In this new book, traditional marketing approaches such as branding, customer research and competitive strategy are discarded in favour of a radical new concept: weaving a business into the fabric of society. Performance is measured by the extent to which a company addresses social values and...

Balanced Scorecard, Economic Value Added, Activity Based Costing, Activity Based Budgeting, Beyond Budgeting… Depuis vingt ans, de nouveaux outils de contrôle de gestions apparaissent régulièrement. Leurs promoteurs, consultants et / ou professeurs dans de grandes Business Schools, les...

Démonstration, avec des résultats à l'appui, que le travail d'un cadre dirigeant, ou d'un manager, ne se limite pas à l'application de techniques séparées les unes des autres. Le manager et le cadre dirigeant doivent intégrer, notamment, les diverses perspectives de la stratégie, des...

Le management interculturel est généralement associé à l’hypothèse d’un impact négatif des différences culturelles sur la dynamique des coopérations internationales. Qu’en est-il dans les faits ? Une synthèse des recherches empiriques testant ce lien permet de mettre en évidence...

Improvisation is a core dimension of crisis response. It helps organizations to deal with complexity and to figure innovative responses to crisis in a short delay. Still, our knowledge on how improvisation develops cognitively is scarce. As a result, managers miss tools that would support...

Materiality and Space focuses on how organizations and managing are bound with the material forms and spaces through which humans act and interact at work. It concentrates on organizational practices and pulls together three separate domains that are rarely looked at together: sociomateriality,...

Sociomaterial research overcomes the dichotomy between social and material worlds by concentrating on organizational practices. These practices are constituted by, but also produce, material and social dynamics. This research is currently having an important impact in management studies and...

Scholars of management and organization studies have become increasingly interested in space and spatial dynamics. The organization of space, the distribution of artifacts, and, more generally the very materiality of work, have become recognized as key dimensions of organizational life (Clegg...