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Editorial: Francis LEFEBVRE

Secrétaire général du Comité de rédaction

TESTIFYING

A single-company man

Bertrand Collomb, president of the Groupe Lafarge, interviewed by Bernard Colasse and Francis Pavé

OVERLOOKED

Probability theory and practices in industry: The hard start of statistical quality controls in France

Denis Bayart,
Centre de recherche en gestion - École polytechnique

DEBATED

Do you speak English or Globish?

Jean-Paul Nerrière
ancien vice-président de Digital Equipment Europe,
directeur commercial d’Automobiles Peugeot,
vice-président d’IBM USA

OTHER TIMES, OTHER PLACES

Yesteryear’s monasteries and today’s firms: Human resource management in Cluny from the 10th to the 12th century

Jean Nizet
Universite Catholique de Louvain

MOSAICS

A temple of the law : on Bruno LATOUR, La fabrique du droit - Une ethnographie du Conseil d’État
Claude Riveline

Privy to steering committees : on Nicolas Flamant, Une anthropologie des managers, Prix Ressources Humaines - 2003
Hervé Laroche

In the land where money is king : on Émile Zola, L’Argent, 1891 and Jean-Marie Messier (with Yves Messarovitch), Mon Vrai Journal.
Dominique Jacquet

DEBATED

Virtual transactions, a question of confidence

A debate presided by Gérard Moatti and edited by Jean-Paul Schaer

TRIAL BY FACTS

The judge, the economist and telephone-users: The pricing of local area calls

Daniel Fixari,
CGS, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris