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Although there has been substantial research on the concept of Communities of Practice (Co
P), the conditions of their emergence and construction has not been analyzed in a concrete way. This paper examines the role of organizational factors that may pre-configure these structures and their dynamics. After outlining the elements defining the CoP concept, we identify the organizational factors (space, time and participants' profiles) influencing the configuration of CoP. Empirically, we analyze the results of a survey of several front offices of an administration. We will explain how the spatiotemporal layout is involved in the definition of the transmitted knowledge and the rhythms of interactions, and how participants' profiles shape the interactional patterns in the CoP.

This article focuses on the question of the effectiveness of environmental labelling for sustainable development integration from producers and consumers in a market. In that aim a case study was conducted among a group of hotels that have implemented an environmental label in their establishment. Different information-gathering from the stakeholders of this project allows to draw up a positive report and to identify the issues raised by a potential generalization of this approach. The role of the label to help the implementation of environmental management in hotels seems certain. The use of this information by customers remains an open question.

This article presents an analysis of the Development of the management dashboard process in a French region, based on the translation theory. On a theoretical level, this study highlights how the concept of ‘purification', taken from Latour (1991, 1999), allows the combination of two different approaches often seen as opposed in the literature: a diffusionist approach to innovations and a socio-technical approach. On a managerial level, this research shows that the absence of the elected officials during the development key milestones of the management device is the main cause of the sinuous path, taken by the dashboard before being stabilized.

This paper provides an empirical test of the attributional model of leadership with data from leader-subordinate dyads in France. Attribution complexity of leaders is linked to the accuracy of their attributions, as perceived by subordinates. Performance correction strategies of leaders were found to be linked to accurate attributions, and subsequently to key outcome variables. Results are discussed, along with limitations and directions for future research. The findings shows that managerial attributional complexity is strongly related to processes of leadership based on accurate attributions that suggests that it would be critical to focus on managerial selection and training in this regard.

To gain flexibility, companies resort to atypical forms of employment such as the fixed-term contracts, the interim, or the part-time work. Other forms of atypical employment also exist over which we have less information especially those that induce an employee to work in the customer's facilities through a subcontracting relationship. What is called seconded staff. The statistics out of the survey "Organizational Change and Informatics" have enabled both to assess the extent of this phenomenon, identify the characteristics of this particular population, and also to question the adequacy of this particular form of employment with the required skills. It is clear that a significant portion of the seconded staff (employees from the subcontractors who work in the customers' facilities) performs work that is as qualified and important that the "inside employees", but with an outsider status. This is a hybrid situation that puts them in trouble and particularly disturbs their involvement in the work.

After reminding of the theoretical background related to the New Public Management that has led to the universities evaluation process, this research aims to study firstly the paradox between the steering logic and the reporting logic involved by the introduction of universities management control and secondly, the contradiction between their autonomy and the constraints due to their evaluation framework. An empirical study in a French multidisciplinary university highlights the difficulties of setting up a control system.

This research studies the case of a shopping centre pharmacy which has been structured in order to maintain its profitability level in a more and more difficult context. We approach the issue of structure by focusing on the company's growth key milestones through the lenses of the theory of thresholds and calling up the structures constitution variables. A longitudinal analysis of the pharmacy allowed to follow the organizational and managerial changes carried out over 5 years after a location change and to observe the various stages completed.

Non-profit organizations (NPO) in the elderly care sector have been facing the arrival of lucrative firms in the recent years. With the help of neo-institutional theory and by claiming the role of discourse as a support to action, this research shows that the discourse of the NPO is clearly distinct yet not homogeneous. It seems that two categories of discourses, based on distinct types of legitimacy, emerge from the textual analysis of letters from the chairmen. We then propose to deepen this first step analysis with field case studies.