François-Xavier de Vaujany

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• PhD in organization studies
• Professor (Full) at Université Paris Dauphine-PSL

As soon as we go beyond the borders of our present and begin to explore remote pasts and futures, management and organization scholars are exposed to two dangers. The first is the exaggeration of continuities and anachronism about the past. The second is the projection of present ordinariness into the future. So how can we describe long-term proces...

In the field of organizational studies, we often speak of “liminal spaces” (Czarniawska and Mazza, 2003), more rarely of “liminal moments” (Dorow and Jean, 2022), or “liminal temporalities” (Johnsen and Sørensen, 2015). The idea is to evoke the importance of intermediate places, movements or events in organizational life (e.g., in the continuation...

Researchers, policymakers, and industry are increasingly aware of the urgent risks and threats arising in the digital age. Their awareness of this urgency has led to a rise of interest in responsibility. While this ‘turn to responsibility’ has been well-intentioned, an underappreciated problem is that the dominant, centuries-old view of responsibil...

This chapter examines the history of Harvard Business School (HBS) from its founding in 1908 to the present, highlighting how its organizational development intertwines with U.S. political and geopolitical dynamics, particularly democratic ideals and leadership in public policy and corporate strategy. Two core practices are analyzed: teaching throu...

Most management and organization theories focus on the full existence and finitude of things. They deal with fullness and the full happening of things. Both organizing and managing mean fully producing something, doing something, or giving value to something. A good manager should follow what is happening and, even better, make things fully happen....

The Dauphine Philosophy Workshop (DPW) (formerly known as the Dauphine Phenomenology Workshop) is an annual event on organization & organizing that has taken place in Paris since its inception. The DPW seeks to enable and nurture an intellectual space, curious about methodology, politics & art. Focusing on philosophical debates, the workshop is int...

Ces dernières années ont été jalonnées de points de rupture pour l’organisation du travail et son management. La crise du sens au travail, les limites planétaires, la pandémie, la guerre, ont radicalement questionné notre relation au travail. Un dé-placement et une démocratisation sont nécessaires.

This 15th OAP workshop jointly organized by LSE (ISIG, Management department), Université Paris Dauphine-PSL (DRM) and ESSEC (Metalab) will be an opportunity to come back to the issue of democracy and democratic practices in and through organization(s). In particular, we will explore the following questions: how can communities and citizenship be f...

Critical Organizational History (COH), as an emergent stream within organizational approaches to history directed by major philosophical works, lacks a reflexive discussion about its ontological possibilities. This article fills this gap through a comparative analysis of Foucault's and Deleuze's late philosophies of history and their intellectual v...

Souvent associée à la vie de la cité et ses fondements helléniques, la démocratie a aussi une longue histoire indissociable de la genèse de l’entreprise et de ses modes de décision. D’abord ancrée dans des questions de « gouvernance » entrepreneuriale en continuité et perméabilité forte de celle des paroisses, des cités ou des Etats du 18ème au 20è...

General introduction of "The rise of digital management: from industrial mobilization to platform capitalism" (NY: Routledge).

This essay emphasizes a fundamental hesitation in the democratic space of contemporary societies and organizations. It is focused on the powerful role of the hemicycle and its right-le" continuum in French practices of political representation. Over the past thirty years, this spatial common has been obviously questioned both in society and o...

This book aims at exploring the reception of critical posthumanist conversations in the context of Management and Organization Studies. It constitutes an invitation to de-centre the human subject and thus an invitation to the ongoing deconstruction of humanism. The project is not to deny humans but to position them in relation to other nonhumans, m...

In this introductory article of the special issue “Experiencing communality and togetherness at work: Phenomenologies of a shared existence”, we suggest exploring the issue of sameness and differences at stake in collective activity. In a post-pandemic world of work, characterized by hyper-individualization and fragmentation, a weak sense of co-pre...

Agora 9 at the 14th OAP workshop (June 7), Université Paris Dauphine-PSL

Depuis la fin du XX ème siècle, le travail connait une mutation majeure : il est de moins en moins un lieu. Ses activités se fragmentent. Elles sont prises en charge par des plateformes. Son organisation devient temporelle, liée à un « management digital » François-Xavier de Vaujany, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, DRM La crise récente du Covid a au...

The search for digital twins is an ancient practice among both digital and organizational designers. It is grounded into a very old modern philosophy: representationalism. Here, I propose to distinguish two different types of representationalism: cognitive and narrative representationalism. I detail their genealogy and how there are interwoven with...

