Si la simulation est une méthode de recherche de moins en moins obscure en sciences de gestion, son utilisation n'en demeure pas moins peu fréquente malgré son fort potentiel. Dans une perspective à la fois méthodologique et pragmatique, cet article met l'accent sur la pertinence de cette...

This research explores a theoretical and practical paradox in megaprojects. According to transaction cost economics (Williamson, 1975) high uncertainty, high asset specificity, situated knowledge and the high frequency of transactions associated with megaprojects should drive managers to...

This research aims to identify a set of generative mechanisms which are shared by business schools' process of development in their search for strategic comparative advantage. We use a processual approach (Pettigrew, 1997) based on two detailed historical studies supported by unexplored archival...

L'objectif de cet article est de mieux comprendre les mécanismes de conduite du changement induit par un mégaprojet SI. En utilisant le contexte des Universités françaises - qualifiées d'organisations faiblement cou- plées, l'analyse qualitative d'un projet d'implantation d'un nouvel...

Readers of the Marshall Studies Bulletin are familiar with the literature on post-Marshallian economics that has advanced various different interpretations of Marshall's legacy. As Peter Groenewegen rightly points out in the introduction to his volume, study of the lives of major Marshallians,...

The impact of the technological innovations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on manual labour and workers’ welfare in industrial factories has been substantially discussed in the literature; yet still leaving the concept of ‘labour welfare’ ambiguous and unclear when...

This paper provides a critical review of the ‘state of the art’ of institutional analysis applied essentially by social-ecological economists in the environmental domain. It highlights both areas of strength and issues where there is still room for improvement in analytical terms, by...