Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to work on the relational innovation. Innovation is a key factor in understanding organizations. Emerged as a growth paradigm, it is a good indicator of their priorities. Considered in a more pragmatic way, it has been noticed that other forms of innovation...

Différentes recherches en gestion ont attribué un rôle important a l’utilisation de l’intuition par les dirigeants dans leurs pratiques organisationnelles. Les dirigeants, eux meme, confessent de plus en plus, etre enclin, face a un environnement turbulent, a se fier a leurs intuitions....

This theoretical article based on economy and management is trying to underline the limits of the GDP as well as the limits of the gross national happiness. Our contribution is to look after a different way to look at the creation of the relations (in a positive or a negative way) in the process...

This theoretical paper is based on previous articles written by the author. Indeed, we believe that the organizations must be analyzed beyond the classic opposition between mechanistic and organic organizations (Burn and Stakler, 1961 Wine et al., 2006). The organizations in the health sector...

The role of entrepreneurs is highly regarded in our societies. It is widely recognized that their roles are not limited to the private sector, but can affect all sectors of the economy. In view of this, we focus on entrepreneurs acting in the healthcare sector. We concentrate more particularly...

There is in France and more generally in Europe a paradox. In the agro industry business, the use of biotechnology is suspicious and controversy (see for example the emblematic case of GMOs), the subject is little debate in the health sector. Yet, in those two sectors, the production process of...

A network is an organizational form for collective action whose main fea-tures rest on the variety and intensity of relations between actors. We rely on the work of Austrian sociologist Friedberg, for an integrated analysis of organization studies. Studying a healthcare network located in...

Capitalisation of the history of a technology, a technique or a concept within an industrial company is relevant to historians. However it largely exceeds the historical problems from a Knowledge Management point of view. In this context, it can be the subject of specific approaches especially...

La capitalisation de l'histoire d'une technologie, d'une technique ou d'un concept au sein d'une organisation industrielle est a priori du ressort des historiens. Cependant elle dépasse largement la problématique historique quand elle s'inscrit dans une perspective de Knowledge Management....

A l'aide d'une étude exploratoire, nous cherchons à comprendre pourquoi l'externalisation hospitalière est peu utilisée. Nous montrons que les acteurs ne sont en majorité pas hostiles au principe d'externalisation. Toutefois, celui-ci peut causer une rupture dans la conception que les...