framework for describing the development of organization over time. This concept is suitable for management and organization …

Are management tools instrumental of socialisation and of behavioural control or can they be vectors of change? Based … on four examples of the change process in companies, the author reflects on the nature and the role of management tools …, considered as sources, supports or even consequences of change. This leads him to conclude that modern management tools are …

Can the process of change be deliberate, planned and controlled in an organisation? Does the management of change … within an organisation consist in fighting the forces of resistance and stability? Not necessarily. Change creates unforeseen … confrontation between the organisation and its actors. The intentional action of change is dualistic by nature and cannot be …