What role can academics – especially in management research – have in management innovation ? Can they only be ex post critical analysts of the processes of inventing, experimenting, diffusing and implementing management models and techniques, or do they play a more active role ? From the...

Different types of markets exist throughout the world but how are they created? In this book, an interdisciplinary team of authors provide an evolutionary vision of how markets are designed and shaped. Drawing on a series of case studies, they show that markets are far from perfect and natural...

This article examines the structure of coopetition and its significance in R&D agreements. An original approach is proposed and used to account for coopetitive behaviours in six R&D consortia subsidized by the European Commission. The findings of this exploratory research show that in collective...

During the first sixty years or so of the twentieth century, a number of accounting techniques were developed for use in the management of business. One of those new techniques was budgetary control. This paper examines the dissemination and diffusion of budgetary control in France and Britain...

Démonstration, avec des résultats à l'appui, que le travail d'un cadre dirigeant, ou d'un manager, ne se limite pas à l'application de techniques séparées les unes des autres. Le manager et le cadre dirigeant doivent intégrer, notamment, les diverses perspectives de la stratégie, des...