We examine in this paper the issue of how institutions are maintained and the role of agency in this process. We investigate more specifically the efforts of actors to maintain the institutional order through discourse. We approach this issue through an in-depth and longitudinal study of...

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...

En France, le financement de l'enseignement supérieur est majoritairement public. Dans le même temps, les modes de financement de nombreux pays ont évolué vers une plus grande participation des étudiants aux coûts de leurs études pour des raisons d'efficacité économique et d'équité....