Opinion – Gift, ungratefulness and management. Suicide and desengagement at work The gift theory as it was elaborated by Mauss and his successors helps to understand that the plant represents a place of social ties production, as well as a place for goods production. These ties, which produce...

E-leadership has emerged in virtual team literature as an important determinant of relationship building. However, the way e-leaders develop high quality relationship between virtual team members is little understood. The purpose of this paper is to identify the key roles that enable virtual...

The purpose of this paper is to identify the key roles that enable e-leaders to build high-quality exchanges with their team members. We use behavioral complexity theory to analyze the roles played by leaders of virtual teams, and helping them to develop effective leader-member exchanges (LMX)....

This chapter investigates the role of e-leaders in building and maintaining collective awareness within virtual teams. The authors examine the effects of behavioral leadership orientation on collective awareness building. The study explores the bi-dimensional structure of both collective...

Adapting firms to change relies heavily on the small initiatives taken by operatives in the field or on the line. A group ingenuity is thus produced that can be interpreted in the light of the theory of gift-giving, whence a major issue for management: how to take advantage of unremunerated...

Norbert Alter explains here the utility and topicality of Marcel Mauss’ theory in an analysis touching both on cooperation within a business structure and on people’s commitment to work. He reviews the heuristic qualities and critical scope that must be mobilised to create ways of...