Ne sont répertoriés ici que des ouvrages ou articles de périodiques non cités par les intervenant... more Ne sont répertoriés ici que des ouvrages ou articles de périodiques non cités par les intervenants. BIBLIOGRAPHIE I. NOUVEAUX OUTILS DE COMMUNICATION. Ouvrages.
De manière plus générale, les travaux d’Edith Penrose ont souvent été associés à l’approche manag... more De manière plus générale, les travaux d’Edith Penrose ont souvent été associés à l’approche managériale, développée au départ par Baumol (1959, 1962), Marris (1964) et Williamson (1964, 1970), puis par des auteurs plus jeunes tel que Mueller (1969, 1972). Ces approches sont souvent divisées en trois grandes catégories qualifiées respectivement (1) d’approches en matière de discrétion managériale, qui regroupent notamment William Baumol et Oliver Williamson, (2) d’approches par la croissance, ..
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Jun 9, 2021
This research focuses on the role of blockchain technology as a vector of inter-organizational tr... more This research focuses on the role of blockchain technology as a vector of inter-organizational trust in a reconfiguring ecosystem phase. Using qualitative analysis of data mainly from semistructured interviews, this study focuses primarily on the deployment of this emerging technology within a connected automotive ecosystem. Based on the notion of "trust-mediator technology", we show how blockchain technology is perceived as an institutional technology offering a new form of governance for all transactions and exchanges between the ecosystem actors. Although the functionalities offer automation to reduce the use of trusted third parties, preliminary results still show a strong commitment to current governance systems, such as regulatory and contractual frameworks. Ecosystem actors consider that complementarity between traditional institutional structures and decentralised blockchain is paramount for the success of any cooperation and collaboration on data on a connected vehicle.
This article seeks to provide a better understanding of the history of Industrial Organization (I... more This article seeks to provide a better understanding of the history of Industrial Organization (IO). More precisely, it stresses the specific influence Oxford economists had between 1952 and 1979 on the developments of modern trends in the discipline. This work focuses on three main sub-fields of IO, namely, the empirical approach to concrete forms of organization prevailing in the managerial world, the impact of information and knowledge on the discipline, and the use of game theory within IO.
GREDEG (FRANCE) where she obtained her Ph.D. in Management in 2009. She also holds a D.Phil. in M... more GREDEG (FRANCE) where she obtained her Ph.D. in Management in 2009. She also holds a D.Phil. in Modern History (2011) from the University of Oxford. Her major research interests are: the history of management and the role of digital artefacts and practices in social organization. Her recent work in history of management has been published in Entreprises et Histoires and History of Economic Ideas. Leonard MINKES is Emeritus Professor of Business Organisation in the University of Birmingham. Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, he has lectured in universities, management centres in industry, and other organisations, and has acted as a consultant on business topics and management training in Britain and overseas. He also spent part of his career in the Economic Commission for Europe of the United Nations. From 1974-1980, he was a non-executive member of the Midlands Postal Board in Britain and from 1975-1983, he served on the Council of the Birmingham Chamber of Industry and Commerce. He has published widely in books and journals, especially in the areas of business behaviour and strategic management.
