The objective of this article is to show how French constructivist research in management is undertaken. Thus, an analysis of sixteen constructivist doctoral dissertations is proposed. The difficulty of this epistemological posture is underlined and then discussed, thanks to the analysis of the...

The purpose of this article is to specify the nature of a critical activity in the field of strategy. While post-procedural researches offered alternatives to conventional strategy, they do not really fit to a critical theory of strategic management. Building on a literature review in critical...

Adopting an historical perspective, we propose to study the way recurrent debates regarding the “excessive speculation” category on financial derivatives markets, take various shapes at different points in time. We consider that history does not repeat itself, at least not in the exact way....

In this paper, we examine how categorization is resisted. We analyze the way organizations draw on industry registers to resist or adapt to changes that will potentially alter the definition and nature of the markets in which they compete. We approach this question through a qualitative study of...

Bien que son oeuvre ait été pendant longtemps négligée, Mary Parker Follett apparaît comme l'une des premières grandes théoriciennes des organisations. Auteur au carrefour de la philosophie, du droit, de la psychologie, des sciences politiques, elle développe une conception de...