Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Change / Ethical Economy Bd.57 (PDF)

Arnaud Sales holds a Doctorat d'État ès Lettres et Sciences Humaines, from Université Paris-Diderot, France. He is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the Université de Montréal, Canada. A specialist in economic sociology, his research interests center on the relations between the public and private spheres; economic and administrative elites, and knowledge workers; the role of knowledge in social transformations. His publications include: La Bourgeoisie industrielle au Québec (PUM 1979); Décideurs et gestionnaires with N. Bélanger (Éditeur officiel du Québec 1985). He has edited or co-edited the following volumes: Développement national et économie mondialisée (Sociologie et Sociétés 1979); La recomposition du politique with L. Maheu (PUM/L'Harmattan 1991); Québec, fin de siècle with N. Laurin (Sociologie et Sociétés 1994). The International handbook of sociology with S. Quah (SAGE 2000); New directions in the study of knowledge, economy and society with K. Adhikari (SAGE Series in International Sociology; Current Sociology 2001); Knowledge, communication and creativity with the collaboration of M. Fournier (SAGE 2007); Sociology today. Social transformation in a globalizing world (SAGE 2012). He was Vice-Dean of the Université de Montréal's Faculty of Graduate Studies (1987-1992) and has chaired the Department of Sociology (2000-2007). He is a former Vice-President International of the Society for the advancement of socio-economics (1995-1998). After chairing the ISA Research Committee 02 on Economy and Society, he was elected Vice-President for Research (1998-2002) of the International Sociological Association and chaired the ISA Research Council. In 2006, he was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques of France.