In most companies managers have to cope with an ever increasing mass of information to deal with, along with coordination problems that are also more and more complex due to the multiplicity of time units and places. Among the tools managers have to hand is e-mailing, which is the most commonly...

Une analyse de l'impact du Web 2.0 sur les organisations, basée sur une veille, une revue de littérature académique et sur des exemples d'entreprises. Il en résulte une présentation du concept selon quatre points de vue : la plateforme, le many-to-many, le réseau communautaire et l'émergent.

Steering systems must ensure the deployment of the strategy throughout the organization whose perimeters can vary according to strategic actions. These systems rely increasingly on management tools, but few truly meet the specific needs of new configurations as the extended organzation nor do...

This conceptual paper introduces various models to describe and pilot complexity across organizations, through a compared study on three objects: the town, the IS and the firm. We suggest three organizational models which follow each other in the time: the feudal model, the functionalist model,...

The diffusion of ICT in small businesses remains low (only 12% of small businesses in France have a website for performing online transactions, Eurostat 2010). One issue is whether ICT can be used effectively by these small structures and how the use of technology can improve the competitive...

In most companies managers have to cope with an ever increasing mass of information to deal with, along with coordination problems that are also more and more complex due to the multiplicity of time units and places. Among the tools managers have to hand is e-mailing, which is the most commonly...

This conceptual paper proposes to identify and to characterize a new model to describe and pilot complexity across organizations, through a compared study on three objects : the town, the IS and the firm. After a summary of the principles of the functionalist model, we underline how the...

Depuis plusieurs années, les entreprises doivent faire face à une forte complexification de leur environnement en raison d’une intensité concurrentielle exacerbée et d’une masse croissante d’informations à traiter. L’une de leurs réponses se matérialise dans l’utilisation des...

The electronic marketplaces, as an inter- organisational information system, are not limited to a simple transactional dimension. Indeed, those having survived the consolidation phase gradually widened their functions and contribute to a new competing dynamics. The latter is at the origin of the...