The Internet-driven electronic marketplace (IEMP) has been presented as a way to enhance collaboration between buyers and suppliers while generating significant advantages for both parties. Nevertheless, the introduction of Online Reverse Auctions (ORA) in the negotiation process has been...

The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), like groupware systems, intranet or videoconference, enable team members to work on th e same project but from different places. Some teams are called virtual because they exist only through the network. As the work is geographically...

La phase de post-adoption est critique pour comprendre la réalisation des objectifs escomptés de l’adoption et l’usage des systèmes d’information. Toutefois, la majorité des recherches qui analysent la phase de post-adoption des systèmes d’information se sont concentrées sur les...

L’objectif de cet article est de contribuer à une meilleure compréhension des mécanismes et des difficultés inhérentes à la construction d’une communauté de pratique. Nous montrons notamment comment la négation de la dimension stratégique des communautés de pratiques peut conduire...

Nous analysons les difficultés liées à une tentative de "mise en œuvre" de communautés de pratique au sein d'une organisation hiérarchique. Nous nous intéressons plus particulièrement aux enjeux de pouvoir susceptibles de remettre en cause les communautés de pratique comme espaces...

This study proposes exploring the generative mechanisms at play behind group dynamics by offering a longitudinal analysis of the development of a self-organized group composed of city dentists. By adopting a longitudinal perspective we shed light on the relational and organizational mechanisms...

In contemporary western society, questions of identity concerning "who am I?" and "how should I act?" (Alvesson, 2000: 1105) are now a central concern in people's lives. Indeed, the western, liquidly modern context (Bauman 2000; 2001; 2003; 2005; Bauman & Haugaard 2008; Bauman & Tester 2001) is characterized,...

This study proposes exploring the generative mechanisms at play behind group dynamics by offering a longitudinal analysis of the development of a self-organized group composed of city dentists. By adopting a longitudinal perspective we shed light on the relational and organizational mechanisms...