Lisa Buchter

• emlyon business school

Although laws have been passed to promote disability inclusion in French workplaces, many companies face challenges complying with the required quota of disabled workers. Workplace ableism hinders the implementation of disability laws. To move from apathy to increased compliance, insider activists took proactive action, uncovered ableist practices,...

En dépit de l’essor des politiques diversité en France depuis les années 2000, peu d’entreprises et d’administrations se sont saisies des questions de lutte contre l’homophobie et la transphobie. Fondé sur une analyse textuelle et longitudinale d’archives complétée par des entretiens, l’article examine les stratégies de cinq réseaux internes portés...

This article examines how social movement actors can forge and sustain a collective identity despite heterogeneous backgrounds and the absence of pre-existing commonalities and networks. Based on an ethnography of the French yellow vest movement, we build on the concept of reactive identity to describe two key mechanisms. First, we show this moveme...

Research at the intersection of social movements and categories has stressed how movements initiate and transform categories that influence the emergence, downfall, and restructuring of markets and industries. Yet this literature tends to underestimate how social movement organizations are under pressure to align with powerful regulatory categories...

Cet article explore l’invisibilisation, puis la remise en lumière des femmes – et plus particulièrement des vieilles – dans une recherche action participative (RAP) qui pense les nouvelles façons d’habiter dans les vieillesses. Il rend compte des méthodes mises en place pour rendre visibles et audibles les vieilles de cette RAP. L’article poursuit...

Based on research on the French disability rights movement, this article explores how activists use awareness campaigns to prefigure new social scripts for help and solidarity. Although help and solidarity are fundamental in our society, the manner in which they are performed toward minorities (e.g., providing unsolicited help, signaling solidarity...

Researchers have explored in depth how social movement actors strive to pass laws to change organizations exogenously or to demand that they make commitments or policy changes. But ensuring that organizations implement such commitments or policies is challenging. Insider activists may be influential for implementation processes, and I explore how t...

Scholars pointed out that antidiscrimination laws do not fully undermine workplace discrimination and that affirmative action policies mostly benefit overqualified or advantaged individuals within minorities. To elucidate this paradox, this case study analyzes how some companies adopted specific selection and assessment processes for job seekers af...

A growing body of research analyzes how corporate social responsibility programs are used to absorb and neutralize the social criticisms coming from social and environmental movements and to superficially respond to the ensuing new regulations. If companies have powerful tools to resist changes and blunt the meaning of the law, then we need further...

Previous theories discuss how corporate managers can stir anti-discrimination laws away from their initial social goal by managerializing the law. Yet, other actors � notably insider activists � can contribute to move corporate regulations beyond merely symbolic compliance. I demonstrate this influence of activists with three cases studies: (1) LGB...