bouville
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[SHS] Humanities and Social Sciences ,[SHS.GESTION] Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration - Published
- 2022
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