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OVERLOOKED

Increasing the innovative capabilities of medium-sized companies: the case of Matfer Bourgeat

Tony Da Motta Cerveira,
director of innovation at Matfer Bourgeat,
and
Christophe Midler,
research director, CNRS, Centre de Recherche en Gestion, École polytechnique

The process of constructing a project for producing electricity from wind power in Haute Saintonge and its social unacceptability

Béatrice Canel-Depitre,
NIMEC, Le Havre University

Between noise and silence, engineering a dialog about work: Maintenance projects in a high-risk industry

Mathieu Detchessahar, Stéphanie Gentil, Anouk Grevin and Benoît Journé,
Nantes University (IAE ‒ LEMNA, Laboratoire d’Économie et de Management de Nantes)

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TRIAL BY FACT

A study on the hidden virtues of being late: A sociological view of the strategic use of time pressures in organizations

Denis JEAMBRUN

When for-profit and non-profit organizations try to cooperate: The hard quest to find common objectives

Emmanuelle Dutertre,
adjunct professor at ESSCA, École de Management;
and
Bernard Jullien,
associate professor at Bordeaux University and scientific advisor of the chair on distribution and automobile services at ESSCA, École de Management

IN QUEST OF A THEORY

Firms: The loyalty of employees and their freedom of speech on the social media

Brigitte Pereira,
Laboratoire Métis, EM Normandie

OTHER TIMES, OTHER PLACES

Supplely regulating nuclear risks: The origins of a French exception (1960-1985)

Michaël Mangeon,
Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN) and Mines ParisTech, PSL Research University, Centre de Gestion Scientifique, i3 UMR CNRS;
and
Frédérique Pallez,
Mines ParisTech, PSL Research University, Centre de Gestion Scientifique, i3 UMR CNRS

Supplely regulating nuclear risks: A testimony

Pierre Messulam,
assistant general manager, Transilien-SNCF

MOSAICS

Guillaume Chappuis, Haute École de Gestion Arc (Neuchâtel), HES-SO: The ethics of consent: Ricoeur in management territory: On Pierre-Olivier Monteil’s, Éthique et philosophie du management (Toulouse: Éditions Érès, 2016)

Damien Collard and Rachel Boichot, Franche-Comté University: Psychosocial risks in organizations and workplace health: On Yves Clot’s, Travail et pouvoir d’agir (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2017)

Yasmine Saleh, PhD in managerial science, Observatoire de l’Innovation Managériale, Cercle de l’Innovation (Fondation Paris-Dauphine): Four roads to discovering management’s cultural dimension: On Pierre Dupriez and Blandine Vanderlinden’s (eds.), Au coeur de la dimension culturelle du management (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2017)

Jacques Sarrazin, Lindsay Goldberg: What should big groups do to survive start-ups in general and “unicorns” in particular? On Jean-Louis Beffa’s, Se transformer ou mourir. Les grands groupes face aux start-ups (Paris: Seuil, 2017)

Jérôme Tubiana, director, Danone Group: The jubilee of the sociology of organizations: The special, 50th-anniversary issue of the journal Entreprise et Histoire (Entreprises et Histoire, 84, september 2016, Éditions Eska)