In this paper, I offer an ethnographic approach of the involvement of public services user in the shaping of public management reform. Drawing on a two years fieldwork in a French organization dedicated to the definition of administrative simplification reforms, I argue that this emerging set of...

Sonenshein based his Sensmaking-Intuition Model of ethical decision on a critical approach the rational models. In his model, sens-making for the ethical issue construction and the intuitive process of decision are the central articulations. But the model doesn't give a clear definition of...

This paper is the first to draw a global picture of worldwide microfinance equity by taking full advantage of daily quoted prices. We revisit previous findings showing that investors should consider microfinance as a self-standing sector. Our results are threefold. First, microfinance has become...

This paper considers an international sample of conventional and Islamic mutual funds to assess whether law, culture, and political risk affect the performance and risk-taking behavior of mutual funds. Overall, the results show strongly that legal conditions, culture, and political risk have...

The paper addresses the theoretical and methodological challenges of doing ethnographic work in a political crisis context. Using ethnographic data gathered at the Union Générale Tunisienne du Travail (UGTT), the biggest union organization in the country on three specific episodes (December...

This article aims at synthesizing the body of research that deals with regulatory focus, a concept that has captured the attention of a growing number of marketing researchers in the last few years, particularly because of the new perspective it brings to motivation. After introducing Higgins's...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with numerous cardiovascular (CV) complications. The objective of this study was to estimate the national annual burden of CV complications in patients with AF in hospitals.

Three dimensions characterize a management control system: the nature of the involvement of operational managers, the degree of customization of the underlying tools and the relationship with the compensation policy. This characterization further formalizes the distinction between diagnostic and...