action and action taking. Four main perspectives of administration and management are currently influential for further …

This article analyzes the different phases the Information Systems--Sociology relationship has gone through and points … an historical analysis of sociology itself. It shows the great comeback of the Object within the sociological field at … the beginning of the 80s. Different models have been developed from the generalized kinds of sociology to those that have …

interpretation is based on two branches of sociology. The sociology of professions makes it possible to understand the genesis of the … strategy of survival. The sociology of innovation proposes to interpret the Statutory Audit Premium as a project hustling the …

: traditional state planning and the more recent New Public Management. In fact, the “Hôpital Patients Santé Territoires” (Hospital … regional health agency management is entangled and how it tries to accommodate them in its everyday professional activity …

For the Academics there is a difference between the teaching of management control and the practice of controllers. Why … this distinction ? This paper shows that management control is a management performance process. The management control …

economics of assembling and the economics of knowledge management. Our framework attempts to identify the principal trade …

Can the process of change be deliberate, planned and controlled in an organisation? Does the management of change … the management of change must be viewed as a process of the management of ambivalence. This challenges much conventional …

assess the management of the 2007--2009 banking crisis within the EU against this backdrop. In a nutshell, we find that …

Are management tools instrumental of socialisation and of behavioural control or can they be vectors of change? Based … on four examples of the change process in companies, the author reflects on the nature and the role of management tools …, considered as sources, supports or even consequences of change. This leads him to conclude that modern management tools are …