Opinion – Gift, ungratefulness and management. Suicide and desengagement at work The gift theory as it was elaborated by Mauss and his successors helps to understand that the plant represents a place of social ties production, as well as a place for goods production. These ties, which produce...

Adapting firms to change relies heavily on the small initiatives taken by operatives in the field or on the line. A group ingenuity is thus produced that can be interpreted in the light of the theory of gift-giving, whence a major issue for management: how to take advantage of unremunerated...

Norbert Alter explains here the utility and topicality of Marcel Mauss’ theory in an analysis touching both on cooperation within a business structure and on people’s commitment to work. He reviews the heuristic qualities and critical scope that must be mobilised to create ways of...

This article underlines the continuous trend of social and organizational changes in firms. It intends to analyze this « movement » as a specific, long-standing process, instead of a new structure appearing in the organization. This text relies on the theoretical perspectives of the sociology...