This work studies the seniority and the hierarchical level of product champions. The hierarchical level is positively correlated to the size of investment of the innovation projects and the level of seniority is positively associated to the most innovative projects. The seniority of champions...

In our context, a good-reputation manager favors risk when being perceived as good allows to be promoted while risk is observable but not verifiable. Indeed, it renders more difficult the learning process regarding her talent. In turn, this lowers her level of effort since the extent to which...

Postmodernism has received much more attention in anglo-saxon litterature on organizations than in french-speaking research. Referring here to Postmodernism as a style of thinking, we discuss about the nature of the postmodern proposition in organization studies. Postmodern research proposes new...

This study examines the relationship between the status and seniority of product champions, their cultural context and the ability of product champions to enlist top management support for an innovation project. Based on a sample of 82 French and 101 German champions, this work suggests that the...

This paper presents the application of an approach designed to evaluate non-financial performance in companies. Within a defined perimeter, the approach called EPISSURE produces an ‘evaluation of non-financial performance with a hierarchical set of synthesis indicators co-constructed during a...

Chaque cas fait l'objet d'un récit et débouche sur des questions pour stimuler la réflexion. Une note pédagogique permet ensuite au lecteur étudiant de vérifier son acquisition des compétences, au lecteur professionnel de se demander s'il aurait fait comme le suggère la note pédagogique...