Can the process of change be deliberate, planned and controlled in an organisation? Does the management of change within an organisation consist in fighting the forces of resistance and stability? Not necessarily. Change creates unforeseen confrontation between the organisation and its actors....

Are management tools instrumental of socialisation and of behavioural control or can they be vectors of change? Based on four examples of the change process in companies, the author reflects on the nature and the role of management tools, considered as sources, supports or even consequences of...

The purpose of this article is to analyse the developmental process of co-operative inter-organizational relationships that entails transactions between French firms and Moroccan subcontractors. The examined industries are : chemical, textile, agrobusiness, mechanic engineering, metallurgical...

This paper aims at understanding whether firms should engage in CSR communications towards consumers, or let independent third parties do so. A generalisable sample of 275 adults participated in an experiment, manipulating third-parties credible information (positive information, negative, or...

The goal of our research is to gain a better understanding of organizational death, by looking at it as a process. This topic of research, with such an apprroach, is not very common in the litterature. The topic of organizational decline has received very little attention from researchers in...