(VF)Les structures publiques, dont les collectivités territoriales, tendent à mettre en œuvre des principes issus de la gestion du secteur privé. Des services en charge du contrôle de gestion sont-ils pour autant instaurés ou développés? Pour y répondre, nous observons les évolutions...

The recent literature on the productivity gains due to the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) has stressed the importance of the complementarities between ICT and organizational change. The ICT enable to process and diffuse a large amount of information. The reduction...

As businesses continue to globalize, attention has increasingly turned to logistics. Examines global logistics in depth, beginning with a brief overview, to provide a working context. Discusses the development of global logistics strategy, taking a bottom‐up approach. Assesses the effects of...

Predicts that in the decade ahead, the purchasing function will have to shed its service and operational perspective and take on the challenge of effective contribution to organizational goals and strategies. Describes how, in this evolution, the make or buy decision and increasing reliance on...

Examines the potential of logistics network organization to deliver synergy benefits by simultaneously improving flexibility and co‐ordination. The synergy effects of the new organization range from the economies of scale and scope in production and logistics to various “spill‐over”...

The changes required in the policies of organisations to cope with the challenges of the 1990s are discussed – managers not only as managers per se but also as entrepreneurs, the increasing competitive muscle of the Japanese, the re‐evaluation of strategies, the increase in international...

There are two types of learning in organisations: single‐loop learning is a participative process of fine tuning or refinement, occurring inside the system; double‐loop learning is an individualistic process of questioning the validity of basic assumptions, occurring outside the system....

It is argued that one of the keys to successful management is the harvesting of change. The implications of change on Australian organisations in the 1990s, a period which the author believes will be one of flat growth, are presented.

A modern democracy is being created in Scotland following the re‐establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 with new executive and scrutiny structures. This paper reports on early developments and the emergence of the Scottish Executive's organisational change programme – “Changing...