Met en lumière ce qui résiste souvent aux tentatives du management ordinaire : la richesse des pouvoirs informels et l'indépassable diversité culturelle des acteurs. Analyse les innombrables ressources cachées, mutilées et inutilisées des entreprises, et les moyens de leur intégration.

This chapter explores how national cultural differences between partners involved in a contractual relationship may interfere with the development of trust. This is illustrated through a case study of a management contract signed by a French private company (Promostate) and public Lebanese...

The scope of the present article aims to demonstrate the intimate relation between similar actions and time serving behaviours of the co-operative work. Through the longitudinal survey of interactions inside two project teams, two ways of operation of the co-operative action are involved and...

Nous cherchons dans cet article à définir les relations entre deux formes de coopération, l’une fondée sur une rationalité stratégique, l’autre sur une rationalité identitaire. L’objet est finalement de dépasser la dichotomie classique entre deux logiques de comportement, deux...

Norbert Alter explains here the utility and topicality of Marcel Mauss’ theory in an analysis touching both on cooperation within a business structure and on people’s commitment to work. He reviews the heuristic qualities and critical scope that must be mobilised to create ways of...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide a more nuanced image of cooperation in France, first, insisting on the idiosyncratic conditions under which French will be likely to cooperate, and, second, pointing the importance of the local context, finally criticizing the average stereotyped image...