The application of the reduction of working time (ARTT) constitutes a factor of development on a large scale for both individuals and organisations in French firms. This research attempts to improve our understanding of the ARTT agreements and to evaluate their impacts on the development of...

As information and communication technology is being integrated in work-related practices, questions arise about how it is molding not only work but also social and human interactions inside organizations.

Materiality and Space focuses on how organizations and managing are bound with the material forms and spaces through which humans act and interact at work. It concentrates on organizational practices and pulls together three separate domains that are rarely looked at together: sociomateriality,...

Companies don’t want to be indebted because of what their employees give to them : the beauty of collective skills and commitment. Though, they refuse to celebrate, to acknowledge that gift. But a careful analysis of exchanges shows that they don’t always resist to the appeal of those goods....

Many OECD countries are aiming to reform their tertiary education (TE) systems. This work explores the determinants of the investment in TE, with a focus on institutional setting of TE systems and private incentives to undertake years of schooling beyond upper-secondary degree level. For this...

The purpose of this article is to discuss how policies can affect investment in tertiary education in ways that would eliminate some of the perceived shortcomings of existing systems, while preserving or (preferably) enhancing equality of access to higher education. To this end, the analysis...

This article looks for an understanding and explanation of the responsability of economics in the upsurge and development of the present crisis. It studies the interdependencies between the three streams of ideas which today dominate the departments of economics and finance of universities....

This PhD dissertation combines the approaches of economic sociology and sociology of knowledge in order to analyze the social mechanisms underlying the conversion into organic farming. Based on an empirical study and analysis of a complete social network describing the interdependencies among...