This paper analyzes the reasons why some institutional entrepreneurship strategies failed to translate an institution while other succeeded, by paying a specific attention to the interaction between material and discursive dimensions in the translation process. A theoretical framework...

This paper proposes to confront theoretical and professional perspectives on corporate social responsibility (CSR), which is the subject of renewed interest by both academics and practitioners. After outlining the conceptual bases and showing the strategic importance of social dimensions in the...

Cette contribution se propose de confronter le point de vue théorique et le point de vue des praticiens sur le concept de responsabilité sociétale des entreprises (RSE). Après avoir esquissé les fondements théoriques et montré l’importance stratégique des dimensions sociétales de la...

This dissertation gives an account of a study of the emergence of socially responsible investment in France. We adopt an interpretative and qualitative approach. The research aims at understanding the process favouring the integration of socially responsible investment within financial market....

We identify three topics in the research area : the analyse of ethical funds performance, the use of corporate social disclosure and the analyse of psychological aspects of responsible investors. This survey shows the need of explaining the theoretical aspect of these studies because they are...

Les chercheurs néo-institutionnalistes se sont attachés récemment à intégrer la question du pouvoir dans leur corpus théorique. Pourtant, la plupart de ces travaux se focalisent sur le volontarisme des acteurs et sur la manière dont ils manipulent les institutions. Notre papier offre un...

La plupart des travaux récents sur la diffusion internationale des institutions se sont intéressés à la manière dont les pratiques se diffusaient globalement et sur la façon d'éviter l'affrontement avec les institutions locales en place, en adaptant ces pratiques. Ce faisant, aucun de ces...

The rise of modern corporations has been accompanied by an expansion of salaried executives who have replaced owner-managers. With this expansion, the new class of managers/executives came to regard themselves as stewards of large and complex corporations, and not principally or exclusively as...