The paper dives into the controversies that make markets, exploring the processes at play behind the renewal of competitive landscape. The analysis of such processes is complex for several reasons: because they happen in environments riddled with ambiguities, because they involve temporal...

Constatant qu’en gestion il est souvent fait référence au terme de vision et d’entreprise ou de dirigeant “ visionnaires ”, mais que paradoxalement il n’existe pas de définitions précises de ces termes, notre recherche se propose d’effectuer une analyse de la littérature portant...

This article looks at the Enron affair in terms of what investors and experts fail to take into account to being able to predict Enron collapse. The authors show how analysts could have predicted Enron's difficulties in view of the incoherence observed in its strategic decisions, from the...

The implementation of management control devices in the public sector is a very difficult challenge, especially if these devices come from private sector. Through two case studies, this paper analyses how two public organizations have implemented management control systems. We point out that...

/ L'évolution du contexte agricole impose aujourd'hui une gestion de plus en plus complexe des exploitations agricoles (gestion de production, de l'environnement, de la qualité, de l'information, etc). Pour appréhender et gérer cette complexité de l'entreprise agricole et communiquer sur...

The current paper explores the use of the Resource-Based View in the analysis of the firm boundary decision. It is proposed that resources that are valuable, rare, imperfectly imitable and non-substitutable are those that have the least likelihood of being outsourced. This proposition is tested...

This research aims at studying the adaptation of an inter-organisational control configuration (in terms of strategy, structure and control) to the evolutions of the environment. The empirical research is based on a case study of a civil aerospace engine maker called Aeromotor. This motorist has...