Society and Business Review: Volume 9 Issue 2

Beyond the business/society dichotomy: The rich topicality of Gilbert Simondon’s ontological and epistemological schemas

Rémi Jardat

– This paper aims to look at three management research papers, which are placed in dialogue with Gilbert Simondon’s philosophy.

The cultural production of commodities: Understanding the art and gaps of silent and seen design

Benedicte Brøgger, Birgit Helene Jevnaker

The purpose of the paper is to shed light on the particular organizing design practices behind making items exchangeable into commodities. It is a constructive contribution to…

Rethinking institutional entrepreneurship: The case of the construction of the orphan drug field in Europe

Karim Hamadache, Julienne Brabet

The purpose of this paper is to enrich empirical studies on institutional entrepreneurship (IE), more specifically those focusing on the role of the IE in building a new field…

Towards a philosophy of organisation sciences: A declaration of the principles of the SPSG

Erwan Lamy, Yoann Bazin, Laurent Magne, Baptiste Rappin

This study aims to investigate a declaration of the principles of the Société de Philosophie des Sciences de Gestion/Society for the Philosophy of Organisation sciences (SPSG)…

Football passion as a religion: the four dimensions of a sacred experience

François Fulconis, Gilles Pache

The purpose of this paper is to show that football as a sacred experience is often raised, but has never led to an argued approach. Professional football (soccer) is a genuine…

Ethics of social innovation

Knut J. Ims, Laszlo Zsolnai

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the main reasons for social innovations to be successful in developing countries.

Religious organisations as investors: a Christian perspective on shareholder engagement

Katinka Van Cranenburgh, Daniel Arenas, Jennifer Goodman, Céline Louche

The purpose of this paper is to deepen the discussion about religious organisations’ (ROs) potential to practise their faith by means of their investments, rather than keeping…

“For Piketty” – a new Enlightenment that goes far beyond rewriting Das Kapital : Le capital au XXIe Siècle (Capital in the Twenty-First Century) by Thomas Piketty

Rémi Jardat

This critique of Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century summarizes and comments on the main tenets of the author’s principal theory. The author's aim is to point out the…

Editorial

Yvon Pesqueux