Contenu du sommaire : Performance collective en contexte extrême

40 years of influence in corporate finance and governance of businesses The first issue of the Revue française de gestion was printed in May 1975. At that time it was the only academic review in the field of management and business administration in France. During 40 years, the RFG allowed researchers and practitioners to demonstrate the progress made in the field of managerial finance. The aim of this article is to show the richness of the RFG contribution in the field of business finance and its link with real issues coming from the business life. The reader will be quite surprised to see how the RFG was able to answer real financial issues and replace those issues within the scientific debate in finance and corporate governance.

Learn entrepreneurship by oneself with a Mooc The purpose of this article is to determine if a MOOC facilitate entrepreneurial learning. Do participants need to have a certain level to persevere in the Mooc? For those who have completed the Mooc, is there an improvement? This dual question concerns both the level of autonomy in a participant's learning process and the level of entrepreneurial capacity. We present the results of a research conducted on a Mooc about effectual entrepreneurship and find that 1) the role of motivation for self directed learning is important but is moderated by a sufficient allocation of time; 2) the Mooc enables a progression of the entrepreneurial self-efficacy regardless of the initial level, and 3) Self-directed learning, which is a mean rather than a goal of learning via a Mooc, does not progress as much as self efficacy.

Longevity of an international joint venture Joint ventures represent one of the main forms of internationalization, but they are unstable and risky. The objective of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of the life-span of these organizations. We examine fifteen empirical studies published in international business journals in order to explain the main measures used to analyze the instability, survival and longevity of international joint ventures. Our findings provide a panorama of existing research on this topic.

Developments of a research program: Management of extreme situations The emergence of an innovation economy based on knowledge forces managers to face management situations that we qualify of “extreme” because they occur in an evolutionary, uncertain and risky environment. We explore different ways to generate rules specific to this class of situations thanks to the polar exploration. Our results highlight three registers that should warrant attention from managers and research alike: sensemaking within collectives, organizational ambidexterity and expansion devices knowledge.

Discipline: the forgotten dimension of the collective action in extreme situations? The example of Paris fire Brigade This article accounts for a thorough empirical study of management of the fire-fighting by a military elite unit: the Fire Brigade of Paris. It underlines the interest of a reading crossing the literatures on extreme situations and on high reliability organizations and then it highlights the role of rules in situations of fire-fighting and the capacity of the organization to learn from the unforeseen situations met by the fire brigade. Then it shows the role of the discipline – such as Foucault analyses it – in order to understand how reliability and flexibility get articulated.

Decision making and extreme environments. Case of actors in a rescue chain The aim of this article is to understand how an expert behaves in an emergency situation. As theoretical framework, we used the naturalistic decision making approach. In emergency situation, our results reveal a higher percentage of leaders (decision makers that based their decision upon internal information) rather than followers (those who based their decisions upon external information). We argue that new decisions can emerged based upon the hybridization of past experiences.

Taming anxiety in high-risk situations. The secrets of the GIGN operatives Based on several researches and on the analysis of qualitative data collected from the Intervention Unit of the GIGN, this article investigates the mechanism of emotional regulation of anxiety in extreme situations. Our study confirms that cognitive reappraisal is the most efficient strategy to regulate anxiety, but when the level of anxiety perceived becomes too high, people tend to choose a less effective strategy. Finally, we draw practical implications based on the 4 steps process identified in this research.