Jean-Claude Thoenig

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Jean-Claude Thoenig (* 1940 in Biel ) is emeritus research director at Dauphine Recherche en Management at the University of Paris-Dauphine after several years as a professor at Insead . In addition to teaching and research, Thoenig also worked as a consultant for multinational companies and government organizations.

Career

Growing up bilingually in Biel, Thoenig later not only changed language and discipline, but also country: in addition to being Swiss, he also took French citizenship. The son of a businessman studied business administration at the University of Neuchâtel (1959). Since it this was not enough, he studied finally sociology at the University of Geneva . and graduated in 1963 with a master’s degree from 1963 to 64. He then assisted at the University of Geneva and then moved to the Center national de la recherche scientifique ( CNRS ) in Paris, where he continued to work until 1974. He was appointed to the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne , where he taught from 1975-77. In 77/78 he worked at the Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux in Bordeaux and finally switched to INSEAD in Fontainebleau in 1979 , where he taught as a full professor from 1984 until 2006. He continued to work as Research Director of the CNRS and from 1984 to 2003 also at Dauphine Research Management . In addition, he was visiting professor at Stanford University (1974, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1985), Harvard University (1975) and the University of California, Berkeley (1987, 1988, 1991).

In addition to these teaching activities, Thoenig also advised the École nationale d'administration (ENA) in Paris from 1973 to 1978 , chaired a scientific advisory body in Paris from 1996 to 99, deputy head of the Institut supérieur du commerce de Paris from 1994 to today and is co-founder, first chairman and from 1997 to 2005 board member of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS). In the two most important development phases of EGOS, Thoenig assumed a key position: when it was founded as first chairman and later when the foundation was founded again as chairman.

Thoenig has been married to the sociologist Catherine Paradeise since 1999 . He has two children, Jérôme (1969) and Mathias Thoenig (1972).

Research interests

Thoenig's contributions to the social and management sciences deal with the sociology of organizations, political sociology, policy analysis, and public administration. He examined the mechanisms with which a balance is achieved in practice between different organizations such as local, regional and national governments, also taking into account the effects of private law organizations. Thoenig considers the very different goals and perceptions that organizations have of themselves and the environment and the methods for reaching compromises. He examined innovative approaches in the field of organizational sociology , for example mechanisms of control mechanisms that interact across organizational boundaries. He developed interpretive models of national and territorial governments, relations between governments, modernization, decentralization, technocracy and politics.

His current projects deal with higher education and topics of research organization, for example the control of national research policy and the university educational institutions of the EU countries and the generation of academic quality by universities and their sub-units (departments, schools, etc.).

His research on commercial companies has highlighted different approaches to company theory and the market as a social construct. In his last active years, Thoenig supervised empirical research on companies that have emerged from mergers & acquisitions , on the management of changes and control of such processes. In addition, Thoenig examines the cognitive aspects of organizations, for example the action-oriented language of managers and the interaction between strategic action and organizational functions. With David Courpasson , Thoenig also worked on the rebellion of managers against imposed constraints. His research prefers approaches that adopt local notions of order and alternative perspectives on the institution, including network theories.

Jean-Claude Thoenig was the co-founder of several professional organizations and research institutions, such as the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), the École de Paris du management , GRALE ( Groupement de recherche sur l'administration locale en Europe ), a research network for public administration in Europe, as well as the first French school for public administration in cities and regions. Within the CNRS he founded GAPP, the first research center for political analysis in France.

Honors

Thoenig was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Ford Foundation . The CNRS honored him in 1978 with a bronze medal, the École polytechnique fédérale in Lausanne in 1978 with an honorary doctorate. He has been an Honorary Fellow of the University of Birmingham since 1982 , a member of the Legion of Honor (Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur) since 1999 and Officier du Mérite Agricole since 2000 . In 2005 EGOS made him an honorary member and Arndt Sorge wrote the laudation on the occasion. In 2006 he became an honorary member of the Fondazione ISTUD in Stresa (Italy).

bibliography

137 works in 207 Thoenig publications are held by 2442 libraries in 6 languages. He worked with Michel Crozier , David Courpasson , François Dupuy , Yves Mény , Jean-Noel Kapferer and others.

  • 2009: L'organization et ses langages: Interpréter pour agir . Laval, Presses universitaires de Laval (with Claude Michaud )
  • 2008: Quand les cadres se rebellent . Paris, Vuibert (with David Courpasson )
  • 2007: The Marking Enterprise . Business Success and Societal Impact, London, Palgrave (with Charles Waldman )
  • 2005: De l'entreprise marchande à l'entreprise marquante . Paris, Editions d'Organisation (with Charles Waldman)
  • 2005: Piloter la réforme de la recherche , Futuribles, 306, March: 21-40 (with C. Paradeise)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Short curriculum vitae of Jean-Claude Thoenig  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 1, 2013@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.prestence.org  
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Laudation by Arndt Sorge on the appointment (2005) of Jean-Claude Thoenig as an honorary member of EGOS, accessed on July 7, 2013
  3. ↑ a b Author profile of Jean-Claude Thoenig on the Macmillan Publishers website, accessed July 7, 2013
  4. ↑ a b c Biography of Jean-Claude Thoenig on the Editions Harmattan website , accessed on July 1, 2013
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Presentation of the faculty members on the Paris Dauphine University website ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 87 kB), accessed on July 1, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dauphine.fr
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Profile (PDF; 338 kB) by Jean-Claude Thoenig
  7. ^ Entry on "Thoenig, Jean-Claude 1940-" in WorldCat , accessed July 7, 2013
  8. ^ Entry in the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) about Jean-Claude Thoenig , accessed on July 1, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Thoenig, Jean-Claude
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thoenig, JC; Thoenig, Jean Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-French sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Biel