This article aims to understand the process of production of knowledge in the field of business o... more This article aims to understand the process of production of knowledge in the field of business organization and economics of the firm. The particular feature of this work is that the acquisition of this type of knowledge is greatly assisted by the developments of conversations between academics and industrialists. This key idea is derived from the historical analysis of three early seminars in which this dialog took place. In particular, we look at a method which has been applied in England during the period late 1940s to early 1970s in the following academic seminars: The Seminar in Problems of Administration at the LSE set up and ran by Ronald Edwards (1947-1972); The Industrial Seminar at Birmingham University set up by Leonard Minkes with Philip Sargant Florence as Chairman (late 1950s-1972); and the B.Phil. Seminar in Economics of Industry at the University of Oxford set up by Philip W. Andrews and co-chaired with Elizabeth Brunner (1957-1974). By the mid-1970s, these three seminars ceased to exist and left room to the rapid development of management studies, on the one hand, and to the formalization of industrial economics (game theory), on the other hand. To a large extent, although of different nature, these three seminars reflected a shared effort to provide an empirical approach to the understanding of firms and industries with a particular emphasise on business behaviour and decision-making. This form of empiricism did not only consist of collecting facts but, rather, showed the importance of exchange and dialogues between academics and industrialists which led to a better understanding of economic policy and dynamics of firms. This approach contrasted with the Harvard case study method and with modern seminars in Business Schools. Overall, this article discusses the relevance of conversation between academics and business (wo)men. An historical approach is developed to provide a better understanding of the nature and use of this dialogue. Hence, this article naturally falls into three parts. The first part consists of a general discussion about the idea of empiricism in the field of business organization at a conceptual level. It also contextualizes the three seminars in the broader tendency of empiricism in the UK before and during this period. The second part of the article offers a detailed analysis of the three seminars based on archival sources and one of the author's main recollections (especially in relation to the seminar in Birmingham). The third and last part of this work discusses the validity of our main proposition regarding the use of this kind of approach in modern understanding of organizations dynamics. It also questions the abandonment of such a method in recent developments in business organisation. This work combines both primary and secondary sources. Primary sources were found in the very substantial archives of the Edwards Seminar at LSE and in the large number of boxes left by Philip Andrews and Elizabeth Brunner with respect to the Oxford seminar. David Stout's personal archives were also very helpful in the (re)construction of the content and the orientation of the Oxford seminar in Economics of Industry. Regarding the LSE and the Birmingham seminars, the work also relies on Leonard Minkes' own recollections and personal archives. Secondary sources mainly consist of two published books which are directly or indirectly supported by the material discussed in the seminars (Edwards, Townsend, 1958/1964; Minkes, Nuttall, 1985).
The purpose of the paper is to investigate the emergence of Organisation Studies in Oxford Univer... more The purpose of the paper is to investigate the emergence of Organisation Studies in Oxford University and the extent to which it fitted into the 1960s studies of firms and industries – especially in the field of Industrial Organisation. This contribution moves forward on three fronts. First, it provides an account of the emergence of Organisation Studies (OS) in Oxford. While the Harvard Business School was founded in 1908, Oxford University only founded its version of a business school in 1991, with the creation of the University of Oxford School of Management Studies. Why was this development so tardy by international standards? The analysis starts in 1949, as this is when the first evidence exists that Business Studies was needed at Oxford, and ends in 1983 with the creation of Templeton College, which contributed to the official birth of business as an academic discipline . Secondly, the paper analyses the form taken by early management education at Oxford University. Specifically, it stresses the content of the teaching in OS during the 1960s, and seeks to evaluate how different the curriculum was from American business schools. Thirdly, this contribution shows how OS at Oxford struggled to establish itself as an independent discipline, separate from existing subjects also concerned with firm-related and organisational issues, such as Economics, Sociology and even Engineering Science, suggesting tensions between Oxford academics. This work argues that the main reasons for this struggle are found in the nature of Oxford's history and formal or informal academic institutions.
This chapter bridge two intellectual traditions that often fail to be brought together in the org... more This chapter bridge two intellectual traditions that often fail to be brought together in the organization studies literature, namely organizational institutionalism and situated and distributed approaches. While providing a better account of material aspects of institutions, they enhance the role of artefacts and tools as currently accounted by the situated/distributed approach. They couple a reference to materiality of institutions with a reference to the manipulation of objects and equipment in a changing environment. The ambition to establish a dialogue between these two intellectual traditions is made possible by an observation of specific “naturally occurring data”. It gives an access to recorded sequences of actions that provide a fine-grained analysis of the relation between the setting as a local workspace and the arena as a broader institutional context. This method enables to capture a disadjustment between distinct levels of activities: institutional environment (public durable framework), an external plan (defined as both an organizational programme and a scenario for acting) and situated action (real-time local interactional routines). The fieldwork is conducted in an experimental hospital and focuses on the implementation of a digital artefact—a simulation-based training device personified in a lifelike virtual mannequin—initially designed to improve teamwork skills in a health professionals’ community (doctors, physicians and nurses). In line with the tradition initiated by workplace studies, Felix et al. argue that the workspace is made of materials (cognitive artefacts and physical tools) and body movements that act as an external support for action when the environment is prepared and familiar.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2021
This research focuses on the role of blockchain technology as a vector of inter-organizational tr... more This research focuses on the role of blockchain technology as a vector of inter-organizational trust in a reconfiguring ecosystem phase. Using qualitative analysis of data mainly from semistructured interviews, this study focuses primarily on the deployment of this emerging technology within a connected automotive ecosystem. Based on the notion of "trust-mediator technology", we show how blockchain technology is perceived as an institutional technology offering a new form of governance for all transactions and exchanges between the ecosystem actors. Although the functionalities offer automation to reduce the use of trusted third parties, preliminary results still show a strong commitment to current governance systems, such as regulatory and contractual frameworks. Ecosystem actors consider that complementarity between traditional institutional structures and decentralised blockchain is paramount for the success of any cooperation and collaboration on data on a connected vehicle.
