Clarifies the potentials of the notion of exploration for the analysis of the uncertain and collective nature of entrepreneurship, and provides detailed examination of a case study on a French academic spin-off.

Examines the process of standardization-codification of references and the policing of statements on the principles of sustainable development in the context of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).

Reviews debates on the performativity of economics from the vantage point of a general anthropology of modern economic reason.

Examines the changing roles of science exhibitions from places of 'cold' science, where secure, closed and fixed knowledge is communicated, to places that increasingly engage with 'hot', controversial research and open debates.

Comments on the potentials of the notion of "experimentation" as a vehicule for the renewal of the theoretical repertoire of political sociology.

Presents a case study on public participation in controversies on nanotechnologies in France, and proposes an analytical typology.

Provides a case study on the use of the Internet as a deliberative and participatory tool in technical controversies.

Provides ethnographic observations and analysis of a laboratory experiment in economics.

Studies a number of aspects of the reform of public finance and public management in France (LOLF), with special attention to science and technology policy, using a pragmatist approach to the sociology of the state.

Develops a pragmatist sociology of the State with an analysis of the conflict between urban guerrilla groups and the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1970s.