As influential as Michel Foucault may be in organization theory, several critics have seriously questioned the epistemological foundations of the Foucauldian philosophical project (Ackroyd and Thompson, 1995, 1999; Caldwell, 2007; Habermas, 1990; Newton, 1994, 1998; Reed, 2000; Thompson, 1993). If these remain...

Consumer procrastination has ermerged as important individual variable along multiple situational variables to explain purchase delay. This article provides an analysis of consumer procrastination using a semiotic approach. It clarifies the differences with other deviant behaviors such as...

This research focuses on second-generation female consumers' relationship to cosmetics. Cosmetics consumption carries individual, cultural, and social dimensions for second-generation immigrants. It enables them to individually manage their cultural identities. this research is grounded on 31...

This paper has a methodological purpose, as we are aiming to show practices of accounting research designing. In that heuristic, we are basing our argument on Burrell’s and Morgan’s (1979), Feyerabend’s (1975), Quattrone’s (2000, 2004b) and Lowe’s (2004a, b) epistemo-methodological...

The purpose of this paper is to show the possible contributions of the history to management. In a first part, through imaginary dialogue founded on the respective works of two historians, the points of cohesion, discussion and rupture are exposed which characterize the epistemological and...

This article analyzes the different phases the Information Systems--Sociology relationship has gone through and points out some specific features of sociologists and Information Systems scientists in their conceptualization of Information Technology (IT). It shows that both academic fields...

A case study starts with a problem and seeks to solve it. But is solving always what matters most? Isn’t it also the problem, tensing the situation, which ought to be at the study horizon? This ill be discussed based upon the case of management control cybernetics problematisation by Anthony.