Expression la plus récente de la politique industrielle française, les pôles de compétitivité sont le fruit d'une démarche volontariste initiée en 2005 par le gouvernement français et récemment réaffirmée par l'annonce de la version 2.0. Le déploiement de cette politique peut être...

Restructuring practices belong to today's organizational life. Even if the phenomenon is not new it significantly evolved over time, both in terms of motives and in terms of expressions, from major events to permanent practices, from crisis to competitiveness restructurings, from reactive to...

This article focuses on an epistemological consideration concerning the idea of change resistances, he propose an methodological alternative for the audit of these resistances. These two objectives aim to facilitate the implementation and the management of organizational change process . We will...

L’art est-il susceptible d’apporter une connaissance nouvelle sur les restructurations ? C'est autour de cette question que s'est construit le projet de recherche européen qui est à la base de cet article. Nous nous proposons de rendre compte des premiers résultats de ce programme de...

Postmodernism has received much more attention in anglo-saxon litterature on organizations than in french-speaking research. Referring here to Postmodernism as a style of thinking, we discuss about the nature of the postmodern proposition in organization studies. Postmodern research proposes new...

The resolution of a concrete problem lies at the heart of action research approaches. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the practical difficulties implied by the adoption of a participative approach where the problem to be solved is constructed collaboratively with organizational...

The purpose of this article is to specify the nature of a critical activity in the field of strategy. While post-rational or procedural researches offered alternatives to conventional strategy, they do not reflect the specificity of the critical approach and do not really fit to a critical...