This article describes the early development of the Human Relations School at the Harvard Business School under the leadership of Elton Mayo and Wallace Donham. It shows how both achieved early success by positioning themselves as solutions to pressing social, economic, and political issues of...

usqu'où peut-on pousser les échanges et les transferts d'outils de gestion et d'aide à la décision entre la sphère marchande et la sphère non marchande de l'économie ? C'est ce problème, au coeur du nouveau management public, qui est abordé par l'auteur à travers le cas des critères...

In this paper, I offer an ethnographic approach of the involvement of public services user in the shaping of public management reform. Drawing on a two years fieldwork in a French organization dedicated to the definition of administrative simplification reforms, I argue that this emerging set of...

This paper examines the reasons citizens would choose to accept or non-accept/reject public e-services. The approach taken was based on the model of acceptance of technology in households (MATH) and on the two factors theory. The research model was measured with data gathered in two phases, via...

The paper is based on intensive longitudinal field research. It suggests an interpretative model of territorial governement in France. Relations between national and local authorities as well as policy-making processes suggest that the centralized state has face a major decline of its hegemony...

Based on recent field research, the paper suggests an interpretative model of territorial government in France. Relations between national and local authorities as well as policy- making processes suggest that the centralized State has faced a major decline of its hegemony and that...

New factors such as governance, ownership and citizen’s participation are now a central focus of development programmes, especially in the scope of the new international poverty reduction strategies (PRSP and HIPC initiatives). To gain a better understanding of countries’ trajectories and...

Le texte réhabilite la question de la nature publique des organisations publiques. Il propose un cadre théorique et méthodologique pour ce faire. Il propose de lier la recherche sur les fonctions d'efficience et d'efficacité en matière de politiques publiques aux dynamiques d'action...