Contenu du sommaire : Management de l'innovation collective

This article focuses on organizational changes and human consequences, particularly on « survivors », namely employees remaining in their company after downsizing and/or layoffs. Apart from « Exit/Voice/Loyalty/Neglect » strategies, people facing such situations can experience « Proactive/Passive/Opposing » attitudes. Various typologies, including Chreim's (2006), were offered to describe employees' interpretations, in context of layoffs. The objective for this paper is to test Chreim's typology and to understand survivors' responses to social plans. Based on an exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, this study identifies three major type of responses: “Acceptance”, “Resigned compliance” and “Ambivalence”. We also distinguish three related profiles of survivors: “Convicted”, “Complacent” and “Ambivalent” ones. We thus contribute to a better understanding of survivors' responses to change and perspectives on organizational legitimacy.

This article offers to point out the relationship between agility and law management. It explores the compatibility of juridical and management rationale. In this aim, it is given the conceptual framework of agility: definition, purposes, interpretation and possible variations in juridical and managerial literature. Agility template is compared to juridical strategies in companies. As a conclusion, it shows the convergence of juridical and management rationale through the concept of agility.

In 2012, Agrium Inc., a Canadian-listed chemical company, was the target of one of its shareholders, the JANA Partner LLC hedge fund. This article proposes a clinical study detailing the steps taken by this activist hedge fund, as well as the resistance of the leaders assisted by their board of directors. Agrium Inc. is one of the few Canadian companies to have defended itself effectively. As the aggressiveness of hedge funds is increasingly controversial, this analysis shows how a company can respond to such an attack.

Innovation is a key to territorial development, but the management to achieve it remains a challenge. In line with works on the building of collaborative innovation capabilities through design, our intervention research introduces SpotLAB, an original device inspired by KCP workshops. Three proposals for a territorial innovation model appeared: the conditions for the emergence of a territorial community of innovation, its engineering (polycentric laboratory-network), and ephemeral institutionalization.

Radical innovations can disturb established firms in mature industries that often face structural limitations to generate themselves such innovations. Drawing on an experimentation conducted in the petroleum company Technip, this article explores the possibility to use an enterprise social network to ease the fuzzy front-end of radical innovation. The results show that the properties of enterprise social networks can ease knowledge sharing and the establishment of new relations, but do not substitute to the need of intermediation and of an organizational context favorable to radical innovation.

This research studies the role of different types of proximities in collaborative dynamics of coworking spaces. Based on qualitative interviews with the actors of coworking spaces located in small and medium-sized cities, the study shows that geographic proximity is not enough to generate collaborations and that other forms of proximities are required. It also reveals that electronic proximity is important to overcome distances and that opportunity proximity favors inter-organizational collaboration.

Three forms of ecosystems are studied in the literature on organized territorial networks: innovation, business and knowledge ecosystems. While links have been established between these three forms, their interactions remain under studied. Using the example of the French competitiveness clusters, we illustrate that these forms are complementary and that French clusters evolved over time through a process of hybridization between the three types of ecosystems with a specific value proposition.

This article analyzes the restructuring dynamics of the video game industry in France following a period of crisis. We describe how the formation of local cooperative dynamics and different types of organized proximity within several geographical territories helped the actors of the sector to cope with this crisis. We also put into perspective the role of an inter-territorial cooperative dynamic and a collective meta-governance that intervened to regulate the relations between the different territories and their local dynamics. Based on these insights, we discuss, the main differences between the concepts of cluster and ecosystem.