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For quite some time, it has been clear that big companies interlocking directorates are the most developed in Europe. But a precise description of this phenomenon was still missing. This is what the present article aims to do, by applying various innovative methods to the small population of executives who form the core business circle of Europe. F...
The paper examines the degree of interlocking directorships across the major Eurozone economies. It uses the major stock market indices in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Belgium to identify the top of the corporate elite in each country. For the period of 2005-2008, it studies transnational links between European companies. The paper...
Depuis plus d’un siècle, les analyses de réseaux appliquées aux conseils d’administration des grandes entreprises (interlocking directorate studies) ont régulièrement observé la tendance qu’ont les banques à occuper une position plus centrale que les autres entreprises. Pour expliquer ce phénomène, les sociologues se sont principalement intéressés...
For more than one century, interlocking directorate studies have provided evidence of bank centrality in corporate networks. Many interpretations of this phenomenon have been elaborated, but none of them was conclusive. In this paper, we assume that theoretical and methodological limits have affected this literature. Firstly, two usual confusions h...
The antiAtlas of Borders is an experimentation at the crossroads of research, art and practice. It was launched in 2011 at the Mediterranean Institute of Advanced Studies (Aix Marseille University), and has been co-produced by the Higher School of Art (Aix en Provence), PACTE laboratory (University of Grenoble-CNRS), Isabelle Arvers and La compagni...
Back to the Field of Economic Power in France
In 1978, Bourdieu and Saint Martin wrote a famous study, « Le patronat », which was based on a multiple correspondence analysis of French corporate elite. In this paper, we go back to their notion of “field of economic power” and apply their methodology to the 838 executive and non-executive directors o...
Recent tensions in Franco-German relations concerning the debt crisis in Europe or the clashes within EADS governance seem to have undermined Franco-German relations. This may of course nurture criticism of the very idea of Franco-German friendship. Talking about Franco-German friendship, Peter Sloterdijk (2009, p. 9) recently stated
[that] there c...
The European Parliament and the European Council adopted in October 2012 a new regulation about the governance of European standardisation. This paper assesses the regulation of European standardisation as it comes out of the "new approach" developed since 1985. We especially examine the role of the European Court in this field by focusing on the j...
Nous proposons de montrer que tous les groupes qui se forment dans des buts coopératifs et selon des modalités autonomes vis-à-vis des modèles économiques standards ne sont pas toujours des communautés. A l'heure actuelle, tout semble se passer comme si seulement deux modèles d'organisation de génération des connaissances pouvaient exister (firme e...
In Euro-Clash, Neil Fligstein (2008) states that the constitution of a transnational capitalist class in Europe is not manifest, even though recent decades have been marked by the structuring of vast European markets. Following the insights of Hall and Soskice (2001), he stresses that globalized economic activities are compatible with a strong nati...
La mondialisation conduit-elle inéluctablement à l'uniformisation de la vie économique, sociale et culturelle? Les processus de diffusion de normes universelles s'imposent-ils à des acteurs qui se contenteraient de les décliner localement sans peu ou pas les modifier ? Sans nier la puissance des processus de convergence et d'uniformisation associés...
In this paper, we present the guidelines for an XML-based approach for the
sociological study of Web data such as the analysis of mailing lists or
databases available online. The use of an XML warehouse is a flexible solution
for storing and processing this kind of data. We propose an implemented
solution and show possible applications with our cas...
WebStand est un projet ANR pluri-disciplinaire débuté en 2006, regroupant des informaticiens spécialistes de bases de données et d'internet et des sociologues spécialistes dans l'étude des processus de normalisation et des nouvelles technologies. Dans le cadre du projet a été réalisée une plate-forme permettant certaines analyses sociales de person...
In this paper we present the state of advancement of the French ANR WebStand project. The objective of this project is to construct a customizable XML based warehouse platform to acquire, transform, analyze, store, query and export data from the web, in particular mailing lists, with the final intension of using this data to perform sociological st...
Le but de ce chapitre est de montrer comment, dans un contexte de redéfinition des relations internationales des maires français, l'invention d'une tradition communale a donné lieu à une innovation sociale pérenne. Il s'agira ici, à partir d'une étude de cas centrale des jumelages européens à Rennes et Lille, à laquelle s'ajouteront d'autres matéri...
The role of international friendship in regional integration—be it as a factor encouraging it or as a by-product of it—tends to be overshadowed by (realist) assumptions of naked self-interest. This article aims to open up a space for friendship in the study of the regional integration, by exploring the structuration of a series of speech acts and i...
In this paper we present the state of advancement of the French ANR WebStand project. The objective of this project is to construct a customizable XML based warehouse platform to acquire, transform, analyze, store, query and export data from the web, in particular mailing lists, with the final intension of using this data to perform sociological st...
In this paper, we discuss the available approches of the new governance structures of standardization, in order to propose new hypothesis on the way computer sciences languages are dealt with. We consider the example of the XML language and its applications in order to propose a dynamic analysis of this governance, focusing on the coordination that...
