Comparables à celles d'économies en développement, les conditions d'émergence du Crédit Mutuel en Alsace-Moselle (1892-1905), tout comme son mode de fonctionnement actuel, sont étudiées via les catégories de l'économie de la proximité et de l'institutionnalisme. On propose les...

Les conditions d'émergence du Crédit Mutuel en Alsace-Moselle (1892-1905), comparables à celles d'économies en développement, puis son mode de fonctionnement actuel, sont étudiés via les catégories de l'économie de la proximité et de l'institutionnalisme. On éclaire ainsi, d'une part,...

La question démocratique est devenue d'une actualité brûlante au sein des banques coopératives depuis la fin des années 1990. Elément fondateur des organisations à tailles humaines que furent les premières caisses mutuelles ou coopératives, la démocratie ne risque-t-elle pas de se...

The democratic question became of an ardent actuality within cooperative banks since the end of the 1990's. Founding element of human-sized organizations that were the first mutual or cooperative Caisses, is democracy running the risk to dissolve by necessity in the mature and hybrid giants that...

We have conducted a field research on philanthropic “tsunami” projects in South-eastern India that are embedded in a quiet complex governance scheme (French Firm funding, execution by local NGOs, consolidated management by a French federation of NGOs), in which the classical notions of fraud...

Making any comparison between Jean-Jacques' and Denise's thoughts of contract may appear as a foolish project. When more carefully looked at, their works show disturbing similarities. Firstly conditions of existence of what they study - the contract- are quite the same, although implemented into...

Purpose – Does democracy within the firm have a positive influence on its economical and managerial efficiency? What sort of democracy do we consider, for what sort of efficiency? Tracing back competitiveness to rights and statutes is particularly difficult because of the multiplicity of...

Purpose – Induction and institutions may have followed the same tracks for a long period of time, but their interaction is scarcely analyzed. On the one hand, induction prepares newcomers to work in an organization that is completely new to them. On the other hand, institutions apparently need...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate to what extent Denise Rousseau's psychological contracts in organizations and Jean‐Jacques Rousseau's social contract present superficial or profound similarities. Having localized more precisely the lines of gaps between both works,...

Purpose – This paper aims to look at three management research papers, which are placed in dialogue with Gilbert Simondon’s philosophy. Design/methodology/approach – Notable research articles are subjected to a thorough de-construction and re-construction process, as they are examined...