Catherine CometUniversité de Vincennes - Paris 8 | UP8 · Cresppa-CNRS
Catherine Comet
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Introduction
Catherine Comet currently works at the Cresppa-CNRS and Université Paris 8. She does research in economic sociology and political sociology. Her current project is 'corporate community'.
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This short presentation is a “go to” summary providing interested readers with indications of our development of this neo-structural economic sociology. The notion of a social discipline that is perceived as legitimate by members of a social milieu is an important notion for understanding the contemporary form of cooperation between competitors. Th...
Policy-planning organizations have undergone significant development in France over the last two decades. Interconnecting the economic, political and intellectual elites, their study merits particular attention. This paper examines the active involvement of the business community in these organizations to highlight its role in the policy-planning p...
In France, main companies nurture a high number of interlocking directorates. We run descriptive analyses on the 125 largest capitalizations at the Paris Stock Exchange, in order to highlight the economic and social factors driving this phenomenon. On the one hand, the governance network reflects a preference among directors of the same profile, su...
Avec les cumuls de mandats, les entrecroisements entre les conseils d'administration (en anglais interlocks) des sociétés du CAC40 forment un réseau particulièrement dense. Les intercooptations reflètent des solidarités, dont nous cherchons à élucider quelques uns des fondements, en nous focalisant sur les dirigeants qui cumulent au moins trois siè...
Anatomie d’une escroquerie : Confiance et réseaux sociaux. Comment les réseaux sociaux favorisent-ils la confiance dans le cas des escroqueries ? L’affaire Santa est un « cas stratégique » de par son ampleur et sa durée. Ce cas d’escroquerie présente de fortes spécificités, dans la mesure où il concerne essentiellement des militaires expatriés outr...
The core management elite
With a view to shedding light on what a person needs to be accepted into the core management elite, we examine the socio-demographic characteristics, the training and the professional paths of the directors of the top 100 French companies (as quoted on the stock exchange). Ultimately it transpires that being a member of th...
Small construction companies mobilize different kinds of confidence for capturing and reassure their customers. Beyond the interpersonal networks, the most common device, they create devices such as professional qualifications and certifications, and adhere to organizational instruments such as mediation systems run by supermarkets or assistance co...
The profitability of small businesses in the French construction industry depends partly on their social capital. However, social capital yields advantages as well as constraints. How and under what conditions do social networks improve a company's profit margins? From a socio-technical perspective and strategic analysis, we defend the idea that re...
La littérature sur les réseaux sociaux et le capital social oppose généralement deux principaux arguments. D'après l'argument des trous structuraux, les réseaux ouverts sont sources d'avantage concurrentiel, dans la mesure où ils stimulent la créativité et la capacité d'innovation. D'après l'argument de la clôture des réseaux, les réseaux fermés fa...
Reseña: Varanda, M. (2005). La réorganisation du commerce d’un centre-ville: Résistances et obstacles à l’action collective. Paris: Ed. L’Harmattan.
La profitabilite des petites entreprises du bâtiment depend en partie de leur capital social. Leurs relations determinent notamment les opportunites qu’elles rencontrent de conclure des marches plus ou moins avantageux. Cependant, le lien entre profitabilite et reseaux sociaux n’est pas simple a mesurer, car le capital social ne produit pas uniquem...
The profitability of small construction businesses depends in part on their social capital ; a company's relations determine its opportunities for finding more or less advantageous job contracts. The link between profitability and social network is not easy to measure, however, because social capital implies constraints as well as advantages. How a...
M. VARANDA, La réorganisation du commerce d’un centre-ville : résistances et obstacles à l’action collective
