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The health actors in public hospitals must respond to both the principles of public service and economic performance logic. This research is interested in the adjustment strategies used to cope with the role stress and the professional stress of nurse managers, whose role evolves. The results of a survey conducted among 445 nurse managers show several forms of role stress that promote the job stress. The study also reveals a coping, sometimes increasing, sometimes attenuating the job stress generated by these forms of role stress.

Acute stress strongly impacts the perceived ability of decision makers to manage a crisis. Our paper allows us to better understand the impact of this acute stress on the decision-maker's capacities in a crisis situation, and in particular, to identify the main causes that influence his stress level. The theory is based on crisis management. The analysis is based on a quantitative study administered by questionnaires to 122 decision-makers in the risk management field and processed using structural equations model. It identifies the resources that allow the decision-maker to better restore his capabilities in crisis situation.

Based on an emblematic case study conducted within a regional bank of a cooperative group, this research analyzes the impact of the cooperative model on employer brand management. The study provides a comparative analysis of employer brand identity (semi-structured interviews with management team members) and employer brand image (semi-structured interviews with newly hired employees). This research identifies, within the employer brand, the benefits (i.e. assets) that are both economic, functional and symbolic perceived as specific to the cooperative model. At the same time, it underlines the risks associated with the promotion of status, which stem from the hybrid character of the organization and the tensions inherent in the coexistence of market and sociopolitical logics.

This article analyses the contribution of company-association partnerships to initiate Corporate Social Responsibility. In particular, we will show how the functioning of partnerships constitutes a modularity approach of their intrinsic complexity, as well as that of CSR. This approach makes it possible to identify good practices, which makes it possible to implement such an approach at the organisational level and to feed the CSR project at the global level.

Entrepreneurship is defined as the process of transforming an idea into a social artifact resulting from the entrepreneur's discovery of new relationships between means and effects. However, we do not know how to link the creation of social artifacts to the entrepreneur's cognitive process, i.e. how the means and the effects are associated. In this article, we show that near decomposability (ND), a concept introduced by Simon in 1969 but largely ignored since, is an important concept to address this practical and theoretical issue.

The benefits of Open Innovation, and specifically of innovation coming from suppliers, are widely emphasized by literature. In parallel, the difficulties of implementing such approaches are also underlined, and the necessity of creating new roles is emphasized for managing the interface and intermediation between internal functions and external innovation suppliers. Based on interviews conducted in two industrial firms, we show the emergence of a new practice supported by players at the interface between purchasing and innovation: the innovation-purchasers. We also show how they build this new role, in interface with Purchasing and R & D functions, that is critical in the implementation of open innovation by firms.