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...

This article is about the use of past in the successive present. In a first part, we try to define the various related concepts (history, memory, historiography) to show the problematic they could entail for management science. The second part is an example of the first one: it is about the use...