Contenu du sommaire : Migrations conceptuelles

Starting at the experience of many research-action projects about the paradigme of the committing communication applied to the environmental problems, the author studies the conceptual migrations between SIC and Social psychology and the history of their relations.

In the work environment, where there is interchange both in and between organizations, it may be difficult to construct a theory of free and public expression in relation to communication analysis.This paper aims to describe five possible parameters for language exchange between the groups concerned. The methods used are social-anthropology and action and expression theory. First we suggest a need to re-evaluate established forms of communication which are well known in the work place and, secondly, evaluate the commitment behind each expression. Thirdly, stress the necessity of undertaking a detailed analysis of the potentially shifting standpoints in the discourse between the addressor and the addressee. Fourth, identify the “when” of discussion and written communication in the potential development of working strategies between the salaried staff and the managerial structure and, therefore, treat communication as a distinct activity in itself.

This research analyses the “alter-globalization organisations” with a communicational approach. Organisations are not only places where communicational phenomenon and policies can be studied : communications plays also some functions in the building of the organisation.  This article focuses on the theorical and methodological path we have followed to elaborate our scientific frame on work. It opens ways to improve the understanding of organisational identities through their discourses.

In this article, I propose to expose how the Science of Communication can constitute a theoretical resource to apprehend the development of charters and ethical codes of conduct in organizations. The proposition is to analyse the practical condition of production of the charter. With the example of the charter of diversity in Firms (2004), I will test the practical consequence of this theoretical choice. In the same time, I will question the methodological way to show social dynamic engender by the production of a charter.

We want to explore ICT's implementation in terms of social, sociological and communicational dimensions. Here, the real issue is the development of new ways of working related with ICT's appropriation. This should be understood like a social building. This perspective is considered by both Management Sciences (in terms of Human Resources Management) and Information and Communication Sciences. Both points of view have to be analysed not only in a complementary way but also in a comprehensive view in order to get an accurate and rigorous understanding of the social and organisational situation of ICT's use.

This article aims to show how a communicational analysis of management and control tools in organizations can enrich the understanding of mechanisms by which these tools contribute to the organizing process. It is sustained by a study of organizational communications that enter into practice of accounting in a construction company. The notion of calculation act enables to characterize the pragmatic nature of the figures' language, which resides in its ability to prescribe as it describes.  Management tools appear as an important vector of the diffusion of a new model of authority and responsibility performatively constructed. The conclusion shows how this analysis is source of teaching to understand the transformations in work with the diffusion of ICT in society.

Our researches analyze information activities through appropriation processes, using an analysis frame built from the structuration theory written by Giddens. This framework allows simultaneous study of organisational and social dynamics, and individual practices. Nevertheless, it seems necessary to question our own methodology, and to question the relevance of using a meta-theory such as Giddens one to apprehend information phenomena.

Researchers interested in technologies have been confronted, over the last two decades, to difficulties in apprehending their research object, as well as to the arrival of new conceptual frameworks to study them in organizations. Among them, Giddens' structuration has inspired numerous researchers. We examine the studies issued from this tradition and see how activity theory provides means to overcome some of the limitations identified from structurationnal analyses of technology. We conclude by proposing research avenues to better apprehend the technology-organization relationship.

Beyond the important role played by information systems and ICT in organisational evolutions, human and social dimensions are fundamental items. Therefore, it's necessary to analyse dynamic relations between “collectives at work” and organisational rationalizations supported by performatives discourses. In an anthropological and sociological perspective, this article tries to show the importance (significance ???) of collectives and unstable “organisational forms”, which specify what is really an organisation.

Several concepts and analyses can be useful for treating organisational questions about the introducing of collective intelligence technologies among communities. The organisation can be both accepted as the place of powerness and as a specific place for communication, cultural expression, context. These definitions come from different theoretical schools of thought. Our strategic and contextual analysis will allow us, complementarily, to understand organisational and complex phenomenons for intervention and action. But, are these loans understandable either as a specificity of constructivist methods?

This research analyses a press enterprise as an « artefact », namely a construction of reality. Journalist's work is in fact a mediation process: data are picked in the social life, and are re-built linked with the choice of subjects and the writing of press articles. It's a collaborative work, which designs a specific picture of reality : it can influence the reader's understanding of the world. Press information isn't only the production of journalists, but is also the result of a social construction

Compromises authorized during research actions, in particular the application of scientifically exceeded models, are not without  consequences on scientific research. In research actions in  information and communication sciences, what can the appropriation of the marketing model imported from management sciences be? Through information retrieval and an internal communication case, this exploratory contribution considers a possible conciliation, during research actions, between the interests of research and those of the organization.

Managers are faced with the complexification of frameworks, activities and social relationships. But the analysis of their work has been essentially based on the distinction between the fact of giving instructions and the real activity by forgetting the interpretation done by the managers themselves. In this context, it's useful to understand the “Manager effect“ in its rational and symbolic dimensions and to reexamine the concept of managerial competence through the signification processes, that are involved in and constitute it.