Taking part in the debate on the impact of scholarship, this article suggests a heuristic framework for possible knowledge exchanges between the figures of practitioners and the figures of researchers. A typology of the modes of knowledge exchange is proposed, combining both temporality,...

Literature on linguistic highlights that metaphors can be either particularizing or generalizing (Eco, 1988) placing the reader in either a concrete or an abstract mindset. Effectiveness of gain versus loss framed messages has been proven to be dependent on state of mind (White et al., 2011)....

The dynamic capability view (DCV) addresses how firms renew their competences to respond to shifting environmental conditions. However, this view continues to suffer from theoretical and methodological limitations that constrain empirical investigation. This paper argues that whether a firm...

To achieve sustainability, corporations need to shift their ontology: leave the classic, static and predetermined view of the firm to a dynamic, relational and deliberative one. This paper explores the historical content of a proto-sustainable situation and proposes a theoretical framework to...

This paper examines the centralised monitoring of an upstream supply chain (USC) in the context of a mass customisation production system. We propose an adaptation of the material requirement planning framework to manage demand uncertainty at each stage of the USC. New analytical relations that...

Il est important de montrer la difficulté du chemin qui peut mener de l'adoption de la norme ISO 26000 jusqu'à sa mise en œuvre des entreprises, qui requiert un processus d'appropriation de la part des organisations. Un tel processus d'appropriation exige de proposer une vision organisatrice,...