Many studies illustrate the increasing power of financial officers in organisations, as related to a universal and inevitable process of financialisation. Through an ethnographic study, we tried to analyse concrete impacts on daily practices of this trend. We showed that the trajectory of...

The history of the tableau de bord in France has never really been written. This paper sets out to draw up a history using the archives of three large industrial companies - Lafarge, Pechiney and Saint-Gobain - as source material. This paper seeks to revisit the myth of the French tableau de...

Dauphine Recherches en management (UMR 7088 du CNRS), centre de recherche en sciences de gestion, propose dans cet ouvrage un regard pluriel et actuel sur le monde des entreprises en France et dans le monde. Parmi les sujets traités : la crise financière, les programmes de réduction de...

Social requirements concerning corporate social responsibility focus on transparency and harmlessness of firm activities: a factory or a quarry must be invisible, odorless, and silent. Firms must show that they respect those requirements in order to gain legitimacy. They must change invisibility...

This paper addresses investment procedures as a mediating instrument (Miller & O’Leary, 2007). We bring to light how normative social roles are created by procedures, focusing on their very form (Goody, 1977; 1986; 2000; Norman, 1991; 1993; Phillips & Hardy, 2002; Phillips, Lawrence & Hardy, 2004). Using a content...