Recent studies on virtual teams reveal that team virtuality varies in a continuum and may take different degrees. Changing virtuality degrees has considerable effects on team processes and management as they generate different characteristics concerning communication dynamics and interaction...

One of the questions raised by the growing use of electronic communications is how far they have an impact on meetings functioning. Data have been collected via phone survey among a sample of 2,500 managers from 2001 to 2005. The results show that substitution between electronic and face-to-face...

Chemical industry's managers have developed since mid-1970' a management and prevention risk policy named “Responsible Care”. This policy was a first draft for a sustainable management even if these two concepts were not exactly synonymous. Through genealogy of this practice and its use in a...

This research is concerned with the diffusion of management accounting innovations viewed as a process of actor-network building and translation. The aim is to better understand the nature of accounting change. Using Actor-Network Theory (ANT), we analyze two innovations that have had different...

Budgetary control has developed in France since the 1930s. If the initial importation from the United States was rapid, subsequent development was slow. Diffusion of the technique occurred through a number of mechanisms: professional reviews, books, consultants, think tanks, and through...

In the period 1930-1960, steps toward budgetary control were taken in two of the most important French companies. In each case they were led by consulting firms with common origins but the resulting applications of control turned out to be markedly different. This diversity is difficult to...