This article purposes a renewal approach to manage the appropriation of ICT. From a case study conducted during 30 months, this article deals with the controversies deployed because of the implementation of ICT, and the emergence of appropriation mode, that is to say a common approach about ICT....

On the basis of the concept of compromise, this research in progress deals with the development of an Information System of competencies management. Based on the Actor Network Theory approach (Law, 1992; Callon, 2001; Akrich, Callon and Latour, 2002a,b; Latour, 2005), the concept of compromise helps us...

The purpose of the article is to analyze the different roles and natures of objects in organizational process. Furthermore, the concept of the mediation object is developed to understand how the objects help to structure interactions and collective activities over time....

L’organisation, un acteur social à forte personnalité De l’action collective à l’organisation

This paper deals with the concept of compromise in organization studies. The concept of compromise is often mobilized in discourses. Nevertheless, it seems difficult to comprehend this concept, while it can help us to enhance our understanding about organization structuring. The aim is to...

Time is a central concept but its nature and status in in Organization Studies remains under-studied. By opening the study of time on the sociomaterial perspective, we argue that construction of time is anchored in very heterogeneous human and non-human elements. Two main ideas are developed....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop the concept of managerial controversy. This concept focusses on organizational disagreements in order to understand the emergence of organization, and also postulates that researchers can better understand organizational phenomena through the...