La place des chercheurs dans l’innovation managériale

What role can academics – especially in management research – have in management innovation ? Can they only be ex post critical analysts of the processes of inventing, experimenting, diffusing and implementing management models and techniques, or do they play a more active role ? From the analysis of five historical, pioneering cases of management innovation, we infer four possible models of the implication of academics in such processes and defend the necessity to preserve the status of invention in the practice of management research.