Jean-etienne Joullié

@article{muldoon_3031,

title = {Past is prologue: from human relations to social exchange theory},

author = {Jeffrey Muldoon and Anthony Gould and Jean-Etienne Joullié},

url = {https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/QROM-07-2023-2556/full/html},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-12-01},

journal = {Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management},

volume = {19},

number = {3},

pages = {182-202},

abstract = {Purpose - The purpose of this article is twofold. Its first objective is to bring to the fore the unexplored and neglected origins of social exchange theory (SET) to critique this body of conjecture. This unearthing is illustrated through focusing on the way the theory was developed and how this development was mischaracterised in literature. Its second objective is to invoke the methodological assemblage of ANTi-History and the ?close reading? notion using multiple archival sources to demonstrate their usefulness within the

critical qualitative method debate.

Design/methodology/approach - The historic character of management and organization studies is exemplified through utilizing a combination of textual sources to examine how SET emerged from within the human relations school of thought throughout much of the twentieth century. Specifically, an array of sources

(including archival data) is deployed and closely examined to trace how SET formed and became prevalent in organizational studies over the last decades.

Findings - SET is not only indebted to the human relations movement in general and to Elton Mayo's work in particular (as is well-known), but also to logical positivism and behavioralist-school psychology. As such, Homans' work marked the beginning of a new era in organizational behavior research.

Originality/value - The article highlights the role of historical analyses in interpreting mainstream constructs in organizational behavior. In doing so, it reveals how critical qualitative research leads to understanding some shortcomings of a theory and indicates potential remedies.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{gould_3072,

title = {You May Not Be a Liar, but Are You Worth Listening To?},

author = {Anthony Gould and Jean-Etienne Joullié},

url = {https://rbr.business.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/documents/rbr-090104.pdf},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-06-01},

journal = {Rutgers Business Review},

volume = {9},

number = {1},

pages = {31-39},

abstract = {Within workplaces, deployment of words and phraseology is the most

consequential medium through which executives establish their reputation - a point also generally true for other workplace actors. Moreover, ultimately, organizational performance, irrespective of its measure, substantially depends on internal communication. Despite such import, managerial advice addressing this matter is threadbare and, where it exists, is inclined to be unhelpfully generic. This article presents, updates and operationalizes an ancient framework for executive language use which has straightforward workplace application.},

note = {publication sans DOI, revue non classée},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{muldoon_2903,

title = {Agency theory and social entrepreneurship: An axe that needs sharpening},

author = {Jeffrey Muldoon and Vitaliy Skorodziyevskiy and Anthony Gould and Jean-Etienne Joullié},

url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14657503241242344},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-04-01},

journal = {International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation},

abstract = {Social entrepreneurship is a recent strategy for addressing public policy concerns that have traditionally been viewed as falling within the State's ambit. This article exposes the inadequacy of agency theory for interpreting how parties coexist within a multi-stakeholder service delivery configuration under the rubric of social entrepreneurship. Using the case of Teach for America, it explores the criticisms that traditionally trained teachers direct towards the organization's members. The article does not take a side on whether these criticisms are justified. Rather, it argues that, absent a frame of

reference (e.g., appropriately adapted agency theory) for exposing the interests of disparate stakeholders to a social entrepreneurship venture, misaligned interests manifest as ill-founded mutual critique.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {online},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{gould_2386,

title = {First things first: Unselfconscious corporate virtuosity and corporate performance},

author = {Anthony Gould and Jean-Etienne Joullié and Kate GOULD},

url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bse.3510},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-02-01},

journal = {Business Strategy And The Environment},

volume = {33},

number = {2},

pages = {692-706},

abstract = {This article investigates the relationship between unselfconscious corporate virtuosity and corporate performance using a novel methodology. It contends that honesty in presenting CSR activities is a proxy for corporate virtuosity and that syntheticity of language indexes unselfconscious honesty in corporate reporting. The study's research question is: Is there evidence that being more corporately ethical in the absence of concern about being so perceived enhances hardcore measures of organisational performance? To answer this question, a linguistic analysis of sustainability reports of firms operating in the Mining, Crude Oil Production Industry is undertaken to reveal that firms' financial performance varies as a function of a particular kind of straightforward language use in corporate reporting. This exercise provides evidence that unselfconscious corporate virtuosity is associated with better corporate financial performance. Implications for practice of this finding are explored.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{joullie_1422,

