Seeck, Hannele 
ORCID: 0000-0001-6209-651X and Boncori, Anne-laure
(2015)
Multiple translations of ideology in management studies: a review.
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2015 (1).
ISSN 0065-0668
Abstract
Until recently, studies of translation have primarily focused on how and why ideas circulate rather than what types of ideas circulate and how ideas change during circulation. We explore the concepts of ideology that circulate in the field of management studies and how they have changed. We perform a review of 135 peer-reviewed empirical and theoretical articles published between 1956 and 2014. We also read 39 books on the topic. We investigate how central conceptualisations of ideology in the social sciences have been translated into concepts of managerial ideology in the field of management studies since 1956 by examining the role of three editing processes in translating the concept of ideology from the social sciences to management studies. We find five dominant translations of ideology within management studies: 1) ideology translated as domination and control, 2) ideology translated as legitimation, 3) ideology translated as describing and explaining the world, 4) ideology translated as cohesiveness/social integration, and 5) ideology translated as a normative logic. We also identify a trend towards hybridising the logics of ideology translation. We argue that abandoning the classics constitutes de-contextualisation. We also find extensive relabeling. The five rules of logic manifest not as continuous processes of reformulation but rather as structural, as they are largely stable over time. As an ‘imitated prototype’, the concept of ideology in management studies has not been continuously reinterpreted and reformulated. We conclude that more research on conceptual translation is needed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | https://journals.aom.org/journal/amproc |
| Additional Information: | © 2015 Academy of Management |
| Divisions: | Media and Communications |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Mar 2023 10:15 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Sep 2024 09:29 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/118524 |
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