Theoretical explanations of the decision to outsource typically range from functionalism (search for efficiency) to institutionalism (search for legitimacy). Up to date, most empirical studies on the subject have been carried out relying on secondary data sources and are generally inspired by...

Sensemaking practices are a core activity for strategizing in organizations. Managers can use various types of objects to shape sense in a project. We propose an integrative framework to analyse the sensemaking practices at work in a real estate project. Our results provide a better...

The current competition game implies processes like alliances with competitors, inclusion of customers and suppliers at early stages of innovation, relations with States, or anticipation of public acceptance. At the heart of all these processes and many others, information processing has become...

Francophone organizational scholarship has been neglected by Anglophone researchers. The development of the Francophone field can be understood in terms of both epoch and episteme. Three epochs are discernible - foundations, architecture, and building/rebuilding. There are also two epistemes....

This conceptual paper introduces various models to describe and pilot complexity across organizations, through a compared study on three objects: the town, the IS and the firm. We suggest three organizational models which follow each other in the time: the feudal model, the functionalist model,...

La turbulence exacerbée des environnements et l'internationalisation ont remis en cause la pertinence des structures classiques des grandes entreprises. Les processus de gestion sont repensés selon des modèles transversaux caractérisés par la coordination horizontale, la flexibilité, le...

This papers aims at understanding the role of sense when actors improvise during crisis. Literature about improvisation show little explanation of how individual improvisation becomes collective and coherent. The use of the concept of sense as a bridge between crisis and improvisation enable us...