This article analyzes the different phases the Information Systems--Sociology relationship has gone through and points out some specific features of sociologists and Information Systems scientists in their conceptualization of Information Technology (IT). It shows that both academic fields...

Chapitre 2 : Gestion stratégique et perspective appropriative : comparaison des modes endogènes et exogènes. 1. L’appropriation des objets de gestion dans le cadre d’un management stratégique exogène : entre création et re-création de l’entreprise. 1.1. Le management stratégique...

Porte sur les objets, outils et règles de gestion des organisations, s'intéresse à la dynamique de leur appropriation par les gestionnaires et aux modalités d'évaluation et de pilotage de ce processus.

In their Organizing Vision model, Swanson and Ramiller called for more research on the relationship between inter-organizational “authorized” (legitimated) discourse on IT and organizational practices. In this paper, the research question is focused on national differences in the way...

Aux côtés de l'armée, les premières organisations ont été, pour beaucoup d'entre elles, de nature religieuse, ou en tous cas imprégnées de considérations religieuses. Les premières pratiques d'animation et de finalisation de l'action collective ont plus généralement été marquées...

Computers and software occupy an ever bigger place in an organization’s activities. Studying the social dynamics of their uses has thus become a major preoccupation for the social sciences. An overview of recent studies, in particular “structurationist” research, on this subject is...

This article puts forwards a “reorientationist” perspective about the genealogy of collective action and artefacts deployed for its orientation. It draws on the history of religion and religious organizations as elaborated by several promoters of the so-called “new history” in France....

Among all the disciplinary fields of management, strategy is potentially one of the most delicate to approach concerning the study of appropriation of management tools. Beyond this first reflexion holding with the nature of strategic management (necessarily transverse and including), predicting...

Aux côtés de l'armée, les premières organisations ont été, pour beaucoup d'entre elles, de nature religieuse, ou en tous cas imprégnées de considérations religieuses. Les premières pratiques d'animation et de finalisation de l'action collective ont plus généralement été marquées...

In their Organizing Vision model, Swanson and Ramiller called for more research on the relationship between inter-organizational “authorized” (legitimated) discourse on IT and organizational practices. In this paper, the research question is focused on national differences in the way...