We study how managers respond to hurricane events when their firms are located in the neighborhood of the disaster area. We find that the sudden shock to the perceived liquidity risk leads managers to increase corporate cash holdings and to express more concerns about hurricane risk in...

In incentive-alignment choice experiments, each decision is realized with some prob- ability prob 1. Incentive alignment induces truth telling, i.e., respondents do not consciously lie, given the information they have processed. However, based on the psychological distance literature and the...

On the basis of the recent concepts of epistemic communities and communities of practice, we show that the firm can be defined according to a form of double duality: cognitive and organisational. The interest of this approach is to put ahead the differentiated behavior from the manager and the...

(VF)Après la vague d’information, les normes ISO 9000 constituent sans aucun doute l’effort organisationnel le plus important ces dix dernières années permettant de rendre visibles les savoirs de l’entreprise. Mais on sait encore peu de choses sur les conséquences de cette codification...

The aim of this paper is to study the implementation and the effectiveness of self-managing teams in a huge industrial plant. We suggest a language-based approach for analysing the dynamic of these teams. We underline, indeed, that the main consequences of the implementation of self-managing...

In this article, we apply the organizational architecture theory to the total quality management (TQM) to understand the complexity and the mechanisms of its working and its efficiency. We show that the role played by TQM in the value creating requires a profound analysis of the profits and the...

It was the title chosen in January 2004 for the 12 pages of the "Agreste" restitution of the primary results obtained through this second investigation, to the partners and interviewed firms, which was intended to question the evolutions of the regional agro-food sphere over 5 years (1998-2003)....

Le réseau représente une forme d’organisation qui suppose la double représentation par des flux d’informations parallèles à des flux de relations (Pesqueux, 2002). Les réseaux d’entreprises, en particulier, sont caractérisés par l’utilisation de systèmes d’information...