This paper provides fieldwork evidence, which solidifies an emerging view in literature, regarding the limitations of the panoptical metaphor in informing meaningfully and productively the analysis of contemporary surveillance and control. Our thesis is that the panopticon metaphor, which...

This study analyses the degree to which change in the organizational context, content and location (both of the individual within the organization and the organization within the field) of professional work has contributed to variation in attitudes toward professional ideology and institutions....

1This paper draws on Bourdieu's sociolinguistic theory to interpret the overrepresentation of Anglophone accountants vis-a-vis Francophone comptables in the formative years of North America's first professional accounting association. In a linguistic market, where English was taken for granted...

A travers une étude de cas exploratoire menée en 2005-2006 dans un cabinet d'avocats d'affaires français, notre objectif est de proposer une grille d'analyse permettant de comprendre comment l'utilisation d'un système de knowledge management peut transformer le mode de production des...

Dismissal is a major issue for distributive justice at work, because it normally has a drastic impact on an employee’s livelihood, self-esteem and future career. This article examines distributive justice under the US’s employment-at-will (EAW) system and New Zealand’s just-cause dismissal...

Union security has long been an industrial relations controversy. While compulsory unionism supporters say it benefits the working class, right-to-work advocates denounce it as an unethical infringement of individual rights and freedom. Unfortunately, neither side has adequately addressed the...

This paper seeks to better understand interdisciplinary movements in the making. Our investigation focuses on the processes through which a network of support surrounding Michel Foucault's ideas originally developed in the sociological and organizational stream of accounting research. Drawing on...

Purpose –This paper aims to better understand why neoliberal governance is so resilient to the crises that frequently affect all or part of the economy. Design/methodology/approach -The argument of this paper relies on a macroanalysis of discourses surrounding the Global Financial Crisis....

Ce manuscrit vise à mieux comprendre la façon dont les organismes de mesure de la performance socio-environnementale légitiment leur nouvelle pratique. En se basant sur certains éléments de la sociologie de la traduction, la présente étude cherche à explorer, notamment, les stratégies...