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The Emergence of Heterotopia as a Heuristic Concept to Study Organization
Author(s) -
Bazin Yoann,
Naccache Philippe
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
european management review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.784
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1740-4762
pISSN - 1740-4754
DOI - 10.1111/emre.12082
Subject(s) - heterotopia (medicine) , organization studies , sociology , epistemology , organizational theory , michel foucault , heuristic , political science , management , philosophy , economics , genetics , biology , politics , law
Ever since Michel Foucault shared a number of intuitions on ‘other spaces’ at a conference in 1967, a growing number of studies in social sciences have been focusing on what he then called heterotopias. Over the past 10 years, organization scholars have started to use the concept in their analysis, from leadership and marketing to queer practices and critical management studies (CMS). This article presents the origin and diffusion of the concept of heterotopia in management, using social movements as an illustration of its heuristic potential. We conclude by presenting two promising future avenues of research in our field: heterotopic entrepreneurship and organizational heterotopology.