L'hypothèse centrale de l'article tient à la capacité d'apprentissage des entreprises ainsi qu'à la capacité des acteurs à créer des incertitudes pour « inventer » des ressources stratégiques. Réfutant une partie des analyses de M. Crozier, cette étude met en évidence le caractère...

Changing working practices is a complex process. Using sociological concepts regarding organizations and innovation, this thesis explores the social dynamics involved in technical decisions surrounding the care of soil and the protection of vines. Using a qualitative analysis of professional...

L’innovation qui s’appuie sur un processus créateur doit faire appel aux apprentissages des employés et à leur capacité à coopérer ensemble. En effet, ce sont les véritables apprentissages organisationnels et culturels, ainsi que des actions de personnes transgressant l’ordre...

Network industries are now characterized by a regime of permanent innovation, while they continue to be fixed and sunk cost industries, due to the high level of investments in R&D and infrastructures. Players in these industries need to coordinate their investments; hence a threat of collusion....

The question of financing innovative small business is determinant in the current context. Giving the share that they represent in the market, they contribute to increase productivity of the economy. The problems of financing the SME’s are related to the almost intangible specificity of their...

In attempting to protect their innovations, firms can choose from a range of mechanisms, which may be either non-statutory (trade secrets, design complexity, and lead-time advantage over competitors) or statutory (patent, design registration, trademark, copyright). Yet, little is known about how...

The objective of this thesis is the positive and normative analysis of the organization of military research, development and technology, in France, in the present period. The research tackles theoretical and empirical questions related to knowledge economics and the organisation of R&D. It is...