The proliferation of articles in the press, the media, and on the Internet demonstrate a real interest in the Web 2.0 phenomenon. The concept can be seen as a new step in the development of the Internet network as evidenced by its “2.0” label, in opposition to Web 1.0. All the same, it is...

Évoluer d’un modèle fonctionnel à une forme d’organisation multipolaire impose aux firmes une profonde remise en question de leur management

Collaborative technologies (corporate social networks, Wiki platforms, groupware, etc.) are often considered as one of the most important developments in the business world. Although the perception of managers is positive in the majority of studies carried out (Andriole, 2010), the concrete...

We can assume that for several years, online business-to-business relations have played a key part in the way firms organise their business and their relational networks. The main issue has been the emergence of new intermediaries which reorganise business and management process throughout the...

This conceptual paper proposes to identify and to characterize a new model to describe and pilot complexity across organizations, through a compared study on three objects : the town, the IS and the firm. After a summary of the principles of the functionalist model, we underline how the...