Various authors have shown the importance of collaborative relationships for inter- organizational performance, the mode of governance or the trajectory of biotechnology companies. Most of these works analyze the exclusive contractual agreements between companies and their main relationships...

Comment (re)penser la matérialité des organisations (des objets, des bâtiments, des corps… qu‟elles abritent) sans (re-)sombrer dans la posture du déterminisme technologique ou matériel ? Comment lier le social ou le matériel pour certains ? Comment dépasser la dichotomie entre le...

This article examines the mechanisms of ascription of responsibility in organizations, in a context of growing concerns about risk prevention and management. It is argued that the increasing appeal to professional knowledge and expertise, combined with a decline of trust in professional...

This article underlines the continuous trend of social and organizational changes in firms. It intends to analyze this « movement » as a specific, long-standing process, instead of a new structure appearing in the organization. This text relies on the theoretical perspectives of the sociology...

This paper proposes a qualitative study of the ethical values that chairmen use in the letter included in the annual report of 52 listed French firms. An in depth study of the European and North American ethical and moral philosophy enables us to build a grid of concepts within the letters. The...

Reconsidering IT usage as part of a cultural phenomenon drives us to envisage the development of a new instrument to assess the construct of Individual IT Culture (IITC). IT-culture is a concept which has started only recently to appear in IS literature. Grounding our research in psycho...