Abstract
Pierre-Noël Denieuil, The Scientist and the Manager in the Firm Sociological research on French businesses in the 1980s indicates that the field of anthropology is representing a variety of approaches : cultural regulation by informal knowledge ; sociability abd the dynamics of belonging ; situation of the business in a social and regional context ; industrial symbolism and the expropriation of training and knowledge by machines ; social stratification and daily life ; the construction of the enterprise as a culture and as a source of social identifications. Beyond the diversity of approaches, there is a difference of perspective between the reflections of the socio-anthropological investigator and the manager. Describing the firm as a community does not imply that it functions as a group or a culture.
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