Yves-Marie Abraham

HEC Montréal - École des Hautes Études commerciales | HEC Montreal · Department of Management

Le mouvement en faveur d’une décroissance « soutenable » ou « solidaire » de l’économie dans nos sociétés prend de l’ampleur depuis bientôt 20 ans. Au-delà de la critique de la course à la croissance économique, ce mouvement formule une triple revendication : produire moins, partager plus et décider ensemble (Abraham, 2019). Mais, comment concrètem...

The climate crisis represents the the biggest public health threat of our time. It interacts with the rising inequalities, chronic diseases and mental illness widely associated with capitalism. Though degrowth and public health approaches differ, both share common values. The former proposes a path for transformation intended to halt the destructio...

Human rights violations are becoming more and more frequent and severe in Western societies. It is the result of the "entreprisation" (Solé, 2008) of our world. Now the dominant organization of our societies, firm is a threat to the dignity of the human person, for it is based on the instrumentalization of human beings. Anyone who wants to protect...

For Karl Polanyi, market society is impossible, since it supposes that work, land and money be treated as merchandise, which can only destroy society. On the basis of the analysis of the utilisation of Mexican labor by US firms over 100 years, this paper tries to show that merchandisation is quite possible as concerns work. It reduces the human bei...

Reconciling Social Responsibility and Profitability: The Nobel Peace Prize-Winning Grameen Bank How does one reconcile the pursuit of business activities and responsibility vis-à-vis society? This article offers valuable lessons to anyone who asks themselves this question by describing the specific case of the Grameen Bank, founded by Muhammad Yunu...

The shift from « good student » to « serious business manager », or how to become an « HEC ». Pierre Bourdieu showed how France’s grandes écoles produce its « state nobility », the « structural heir » to the nobility of the Ancien Regime. His ethnographic descriptions pertain primarily to the first part of that production process ; i.e., how France...

Pierre Bourdieu showed how France's grandes écoles produce its «state nobility», the «structural heir« to the nobility of the Ancien Regime. His ethnographic descriptions pertain primarily to the first part of that production process ; i.e., how France's preparatory schools prepare students for nationwide competitive exams for admission into the gr...