Most of the research work concerning the French tableau de bord tends to locate its birth in industrial companies with engineers as lead roles and the State as supporting role (Lebas, 1996). Yet, a study in the Crédit Lyonnais archives shows that banks are not unequipped with this kind of...

Most of the research work concerning the French tableau de bord tends to locate its birth in industrial companies with engineers as lead roles and the State as supporting role (Lebas, 1996). Yet, a study in the Crédit Lyonnais archives shows that banks are not unequipped with this kind of...

This paper pursues two goals. First, it is part of broader archival research that aims to show that French Tableaux de Bord were not the invention of industrial engineers alone with support from the State, as many authors suggest (Pezet, 2007). In this paper, we highlight the emergence of...