Les questions abordées sont : - comment rendre compatibles les ambitions stratégiques et les modes de fonctionnement organisationnel ? - quelles compétences requiert la fonction de direction générale ? Les problèmes empiriques couverts sont : - les ambitions stratégiques sont rarement de...

Does publicness still make sense as an issue for further research? Classic organizational sociology (or standard theory) has provided a breakthrough for understanding public administration and management, but has not fully explored the agenda. Publicness is analytically characterized by the...

Power can be used as a way to create fruitful opportunities for scientific agendas. Power also offers an analytical tool to make sense of social phenomena. This does not imply that power theory building only may derive heuristic benefits using it. The paper concludes by a series of still open...

For more than 20 years the Nordic scholars have been major contributors to the advancement of knowledge in orgganization studies. Four aspects are considered: they are both global oriented and locally embedded, they combine disciplinary roots with interdisciplinary openess, they are functioning...

A debate around the book by Denis Segrestin ("Les chantiers du manager", Paris, Colin, 2004) gives an opportunity to hope for deeper and rigorous anaytical frameworks about organizational theories of firms. Two perspectives are suggested: firms as collective action systems open to their...

Does organizational governance contribute to academic quality? Two top research universities are observed in-depth: Berkeley and the MIT. Three key factors are listed that help generate consistent and lasting high performance. Priority is allocated to self-evaluation and to the development of...

Analyse du phénomène de la contrainte "douce" exercée par l'entreprise sur ses cadres et la résistance que certains d'entre eux y opposent, avec des témoignages

This book is about executive and middle level managerial rebellion, protest and revolt.This unique phenomenon may often be a result of a very negative situation, it can also have positive results, such as inducing creative benefits for the company.