N° 109 - September 2012

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Editorial: Pascal LEFEBVRE

OVERLOOKED

Dolphins and sharks: Flipper, Jaws, Orca
David GUTMANN and Michaël GUTMANN

The relational theory of contracts and the governance of interfirm relations: on Ian MACNEIL's work
Matthieu MANDARD

TRIAL BY FACT

Charismatic leadership and management's powerlessness: a small company's collapse
Vincent CALVEZ

The industrialization of health and management of the unknown: the "work of articulation" in the operating room, determinants and obstacles
Stéphanie GENTIL

IN  QUEST OF  THEORIES

Why are firms now recognized as socially responsable?
Julie BASTIANUTTI and Hervé UMEZ

OTHER TIMES, OTHER PLACES

The emergence of interindustry word groups: the lunar society in 18th-century England
Marine AGOGUÉ

When a firm replaces wolunteers with professionals: the history of camif's volunteer network
Benoît DEMIL and Xavier WEPPE

MOSAICS

Alain BURLAUD:
"Capitalism, a god without a bible" - Ideas taken for granted about the dominant economic model:
On Jean-Michel Saussois’s “Capitalisme – Un dieu sans bible” – Idées reçues sur le modèle économique dominant
(Éditions Le Cavalier Bleu, 2011, 167p.)

Anne-Lise MITHOUT:
Management and its subject, between subjectivity and sujection:
On “Le management est-il “hors sujet”?, a special issue of Nouvelle Revue de Psychosociologie edited by Gilles Arnaud and Maryse Dubouloy

Madina RIVA:
Accountancy and control, from disciplinary education to societal lessons
On Comptabilité, contrôle et société (Mélanges en l’honneur du professeur Alain Burlaud) edited by Christian Hoarau, Jean-Louis Malo and Claude Simon
(Vanves: Foucher, 2011, 413p)

Michel VILLETTE:
Is ethics too subtle to be left up to businessmen?
On two books by Alain Anquetil: Qu’est-ce-que l’éthique des affaires? and Éthique des affaires, marché, règle et responsabilité
(Paris: Éditions Vrin, 2008 and 2011 respectively).