Les chartes d'utilisation des TIC : facteurs organisationnels de continence d'une pratique émergente en France

Following the example of Anglo-Saxon companies, French companies are increasingly establishing codes of conduct specific to the use of information technologies and systems. A review of literature reveals that goals of such codes are multiple: improving efficiency of uses, IS security awareness, ethics. Based on a study of 505 French companies, this paper aims to identify organizational contingency factors of the diffusion of a code. Both structural, technological, cultural and demographic factors have been identified.