N° 116 - June 2014

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Editorial: Pascal LEFEBVRE

DEBATED

When appearances are deceptive — the heads of medical poles: Becoming hybrid “after all”?

Annick VALETTE
associate professor in Managerial Sciences at the University of Grenoble
and
Franck BURELLIER
associate professor in Managerial Sciences at IGR-IAE, Rennes

Tectonics of the poles

Frédéric Kletz,
research professor at Mines-ParisTech

OVERLOOKED…

Good and bad complexity: Optical illusions? The case of ecosystems of innovation

Daniel Fixari
And
Frédérique Pallez,
professors at Mines ParisTech

How to develop a dynamic capacity for improving performance? The technological gatekeeper’s key role of in small and medium-sized companies

Guy Caverot,
PhD from the University of Rennes 1, director of Innovation BA Systèmes
Dominique Philippe Martin,
professor at the University of Rennes 1, CREM, CNRS
and
Jean-Claude Boldrini,
associate professor at LEMNA, University of Nantes

TRIAL BY FACT

Hunting, a show of management

Rachel Beaujolin-Bellet,
NEOMA Business School
Thierry Boudès, ESCP Europe
And
Nathalie RauletCroset,
IAE de Paris, University of Paris 1 and PREG-CRG, École polytechnique

Anglicization, a challenge for organizations: A contrasting view of situations in a firm and in higher education

Jérôme Saulière,
Centre de Recherche en Gestion, École polytechnique, CNRS

Electric vehicles, an extreme object that “innervates” the social sciences

Rémi Maniak,
associate professor in Managerial Sciences at Télécom ParisTech, associate researcher at Centre de Recherche en Gestion, École polytechnique

OTHER TIMES, OTHER PLACES

Identity and organizational culture as sources of a strategic surprise: Lessons to be learned from the CIA’s failures

Philippe Silberzahn,
professor at EM de Lyon
and
Milo Jones, professor at IE Business School (Madrid)

IN QUEST OF THEORIES

The ambiguities of language as a reflection of cultural ambiguity: A forgotten dimension in studies devoted to organizational cultures?

Jennifer Urasadettan,
associate professor in Managerial Sciences at the University of Rennes 2

MOSAICS

Loïc Andrien,
doctoral student (CRG, École polytechnique): T

he sociology of management tools: Introduction to the social analysis of the instrumentation of management
On Eve Chiapello and Patrick Gilbert’s, Sociologie des outils de gestion. Introduction à l’analyse sociale de l’instrumentation de gestion (Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 2013).

Cécile Chamaret,
assistant professor (Paris Sorbonne, University of Abu Dhabi):

The big data revolution On Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier’s, Big data: A revolution that will transform how we live, work and think (London: Murray, 2013).

Vincent Meyer,
doctoral student (HEC, Paris):

Evaluate me! Evaluation at work: The wellspring of a fascination

On Bénédicte Vidaillet’s, Évaluez-moi! L’évaluation au travail: les ressorts d’une fascination (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2013)