At the end of the 1980’s, Callon and Latour started a new school of thought which is indifferently named, Sociology of Translation, Sociology of Innovation, Translation Theory or Actor Network Theory. The starting point of their work was mostly philosophical and epistemological: they...

Dans certaines formes classiques de recherche en sciences sociales, les chercheurs essaient de généraliser d’un échantillon représentatif à une population plus large. Ce processus perd de son utilité si l’on étudie une innovation managériale à son tout début. Nous devons alors...

Management control is a very difficult task when applied to innovation. For some researchers, it's even an impossible mission. Despite this, our paper presents a theoretical framework issued from a literature review and based on Simons research (1995). This framework is used to understand how...