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When Managers Rebel

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. An offer I couldn’t refuse

    • David Courpasson, Jean-Claude Thoenig
    Pages 1-8
  3. Early signs of rebellion

    • David Courpasson, Jean-Claude Thoenig
    Pages 9-23
  4. Management spaces

    • David Courpasson, Jean-Claude Thoenig
    Pages 24-39
  5. The dynamics of rebellion

    • David Courpasson, Jean-Claude Thoenig
    Pages 40-69
  6. What happens tomorrow to today’s rebels?

    • David Courpasson, Jean-Claude Thoenig
    Pages 70-90
  7. Creative rebellion

    • David Courpasson, Jean-Claude Thoenig
    Pages 91-108
  8. When private lives fight back

    • David Courpasson, Jean-Claude Thoenig
    Pages 109-124
  9. Exiting rebellion’s vicious circle

    • David Courpasson, Jean-Claude Thoenig
    Pages 125-143
  10. Polyarchy as an alternative

    • David Courpasson, Jean-Claude Thoenig
    Pages 144-162
  11. Conclusion: the future beckons

    • David Courpasson, Jean-Claude Thoenig
    Pages 163-169
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 170-181

About this book

Employee and manager rebellions occur more often than you might think. This book argues how important it is to take these protests seriously. The authors demonstrate that when middle managers rebel, they aren't just letting off steam, and that their acts of creative protest can even produce benefits for their companies. Rebellion can pay off!

Reviews

'The book provides food for thought for senior management who dream of empowering (and of ensnaring) their most able young executives' - Les Echos

'It shows how the relationship of upcoming executives to their work, and to society at large, is changing. It could help sound the death knell for management by numbers' - Le Monde Economie

'Courpasson and Thoenig provide a series of key insights into how corporations work at this level' - Professor Pierre Eric Tixier, Sciences-Po, Paris

Authors and Affiliations

  • EMLYON Business School, France

    David Courpasson

  • University Paris-Dauphine and CNRS, INSEAD, France

    Jean-Claude Thoenig

About the authors


DAVID COURPASSON is a Professor at EM-Lyon Business School, France and the Editor in Chief of Organization Studies.

JEAN-CLAUDE THOENIG formerly Professor at INSEAD; currently, Director Emeritus of Research at the Dauphine Recherches en Management lab at Université Paris-Dauphine, France.

Both are organizational sociologists. Both also are active consultants.

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