The first book devoted to intranets was published in the United States in 1996. However, theorists and experts worked in the 80’s on the topic about the computerassisted learning. The first intranets in the companies appeared in the 90’s. Nowadays, intranets can be found in all kinds of...

Often, organizations externalize work activities and use employment intermediaries (consulting firms, temporary help agencies, contract companies (Nesheim, Olsen, & Kalleberg 2007). At a functional level, firms tend to externalize business as well so that boundaries of firms are extended....

This paper presents the results of a longitudinal exploratory survey based on a sample of French firms. Different contexts of Intranet, as well as introduction, development stages, performance and Intranet content are presented. Three approaches are in existence: corporate Intranet, specialized...

The free licenses specify the principles of use and diffusion of the free software while supporting the open and collective innovation (Chesbrough, 2003). Often, the successes of the open-source community seem like an implausible form of magic (see the magic cauldron from Raymond [1999]). As...

Analysé tantôt comme une véritable révolution, tantôt comme un simple « feu de paille », le développement des TIC a eu plusieurs types de conséquences au sein des entreprises. Ces technologies n’ont pas seulement modifié le contenu du travail. Elles ont également été à...

La question du respect de la vie privée dans l'entreprise et dans les relations commerciales a suscité un intérêt particulier au cours de ces derniers mois. Licenciement pour usage personnel de l'Internet dans l'entreprise, courrier électronique « ouvert » par l'employeur (Kovach & alii,...