The goal of our research is to gain a better understanding of organizational death, by looking at it as a process. This topic of research, with such an apprroach, is not very common in the litterature. The topic of organizational decline has received very little attention from researchers in...

Using a volontarily restricted theoretical and empirical corpus focused on control, we aim at proposing a “technological approach” of management tools and organizations, so as to go further than traditional lacks in “Accounting, Control & Audit” and management sciences. We will show that...

“Why are so many models designed and so few used” is a question often discussed within the Operational Research (OR) community. The formulation of the question seems simple, but the concepts and theories that must be mobilised to give it an answer are far more sophisticated. Would there be a...

Au travers d'une étude menée avec des membres de projets de construction de centres commerciaux de la région Ile-de-France d'Immochan, filiale immobilière du groupe Auchan, ce travail propose une nouvelle approche du concept de sens utilisable pour les sciences de gestion. Après avoir...

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...