La théorie enracinée a été initialement développée pour proposer une alternative aux méthodes hypothético-déductives, qui formaient le courant majeur de la sociologie des années 1960, en visant à créer de nouvelles connaissances en se fondant sur les pratiques sociales. Face à...

This papers aims at understanding the role of sense when actors improvise during crisis. Literature about improvisation show little explanation of how individual improvisation becomes collective and coherent. The use of the concept of sense as a bridge between crisis and improvisation enable us...

This papers looks at the concept of sense to tackle management and organization science questions. It discusses the theoretical and methodological basis of the concept of sense to provide a new framework to study sense in organizational research. The interested of the new framework is tested in...

We investigate the link between the regulation of control transactions and the institutional and corporate features of public companies, by analyzing the massive delisting activity in the Romanian capital market. The peculiar ownership reforms involving a large number of listed companies offer a...

Since Richard Laughlin presented his PhD dissertation in 1984, numerous pieces of research have purported to address the linkages between accounting and religion. In 1986, Hoskin and Macve incidentally evoked the Roman Catholic Church as a discoverer of double entry bookkeeping. In 2004 and in...

Given an argumentation framework and a group of agents, the individuals may have divergent opinions on the status of the arguments. If the group needs to reach a common po- sition on the argumentation framework, the question is how the individual evaluations can be mapped into a collective one....