The aim of this paper is to understand how rebellion is an ambivalent phenomenon in organization which alienates and liberate at the same time. Michel Foucault’s approach of power in organization is used to determine the distinctive characteristic of this special kind of rebellion. Two...

Due to a tax law implemented in 1998, Dutch employers can claim an extra tax deduction when they train employees aged 40 years or older. This causes a discontinuity in a firm's cost of training an employee. We exploit this discontinuity to identify two effects: the effect of the tax deduction on...

This paper reports about a randomized field experiment in which first year economics and business students at the University of Amsterdam could earn financial rewards for passing the first year requirements within one year. Participants were assigned to a high, low and zero (control) reward...

The aim of this paper is to understand how rebellion is an ambivalent phenomenon in organization which alienates and liberate at the same time. Michel Foucault’s approach of power in organization is used to determine the distinctive characteristic of this special kind of rebellion. Two...

L’apprentissage organisationnel, étudié notamment dans les théories basées sur les ressources, revêt un caractère stratégique (Wernerfelt 1984, Prahalad et Hamel 1990, Doz 1990, Teece 1998, Weartherly 2003). Dès lors, « apprendre à apprendre » (Argyris et Schön, 1978) et être une...

Fondé sur une étude de cas au sein de la conduite nucléaire française, cet article vise à proposer un éclairage sur la possible antinomie entre règles et identité professionnelles. Nous proposons de rapprocher deux grilles de lecture du comportement humain en organisation, largement...