Les médias s’accordent, comme les publics auxquels ils rapportent les événements d'urgence (catastrophes naturelles, incendies, accidents domestiques, émeutes, guerres civiles ou non, boycotts, rumeurs, krachs boursiers, etc.), pour reconnaître que certaines situations, constituent des...

This paper explores the methodological implications of non-representational approaches of organizational complexity. Representational theories focus on the syntactic complexity of systems, whereas organizing processes are predominantly characterized by semantic and pragmatic forms of complexity....

Devenir directeur de recherche à l’université… Quelles motivations ? Quelles difficultés ? Quels « sacrifices » ? L’auteur présente différents points, en particulier la pluridisciplinarité des matières et des approches, les grands types de recherche et le travail de recherche en...

La méconnaissance réciproque de deux univers constitués d’un côté par les universitaires et de l’autre par les artisans est totale. Leur origine cependant est fondamentalement comparable, le désir de comprendre et de maîtriser des phénomènes c’està- dire la connaissance et de...

Cost analysis is more implemented in public organizations. Methods and expected uses are quite similar to those encountered in the private sector, but effective uses are more difficult to assess and compare considering the wide variety of organizational context existing in the public sector.

We analyze the role of management instruments in the development of collective activity and in the dynamics of organization, recurring to pragmatic and semiotic theories. In dualist representation-based theories (rationalism, cognitivism), instruments are seen as symbolic reflections of...

In this research we explore the issue of “competence management”, as usually defined in the corporate vocabulary, mostly in the human resource (HR) function, and more particularly of “strategic competence management” (long run management of competences which are critical to achieve...

The notion of “process”, which describes the cooperation of heterogeneous practices and competences for a given output, has gained a major position in managerial practices for the last twenty years. This paper presents three ideas about organizational dynamics and processes and tests their...