Dans le présent chapitre, nous nous efforcerons d'explorer la question de la mise en scène en focalisant notre attention sur le rôle du consultant en management. Ce dernier, nous le verrons, est utilisé par le manager comme un adjuvant précieux dans la fabrique quotidienne de la stratégie....

Interest in organizations first appeared between World War I and World War II, with the American studies led by Mayo. Since then, interest has grown and spread to most industrialized countries. In the sixties, in Anglo-Saxon countries and especially in the United States where research was first...

A travers l'analyse de la conception et de la mise en œuvre d'un projet d’administration, ce cas vise à mettre en lumière les problèmes et enjeux de la déclinaison et du pilotage d'une stratégie dans le contexte public. Après avoir présenté les composantes et enjeux du pilotage...

The field of strategy is bubbling over with ideas. As such, this field has given rise to multiple distinctions and oppositions showing that strategy is not only a rationale science, but also a complex, iterative and practice-oriented art. Nonetheless, these oppositions may tend to interrogate...

The strategic value-curve approach has been widely acclaimed for at least ten years as a major innovation in the strategic field ; it meets a great success in many industries, based on its authors’ –Kim & Mauborgne- promise to make the competition irrelevant. The approach relies on a graphic...

We propose a theory to manage the relation between strategic choice, chance and inevitability. To do so, we locate arguments in intellectual history and complexity science that have a clear bearing on this relation, and suggest that strategic choice, chance and inevitability are reciprocally...

One of the requirements for a strategy to be successful is the use of the proper management system to implement it. The purpose of this paper is to report on an empirical investigation dealing with this issue. Specifically the research attempts to answer the following general questions: Do...

Environmental information is very important to strategic management. Human sources are among the most commonly used sources of information and among them, boundary people, such as salesman, hold a privileged position. One dimension which measures the quality of a strategic response is its speed...