Restructuring practices belong to today's organizational life. Even if the phenomenon is not new it significantly evolved over time, both in terms of motives and in terms of expressions, from major events to permanent practices, from crisis to competitiveness restructurings, from reactive to...

Identity construction (IC) cannot be reduced to discourses, nor to individual responsibility. Alvesson & Wilmott (2002) suggest two main processes of identity construction : identity regulation (IR, the discursive practices of identity definition) and identity work (IW, the interpretive...

L’art est-il susceptible d’apporter une connaissance nouvelle sur les restructurations ? C'est autour de cette question que s'est construit le projet de recherche européen qui est à la base de cet article. Nous nous proposons de rendre compte des premiers résultats de ce programme de...

Restructuring practices belong to today's organizational life. Even if the phenomenon is not new it significantly evolved over time, both in terms of motives and in terms of expressions, from major events to permanent practices, from crisis to competitiveness restructurings, from reactive to...

This article presents the results of a study on the evolution of modes of control between buyers and suppliers in the Maurienne valley in the nineties. The social control which had prevailed until then was replaced by a market control. Due to the rationalisation of the costs in the buying firms,...

Trust control in buyer-supplier relationships is both powerful ... and fragile. From a case study concerning buyer-supplier relationships in the Maurienne valley (France), we study a process of breach of trust control, its causes and its consequences for the partners. It brings out that trust...

Bien que son oeuvre ait été pendant longtemps négligée, Mary Parker Follett apparaît comme l'une des premières grandes théoriciennes des organisations. Auteur au carrefour de la philosophie, du droit, de la psychologie, des sciences politiques, elle développe une conception de...