1. Introduction / Alain Fayolle and Philippe Riot -- 2. Dimly through the fog : institutional forces affecting the multidisciplinary nature of entrepreneurship / Howard E. Aldrich -- 3. Moving on : affirming the entrepreneurial in entrepreneurship research / Daniel Hjorth -- 4. The economic...

Purpose – This paper serves two purposes. It is an introduction to the theme of this issue of Society and Business Review which is devoted to “Phenomenological approaches to work, life and responsibility” as well as a presentation of the authors' various contributions. The authors of this...

Purpose – This conceptual paper analyses cultural changes in the use of the concept of “play” in managerial ideologies and practices since the 1980s. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses Koselleck's approach to conceptual history in order to map how play is used in new ways by...

Purpose – This question of community has always been a preoccupation for the human sciences and, indeed, is a practical concern for us everyday humans in our variety ways of being. As such a preoccupation with community traverses vast territories of intellectual discourse in philosophy,...

Purpose – The paper seeks to examine the tension between a Levinasian ethics and routine corporate activity in multinational business worlds. It investigates the calculative regimes around financialisation and places these against the absolute ethical responsibility to the other and the third,...

Purpose – This paper aims to answer the following question: where does our capacity for epoche , for decentration, for suspending representations come from? This question is an important one if we accept, as phenomenology does, that this is how we can find the meaning of our life and our...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper consists in rethinking today's management systems in order to look for ways of management which are better adapted to human life. It is assumed that a management practice which takes into consideration the characteristics of human life must be accepted by a...