Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to clarify the relationship between language, thinking and society for explaining the degree of visibility of the French organizational studies (OS) production. Design/methodology/approach – This paper proposes a sociological analysis based on Bourdieu...

For some years now in France, a lively topic of debate has been the language to prefer for publications in research in management, and even in other fields. The questions that arise are not specific to French-speakers, since they also concern other languages, including major ones. The language...

Interest in organizations first appeared between World War I and World War II, with the American studies led by Mayo. Since then, interest has grown and spread to most industrialized countries. In the sixties, in Anglo-Saxon countries and especially in the United States where research was first...