Les technologies de l’information constituent une des dimensions essentielles de l’émergence de l’entreprise virtuelle. Depuis une décennie, plu- sieurs vagues successives d’applications se sont succédées : groupware, messagerie, Internet, progi- ciel de gestion intégré,...

With Internet being used by companies, the concept of virtual company is commonly used to describe the fact that companies rely more and more on IT. The main issue of this paper is to assess the effecti- veness of this concept by an empirical study of 357 french companies. We attempt to...