This paper uses the Penrosian approach of organizational learning and knowledge to pave the way f... more This paper uses the Penrosian approach of organizational learning and knowledge to pave the way for future research in the fields of organizational control and management control. The main idea resides in understanding management control systems more as cognitive and social technologies than as pure objective tools. From this standpoint, the main issue of developing more sophisticated methods of management control is not only concerned with mastering accounting techniques and tools, but also with interactions between the different stakeholders of the firm. These interactions are themselves directly affected by the appropriation and evolution processes of these methods. This approach requires an effort from the firm stakeholders who have to learn how to become increasingly autonomous, without becoming incompatible with an entrepreneurial behavior orientation within the main managerial teams. As concerns accounting methods, this approach highlights the weaknesses of traditional manage...
This article aims at making an updated typology of recent experimental studies in the IS literatu... more This article aims at making an updated typology of recent experimental studies in the IS literature on the period 1999-2019. Based on a full-text search within the Association for Information Systems (AIS) "basket" of eight top IS journals (EJIS, ISR, JAIS, ISJ, JIT, JMIS, JSIS and MISQ), this research gathered 392 articles and highlights the use of 4 different types of experiments in IS, mainly: laboratory experiments , field experiments, online experiments (scenario simulation game-based; brainstorming-based.. .) and natural experiments. Each category is discussed through the perspective of its degree of control, and technological realism. Results show the significant predominance of laboratory experiments over field and natural experiments on the period. This, in turn, stresses the preferred tendency followed by IS scholars to perceive experimental methods as a way to control the source of variations of variables under study. In addition, this paper provides a better un...
Ne sont répertoriés ici que des ouvrages ou articles de périodiques non cités par les intervenant... more Ne sont répertoriés ici que des ouvrages ou articles de périodiques non cités par les intervenants. BIBLIOGRAPHIE I. NOUVEAUX OUTILS DE COMMUNICATION. Ouvrages.
De manière plus générale, les travaux d’Edith Penrose ont souvent été associés à l’approche manag... more De manière plus générale, les travaux d’Edith Penrose ont souvent été associés à l’approche managériale, développée au départ par Baumol (1959, 1962), Marris (1964) et Williamson (1964, 1970), puis par des auteurs plus jeunes tel que Mueller (1969, 1972). Ces approches sont souvent divisées en trois grandes catégories qualifiées respectivement (1) d’approches en matière de discrétion managériale, qui regroupent notamment William Baumol et Oliver Williamson, (2) d’approches par la croissance, ..
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Jun 9, 2021
This research focuses on the role of blockchain technology as a vector of inter-organizational tr... more This research focuses on the role of blockchain technology as a vector of inter-organizational trust in a reconfiguring ecosystem phase. Using qualitative analysis of data mainly from semistructured interviews, this study focuses primarily on the deployment of this emerging technology within a connected automotive ecosystem. Based on the notion of "trust-mediator technology", we show how blockchain technology is perceived as an institutional technology offering a new form of governance for all transactions and exchanges between the ecosystem actors. Although the functionalities offer automation to reduce the use of trusted third parties, preliminary results still show a strong commitment to current governance systems, such as regulatory and contractual frameworks. Ecosystem actors consider that complementarity between traditional institutional structures and decentralised blockchain is paramount for the success of any cooperation and collaboration on data on a connected vehicle.
This article seeks to provide a better understanding of the history of Industrial Organization (I... more This article seeks to provide a better understanding of the history of Industrial Organization (IO). More precisely, it stresses the specific influence Oxford economists had between 1952 and 1979 on the developments of modern trends in the discipline. This work focuses on three main sub-fields of IO, namely, the empirical approach to concrete forms of organization prevailing in the managerial world, the impact of information and knowledge on the discipline, and the use of game theory within IO.
