Over the last few decades the field of organization studies has expanded rapidly. It has come to cover almost any social process within the realm of formal organizations. It has imported a great many new theories and ideas from other social sciences such as institutionalism, network theory or...

For more than 20 years the Nordic scholars have been major contributors to the advancement of knowledge in orgganization studies. Four aspects are considered: they are both global oriented and locally embedded, they combine disciplinary roots with interdisciplinary openess, they are functioning...

Integration appears among the core concepts of organizational theories, which have supported the progresses of social sciences. Faced to difficulties in collective actions, researchers and managers have been thoroughly studying the levers for action, in search of the key conditions for unity,...

Public institutions are organized configurations which are prone to institutionalization processes. They reflect as well as produce and diffuse valuues, norms, cognitions, meanings and identities about life and evolution of society, polity or economy. The text covers a set of theories which...

Firms such as Ikea, First Direct, Apple or Royal Canin think and act in an unconventional way. They build up new societal and economic territories around emerging cultural and social wants and trends. They use a proactive marking approach. They coopt outside stake holders and put the emphasis...

This text identifies the process and the major contributions made by political scientists and sociologists since the mid-1900s about policymaking, governmental action and public collective action. It also suggests new challenges and a strong need for middle level theories grounded on rigorous...

Since the late 1990s social science-based studies have allocated much less attention to public organizations. Based on the sixth Organization Studies summer workshop, this introductory paper suggests a diagnosis of such a decline as well as a research agenda. It lists some fundamental issues...

Organizations are cognitive actors. They build languages for action taking to interpret and make sense. How are such shared languages build, adapted and managed? What consequences do they induce in business and interrelational terms? How to study them? An in-depth study of two MNCs provides...