Our research focuses on the SNCF company. With 160,000 workers, SNCF is a bureaucratic structure (Weber, 1971; Mintzberg, 1982; Alter, 1995, 1996) facing the challenge of openness to competition. We analyse the participative innovation routine that has deeply changed since the 1990s, whereas a routine...

This article as a sequel to Song (1995), 'Adam Smith as an early pioneer of institutional individualism', aims to depict what Smith's conception of social relations of production looks like, and draws a tentative conclusion that when grasped in the whole context of Smith's system of social...

This paper seeks to analyse ecological modernisation using a focus on how bureaucracy contributes to constituting ecological modernities in the case of organic food trade in the UK and India. Ecological modernisation is a way for business to apply ecological technologies to satisfy the demands...

This research addresses a simple question: what becomes of charismatic CEOs once they have reached their apogee? Building on some neglected aspects of Max Weber’s analysis of charisma and the work done by Janice Beyer on charismatic leadership, this paper offers two contributions. First, it...

Warum Handlungsbeschreibungen in Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Theorien und Disziplinen ein hohes Konfliktpotential bergen und welche Aufgabe und Form Handlungsbeschreibungen in soziologischen Erklaerungen haben, wird im Folgenden diskutiert. Dazu wird an die verstehend-erklaerende Soziologie...