GREDEG (FRANCE) where she obtained her Ph.D. in Management in 2009. She also holds a D.Phil. in M... more GREDEG (FRANCE) where she obtained her Ph.D. in Management in 2009. She also holds a D.Phil. in Modern History (2011) from the University of Oxford. Her major research interests are: the history of management and the role of digital artefacts and practices in social organization. Her recent work in history of management has been published in Entreprises et Histoires and History of Economic Ideas. Leonard MINKES is Emeritus Professor of Business Organisation in the University of Birmingham. Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, he has lectured in universities, management centres in industry, and other organisations, and has acted as a consultant on business topics and management training in Britain and overseas. He also spent part of his career in the Economic Commission for Europe of the United Nations. From 1974-1980, he was a non-executive member of the Midlands Postal Board in Britain and from 1975-1983, he served on the Council of the Birmingham Chamber of Industry and Commerce. He has published widely in books and journals, especially in the areas of business behaviour and strategic management.
This article aims to understand the process of production of knowledge in the field of business o... more This article aims to understand the process of production of knowledge in the field of business organization and economics of the firm. The particular feature of this work is that the acquisition of this type of knowledge is greatly assisted by the developments of conversations between academics and industrialists. This key idea is derived from the historical analysis of three early seminars in which this dialog took place. In particular, we look at a method which has been applied in England during the period late 1940s to early 1970s in the following academic seminars: The Seminar in Problems of Administration at the LSE set up and ran by Ronald Edwards (1947-1972); The Industrial Seminar at Birmingham University set up by Leonard Minkes with Philip Sargant Florence as Chairman (late 1950s-1972); and the B.Phil. Seminar in Economics of Industry at the University of Oxford set up by Philip W. Andrews and co-chaired with Elizabeth Brunner (1957-1974). By the mid-1970s, these three seminars ceased to exist and left room to the rapid development of management studies, on the one hand, and to the formalization of industrial economics (game theory), on the other hand. To a large extent, although of different nature, these three seminars reflected a shared effort to provide an empirical approach to the understanding of firms and industries with a particular emphasise on business behaviour and decision-making. This form of empiricism did not only consist of collecting facts but, rather, showed the importance of exchange and dialogues between academics and industrialists which led to a better understanding of economic policy and dynamics of firms. This approach contrasted with the Harvard case study method and with modern seminars in Business Schools. Overall, this article discusses the relevance of conversation between academics and business (wo)men. An historical approach is developed to provide a better understanding of the nature and use of this dialogue. Hence, this article naturally falls into three parts. The first part consists of a general discussion about the idea of empiricism in the field of business organization at a conceptual level. It also contextualizes the three seminars in the broader tendency of empiricism in the UK before and during this period. The second part of the article offers a detailed analysis of the three seminars based on archival sources and one of the author's main recollections (especially in relation to the seminar in Birmingham). The third and last part of this work discusses the validity of our main proposition regarding the use of this kind of approach in modern understanding of organizations dynamics. It also questions the abandonment of such a method in recent developments in business organisation. This work combines both primary and secondary sources. Primary sources were found in the very substantial archives of the Edwards Seminar at LSE and in the large number of boxes left by Philip Andrews and Elizabeth Brunner with respect to the Oxford seminar. David Stout's personal archives were also very helpful in the (re)construction of the content and the orientation of the Oxford seminar in Economics of Industry. Regarding the LSE and the Birmingham seminars, the work also relies on Leonard Minkes' own recollections and personal archives. Secondary sources mainly consist of two published books which are directly or indirectly supported by the material discussed in the seminars (Edwards, Townsend, 1958/1964; Minkes, Nuttall, 1985).
The purpose of the paper is to investigate the emergence of Organisation Studies in Oxford Univer... more The purpose of the paper is to investigate the emergence of Organisation Studies in Oxford University and the extent to which it fitted into the 1960s studies of firms and industries – especially in the field of Industrial Organisation. This contribution moves forward on three fronts. First, it provides an account of the emergence of Organisation Studies (OS) in Oxford. While the Harvard Business School was founded in 1908, Oxford University only founded its version of a business school in 1991, with the creation of the University of Oxford School of Management Studies. Why was this development so tardy by international standards? The analysis starts in 1949, as this is when the first evidence exists that Business Studies was needed at Oxford, and ends in 1983 with the creation of Templeton College, which contributed to the official birth of business as an academic discipline . Secondly, the paper analyses the form taken by early management education at Oxford University. Specifically, it stresses the content of the teaching in OS during the 1960s, and seeks to evaluate how different the curriculum was from American business schools. Thirdly, this contribution shows how OS at Oxford struggled to establish itself as an independent discipline, separate from existing subjects also concerned with firm-related and organisational issues, such as Economics, Sociology and even Engineering Science, suggesting tensions between Oxford academics. This work argues that the main reasons for this struggle are found in the nature of Oxford's history and formal or informal academic institutions.
