Les années 2000 sont celles du web 2.0 interactif et de l’essor des réseaux sociaux. Se profilent aujourd’hui les applications de géolocalisation, la mobiquité, l’intelligence ambiante, l’essor du web 3.0… Les médias et les nouveaux médias sont en mutation et participent de...

Institutional maintenance is particularly intriguing when it occurs in the case of technological shifts, with both changes in technologies but persistence in fundamental ways of thinking. In such a case, artefacts may play a significant role, since they are impacted by new technologies but may...

In this paper, we examine the issue of how certain actors tend to maintain institutionalized elements, in spite of significant technological and social change. In particular, we focus on the notion of artifacts, which represent one type of institutional carriers, but mostly overlooked in the...

L’objet de cet article est de proposer un cadre de travail original permettant de poser les fondements théoriques d’une « politique de sécurité », ce terme désignant une allocation des ressources par la puissance publique ayant une incidence sur le niveau d’insécurité. Nous...

We examine the empirical relationship between immigration and crime across Italian provinces during the period 1990-2003. Drawing on police administrative records, we first document that the size of the immigrant population is positively correlated with the incidence of property crimes and with...

Purpose – Brand management systems (BMSs) are of prime importance for brands to monitor effective brand management and enhance firms' performance. The existing scales take various conceptual bases and sometimes eliminate some dimensions, depending on the sector of activity. Based on praxis and...

On the basis of an in depth analysis of the flow of revenues within the music industry and of the emerging practices, we attempt to understand the logic at play in the current evolution of the structure of the industry. We claim that the record companies used to play a role that was useful for...

Brand management contributions to performance are regularly questioned by CEOs. A few studies tried to assess the impact of brand management systems (BMSs) upon brand performance while there are still issues about the reliability and validity of the scale across business sectors. This study...