The study proposes analyzing the complex links between the standardization and regulation of mobile phone markets from a political economy perspective. Moreover, this study examines these links by taking into consideration, from a Schumpeterian perspective, the market disequilibrium and the monopolistic phenomena associated with innovation. It aims...
Les dispositifs d’action publique font de plus en plus appel aux compétences et à la mobilisation des agents chargés de leur mise en œuvre, afin de répondre au plus près aux demandes des usagers et des citoyens. Les schémas de division du travail s'éloignent des modèles bureaucratiques classiques : le problème n’est plus tant de délivrer des biens...
International friendship is often neglected in international relations. The purpose of this paper is to analyze international friendship empirically as a result of the construction of multiple institutional facts. Two main fields are investigated in this study: the development of city twinnings and cultural institutes. Paying attention to emotions,...
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Le traitement de l'information opéré dans le but de produire une expertise, et plus généralement un raisonnement en sciences sociales, peut être séparé en deux opérations logiques élémentaires : la prise en compte et la hiérarchisation. Nous nous inspirons sur cette question de la distinction établie par Latour (1999) entre prise en compte et ordon...
Le fichier attaché est paru dans les Analyses de l'OpesC (n°6, mai 2006) Les normes techniques envahissent notre quotidien (automobile, téléphone portable, conservation des aliments) au point que leur omniprésence facilite leur invisibilité. S’il est certain que la construction de ces normes est très majoritairement internationale, il reste à savoi...
Une version ultérieure de cet article a été publiée par la Revue française de science politique, Vol. 56, N°3, juin 2006. Résumé : Les normes techniques envahissent notre quotidien (automobile, téléphone portable, conservation des aliments) au point que leur omniprésence facilite leur invisibilité. S'il est certain que la construction de ces normes...
Over the past 30 years, considerable use has been made by the French government of contract-based arrangements for implementing vocational training and employment policies. Three major types of contracts have been used: 'meta-contracts' that bind governments at state and regional levels; contracts by objectives between public agencies and social pa...
Constructing a typology for policy takers: a logical and heuristic operation
This contribution proposes an epistemological view of typological construction in qualitative comparison. The operations undertaken in the context of European research relating to caring for children from single-parent families in five European countries provide a guiding...
The SOCCARE Project studied social care arrangements of European families in five
different socio-economic and cultural environments that represent the variety of European
welfare states (Finland, France, Italy, Portugal and the UK). It focused on four key family
types that all are heavily affected by the ongoing demographic, socio-economic and
str...
Inventing the tradition of town twinning (1951-1956) : juridical mobilizations
Town twinning can be seen as the first activity to involve municipal institutions as such in wide-ranging and long-term international action by councilors. Twinning fits Eric Hobsbawm’s definition of an invented tradition. The invention of town twinning cannot be studied...
Issu de l'APN Dimensions internationales du mouvement municipal. En partie consultable sur http://books.google.fr/books?id=rDL9Q-F9SvsC&pg=PA249&lpg=PA249&dq=superare+i+conflitti&source=bl&ots=xkWdA1pxAq&sig=l8eTFsW8TJxON4cXMC2OYIfvpvk&hl=fr&ei=1YAfTOO6OtSJ4ga6jKS6Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBYQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=superare%20i%20...
Town twinning can be seen as the first activity to involve municipal institutions as such in wide-ranging and long-term international action. Twinning fits Eric Hobsbawm's definition of an ‘invented tradition’. The French federalists played a decisive part in this process of invention, bringing European municipalities together in order to ensure an...
L'expertise en matière de gestion urbaine n'est pas un phénomène nouveau. Des réseaux internationaux se sont structurés dès la fin du XIXe siècle afin de capitaliser des savoir-faire utiles à des villes européennes en expansion. Avec la construction européenne, les enjeux ont changé : le thème l'internationalisation des villes dans un contexte de c...
Le cadre d'analyse de la gouvernance aide à comprendre les évolutions des politiques culturelles des villes en élargissant le regard vers des variables externes à l'organisation du secteur d'action publique qu'elles constituent. Le développement des politiques culturelles dans les grandes villes s'explique par le fait qu'elles sont centrales pour l...
Durant ses deux premiers mandats, l’equipe municipale d’Edmond Herve a developpe un mode de gouvernement local combinant progres social et developpement economique qui lui a garanti une forte popularite. Mais de 1989 a 1995, la montee de protestation contre le projet de metro VAL et la mise en cause d’Edmond Herve dans l’affaire de la transfusion s...
Surprisingly, available elite studies on the EMU have mainly focused on the strategy of political elites in favor of uniting (Fligstein & Mara-Drita 1996 ; Jabko 2006), and Fligstein (2008) recently claimed there is still no real transnational business cohesive circle in Europe. This echoes a long-standing debate on the existence of a transnational...
