This paper proposes to revisit the debate on the theory of the firm using motivation theory as the primary analytical tool.

Middle managers’ shared understanding of organizational priorities is a key determinant of successful goal implementation. In this paper, we analyze whether involving middle managers in the strategic planning process and communicating the agreed-upon goals to them afterwards reduce the bias of...

The importance of H.A. Simon's contribution to understand the relations between organization science and management.

Subjective assessment of an activity perception through an ergonomic approach.

This paper articulates a theory of the conditions under which the alignment between individual and collective interests generates sustainable competitive advantage. The theory is based on the influence of tacitness, context-specificity and casual ambiguity in the determinants of different types...

This paper aims to provide an answer to the question of out-of-stock events (OOS), their frequency, the sales losses they generate, and their causes. The authors provide two contributions. They describe a new sales-based measure of OOS computed on the basis of store-level scanner data and...

In this paper, the authors derive a typology of five parental altruistic archetypes that exhausts the possible altruistic influences in the governance at family firms. They argue that when taken in concert, these five types comprise a more balanced explanation of the cross-sectional variance in...

This book is an attempt to construct a classification (or division) of intangibles, consisting of a diversity of approaches that deals with this concept. It includes eleven papers which have been divided into three sections based on their approach and what we can learn from them: (1) regulation...

Planning and management control in France in 1998, the major changes in the management control systems.

This paper analyzes the way of thinking of the managers when they have to take a decision on a complex situation.