N° 77 - September 2004

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Editorial par Francis LEFEBVRE

Secrétaire général du Comité de rédaction

AN ELECTRIC DEBATE

The coming of competition to French households: Shedding light on the debate

Frédérique PALLEZ
ENSMP
and
Francis PAVE
Centre de Sociologie des Organisations (CSO) - ESPC

A century of government interventions in the electricity sector in France

François-Mathieu POUPEAU
Chargé de recherches CNRS

A central purchasing department : A new assignment for SIPPEREC ? An interview with SIPPEREC

by Frédérique Pallez and Francis Pavé

Five years of opening the electricity market in Germany: An assessment

Adrien FENDER
Doctorant

The privatization of the electricity industry in the United Kingdom

Guillaume FERNET
CREDIT CONTROL MANAGER EDF ENERGY

Is the customer king on the English electricity market ? A testimony

Nicolas OTT
Elève de l'école Polytechnique

What place for French local authorities in electricity ?

François-Mathieu POUPEAU
Chargé de recherche CNRS au Laboratoire Techniques
Territoires et Sociétés (LATTS)

MOSAICS

Hervé LAROCHE :
Heroism in organizations: On James March’s courses edited and annotated by Thierry Weil in Le leadership dans les organisations.

Frédérique Pallez :
From the public to the traveler in the Paris subway: On Isaac Joseph’s Météor ou les métamorphoses du métro.

Vincent Mangematin :
In praise of organizational and strategic tinkering: On Claude Michaud and Jean-Claude Thoenig’s Stratégie et sociologie de l'entreprise.

Bernard Colasse :
The secret charms of bookkeeping : On Nicolas Véron, Matthieu Autret and Alfred Galichon’s L'information financière en crise: Comptabilité et capitalisme.

Olivier Lenay :
Confidence, a federating or a fashionable? On Vincent Mangematin and Christian Thuderoz’s (eds.) Des mondes de confiance: Un concept à l'épreuve de la réalité sociale.

OTHER TIMES, OTHER PLACES

Was the adoption of mechanical data-processing at the end of the 19th century rational ?

Jean-Louis PEAUCELLE
Université de la Réunion

OVERLOOKED

The international influence of French research in management, an analysis on the basis of publications in SSCI journals (1991-2002)

Vincent MANGEMATIN
INRA, Université Pierre Mendes France

Toward ratings for academics? An invitation to a debate
Michel Berry

The limits of measures of impact, a reply to Vincent Mangematin
Armand Hatchuel