Les recherches en sciences de gestion des dernières décennies ont fréquemment interrogé la notion de virtualité. L’essentiel des contributions a concerné les opportunités que les progrès technologiques liés à l’information et à la communication ont offertes aux entreprises....

This paper analyses the potentially defensive behaviour of patent race winners and its effect on aggregate R&D effort. It proposes a quality-ladders model that endogenously determines leaders technology advantages and who innovates. Product market regulation can have either a positive or a...

L'implantation du Lean à l'hôpital suscite des débats sur les conséquences de cette nouvelle forme d'organisation du travail pour les professionnels qui y travaillent. L'objectif de cet article est d'en rendre compte de manière théorique et pratique. Après avoir défini les principes du...

Is an implementation of a management control system in a public company a lever of change ? A case study was carried out with the French National Railway Company between 1996 and 1998. The management control adapts to the strategic and structural change. The objectives are to decentralize the...

This paper examines the impact of corporate governance on the performance of 450 privatized firms in Vietnam. To study the effect of changes in management and the role of state ownership on the performance of privatized firms, we utilize a panel of 450 Vietnamese firms privatized over the...

Most of the research work concerning the French tableau de bord tends to locate its birth in industrial companies with engineers as lead roles and the State as supporting role (Lebas, 1996). Yet, a study in the Crédit Lyonnais archives shows that banks are not unequipped with this kind of...

L'article met en relief la passivité des cadres dirigeants du ministère de l'Équipement face à la décentralisation de 1981-2 et leurs raisons. Il détaille les cadres cognitifs dominants dans les services extérieurs. Il resitue les transferts de compétence et les adaptations dans une...

Identification of employees to their organization is a challenging managerial issue particularly in the context of organizational change. From a review of the research on identification theories and an exploratory study of a French railway company (SNCF), the authors propose to explore how...