Visiting PhD candidate from University of Lorraine

The University of Edinburgh Business School’s Centre for Accounting and Society (CAS) are delighted to be hosting a visiting PhD Candidate. Sarah Maire, from France’s University of Lorraine, is currently in her 3rd year and being supervised by Professor Sébastien Liarte.

Her research focuses on the coexistence of accountability and religious institutional logics and explores the case of Scouts and Guides in France.

She is exploring the fact that the organisation incorporates demands from different institutional logics, yet avoids conflicts, and questions this coexistence’s impact on the organisation and its functioning. Coexistence’s stakes of institutional logics with divergent demands are not limited at an organisational functioning question. This coexistence also questions the relationship between practices and materiality of each logic. How do we match them? Adapt them?

To do so, Sarah uses different kind of data including reports, intern organisation’s journal for volunteers, annual calendars and supports training, all from 1975 to 2015. She has also, to date, conducted 11 semi-structured interviews, with people in charge at each level of this organisation (local, regional and national), volunteers and employees. This participant observation is ongoing. So, following the identification of logics and their practices and materiality, Sarah is looking to analyse their interactions to figure out the way they coexist together to avoid conflicts or the organisation’s paralysis.

She is visiting Edinburgh until 18 December.