Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies

Contact Details

• Tel: +44 (0) 116 252 5517
• Email: v.fournier@le.ac.uk
• Office: Room 210, Level 2, Ken Edwards Building 
• Office Hours: By appointment

Biography

Valérie joined the University of Leicester in 2004 having previously taught at Keele University and St Andrews University. She studied Economics and Management in France, and did her PhD in Manchester (1992) on the socialisation process of graduate entering employment. She has taught courses in the areas of Organisation Studies, HRM, Gender & Organisations, and more recently Alternative Organisations. She currently divides her time between the University of Leicester and a rural commune in France.

Research Interests

Her current research interests centre on alternative organisations and economies and include: rural economies, sustainable development, alternative forms of exchange and markets, co-operative and communal organisations,  and critical pedagogy.

PhD Supervision

I am interested in supervising in the following areas: Critiques of global capitalism, Alternative organisations (e.g. co-operatives, communes) and exchange (e.g. gift, local currencies); rural economies; sustainable development; anarchist theory and practice. 

Teaching

Alternative Economies
Critical HRM

Most Recent Publications

Fournier, V., King, D., Land, C. and Reedy, P. (eds) Spcial Issue of Ephemera on ‘Organization beyond the crisis’ (forthcoming).

Parker, M., Cheney, G. , Fournier, V. and Land, C. (eds.) Routledge Companion to Alternative Organizations, London: Routledge (forthcoming).

Fournier, V. (2008) Escaping from the Economy: The politics of degrowth, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 28 (11/12):528-545. (ISSN 0144-333X) .

Full listing of publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Fournier, V., King, D., Land, C. and Reedy, P. (eds) Special Issue of Ephemera on ‘Organization beyond the crisis’ (forthcoming).

Fournier, V. (2008) Escaping from the Economy: The politics of degrowth, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 28 (11/12):528-545. (ISSN 0144-333X).

Fournier, V. (2006) Breaking from the weight of the eternal present: Teaching organisational difference, Management Learning, 37(3): 295-311. (ISSN: 1350-5076).

Fournier, V. and Smith, W. (2006) Scripting Masculinity, Ephemera, 6(2): 141-162. (ISSN: 1473-2866).

Fournier, V. and Lightfoot, G. (2002) Stages of busi(-)ness and identity. Ethnologies, 24(1): 225-249, Special Issue on Space. (ISSN: 1481-5974).

Fournier, V. (2002) Fleshing out gender: Crafting gender identity on women’s bodies, Body & Society, 8(2):55-77. (ISSN:1357-034X).

Fournier, V. and Kelemen, M. (2001) The crafting of community: Recoupling discourses of management and womanhood, Gender, Work & Organization, 8 (3): 267-290 (ISSN: 0968-6673).

Smith, W. and Fournier, V. (2001) The sense of violence and the absence of consolation,  Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies,  7(1): 127-146. (ISSN: 1024-5286).

Lightfoot, G. and Fournier, V. (2000) As condições do cotidiano: Organizando rotinas em negócios familiares, Organizações & Sociedade, 7 (18): 81-98. (ISSN: 1413-585x).

Fournier, V. and Grey, C. (2000) At the critical moment: conditions and prospects for critical management studies, Human Relations, 53 (1): 7-32 (ISSN: 0018-7267).

Fournier, V. (1999) The appeal to ‘professionalism’ as a disciplinary mechanism, The Sociological Review , 47 (2): 280-307. (ISSN: 0038-0261).

Fournier, V. and Grey, C. (1999) Too much, too little and too often: A critique of du Gay’s analysis of enterprise, Organization , 6 (1): 107-128. (ISSN: 1350-5084).

Fournier, V. (1998) Stories of Development and exploitation: Militant voices in an enterprise culture, Organization, 5(1): 55-80. (ISSN: 1350-5084).

Fournier, V. (1997) Graduates’ construction systems and career development, Human Relations, 50 (4): 363-391. (ISSN: 0018-7267).

Fournier, V. (1996) Cognitive maps in the analysis of personal change during work-role transition, British Journal of Management, 7: 87-105.

Fournier, V. and Payne, R. (1994) Change in self-construction during the transition from university to employment: A personal construct psychology approach, Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology, 67: 297-314.

(Co-) Authored Books
Parker, M., Cheney, G. , Fournier, V. and Land, C. (eds.) Routledge Companion to Alternative Organizations, London: Routledge (forthcoming).

