Part I. The meaning of work: Adam's curse -- Why we work -- The problem with perfection -- Part II. The purposeful human organization: The tyranny of shareholder value -- The business of building cathedrals -- Putting a noble purpose to work -- How to turn around a business without everyone...

Purpose – Women in public accounting firms are still proportionally much fewer in number in the highest levels of the hierarchy than men, whereas recruitment at junior level tends to be increasingly gender‐balanced. This paper aims to analyse the relationships between the glass ceiling and...

This paper studies the process by which a change in the institutional logic of an organisational field diffuses through the management control system of a firm.

Care of the self, a technique for governing the individual in society, proves to be equally a control technique for the individual in the firm. In a firm dedicated to the cult of beauty, there is a blurring of the lines between employee and consumer individual. This blurring makes care of the...