At the end of the 1980’s, Callon and Latour started a new school of thought which is indifferently named, Sociology of Translation, Sociology of Innovation, Translation Theory or Actor Network Theory. The starting point of their work was mostly philosophical and epistemological: they...

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...

The IT revolution is already a reality for companies of advanced nations and for many emerging nations as well such as the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China). But what about companies of other nations ? Our paper fills a gap by questioning the drivers of IT adoption and especially the role...

This work in progress paper aims to contribute to the literature on the cognitive foundations of capability development. Extant research acknowledges that capabilities are rooted in taken for granted conventions that are both a source of distinctiveness but may potentially also give rise to...

This article in progress aims to understand the role of culture in the way middle managers promote Information Technologies (IT) and technological change. To gain new insights, this paper presents an approach of change and of culture based on the theory of the strategic actor of Crozier and...

Articles présentés lors d'une journée de recherche à l'Institut de recherche en gestion de l'Université Paris XII Val-de-Marne. Quatre thèmes sont développés : la routinisation et l'institutionnalisation, la dualité du structurel, l'acteur compétent et les phénomènes émergents.