The “knowledge governance approach” is characterized as a distinctive, emerging approach that cuts across the fields of knowledge management, organisation studies, strategy, and human resource management. Knowledge governance is taken up with how the deployment of governance mechanisms...

Constatant qu’en gestion il est souvent fait référence au terme de vision et d’entreprise ou de dirigeant “ visionnaires ”, mais que paradoxalement il n’existe pas de définitions précises de ces termes, notre recherche se propose d’effectuer une analyse de la littérature portant...

La place des middle managers dans la démarche stratégique a souvent été soulignée par la littérature stratégique (Bower, 1970 ; Burgelman 1983 ; Mintzberg 1994, Laroche 1999). Cependant, rares sont les études ayant tenté d’approfondir les caractéristiques et les déterminants de leur...

While we have been preoccupied with the latest i-gadget from Apple and with Google's ongoing expansion, we may have missed something: the fundamental transformation of whole firms and industries into giant information-processing machines. Today, more than eighty percent of workers collect and...

On s’intéresse à la standardisation de composants partiellement substituables destinés à satisfaire un ensemble de besoins. L’approche monocritère de la standardisation proposée au siècle dernier est enrichie par une prise en compte explicite de plusieurs critères et d’une...

Les lancements de nouveaux produits sont en proie à des risques d’échec très importants. Et pourtant, la plupart des travaux en sciences de gestion ont un biais en faveur du succès. Les rares auteurs qui s’intéressent néanmoins à cette question adoptent généralement une position...

Organizational routines and capabilities have become key constructs not only in evolutionary economics, but more recently also in business administration, specifically strategic management. In this chapter we explicate some of the underlying theoretical problems of these concepts, and discuss...

Micro-foundations have become an important emerging theme in strategic management. This paper addresses micro-foundations in two related ways. First, we argue that the kind of macro (or “collectivist”) explanation that is utilized in the capabilities view in strategic management ? which...

Recent research on the differentiated MNC has concerned knowledge flows between MNC units. While linking up with this literature, we extend in two directions. First, we argue that conceptualizing the MNC as a knowledge structure furthers the understanding of intra-MNC knowledge flows. Thus, we...

Making links between micro and macro levels has been problematic in the social sciences, and the literature in strategic management and organization theory is no exception. The purpose of this chapter is to raise theoretical issues in developing micro-foundations for strategic management and...