(VF)Après la vague d’information, les normes ISO 9000 constituent sans aucun doute l’effort organisationnel le plus important ces dix dernières années permettant de rendre visibles les savoirs de l’entreprise. Mais on sait encore peu de choses sur les conséquences de cette codification...

The aim of this paper is to study the implementation and the effectiveness of self-managing teams in a huge industrial plant. We suggest a language-based approach for analysing the dynamic of these teams. We underline, indeed, that the main consequences of the implementation of self-managing...

This article deals with the question of the functioning and impact of mechanisms of coordination in the international organization of the R&D activity. It is based on surveys carried out into seven European and American MNCs in three sectors. The present movement of decentralization of R&D...

In this article, we apply the organizational architecture theory to the total quality management (TQM) to understand the complexity and the mechanisms of its working and its efficiency. We show that the role played by TQM in the value creating requires a profound analysis of the profits and the...

The evolution of the economic environment has forced companies to rationalize their relations with their clients, suppliers and other associated firms. They are rapidly confronted with a lack of adaptation of their organizational structures and information flow with regard to the constraints...

In this paper, we study to what extent French LBOs investment policy and operations can explain their overperformance discrepancy. Our empirical study has been carried out on 132 French LBOs between 1989 and 1994. The results show that the abnormal falling of their economic return cannot be...

This study is interested in the relationship between firm's characteristics (R&D intensity, industry, American or British stock market listing, R&D accounting method used, and size) and its strategy of communication on its R&D activities. We have analyzed annual reports of firms belonging to the...

(VF)Les Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (TIC) se sont développées, en particulier les intranets RH. L’objet de cet article est de répondre à la question suivante:un intranet peut-il être un outil de contrôle des pratiques de GRH de l’encadrement intermédiaire?...

(VF)L’objectif de ce papier est d’évaluer la contribution de la théorie des coûts de transaction à l’explication du choix du mode de gouvernance des activités de R&D à l’étranger par les firmes multinationales. Nous avons identifié principalement trois grandes formes...

(VF)Selon les règles comptables françaises, les sociétés ont la possibilité de « capitaliser » leurs frais de R&D sous certaines conditions. En analysant les rapports annuels 2000 des sociétés non financières appartenant à l’indice SBF 250, nous avons tenté de comprendre pourquoi...