The omnipresence of professional experts in the debates and marketing strategies about movies raises the question of the proximity of their judgments with those of the ordinary consumers. Two theoretical perspectives compete on this matter: that of the divergence or convergence of tastes. Based...

The goal of our research is to gain a better understanding of organizational death, by looking at it as a process. This topic of research, with such an apprroach, is not very common in the litterature. The topic of organizational decline has received very little attention from researchers in...

Postmodernism has received much more attention in anglo-saxon litterature on organizations than in french-speaking research. Referring here to Postmodernism as a style of thinking, we discuss about the nature of the postmodern proposition in organization studies. Postmodern research proposes new...

Today, classical art institutions are highly involved in finding a new way to enlarge their public and to modernize their brand image as they are stressed by a extensive competition. As a result, they explore how relevant would be to implement new strategies showing to their public new art...

We examine in this paper the issue of how institutions are maintained and the role of agency in this process. We investigate more specifically the efforts of actors to maintain the institutional order through discourse. We approach this issue through an in-depth and longitudinal study of...

The authors argue that it is possible to break the demand for films into two types: the underlying demand accounted for by audiences’ behaviours owing to events outside the film industry (vacations, climate, etc.); and demand due to the agglomeration of supply by studios due to release dates...

Les Musées de France ont pris une place de plus en plus importante au sein des pratiques culturelles et touristiques. De nouveaux modes d’accès à la culture – désormais mondialisée – encouragent une gouvernance patrimoniale qui tente de conjuguer convergence numérique et...

From its inception in France at the end of the 20th century with the operetta, musical theatre came to captivate Anglo-Saxon audiences, to the extent that it has shaped the identity of certain areas of London (the West End) and New York (Broadway); meanwhile, the genre fell from favour with...

L’institution, par définition, reflète une notion de persistance. Elle cadre durablement la pratique des acteurs à travers un ensemble d’éléments réglementaires, normatifs et cognitifs. Par ailleurs, cette persistance n’est pas le résultat d’un pur effet institutionnel. Elle...