N° 115 March 2014

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Editorial: Pascal LEFEBVRE

DEBATED

Language and thought in the field of research in management: Observations, issues and advantages of the French language

Jean-François Chanlat,
professor at the University of Paris-Dauphine

Publish… and perish!

Sylvie Chevrier,
professor at the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée and assistant director of the Institut de Recherche en Gestion (IRG)

OVERLOOKED…

MOOCs (massive open online courses) between myth and reality

Philippe Durance,
professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), researcher at the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Sciences de l’Action (LIRSA) and president of the Institut des Futurs Souhaitables (IFs)

The obstacles to managing psychosocial risks: Four exploratory approaches

Wim Van Wassenhove,
associate researcher at CRC – Mines ParisTech

Academic institutions coping with deviant behavior in the student body: The case of a French business school

Safwan Mchawrab,
associate professor at the Grenoble École de Management
Aurélien Rouquet,
professor at NEOMA Business School – CMAC and member of CRET-LOG (Aix-Marseille University)
and
Jean-Baptiste Suquet,
professor at NEOMA Business School – CMAC and member of the Institut de Recherche en Gestion (IRG) at the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée

TRIAL BY FACT

Against the thesis of the commodification of the social sphere: The example of handicapped workers in establishments and services of aid through work (ESAT)

Benoit Cret,
senior lecturer in sociology at IFROSS (University of Jean-Moulin Lyon 3)
and
Guillaume Jaubert,
research engineer at IFROSS (University of Jean-Moulin Lyon 3)

IN QUEST OF THEORIES

For a useful sociology: The sociology of interventions

Denis Bernardeau Moreau
(University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, ACP laboratory

MOSAÏQUE

Pascal Fugier,
Laboratoire de Changement Social et Politique (LCSP, Centre de Sociologie des Pratiques et des Représentations Politiques – CSPRP) at the University of Paris Diderot-Paris 7:
On ordinary violence inside organizations: On Gilles Herreros’ La violence ordinaire dans les organisations. Plaidoyer pour des organisations réflexives (Toulouse: Éditions Érès, 2012)

Yannick Lemarchand,
professor emeritus in management at LEMNA, University of Nantes:
Reimagining business history: On Philip Scranton and Patrick Fridenson’s Reimagining business history (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2013)

Christophe Vignon,
Kedge Business School, Marseille – CERGAM:
Resisting is surviving — a call for white-collars to resist: On Jean-Philippe Bouilloud’s Entre l’enclume et le marteau. Les cadres pris au piège (Paris: Seuil, 2012)