title = {Theory, explanation, and understanding in management research},

author = {Jean-Etienne Joullié and Anthony Gould},

url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23409444211012414},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-10-01},

journal = {Brq-Business Research Quarterly},

volume = {26},

number = {4},

pages = {347-360},

abstract = {Theory production has been a central focus of management research for decades, mostly because theory legitimizes both management research and, through its application, management practice as professional endeavors. However, such an emphasis on theory glosses over one of its constraining and particularized roles in scientific explanation, namely that theory codifies predictive knowledge. Committing to theory a ?traditional' or ?critical' understanding of theory, thus amounts to embracing the view that prediction is achievable within a circumscribed field of study. Such an embrace is non-controversial in natural science. However, within the realm of management studies, it necessitates and smuggles in a strawman view of human existence, one which does not accommodate freedom and responsibility. This limitation of management theory explains its inadequate utility. This article argues that alternative avenues for management research exist.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{spillane_1733,

title = {The decline of authority and the rise of managerialism},

author = {Robert Spillane and Jean-Etienne Joullié},

url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/CWXYDUJQVFBK5AMF33QD/full},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-09-01},

journal = {Organization},

volume = {30},

number = {5},

pages = {961-980},

abstract = {Managerialism, as an ideology and management practice, is grounded on a theory of authority. Such grounding has been neglected in the relevant literature since scholars have generally treated authority as a form of power and have ignored the view that authority is also a source of power. Following a review of the construct of authority as it appears in the works of noted social psychologists and critical management authors, this essay argues that Carl Friedrich's theory of authority as reasoned elaboration reveals two manifestations: authoritativeness and authoritarianism. It is argued here that managerialism draws on authoritarian ideas and practices, whereas management, as traditionally conceived, draws on authoritativeness. To promote authoritative management, therefore, is to resist (authoritarian) managerialism since authority redirects power to technical experts and professional colleagues and thereby limits managerial power.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{muldoon_2376,

title = {Clipping the wings of theorists: the unacknowledged contribution to management thought from the shopfloor},

author = {Jeffrey Muldoon and Anthony Gould and Jean-Etienne Joullié},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/17449359.2023.2234344},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-08-01},

journal = {Management & Organizational History},

volume = {18},

number = {2},

pages = {173-198},

abstract = {Mainstream as well as critical management history literature typically establishes theorists as the most consequential protagonists in the process that created the default blueprint for employee superintendence. Accordingly, in the wake of the Industrial Revolution, the new capitalists and their agents (the emerging management class), were theoretically ill-equipped to oversee large scale productive

transformation. Hence, they turned to experts, mostly scholars who straddled the worlds of academia and the nascent enterprise

of industrial consulting. In this version of events, employees are represented in strawman terms, as either passive or predictable; in either case, as hostile but unsophisticated actors. This article presents and defends an alternative portrayal. It argues that management thought was not born of purely theoretical perspectives but, rather, is the product of a contest between theory and what employees, acting as intellectual equals, revealed to employers and pundits when theories were being applied.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{muurlink_1437,

title = {Clustered Iconography: A Resurrected Method for Representing Multidimensional Data},

author = {Olav Muurlink and Anthony Gould and Jean-Etienne Joullié},

url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0049124120914943},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-05-01},

journal = {Sociological Methods & Research},

volume = {52},

number = {2},

pages = {956 - 992},

abstract = {Development of graphical methods for representing data has not kept up with progress in statistical techniques. This article presents a brief history of graphical representations of research findings and makes the case for a revival of methods developed in the early and mid-twentieth century, notably ISOTYPE and Chernoff's faces. It resurrects and improves a procedure, clustered iconography, which enables the presentation of multidimensional data through which readers engage more effectively with the presentation's central message by way of an easier understanding of relationships between variables. The proposed technique is especially well adapted to the needs and protocols of open-source research.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{joullie_2074,

