In the context of enterprise responsibility, some refer to social Responsibility alone, whereas others make a distinction with regard to Societal Responsibility. By Societal is meant : "what concerns the structure, the organization, the functioning of society". This distinction is the...

This paper studies the elements which can explain the transformations of the concept of non profit sector after the French Revolution from 1789 to 1898. Our analysis is grounded on the study of economic thought as well as economic and social facts. Two periods are defined. From 1789 to 1898, the...

This anthology consists of a collection of articles that address two common questions : how institutions emerge from individual actions and how individual actions are shaped by institutions ? What unifies these contributions is the search of a theoretical explanation that overcomes the...

This paper tries to explain how the confrontation between economic liberalism, politic liberalism and civil liberalism, from 1789 to 1901, leads to transform the way of thinking of the non profit sector.