We study the relationship between the types of issuer and the governance codes contents in the neo-institutional social theory perspective, using a global sample of over 70 national governance codes. We hypothesize that the code recommendations are influenced by the nature of isomorphic pressure to embrace new social practices, exerted by the different types of issuer. The findings show that co...

Comme le laisse entendre la célèbre formule de Lawrence Lessig selon laquelle « code est loi », informatique qu’exécutent les ordinateurs produit des effets régulation sociale. Or, ce lui-même encadré par tout un ensemble standards techniques qui forment une sorte du dont rédaction porteuse nombreux enjeux techno-politiques débattus dans arènes spécialisées. Cet article propose pistes méthodolo...

The dress code of paper wasps, like that of humans, is related to their social habits: species with a flexible nest-founding strategy have highly variable black-and-yellow markings. This color polymorphism facilitates individual recognition and might have been selected to permit complex social interactions.

In 438, at the initiative of Emperor Theodosius II, one most significant legislative collections late Roman Empire, Codex Theodosianus (Eng. Theodosian Code), was published, which is a valuable source on social history state in Late Antiquity. Based data and Novellae Emperors, author article reconstructs important components status senators fourth century BC. It revealed that view emperor compi...

This paper examines reading as done by programmers engaged in software development. Reading is an activity we feel should be of fundamental interest to studies of programming, but the practical achievement of which has not been closely examined. We give examples of programmers reading in pairs, and reading alone, and show reading in both cases to be explainable in terms of shared social practic...