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Commentary: The Canadian Accounting Hall of Fame—An Analysis of Early Inductees and Immanent Critique*,†

Accounting Perspectives, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 251-274, March 2025.
ABSTRACT The Canadian Accounting Hall of Fame (CAHF) has inducted 31 members during its first three years of operation, with the stated intent of establishing a critical mass of inductees “who have made significant contributions to the development of the Canadian accounting profession” and of creating “a curated biographical history of accounting in ...
Alan J. Richardson
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Les signaux horaires français : la quête d’un système uniformisé

Cahiers François Viète, 2016
In the middle of the 19th century, six chronometric observatories of the French Navy provided a time service for the control of marine watches. A ministerial decree of 1858 required French ports to transmit a time signal at a fixed time to ships in ...
Olivier Sauzereau
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Prestige at Play: University Hierarchies and the Reproduction of Funding Inequalities

Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 1, February 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between university prestige, disciplinary cultures, and the (re)production of funding inequalities in the humanities and social sciences. We combine qualitative and quantitative methods by analyzing: (1) data on 56,680 successful and unsuccessful grant applications submitted to the Canadian Social ...
Julien Larregue, Alice Pavie
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Nouvelle économie institutionnelle ou socioéconomie des institutions ? [PDF]

, 2012
L'émergence et l'affirmation, dans les années 1970-80, d'une " nouvelle économie institutionnelle " , branche de l'économie dominante, peut sembler paradoxale.
Maucourant, Jérôme
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Meteorology, Timekeeping and “Scientific Occupation”: Colonial Observatories in the Third Portuguese Empire

Cahiers François Viète, 2017
This paper presents a tentative overview of colonial observatories in the Third Portuguese Empire (1825-1957). The main issue under focus is the problem of action from a distance, that is, the attempts to steer an imperial network of observation from ...
Pedro M.P. Raposo
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Considering a Woman in Greek “Big Dig” Archaeology: Mary Wyckoff (1906-1932) at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Cahiers François Viète, 2023
This article aims to historicize the particular mechanisms that opened up access to women to a career in the archaeological sciences. To do so, we propose to study the case of Mary Wyckoff (1906-1932), appointed in 1929 by the American School of ...
Nina Clercq (de) 
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Introduction. Ageing time beings: Temporality and ethics in old ages Introduction. Des êtres temporels vieillissants : temporalité et éthique du grand âge

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue S1, Page 5-18, April 2025.
What can we learn about temporality by studying different ways of measuring time, institutional time regimes, and (a)typical experiences and creations of time when growing older? This introduction sets perspectives on this question from the anthropologies of ageing, ethics, and temporality.
Lone Grøn, Lotte Meinert
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Quelques aperçus sur l'histoire des villes [PDF]

, 2006
Ce travail est issu de l'ACI Ville : Invention des questions, invention des sources de l'histoire urbaineThe investigation presented here aims at determining the rhythmsand the moments of interests for the cities in the French historians production.It is
Verdier, Nicolas
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Les congrès scientifiques en Charente Inferieure au xixe siècle

Cahiers François Viète, 2013
The study of scientific conferences organised in France in the 19th century provides a vision of the practice and diffusion of science and technology among the elite of the provinces and allows us to move away from representations of centralised science.
Jean-Bernard Vaultier
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What future for EU foresight? A critical perspective on the institutionalisation of foresight

European Law Journal, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 443-463, September 2024.
Abstract What are the potential strengths and weaknesses in the current reconstruction of foresight at the EU level? In questioning foresight's institutionalisation processes from both a historical and a political sociology perspective, the article claims that charting the future is an issue of political power and that, hence, foresight's ...
Brigitte Gaïti, Didier Georgakakis
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