Bourdieu, Representational Legitimacy, and Pension Boardrooms: A Contested Space?

Susan Sayce

Bourdieu, Representational Legitimacy, and Pension Boardrooms: A Contested Space?

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Abstract

Drawing on Bourdieu’s social theory this chapter aims to extend the debates about concepts of legitimacy and representation in UK pension schemes boardrooms. Generally the field of board management has its own norms and behaviours where actions and manners are reproduced through generations of boardroom activity. However, representational legitimacy has helped increase the diversity of board composition by bringing trade union representatives or members who choose to stand for election, into the mix of employer/sponsor representation and employee representation. Using the conceptual tools of field, habitus, practice, capital, illusio, and doxa provided by Pierre Bourdieu the legitimacy that these more diverse pension board members bring to the field of the boardrooms will be investigated to establish how this is being reshaped into a board image that fits with the dominant norms, expectations and attitudes of the boardroom

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Pierre Bourdieu, Organization, and Management
Subtitle of host publication	Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
Editors	Ahu Tatli, Mustafa Ozbilgin, Mine Karatas-Ozkan
Publisher	Routledge
Publication status	Published - 17 Apr 2015

Publication series

Name	Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
Publisher	Routledge

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SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth

Keywords

Bourdieu
pension trusteeship
legitimacy
Doxa

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Bourdieu, Representational Legitimacy, and Pension Boardrooms: A Contested Space? / Sayce, Susan.
Pierre Bourdieu, Organization, and Management: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society. ed. / Ahu Tatli; Mustafa Ozbilgin; Mine Karatas-Ozkan. Routledge, 2015. (Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society).

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