N° 75 - March 2004

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Editorial: Francis LEFEBVRE

Secrétaire général du Comité de rédaction

TRIAL BY FACT

Toward a knowledge of action in the managerial sciences: The case of polar expeditions

Pascal LIEVRE
Université Blaise Pascal

TESTIFYING

Sociocultural changes and modernity

An interview conducted with Alain de Vulpian by Bernard Colasse and Francis Pavé

OVERLOOKED

The international standardization of bookkeeping practices: On the resistible rise of IASC/IASB

Bernard COLASSE
CREFIGE - Université Paris-Dauphine

LIVE…

Keeping law and order as an organizational arrangement

Arnaud LACAZE
Doctorant au centre de recherche en gestion de l'école polytechnique

WHILE READING

Managerial education: The firm in works of fiction, as seen through a few recent publications

Hervé LAROCHE
ESCP-EAP

MOSAICS

Laurent Hua:
Artificial intelligence and culture: On Denis Berthier’s Le Savoir et l’Ordinateur.

Bernard Buisson and Philippe Silberzahn:
Resurrection handbook for firms: On Jim Collins’ Good to great — De la performance à l’excellence: devenir une entreprise leader.

Claude Riveline:
Everything about consultants: On Michel Villette’s Sociologie du conseil en management.

Frédérique Pallez:
Work, family… leisure? On Dominique Méda’s Le travail.

OVERLOOKED…

The governance of air transportation and the rise of computer reservation systems

Laurence SAGLIETTO
Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis

IN QUEST OF THEORIES

A sociology of interventions, a plastic, mestizo sociology

Gilles HERREROS
CREA, Lyon II