L’investissement est une des décisions de l’entreprise qui recouvre de nombreux aspects, parmi lesquels la finance et la stratégie. Des recherches récentes sont parvenues à opérer un rapprochement fécond. Pourtant, les schémas de pensée restent extrêmement normatifs alors que les...

This paper addresses investment procedures as a mediating instrument (Miller & O’Leary, 2007). We bring to light how normative social roles are created by procedures, focusing on their very form (Goody, 1977; 1986; 2000; Norman, 1991; 1993; Phillips & Hardy, 2002; Phillips, Lawrence & Hardy, 2004). Using a content...

L’étude longitudinale de treize cas d’investissement dans l’industrie française de l’aluminium, de 1890 à 1990, menée selon la méthode critique de l’histoire apporte un éclairage nouveau sur l’évaluation du risque lors du choix d’investissement. L’instrumentation en usage...

The investment procedure prescribes the stages and tests through which all investment projects must pass before being accepted or not. It governs the conditions of acceptability and constitutes a powerful device of a priori control. In this paper, we intend to understand how investment...

The investment procedure prescribes the stages and tests through which all investment projects must pass before being accepted or not. It governs the conditions of acceptability and constitutes a powerful device of a priori control. In this paper, we intend to understand how investment...

The longitudinal study of 13 investment decisions in the French aluminium industry, from 1890 to 1990, offers a new outlook for the risk evaluation in investment choice. Measurement tools form the main development in investment literature. However, they must be considered in a larger context...

The investment procedure prescribes the stages and tests through which all investment projects must pass before being accepted or not. It governs the conditions of acceptability and constitutes a powerful device of a priori control. In this paper, we intend to understand how investment...

Investment decision is one of those which covers many aspects of firm management especially finance and strategy. Recent research shows how close finance and strategy are. However, research rationales are still very normative even though practices seem to abandon proposed tools. A longitudinal...

This paper addresses investment procedures as a mediating instrument (Miller & O’Leary, 2007). We bring to light how normative social roles are created by procedures, focusing on their very form (Goody, 1977; 1986; 2000; Norman, 1991; 1993; Phillips & Hardy, 2002; Phillips, Lawrence & Hardy, 2004). Using a content...

investment decision is one of those which recovers many aspects of firms management especially fi-nance and strategy. Recent researches have led to a rich closeness between those aspects. However, research ra-tionales are still very normative even though practices seem to abandon proposed tools....