For more than 20 years the Nordic scholars have been major contributors to the advancement of knowledge in orgganization studies. Four aspects are considered: they are both global oriented and locally embedded, they combine disciplinary roots with interdisciplinary openess, they are functioning...

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...

/ 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...

This paper deals with the concept of compromise in organization studies. The concept of compromise is often mobilized in discourses. Nevertheless, it seems difficult to comprehend this concept, while it can help us to enhance our understanding about organization structuring. The aim is to...

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...

Public service motivation is often considered as an argument for low- powered incentive schemes in the public sector. In this paper, we characterize the optimal contract between a public regulator and an altruistic agent according to the degree of public service motivation, when the type of the...