Our book aims at exploring the topic of posthumanism in the context of Management and Organization Studies. Although it is already quite an old topic, we did not find a book exploring this important issue. Indeed, from the rise of digital techniques, the increasing complexity of responsibility and ethics discussions to the Anthropocene and the ob...

This essay highlights a fundamental hesitation in the democratic space of contemporary societies and organizations. It focuses on the powerful role of the hemicycle and its right-left continuum in French practices of political representation. Over the last thirty years, this spatial commonality has obviously been challenged both in society and in o...

The current article explores walking ethnography as a mode of qualitative experimentation in organizational scholarship. Walking ethnographies allow researchers to experience the field in embodied ways that reflect the fluidity and unpredictability of contemporary organizational spaces. We identify and compare two ideal-typical approaches to open,...

Legitimation is a core topic of Management and Organization Studies. Actually, it is a very judgemental one, and in that sense it is human-centered. In this chapter, we try to explore posthuman and prehuman views of legitimation and alegitimation. We explore a decentered, material process in which, paradoxically, mainly de-legitimation makes sense....

This book analyzes the history of management, placing it in perspective with both American history and the genealogy of digital technology. Focusing on the years of industrial mobilization in the United States (from 1937 to 1945) and their extension into the Cold War, it shows in particular how “scientific management” was reconfigured and relegitim...

Tribune dans le journal Le Monde, septembre 2023. Réflexion à partir de mon livre Apocalypse managériale (Les Belles Lettres) sur l'organisation d'une mobilisation industrielle et ses potentialités dans la lutte contre le changement climatique

Call for papers of the 14th Organization, Artifacts & Practices (OAP) workshop jointly organized by Université Paris Dauphine-PSL (DRM), ESSEC and ESSEC Metalab. This event will be an opportunity to come back to the issue of Artificial Intelligence and its relationship with the history, philosophy and politics of management and organization.

CFP of the 8th Dauphine Philosophy Workshop (DPW)

The bulk of Management and Organization Studies deals with time as organization. Time is performed, organized, enacted, and as such is a locus of power. In this edited book, we stress the importance of organization as time. Time is an organizing force. The happening and becoming of collective activity, its technologies, its images, keep empowering,...

The bulk of Management and Organization Studies deals with time as organization. Time is performed, organized, enacted, and as such is a locus of power. In this edited book, we stress the importance of organization as time. Time is an organizing force. The happening and becoming of collective activity, its technologies, its images, keep empowering,...

Note préparatoire de la 6ème leçon inaugurale du cours TTN, le 1er septembre 2023, Salle Raymond Aron, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL

Editorial of volume 2, issue 1 of the Journal of Openness, Commons & Organizing, thematic issue about the time-space of new ways of working and organizing.

Managerial education and managerial research are still deeply emplaced and emplacing phenomena. They are expected to be emplaced somewhere, in bounded space-times and in the powerful subjectivities of students and colleagues, awaiting their expression and expansion. This constitutes a strange extensive continuum which remains the heart of academic...

The bulk of Management and Organization Studies deals with time as organization. Time is performed, organized, enacted, and as such is a locus of power. In this edited book, we stress the importance of organization as time. Time is an organizing force. The happening and becoming of collective activity, its technologies, its images, keep empowering,...

As we have seen in the context of this rich, edited volume, numerous ways are possible for the exploration of organization as time and the political description of this process as power, emancipation or ethics. A politics of time, at the intersection of critical management studies and process studies, is particularly promising. In this short conclu...

Akila, Agnès et François vivent ou survivent à Paris, dans un futur indéfini où d’étranges clones numériques prennent le pas sur nos notre quotidien. Akila est une migrante égyptienne, Agnès un des dirigeants de l'entreprise d'intelligence artificielle Zeta et François un écrivain paumé. A partir d'une nouvelle construite à la façon des Mille et Un...

Phenomenologies are an important dimension of Management and Organization Studies (MOS). They are particularly helpful to understand organizing processes as experiences instead of mere representations or objectivations of the world. Yet several misunderstandings still pervade discussions about what they are and what they could bring. This Handbook...

Phenomenologies are an important dimension of Management and Organization Studies (MOS). They are particularly helpful to understand organizing processes as experiences instead of mere representations or objectivations of the world. Yet several misunderstandings still pervade discussions about what they are and what they could bring. This Handbook...

