How Management Situations Change Dispositives : Public Management in the case of Animal Epidemics

Keywords: Management dispositive, Management situation, Dispositional analysis, Public-sector management, Animal health, Longitudinal study, Health governance

Abstract

Against a backdrop of change in the French public health governance system, this article examines the dynamics of public-sector dispositives in managing livestock epidemics, situations that are typically fraught with doubt and often lead to crises of governance (‘mad cow’ disease, ‘bird flu’, foot-and-mouth, etc.). In such complex, interorganizational situations, marked by uncertainty and tight management time frames, fresh organizational and managerial activity is constantly required, making it a challenging task to characterize and understand the dynamics of the management dispositives that are activated along the way.

In order to produce a detailed and dynamic mapping of dispositives, we draw on the theoretical framework of ‘dispositional analysis’, developed by recent rereadings of Michel Foucault’s concept of the dispositive. To this, we bring the micro and situated perspective of the ‘day-to-day administering of lives’, introducing Jacques Girin’s concept of the ‘management situation’. We thus hypothesize that management situations are sites of intensive dispositive recombination and offer a useful interpretive frame for dispositive dynamics. Our methodology is based on a longitudinal and comparative analysis of three animal health disease management situations in a particular region (a health crisis, the reemergence of a disease, and an endemic disease situation).

Our analysis reveals an architecture of health dispositives whose relationships change as the management situation evolves. Three modes of recombination are identified, produced through the mechanisms of problematization (reformulating the problem) and stakeholder participation. This article makes visible the complex links between the evolution of the situations and the dynamics of the dispositives and provides food for thought in building a more robust governance of public animal health problems, combining situational and planning approaches.

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Author Biographies

François Charrier, Laboratoire interdisciplinaire sciences innovations sociétés (LISIS), INRAE – Université Gustave Eiffel, Marne-la-Vallée, France

François Charrier is a research engineer in management sciences at INRAE, in the LISIS unit. He conducts research on animal and crop health management issues, through situated/territorialized approaches of epidemic management. He works on the transformation of animal and crop health public policies through new forms of organizations and management that would be more inclusive of the public.

Marc Barbier, Laboratoire interdisciplinaire sciences innovations sociétés (LISIS), INRAE – Université Gustave Eiffel, Marne-la-Vallée, France

Marc Barbier is a senior researcher at INRAE, affiliated to the LISIS research unit. He became in 2019 the director of the Institute for Research Innovation and Society (IFRIS). He also has a strong editorial commitment to the Revue d’anthropologie des connaissances journal. His research interests and works contribute to the fields of social studies of knowledge regime and organization studies within the agriculture, food and environment nexus. He particularly tackles the governance of sustainability transitions and issues of sociotechnical regime destabilization.

Nathalie Raulet-Croset, IAE Paris Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France

Nathalie Raulet-Croset is professor of management at IAE Paris-Sorbonne Business School. She conducts research in organizational theory, concerning the organizational transformation, organizational and managerial innovations, and alternative forms of management. Her research also focuses on the role of territories in situated and multi-actor cooperation, built around societal and environmental issues.

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2024-06-02
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Charrier F., Barbier M., & Raulet-Croset N. (2024). How Management Situations Change Dispositives : Public Management in the case of Animal Epidemics. M@n@gement, 27(2), 80-102. https://doi.org/10.37725/mgmt.2024.7930
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