[eng] Several authors of the economics of contracts have been studying personnel management for a few years. This paper aims at taking stock of the way these economists analyze « governance devices of personnel ». First of all, we identify the trends in which the two main theories - i.e. the...

Several analysts of changes in firms have been tackling the question of the relations between authority and human resource management devices for about fifteen years. This paper aims at shedding light on this matter from an economic standpoint. Taking contractual theories applied to human...