The longitudinal study of advice networks among 240 judges at the Commercial Court of Paris permits the examination of learning as an interactive process. We argue that a spinning top model is a useful heuristic for intra-organizational learning in dynamic advice networks. This model proposes...

Several authors have demonstrated the importance of inter-organizational relationships for the development of biotechnology companies. Most of the works on this industrial sector analyze exclusively the contractual agreements of the companies. In this article, we propose to extend the study of...

Surprisingly, available elite studies on the EMU have mainly focused on the strategy of political elites in favor of uniting (Fligstein & Mara-Drita 1996 ; Jabko 2006), and Fligstein (2008) recently claimed there is still no real transnational business cohesive circle in Europe. This echoes a...

Un profil des actuels dirigeants d'entreprise : qui sont-il ? Quelles sont leurs origines sociales, scolaires, etc. ? Quelles relations ont-ils avec les dirigeants politiques ? Comment fonctionne leur organisation syndicale, le MEDEF ? Avec des encadrés sur des points précis comme les...