We propose a theory to manage the relation between strategic choice, chance and inevitability. To do so, we locate arguments in intellectual history and complexity science that have a clear bearing on this relation, and suggest that strategic choice, chance and inevitability are reciprocally...

This work is a doctoral research‘s summary. The purpose of this research is to propose and illustrate the self-congruity theory by studying the relationship between body aspects of the consumer and « body » aspects of a product Design. The empirical area was the physical shape of the bottle...

This paper gives an account of a study of the emergence of SRI in France. This research aims at understanding the process favouring the integration of SRI within financial market. We focus on the role of mutual funds. The interpretation is elaborated with legitimacy theory, more precisely with...

What is the impact of voluntary corporate environmental disclosures on the cost of equity? The present study will attempt to answer this question. The empirical research is based on companies listed in the French SBF 120 stock market index. In 2006, most of these companies devoted a section of...

Until recently, the field of strategy has neglected the question of what it means to be a strategist. Based on an analysis of 68 interviews with strategy practitioners, our results highlight four main tensions that emerge from strategists' discourses on strategizing work: the social tension, the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the contours of the emerging business education and institutions in a multi-polar world and to identify the causes of the strategic convergence of management education, to explore the limitations of the dominant models of management education...

This paper presents a theoretical model of remanufacturing where a duopoly of original manufacturers produces a component of a final good. The specific component that needs to be replaced during the lifetime of the final good creates a secondary market where independent remanufacturers enter the...