L'appropriation des solutions TIC demande une approche organisationnelle incluant la dimension sociale mais également technique. L'approche en termes de " démarches itératives d'appropriation" incorpore ces deux facettes de la problématique. Véritable émergence de terrain, ce concept...

The electronic marketplaces, as an interorganizational entity, is not limited to a transactional dimension. Indeed, those companies that survived the initial consolidation have increasingly expanded their functions and contribute to a new competition dynamic. This new competitiveness has set off...

In most companies managers have to cope with an ever increasing mass of information to deal with, along with coordination problems that are also more and more complex due to the multiplicity of time units and places. Among the tools managers have to hand is e-mailing, which is the most commonly...

As information and communication technology is being integrated in work-related practices, questions arise about how it is molding not only work but also social and human interactions inside organizations.

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...

Based on a literature review, this article draws a conceptual framework about the different uses of IT to control networks of firms. Four ways of using IT are discussed and compared. Rather than opposing one another, they are usually part of a pool of control mechanisms with which they interact...