This article aims to examine the role of objects in the transformation of logics (Thornton & Ocasio, 2008) at the practice level. In particular, it explores how financial actors use, transform and are constrained by their ‘market devices' – defined as a range of instruments, models and tools...

This dissertation explores the mechanisms of institutional change in practice. The institutional change under study relates to the progressive penetration of Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) criteria into conventional investment funds, a phenomenon which appeared during the 2000s, known as...

Cet article étudie l'évolution des formes et des objectifs de l'Investissement socialement responsable (ISR) aux États-Unis et en Europe des années 1920 jusqu'à nos jours. En s'intéressant à la fois aux fondements théoriques et aux caractéristiques des fonds ISR au cours du temps, il...

Investors and companies are increasingly aware that climate change and its associated needs for reducing CO2 emissions are likely to impact structurally many areas of the economy. This paper offers a contribution to understand these impacts on companies' strategy, by studying management systems....

La capacité des entreprises à transformer une contrainte environnementale en source d'opportunité stratégique est un sujet controversé dans la littérature. S'appuyant sur une étude comparative des stratégies de lutte contre les émissions CO2 mises en place par les industries cimentière...

This paper explores the role of institutional objects in the constitution of institutional logics. Institutional objects depend for their objectivity on the goods produced through those objects, such as economic models, passports or sacred texts. We theorize institutional logics as grammars of...

Investment is no longer a matter of individual savers directly choosing which shares or bonds to buy. Rather, most of their money flows through a 'chain': an often extended sequence of intermediaries. What goes on in that chain is of huge importance: The world's investment managers, who are now...