In agricultural subsectors, collective organizations such as producer groups or second-degree cooperatives frequently cope with management of brand names. The success of these brand names depends upon the ability of actors to collectively create, guarantee and sustain a stream of rents based...

Research on how organizations socialize individuals largely relies on the work of Van Maanen and Schein (1979), who define six major organizational socialization (OS) tactics. The literature suggests that these tactics are key organizational variables in the sense that they encompass all the...

Balanced Scorecard, Economic Value Added, Activity Based Costing, Activity Based Budgeting, Beyond Budgeting… Depuis vingt ans, de nouveaux outils de contrôle de gestions apparaissent régulièrement. Leurs promoteurs, consultants et / ou professeurs dans de grandes Business Schools, les...

Improvisation is a core dimension of crisis response. It helps organizations to deal with complexity and to figure innovative responses to crisis in a short delay. Still, our knowledge on how improvisation develops cognitively is scarce. As a result, managers miss tools that would support...

Sociomaterial research overcomes the dichotomy between social and material worlds by concentrating on organizational practices. These practices are constituted by, but also produce, material and social dynamics. This research is currently having an important impact in management studies and...