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....

In the IS field there has been an ongoing tradition to study the publication output of the community in order to evaluate the current and potential situation of IS research. In this work, we follow a different strategy and study what IS research claims to be. We look at those so-called 'espoused...

In this paper, we attempt to integrate the traditionally disparate concepts of technology design, use and organizational practice in organizational studies. Using Jean-Daniel Reynaud’s joint-regulation theory, we demonstrate how these traditionally separate perspectives on ICT-related practice...

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...

La plupart des travaux sur les processus de structuration ou d'appropriation des innovations dans les organisations laissent de côté le problème des dyschronies. Ils ne prennent pas en compte les différences dans la nature, le rythme et la temporalité des changements qui cohabitent au sein...

Community on the Watch: Making Sense of IS Research through the Lens of Espoused Theories of IS In the IS field there has been an ongoing tradition to study the publication output of the community in order to evaluate the current and potential situation of IS research. In this work, we follow a...

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...

Wishing to break with a design-use dichotomy still heavily present in the study of the management tools, the article introduces various theoretical framework of management sciences by integrating them from an "appropriative perspective".The first part develops the object and the problems of the...

The main objective of this article is to integrate different levels of analysis that are focused on the study of the appropriation process of computerized tools. Two main research trends are namely identified. The first one studies appropriation on the institutional level. It will be presented...

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...