The role of shareholders in modern capitalism should remember its historical roots. Legal analysis of the economic system is privileged in the paper. Corporation is the legal tool of modern capitalism; it introduces a liability limited to the stock held by shareholders. Paradoxically it may have...

The French scene in the field of HR management has entered a period that is worrying: a premium given to psychopathological approaches of employees. The article underlines the fact that HR management ignores basic lessons from social sciences about collective and organizational factors of...

Credit rationing is a classical phenomenon studied for a long period but the last financial crisis put it in the news. SMEs are particularly affected by this phenomenon and may be the main victims of the financial crisis and economic situation. This paper tries to estimate the scale of credit...

All cultures appear to share the belief that they do things ‘correctly’, while others, until proven otherwise, are assumed to be ignorant or barbaric. When people from different cultures work together and cannot take shared meanings for granted, managers face serious challenges. An...

This article aims to understand more about the origins of internal careers through a case study of accounting personnel at the French company Saint-Gobain at the turn of the twentieth century. The first section offers a review of various bodies of research that will allow us to define the notion...

Although the resurgence of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been described as the development of ‘markets for virtue’, little is known about the social construction of CSR markets. Prior works either focus on the economic potential of these markets or criticize the social...

A multi-mechanism sales promotion includes in the same communication several promotion techniques offered either by the retailer or the producer. Framing theory suggests that increasing the number of techniques could increase the perceived value for consumers. A between-subjects experimentation...

This paper explores the persuasive effects of different commercials for an analgesic on members of different age groups. Commercial content was manipulated to be either of (a) factual or (b) evaluative. The impact of these two contents was assessed on members of two different age groups: young...