Lately, "conventional" firms have been roughly criticized for both the legitimacy of shareholder value and the production of negative externalities that affect society. In the crisis context, "alternative" firms are often presented as candidates to design renewed organizations. However, there is...

In a period of economic and legitimacy crises for firms, there is a current appeal on alternative firms to the conventional capitalist and hierarchical one, especially ones with a democratic form such as cooperatives. But for a long time the "degeneration" pattern of democratic firms, namely...

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...

In this paper, we contribute to the study of the heterogeneity of professional service firms through an extreme case, by investigating the conditions of the existence and sustainability of democratic forms of organizing in a professional setting. To do so, we studied DemEx, a long-standing mid...

Ce rapport de recherche porte sur la problématique de l'accompagnement et du soutien des aidants non professionnels de personnes âgées. A partir d'une revue de littérature et d'études de cas approfondis sur six territoires français, l'étude propose des contributions sur la manière...

Stakeholder perspectives on crisis management provide a useful descriptive framework for analyzing crises and making crisis narratives. However, their "actionability" for crisis management, i.e. possibility to use stakeholder management models into operational crisis management processes,...

In this paper, we investigate how consulting professionals handle the expectations of excellence that are coming from both their clients and their firms as well as the individual strategies they go on to develop in relation with their initial motivations to join consulting and the evolution of...

La crise de ce qui est couramment appelé l' "ascenseur social" revient régulièrement dans les médias. Elle interroge les politiques de RSE et de manière plus générale les modèles de cohésion sociale des grandes entreprises dans un contexte mêlant crise de l'emploi, allongement des...

In the Public management debate on a post/beyond New Public Management phase, there has been a stream of research on public sector employees. Our paper investigates the role of public sector employees in the actual "government revival". Strategy as Practice appears as a particularly relevant...

Quels sont les facteurs de succès pour la mise en place de " fonctions de coordination " pérennes qui puissent améliorer le parcours des personnes en besoin d'aide à l'autonomie et leur prise en charge ? Le rapport présente des éléments répondant à cette question