This article focuses on an epistemological consideration concerning the idea of change resistances, he propose an methodological alternative for the audit of these resistances. These two objectives aim to facilitate the implementation and the management of organizational change process . We will...

L’art est-il susceptible d’apporter une connaissance nouvelle sur les restructurations ? C'est autour de cette question que s'est construit le projet de recherche européen qui est à la base de cet article. Nous nous proposons de rendre compte des premiers résultats de ce programme de...

Restructuring practices belong to today's organizational life. Even if the phenomenon is not new it significantly evolved over time, both in terms of motives and in terms of expressions, from major events to permanent practices, from crisis to competitiveness restructurings, from reactive to...

This chapter contains a method for organizational diagnosis. The method allows the diagnosis (1) of any job position;(2) of any organizational unit: a work team, a marketing department, a project-group, etc.; (3) of any type of organization which resembles a firm : small and large organizations,...

In this paper, we suggest a theoretical framework for ambidextrous organization. The relevance of this framework’s is tested by the study of the case of a fast moving consumer goods company. However we suggest to put the management controller role at the core of the ambidexterity logic in...

This chapter explores how national cultural differences between partners involved in a contractual relationship may interfere with the development of trust. This is illustrated through a case study of a management contract signed by a French private company (Promostate) and public Lebanese...