title = {One truth and one standard for its telling: Reporting on and about scientific business research},

author = {Jean-Etienne Joullié and Anthony Gould},

url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014829632201030X?via%3Dihub},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-03-01},

journal = {Journal Of Business Research},

volume = {157},

pages = {113565},

abstract = {There is consensus in literature that transparency (accurate and honest reporting) in management and business research is desirable. To improve transparency, commentators have stressed that research articles contain detail about procedural replicability, thus allowing for results reproducibility, at least (in the case of samples) across multiple trials. For all its merit, such advice neglects the particularised role of language in conveying scientific findings. This article argues that embracing positivist epistemology in management and business research entails adhering to linguistic standards. It is through such adherence that transparency is realised.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{joullie_1421,

title = {The Language of Executive Coaching: A Developmental Framework},

author = {Jean-Etienne Joullié and Anthony Gould and Robert Spillane},

url = {https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amle.2017.0429},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-12-01},

journal = {Academy Of Management Learning & Education},

volume = {21},

number = {4},

pages = {1-15},

abstract = {Although the practice of executive coaching has received sustained attention in literature, no theoretical framework exists to guide the language of conversations that aims to improve executive performance. This article addresses this omission. Following Richard

Weaver, it resurrects an ancient distinction between noble and base language and combines this distinction with a linguistic hierarchy. Noble language culminates in and gives voice to optimal executive performance; as such, it is the ideal language of executive coaching. Contributions to theory and research, practical and educational implications, and a call to action are outlined.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{spillane_1774,

title = {Authority, conformity and obedience: Applying Friedrich's theory of authority to the classics},

author = {Robert Spillane and Jean-Etienne Joullié},

url = {https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjso.12527},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-10-01},

journal = {British Journal Of Social Psychology},

volume = {61},

number = {4},

pages = {1086-1100},

abstract = {In the conformity and obedience studies of Asch and Milgram, legitimate authority is defined as a form of power to which subjects submit irrationally. This view assumes a causative process which the subjects' behaviour is said to

manifest. Furthermore, this view assumes that there is illegitimate (or malevolent) authority. Carl J. Friedrich's theory of authority as reasoned elaboration offers an alternative perspective, which reveals conceptual differences between

authority and such related constructs as power and legitimacy. When these concepts are properly distinguished, a re-interpretation

of the classical studies of conformity and

obedience is called forth. Such an exercise produces insights into some of the discipline's most controversial, if not disturbing, results. Specifically, it leads to an understanding of

laboratory conformity and obedience in rational terms.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{spillane_1863,

title = {Justifying ethical values: A purposive ethics for managers},

author = {Robert Spillane and Jean-Etienne Joullié},

url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/beer.12460},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-10-01},

journal = {Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility},

volume = {31},

number = {4},

pages = {1185-1192},

abstract = {This essay addresses the question of how managers justify ethical values. Traditionally,

ethical values have been justified by appeals to intuition expressed injunctively and

judged to be obligatory. This tradition has led to ethical relativism and a widespread

scepticism about the possibility of basing ethics on reasoning. There are, however,

alternative strategies for ethical justification in which conclusions are derived deductively

from purposive propositions. This essay revisits the notion of reason, purpose

and ethical justification in management to outline a purposive ethics for managers.

The implications for management practice and relevance for management researchers

of such an ethics are presented and defended.},

note = {Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility est le nouveau nom de Business Ethics: A European Review},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{joullie_1398,

title = {Having Nothing to Say but Saying It Anyway: Language and Practical Relevance in Management Research},

author = {Jean-Etienne Joullié and Anthony Gould},

url = {https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amle.2017.0207},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-06-01},

journal = {Academy Of Management Learning & Education},

volume = {21},

number = {2},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{joullie_1673,

title = {?Physics envy? in organisation studies: the case of James G. March},

author = {Jean-Etienne Joullié and Robert Spillane},

url = {https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JMH-08-2021-0042/full/html},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-03-01},

