The purpose of this article is to specify the nature of a critical activity in the field of strategy. While post-procedural researches offered alternatives to conventional strategy, they do not really fit to a critical theory of strategic management. Building on a literature review in critical...

Basé sur le modèle théorique d'Oliver (1991) des réponses stratégiques à la pression de l'environnement institutionnel, cet article discute des stratégies mises en place par les distributeurs de films à l'égard de cette forme particulière de pression institutionnelle que représente la...

В настоящей статье на основе компаративного анализа теоретических концепций и практических моделей мифов всоциогуманитарном знании уточнена структура...

The present work is a chapter from my Ph.D thesis to be submitted in January 2006. Economists generate economic ideas, which are then spread to and impact on the very economic systems that they are ostensibly 'objectively' modelling. I term this dynamical relationship between economic theory and...

Small independent presses that have emerged in France in the past 20 years in the field of social critique are an illustration of the various ?resistance strategies? that characterise the fields of cultural goods, which are confronted with the growing pressures of economic rationality. While...

This article explores the structural embeddedness of normativity in economic action. Departing from the model of ""Cité"" as developed by the French social thinkers Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot it outlines how critique plays a major role in the capitalist process. Focusing on ""The New...

This article provides process insights into the progress and challenges of the NEPAD process with specific emphasis on the economic development and the capital flows, market access and debt initiatives. Partnership with the international community has moved African development challenges to the...