Qu'apporte l'analyse sociologique des universités comme organisations à la connaissance de la transformation des disciplines qui les composent? La présente contribution suggère une boîte à outils analytique. Elle caractérise les universités comme étant des organisations relevant d'un...

Does publicness still make sense as an issue for further research? Classic organizational sociology (or standard theory) has provided a breakthrough for understanding public administration and management, but has not fully explored the agenda. Publicness is analytically characterized by the...

Are higher education and research academic organizations submitted to a irreversible dynamics of globalization? Shall local specificities be erased in the coming years by standardization criteria about quality and quality production? Shall academic institutions, professions and disciplines be...

The text assesses the role, the institutionnalization and the uses of national policies in France since 1992 by the governemental authorities. It studies the function of knowledge as a part of policy-making and political processes

Objectives. We investigated involvement and cooperation patterns of local Brazilian AIDS program actors and the consequences of these patterns for program implementation and sustainability. Methods. We performed a public policy analysis (documentary analysis, direct observation, semistructured...

Over the last few decades the field of organization studies has expanded rapidly. It has come to cover almost any social process within the realm of formal organizations. It has imported a great many new theories and ideas from other social sciences such as institutionalism, network theory or...