Several analysts of changes in firms have been tackling the question of the relations between authority and human resource management devices for about fifteen years. This paper aims at shedding light on this matter from an economic standpoint. Taking contractual theories applied to human...

Managers’ trainings about psychosocial risks (RPS) prevention are currently growing. Managers are seen to have an important role to play vis-à-vis their subordinates’ mental health. However, they depend on organization and management methods from which flow their own breathing space...

This paper contributes to research on organizational slack. The slacks integrated into capital expenditure have been little studied. The economic crisis in 2008-2009 represents a good opportunity to analyze these slacks. A longitudinal case study has been carried out in an industrial company...

Considerable media attention was focused on how U.S. presidential candidates in 2008 integrated Facebook and other social networking sites into their campaign strategies. In this context, understanding the formation and utilization of online social networks becomes important. Social network...

Abstract. The economic globalisation forces the companies to progress in an environment characterized by the blooming of the relations of partnership, the emergence of the reticular organizations and the crucial impact of new technologies of information of communication (NTIC). In this context,...