Parker, M, Fournier, V and Reedy, P (2007) The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization. London: Zed Books.

Book Chapters

Fournier, V. (2005)  Yes, in C. Jones and D. O’Doherty (eds.)  Organize! Manifestos for the Business School of Tomorrow. Finland: Dvalin, pp. 198-205 (ISBN 952-91-8907 for print version, 952-91-8908-7 for pdf version).

Fournier, V. (2003) Utopianism and Grassroots alternatives, in A. Shostak (ed.) Viable Utopian Ideas: Shaping a better world. Arkmond, NY: Sharpe. (ISBN:0-7656-1105-8).

Fournier, V. (2002) Utopianism and the Cultivation of Possibilities: Grassroots movements of hope, in M. Parker (ed.) Utopia and Organization. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 189-216.(ISBN: 1-4051-0072-9).

Fournier, V. (2002) Keeping the veil of otherness: Practising disconnection, in B. Czarniawska and H. Hopfl (eds.), Casting the Other: The production and maintenance of inequalities in work organizations. London: Routledge, pp. 68-88. (ISBN:0-415-27502-4).

Fournier, V. (2001) Amateurism, Quackery and Professional Conduct: the constitution of ‘proper’ aromatherapy practice, in M. Dent and S. Whitehead (eds.) Managing professional identities: knowledge, performativities and the ‘new’ professional. London: Routledge, pp. 116-137. (ISBN:0-415-23120-5).

Fournier,  V. (2000) Boundary work and the (un-) making of the professions, in N. Malin (ed.) Professionalism, Boundaries and the Workplace,  London: Routledge, pp. 67-86. (ISBN: 0-415-19263-3).

Fournier, V. and Payne, R. (1998) L’utilisation de la grille répertoire pour l’analyse du changement personnel durant l’intégration dans l’organisation, in M. Rousson & L. Thygesen Fischer (eds.), Psychologie du Travail et Tranformations de la Société, Neuchatel, Presses Académiques, pp. 165-181.

Fournier, V. and Lightfoot, G. (1997) Identity work and family business,  in M. Ram, D. Deakins and D. Smallborne (eds.), Small firms: Enterprising futures, London, Chapman, pp.22-32.

Fournier, V. (1997) The emancipation of the self: post-modern and PCP versions, in P. Denicolo and M. Pope (eds.), Sharing understanding and practice, Reading,  EPCA publications, pp. 50—61.

Fournier V. (1995) Personal change following organisational entry: From a role-person fit model to a personal construct framework, in R. A. Neimeyer and G. Neimeyer (eds.), Advances in Personal Construct Psychology, Third Volume,  Greenwich, Co., JAI Press, pp. 133-192.

Book Reviews

Fournier, V. (2005) Gift, She Said, Review of Genevieve Vaughan (ed.), 2004, The Gift, Il Dono: A Feminist Analysis. Rome: Meltemi editore, Ephemera, (5) 4: 655-661 (ISSN: 1473-2866).

Fournier, V. Review of D. Gellner and E. Hirsch (eds.), 2001, Inside Organizations: Anthropologists at work, Sociology.

Fournier, V. (2002) Review of Alvesson M. and Deetz S, 2000, Doing Critical Management Research, Organization , 9(1): 176-179.

Fournier, V. (2002) Review of Alston M., 2000, Breaking through the glass ceiling: women, power and leadership in agricultural organisations, Scandinavian Journal of Management Studies, 18: 116-119.

Fournier, V. (1998) Review of Halford, Savage and Witz, 1997, Gender, Careers and Organisations: Current developments in Banking, Nursing and Local Government, The Sociological Review, 46/2: 372-376.

Fournier, V. (1997) Review of Itzin and Newman ‘s, 1995, Gender, culture and organizational change: putting theory into practice, The Sociological Review, 45/1: 171-174.

Translation

Fournier, V., Virtanen, A. and Vähämäki, J. (2004), translation of M. Lazzarato, From Capital-Labour to Capital-Life, Ephemera 4(3): 187-208 (ISSN: 1473-2866).

Discussion Papers

Smith, W. and Fournier, V. (2000) The Sense of Violence and the absence of consolation, Discussion Papers in Management and Organization Studies n. 00/13, Management Centre, University of Leicester (ISSN: 1461-6017).

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