journal = {Journal of Management History},

volume = {28},

number = {2},

pages = {236-254},

abstract = {The article argues first that March's study exemplifies the ?physics envy? typical of management and organisation studies scholars since the early 1960s. Second, evidence is presented that March's conclusions, irrespective of their legacy on management and organisation studies, were not developed along and were not consistent with the foundations that March espoused and advocated during most of his career. As a result, the implications of his conclusions are uncertain. To his credit, however, there are reasons to believe that, towards the end of his career, March came to recognise the limitations of his scholarship. Further, he indicated an alternative avenue for organisation studies which eschews the

shortcomings of positivist and post-modern research.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{joullie_1439,

title = {The language of integrative collective bargaining},

author = {Jean-Etienne Joullié and Robert Spillane},

url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1035304620981966},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-09-01},

journal = {Economic And Labour Relations Review},

volume = {32},

number = {3},

pages = {472-488},

abstract = {x},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{joullie_1408,

title = {The language of power and authority in leadership},

author = {Jean-Etienne Joullié and Anthony Gould and Robert Spillane and Sylvain Luc},

url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1048984320301181},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-08-01},

journal = {Leadership Quarterly},

volume = {32},

number = {4},

pages = {101491},

abstract = {The purpose of this article is to provide insight into how leaders obtain their power through language use. The thesis defended is that, at its best, the language of power in leadership activates specific linguistic functions in prescribed ways. This thesis draws on three subordinate arguments. First, to the extent that leadership is a relationship resting on voluntary obedience, it is through a process of authorisation that leaders obtain their power. Second, the way language functions are instantiated in communication determines whether social interactions are authoritative or authoritarian. The view advanced is that noble language characterises the former, base language the latter. Third and consequently, the power of leaders develops from their use of noble language. Contrasting examples illuminate this article's thesis. An agenda for leadership research and education is then outlined.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{joullie_1443,

title = {Management without theory for the twenty-first century},

author = {Jean-Etienne Joullié},

url = {https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JMH-05-2018-0024/full/html},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-10-01},

journal = {Journal of Management History},

volume = {24},

number = {4},

pages = {377-395},

abstract = {x},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{gould_1441,

title = {Parallel Universe' or 'Proven Future'? The Language of Dependent Means t-Test Interpretations},

author = {Anthony Gould and Jean-Etienne Joullié},

url = {https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/jmasm/vol16/iss2/11/},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-12-01},

journal = {Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods},

volume = {16},

number = {2},

pages = {200-214},

abstract = {x},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{gould_1442,

title = {From the industrial revolution to Trump: Six periods of changing perceptions of American business managers},

author = {Anthony Gould and Michael Bourk and Jean-Etienne Joullié},

url = {https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JMH-04-2017-0018/full/html},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-09-01},

journal = {Journal of Management History},

volume = {23},

number = {4},

pages = {471-488},

abstract = {x},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{joullie_1440,

title = {The philosophical foundations of management thought},

author = {Jean-Etienne Joullié},

url = {https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amle.2012.0393},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-11-01},

journal = {Academy Of Management Learning & Education},

volume = {15},

number = {1},

pages = {180-193},

abstract = {x},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{joullie_1438,

title = {Heroic Drucker},

author = {Jean-Etienne Joullié and Robert Spillane},

url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-014-2068-0},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-04-01},

journal = {Journal Of Business Ethics},

volume = {128},

pages = {95-105},

abstract = {x},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{joullie_1588,

title = {The philosopher and the manager},

author = {Jean-Etienne Joullié},

url = {https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJMCP.2014.066898?journalCode=ijmcp},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-04-01},

journal = {International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy},

volume = {8},

number = {4},

pages = {197-208},

abstract = {This paper revisits the argument that management academics and

managers benefit from being knowledgeable in Western philosophy. Salient debates in management research and education that have emerged over the last decades are first summarised. The theoretical uncertainties that these debates have highlighted are then located within a brief overview of mainstream Western philosophical traditions. Philosophical investigations into management theory help discern the origins of some of the difficulties that plague management theories, paving the way towards their clarification and resolution.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}