Society and Business Review: Volume 7 Issue 1

Free will in social and psychological contracts

The purpose of this paper is to examine the scientific standing of the concept of free will and its role and functioning in social and psychological contracts.

Social contract and psychological contract: a comparison

The concept of contract contributes extensively to an essentialist conception of the organization (the contract would then be its essence), a descriptive method (describing the…

Denise versus Jean‐Jacques: Homonymies, homologies and tectonic faults between psychological contract and social contract

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate to what extent Denise Rousseau's psychological contracts in organizations and Jean‐Jacques Rousseau's social contract present superficial…

Contracts to frame sustainable futures: The rational and symbolic sides of contract functions and dysfunctions

The purpose of this paper is to examine what role the contract can, or should, have to frame sustainable futures.

The metric exhaustion of the psychological contract

The purpose of this paper is to explore epistemic conditions to make a comparative anthropology on contract thinking, regarding what could be defined as normative principles of…

The contractual forms of sexual transactions

To study sexual deals, the Italian ethnologist Paola Tabet introduced an original frame of analysis, the “economico‐sexual exchanges” frame, which she conceives as a continuum…

Psychological Contracts in Organizations Understanding Written and Unwritten Agreements

Bilderberg People

Reframing Corporate Social Responsibility: Lessons from the Financial Crisis

2011 Awards for Excellence

Social contract and psychological contract