Résumés
Abstract
Through a collective autoethnography, we describe how our group of academic activists—four women—has continued to support CSR activities in research and teaching practices and in all aspects of our business school’s operations to resist mainstream management education. We have done so while contesting the business-case approach to CSR and the pressures that threaten to undermine or lessen the importance of social and environmental issues in management education. Here, we describe the forms of resistance that we undertook, our identity work between resistance and compliance in our business school and our collective dynamics over time.
Keywords:
- Micro-resistance,
- collective resistance,
- academic activists,
- CSR,
- collective autoethnography,
- business school,
- France
Résumé
À travers une auto-ethnographie collective, nous décrivons comment notre groupe d’activistes académiques—quatre femmes—a soutenu le développement des activités de RSE dans les pratiques de recherche et d’enseignement et dans tous les aspects du management de notre école de management pour résister à l’enseignement traditionnel de la gestion. Nous expliquons notre résistance à une logique de business-case et aux pressions menaçant de remettre en cause ou de réduire l’intégration de questions sociales et environnementales dans les formations en gestion. Nous décrivons ici les formes de résistance que nous avons entreprises, notre travail identitaire entre résistance et conformité dans notre école de management et nos dynamiques collectives dans le temps.
Mots-clés :
- micro-résistance,
- résistance collective,
- activistes académiques,
- RSE,
- auto-ethnographie collective,
- école de management,
- France
Resumen
A través de una auto-etnografía colectiva, describimos como nuestro grupo de activistas académicas —cuatro mujeres— a sostenido el desarrollo de actividades de RSE/desarrollo sostenible en sus practicas de investigación, educación y en diferentes campos de management en la escuela de negocios para resistir a la educación tradicional de la gestión. Explicamos nuestra resistencia frente a une lógica business-case and frente a presiones amenazando con cuestionar o reducir la integración de cuestiones sociales y ambientales en la formación en gestión. Describimos formas de resistencia que implementamos, nuestro reflexión sobre nuestra identidad de trabajo entre resistencia y conformidad, y nuestras dinámicas colectivas.
Palabras clave:
- micro-resistencia,
- resistencia colectiva,
- activistas académicos,
- RSE,
- autoetnografía colectiva,
- escuela de gestión,
- Francia
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