This chapter bridge two intellectual traditions that often fail to be brought together in the org... more This chapter bridge two intellectual traditions that often fail to be brought together in the organization studies literature, namely organizational institutionalism and situated and distributed approaches. While providing a better account of material aspects of institutions, they enhance the role of artefacts and tools as currently accounted by the situated/distributed approach. They couple a reference to materiality of institutions with a reference to the manipulation of objects and equipment in a changing environment. The ambition to establish a dialogue between these two intellectual traditions is made possible by an observation of specific “naturally occurring data”. It gives an access to recorded sequences of actions that provide a fine-grained analysis of the relation between the setting as a local workspace and the arena as a broader institutional context. This method enables to capture a disadjustment between distinct levels of activities: institutional environment (public durable framework), an external plan (defined as both an organizational programme and a scenario for acting) and situated action (real-time local interactional routines). The fieldwork is conducted in an experimental hospital and focuses on the implementation of a digital artefact—a simulation-based training device personified in a lifelike virtual mannequin—initially designed to improve teamwork skills in a health professionals’ community (doctors, physicians and nurses). In line with the tradition initiated by workplace studies, Felix et al. argue that the workspace is made of materials (cognitive artefacts and physical tools) and body movements that act as an external support for action when the environment is prepared and familiar.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2021
This research focuses on the role of blockchain technology as a vector of inter-organizational tr... more This research focuses on the role of blockchain technology as a vector of inter-organizational trust in a reconfiguring ecosystem phase. Using qualitative analysis of data mainly from semistructured interviews, this study focuses primarily on the deployment of this emerging technology within a connected automotive ecosystem. Based on the notion of "trust-mediator technology", we show how blockchain technology is perceived as an institutional technology offering a new form of governance for all transactions and exchanges between the ecosystem actors. Although the functionalities offer automation to reduce the use of trusted third parties, preliminary results still show a strong commitment to current governance systems, such as regulatory and contractual frameworks. Ecosystem actors consider that complementarity between traditional institutional structures and decentralised blockchain is paramount for the success of any cooperation and collaboration on data on a connected vehicle.
This paper uses the Penrosian approach of organizational learning and knowledge to pave the way f... more This paper uses the Penrosian approach of organizational learning and knowledge to pave the way for future research in the fields of organizational control and management control. The main idea resides in understanding management control systems more as cognitive and social technologies than as pure objective tools. From this standpoint, the main issue of developing more sophisticated methods of management control is not only concerned with mastering accounting techniques and tools, but also with interactions between the different stakeholders of the firm. These interactions are themselves directly affected by the appropriation and evolution processes of these methods. This approach requires an effort from the firm stakeholders who have to learn how to become increasingly autonomous, without becoming incompatible with an entrepreneurial behavior orientation within the main managerial teams. As concerns accounting methods, this approach highlights the weaknesses of traditional manage...
This article aims at making an updated typology of recent experimental studies in the IS literatu... more This article aims at making an updated typology of recent experimental studies in the IS literature on the period 1999-2019. Based on a full-text search within the Association for Information Systems (AIS) "basket" of eight top IS journals (EJIS, ISR, JAIS, ISJ, JIT, JMIS, JSIS and MISQ), this research gathered 392 articles and highlights the use of 4 different types of experiments in IS, mainly: laboratory experiments , field experiments, online experiments (scenario simulation game-based; brainstorming-based.. .) and natural experiments. Each category is discussed through the perspective of its degree of control, and technological realism. Results show the significant predominance of laboratory experiments over field and natural experiments on the period. This, in turn, stresses the preferred tendency followed by IS scholars to perceive experimental methods as a way to control the source of variations of variables under study. In addition, this paper provides a better un...
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