D’Adam Smith à Harrison White, la concurrence a été vue comme principalement oligopolistique et le milieu social sous-jacent a été conçu comme ayant une importance essentielle dans ce type de concurrence. Il existe des nterdépendances entre entrepreneurs concurrents, ainsi qu’une...

In this dissertation, we analyze the social construction of a market of TV programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Based on the study of a trade fair where buyers (TV channels, distribution intermediaries) and sellers of TV programs (studios, distributors and independent producers) can meet, negotiate,...

This thesis consists of two parts : Part I was inspired by the work produced by Norbert Elias. It shows how the habitus of French young people is marked by the conflict between short-term and long-term logics (dependency to social status and the pressure for success) leading to a “dodging”...

This paper argues that cooperation among competitors is facilitated by social processes (among others: learning, bounded solidarity, social control, regulation) that can be modelled using network analyses. Entrepreneurs get involved in social exchanges and these exchanges require relational...

Social oversight and regulation of entrepreneurial and commercial activities have always involved an unbalanced three-way competition for influence between the State, the business world (companies and their institutional representatives) and consumers. This struggle is growing more intense in a...

Businesses are usually very keen to participate in the governance of their markets (Lazega and Mounier, 2002, 2003; Falconi et al., 2005). In this chapter, we combine a sociological perspective on joint governance of markets with an economic perspective, such as that of Dixit (2009) that deals with...

Cet article examine les caractéristiques du régime consulaire de contrôle social des marchés en s’appuyant sur une étude du fonctionnement du tribunal de commerce de Paris, une institution créée au xvie siècle. L’examen du raisonnement pragmatique des juges de l’économie et son...

Cet article explore la polynormativité contemporaine du contrôle social des marchés en la reliant à l’origine professionnelle des 151 juges consulaires du Tribunal de commerce de Paris (2005-2006). Le commentaire jurisprudentiel des juges sur trois cas d’espèce où ils disposent d’un...