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Matters of visuality in legitimation practices: dual iconographies in a meeting room

de Vaujany, François-Xavier; Vaast, Emmanuelle (2016), Matters of visuality in legitimation practices: dual iconographies in a meeting room, Organization, 23, 5, p. 763-790. 10.1177/1350508416640923

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Date
2016
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Organization
Volume
23
Numéro
5
Éditeur
Sage
Pages
763-790
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Auteur(s)
de Vaujany, François-Xavier
Dauphine Recherches en Management [DRM]
Vaast, Emmanuelle
Résumé (EN)
Legitimacy and legitimation practices are key constructs in the neo-institutional literature. So far, much scholarship has drawn on ideational and discursive approaches of legitimation. Yet, the organizational world has become increasingly iconographical, and visuals seem to have been at the core of contemporary legitimacy claims. This research investigates the visual artifacts and practices embedded in the elaboration of legitimacy claims. Through an iconographic lens applied to practices unfolding in a meeting room, this research emphasizes the image-screen and image-object iconographies involved in the elaboration of legitimation claims. Visual practices elicit symbolic spaces that organizational actors may then mobilize as worlds of justification and legitimization.
Mots-clés
Iconography; image-object; image-screen; legitimacy; legitimation; materiality; visual practices; visuality
JEL
M54 - Labor Management
M10 - General