Phenomenologies are an important dimension of Management and Organization Studies (MOS). They are particularly helpful to understand organizing processes as experiences instead of mere representations or objectivations of the world. Yet several misunderstandings still pervade discussions about what they are and what they could bring. This Handbook...

Phenomenologies and phenomenological concepts are part of numerous theoretical streams in management and organization studies. This chapter offers a literature review of academic journals and the presence of phenomenology in their publications. The review is focused both on key phenomenologists and key phenomenological concepts. It shows the subtle...

From the perspectives of process philosophy and some phenomenologies, time and temporality can be described as organization and organizing process. In this edited book, contributors discuss the implications of this idea for Management & Organization Studies. In particular, they analyze how power and the politics of organizing can be re-visited by m...

[RIPCO publishes its articles both in French and in English] Historically or metaphysically, the temporo-spatial unity of our modes of organizing is radically questioned. Through an exploration of the vocabulary and logic of the theater, this essay aims to describe a shift and generative tension between the stage and the room and between the stag...

The bulk of Management and Organization Studies deals with time as organization. Time is performed, organized, enacted, and as such is a locus of power. In this edited book, we stress the importance of organization as time. Time is an organizing force. The happening and becoming of collective activity, its technologies, its images, keep empowering,...

Resumo O movimento da ciência aberta alcançou a pesquisa e a educação em gestão. Em todo o mundo, os acadêmicos de gestão discutem, pesquisam e avaliam formas de tornar as suas práticas de trabalho menos “fechadas” e mais “abertas”. Entretanto, de que forma, exatamente, essas novas práticas de trabalho mudam o conhecimento e o ensino em gestão depe...

Historiquement ou plus métaphysiquement, l’unité spatiale et temporelle des modes d’organisation est aujourd’hui largement questionnée. La digitalisation, la pandémie, la crise climatique, un management plus décentré ou encore de multiples ruptures géopolitiques ont radicalement métamorphosé l’espace-temps du travail et son organisation. En s’inscr...

The 'collaborative spaces' phenomenon is a great window to explore new ways of organizing. As becoming, events, processes of emplacement and spacing, its expresses, reveals and makes happen key new ways of working and organizing in our societies. In this editorial, we stress the political and democratic importance of new ways of organizing. Societa...

Increasingly, work and management happen in remote and decentered ways. The Covid-19 crisis has both made visible and amplified this trend. While they are in front of their computers, trapped between the frames of their screens, workers are more and more part of a cinematographic experience they do not choose or become mere activities in a broader...

This 13th OAP workshop jointly organized by ESADE, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL and ESSEC will be an opportunity to come back to the issue of history, historicity and historical process in Management and Organization Studies (MOS). We expect papers likely to explore historical processes and historical events from (new) metaphysical perspectives, i...

Contemporary work keeps departing from the traditional time-space unity of the Taylorian Age. Working everyday at the same place, during the same time, seems to be (for many but not all activities) part of an old world. The heavily emplaced, highly routinized experience of industrial ventures looks already like history in many managerial discourses...

The Dauphine Phenomenology Workshop (DPW) is an annual event focused on continental philosophies and their relationships with social sciences in general, and Management and Organization Studies in particular. Although primarily interested in phenomenologies and post-phenomenologies, our agora also covers all major philosophical ventures linked to c...

Dans les Milles et Une Nuits, Shéhérazade enchaine infiniment des contes dont l’inachèvement et l’incomplétude ouvre sur les suivants. Un vide annonce un futur manquant, imminent. Il le rend même urgent. Une fois révélé, dévoilé, ce futur progressivement présent génère ses propres incomplétudes, jusqu’à la plus fatale. Le processus est anonyme, san...

Phenomenological approaches to Management and Organization Studies offer a means to problematize 'appearances' in the field, allowing us to 'see' things in a different light and uncover what is hidden from our consideration by our theoretical or ideological assumptions. This handbook aims at showing the unexpected richness and diversity of phenome...

In this research, the process of world-making at stake in movie direction and movie images is explored. Following Deleuze and Bergson, I investigate how the process of designing and experimenting with images contributes to a prelinguistic world-making process from which multiple selves can happen. With and from an autoethnography of my experience o...

The open science movement has reached management research and education. Around the world, management scholars discuss, probe and evaluate ways to make their work practices less ‘closed’ and more ‘open’. However, how exactly such new work practices change management knowledge and teaching depends to a large extent on the practitioners’ philosophica...

