In a recent contribution to this journal, Arjaliès (J Bus Ethics 92:57–78, 2010) suggests that the emergence of socially responsible investment (SRI) in France can be best described as a social movement with a collective identity that aimed to challenge the dominant logic of the financial...

The organizational literature on emerging industries has emphasized the need for institutional entrepreneurs - actors who give the new activity legitimacy and determine its patterns of behaviour. However, little empirical research has been carried out on the strategies that institutional...

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...