Purpose – This paper aims to provide a more nuanced image of cooperation in France, first, insisting on the idiosyncratic conditions under which French will be likely to cooperate, and, second, pointing the importance of the local context, finally criticizing the average stereotyped image...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to clarify the relationship between language, thinking and society for explaining the degree of visibility of the French organizational studies (OS) production. Design/methodology/approach – This paper proposes a sociological analysis based on Bourdieu...

Corporate Governance and Management Control Systems are two research fields that are concerned to a certain degree with the same problems. Yet the literature in both fields takes rarely notice of each other and the relationship between them. In this paper we argue that Corporate Governance is...

Ce manuel analyse les stratégies et leur déploiement à la lumière des mutations les plus récentes. Illustré par de nombreux exemples, chaque chapitre précise les problématiques fondamentales ainsi que les compétences clés à acquérir et propose des mini-cas. Clair et pédagogique,ce...

Cet article présente les résultats d'une enquête réalisée en 2002, auprès d'un échantillon d'entreprises françaises cotées à la Bourse de Paris, et portant sur leur comportement face aux risques financiers. Le questionnaire adressé aux entreprises permet d'apporter des réponses à...

Interest in organizations first appeared between World War I and World War II, with the American studies led by Mayo. Since then, interest has grown and spread to most industrialized countries. In the sixties, in Anglo-Saxon countries and especially in the United States where research was first...

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...