Sub-theme 22 "Depth, verticality and invisibility: integrating space and time in MOS": https://www.egos.org/jart/prj3/egos/main.jart?rel=de&reserve-mode=active&content-id=1646195112672&subtheme_id=1604725620667

Phenomenologies are an important dimension of Management and Organization Studies (MOS). They are particularly helpful to understand organizing processes as experiences instead of mere representations or objectivations of the world. Yet several misunderstandings still pervade discussions about what they are and what they could bring. This Handbook...

Phenomenologies are an important dimension of Management and Organization Studies (MOS). They are particularly helpful to understand organizing processes as experiences instead of mere representations or objectivations of the world. Yet several misunderstandings still pervade discussions about what they are and what they could bring. This Handbook...

This presentation is focused on my last book 'Apocalypse managériale' recently published in French. I discuss a core idea: management as incompleting events. In the material, temporal, visual, textual, corporeal, technical process of both folding and unveiling the world to open spaces likely to be commodified, management keeps incompleting our expe...

Conférence de présentation de mon livre "Apocalypse managériale" auprès des étudiant.e.s de l'Université Paris Dauphine-PSL. Séminaire de recherche du master 128. Mots-clé : histoire du management ; mobilisation industrielle ; seconde guerre mondiale ; sémiose digitale ; cybernétique ; géopolitique du management ; événement Américain ; capitalisme...

Version intégrale (sans coupe) de mon article publié le 17 mars dans The Conversation

Exploration de l'Evénement américain à partir des expériences de voyage d'Alexis de Tocqueville (1831), de Max Weber (1904) et d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1940-1943). Qu'exprime ou ré-exprime leur ethnographie du pays de l'éternel nouveau ? Que décrivent-ils ou pressentent-ils sur le devenir du capitalisme et de ses processus ?

Apocalypse managériale : une promenade à Manhattan de 1941 à 1946 puis au-delà a été publiée aux Belles Lettres en février 2022. L'ouvrage s'insère dans un projet de recherche débuté par François-Xavier de Vaujany en 2017 avec une première phase de travail sur archives avant un sabbatique à l'Université de New York entre 2019 et 2020 centré essenti...

Two traditions seem to be separated by an ocean of divergent ideas, traditions, histories and interests. Continental philosophy on the one hand, with phenomenologies, analytical philosophy and French theories, are grounded in old European traditions of intellectualism. American philosophy, on the other hand, appears as a new impetus, from transcend...

Abstract: I propose here a nomadology of the sofa from the work of Deleuze and Guattari (1980). Families, as home port, are more and more the new time-space of our world. The house is deeply redefined. From the sofa of a dinning room, to the sofa of a coworking space or the mall next to the customer, I invite my readers to experience a new set of a...

Un mot et son objet illustrent profondément ce qu'est le travail et son sens à la fois spatial et temporel : les "traboules". Elles se sont développées avec le capitalisme. A la fois pratiques, spatialités, et surtout, temporalités, elles ont suivi ses évolutions d'abord commerciales puis manufacturières. Elles permettent de nommer, d'incarner et d...

Décrire les transformations du travail et du management dans leur époque, les inscrire dans des processus historiques, suppose de mobiliser une véritable métaphysique de l'histoire. En m'appuyant sur les travaux tardifs de Merleau-Ponty et de Foucault, je propose ici une théorie s'appuyant sur les "différences productives".

This 6th RGCS Symposium will deal with spaces of play. Playfulness is a major dimension of contemporary organizations and new ways of working. New work practices, new work spaces and new work temporalities rely more and more on their expected playfulness. Homo ludens is becoming a key managerial expectation. Our symposium will offer processual, phe...

CFP of the 12th Organizations, Artifacts and Practices (OAP) workshop about "Posthumanist Organizing and Posthumanist Management".

In a time of hyper-individualism, building commons becomes a key task for MOS research. By means of a research protocol based on Open Learning Expeditions, a group of researchers tries to co-construct open knowledge commons in and about a specific area of a city. This protocol (entitled OWEE) is itself a knowledge commons. From a study of 32 Open L...

The new world of work is being characterized by the emergence of what are, apparently, increasingly autonomous ways of working and living. Mobile work, coworking, flex of-fice, platform-based entrepreneurship, virtual collaborations, Do It Yourself (DIT), re-mote work, digital nomads, among others trends, epitomize ways of organizing work practice...

Communication at the 11th OAP workshop "The Politics of Time: From Control to Self-Control".