Sous la poussée de la mondialisation, les restructurations industrielles ont évolué vers des formes de mutations plus continues des entreprises. Parallèlement les formes d'action de l'Etat ont changé : dans les restructurations " à l'ancienne ", l'Etat, souvent actionnaire, intervenait de...

Various social science disciplines are currently witnessing a revival of theoretical approaches based on management instruments. The common feature of these approaches is that they consider management instruments as a starting point to study organized, strategic action. This article introduces a...

The construction sector is often characterized as a reactive sector, as lagging behind other sectors of the economy, notably industry, when it comes to innovation; as mechanically responding to external (client) needs and implementing innovations that originate elsewhere (Winch 1998, Harty...

Judging from the number of communities and cities striving or claiming to be sustainable and how often eco-development is invoked as the means for urban regeneration, it appears that sustainable and eco-development have become "the leading paradigm within urban development" (Whitehead 2003). But...

Scientists collaborate to acquire new competencies and to access to scientific equipment that they require to perform research. Since the development of genomics and tools for "mass gene and protein exploration", instrumentation has become more and more resource-consuming, making sharing...

Although the concept of exploration has been widely used in management research since James March's seminal article, the literature on exploration remains rather fuzzy. The question of exploration is dominated by the literature on ambidexterity but this research actually says little about...

La gestion collective des plates-formes technologiques est l'un des enjeux des politiques publiques dans les sciences de la vie en France, qui leur assigne la double mission de contribuer à produire des connaissances nouvelles et de réaliser des transferts technologiques vers l'industrie....

Les acteurs, publics comme privés, conçoivent des stratégies de coopération pour développer de nouvelles compétences et avoir accès aux équipements nécessaires à une production scientifique de qualité. On assiste alors à un enchaînement de décisions stratégiques prises par des...