The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has in recent years devoted considerable resources to the study of productivity trends in the OECD area. In this article, Dirk Pilat, a senior economist at the OECD provides an overview of the key results of this research effort....

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...