How has Japan become a major economic power, a world leader in the automotive and electronics industries? What is the secret of their success? The consensus has been that, though the Japanese are not particularly innovative, they are exceptionally skilful at imitation, at improving products that already exist. But now two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hiro Takeuchi, turn this conventional wisdom on its head: Japanese firms are successful, they contend, precisely because they are innovative, because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. Examining case studies drawn from such firms as Honda, Canon, Matsushita, NEC, 3M, GE, and the U.S. Marines, this book reveals how Japanese companies translate tacit to explicit knowledge and use it to produce new processes, products, and services.

The knowledge-creating company : how Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation

What makes organizations so similar? We contend that the engine of rationalization and bureaucratization has moved from the competitive marketplace to the state and the professions. Once a set of organizations emerges as a field, a paradox arises: rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them. We describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative—leading to this outcome. We then specify hypotheses about the impact of resource centralization and dependency, goal ambiguity and technical uncertainty, and professionalization and structuration on isomorphic change. Finally, we suggest implications for theories of organizations and social change.

The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields (Chinese Translation)

The theory of the growth of the firm

The field of control has experienced an enormous scientific production during the 20th century. A considerable number of scientific publications on this field have been published on different aspects of control (types, modes, tools, mechanisms….). In the scarcity of literature reviews of this concept, this work presents a bibliometric analysis of the concept of control with the aim of developing a bibliometric record based on the publications of the most influential researchers in this field. With the help of a computerized bibliometric analysis tool, this contribution will provide a summary of the scientific contributions on the concept of control during the 20th century, as well as the evolution of publications in this field, with the aim of constituting a roadmap for future research. For this purpose, the work on control has been subdivided into two main periods, the first of which runs from 1900 to 1950 under the name of classical philosophy of control, while the second, described as modern philosophy of control, covers the period from 1950 to 2000.

Le contrôle Essai d’élaboration d’une revue systémique

L’objet de cette recherche est de comprendre les determinants de la motivation de service public. Les resultats de l’enquete de terrain, de nature exploratoire, menee dans l’administration publique tunisienne, font apparaitre clairement que la motivation des gestionnaires publics est ancree dans une dimension bien specifique du referentiel valoriel du service public. Les conclusions soulignent que le developpement de pratiques alignees avec l’ethos public promeut la motivation de service public.

La motivation de service public des gestionnaires publics tunisiens à l’aune de la révolution

Cet article se fonde sur la cartographie et l’analyse bibliometrique de la production en sciences de gestion publiee par la
Revue francaise de gestion (RFG) entre 2002 et 2017. Les
auteurs mettent en lumiere les references theoriques utilisees
comme inspiration par les auteurs de ces articles et les
thematiques principales traitees au fil des mandatures des
differents redacteurs en chef de la revue. Leurs analyses
rendent compte de la diversite du champ francophone des
sciences de gestion tout en soulignant les evolutions constatees
pendant la periode etudiee.

Une analyse bibliométrique de la recherche en gestion

Cet article se fonde sur la cartographie et l’analyse bibliometrique de la production en sciences de gestion publiee par la Revue francaise de gestion (RFG) entre 2002 et 2017. Les auteurs mettent en lumiere les references theoriques utilisees comme inspiration par les auteurs de ces articles et les thematiques principales traitees au fil des mandatures des differents redacteurs en chef de la revue. Leurs analyses rendent compte de la diversite du champ francophone des sciences de gestion tout en soulignant les evolutions constatees pendant la periode etudiee.

Isabelle Walsh

Papers

Une analyse bibliométrique de la recherche en gestion

Une analyse bibliométrique de la recherche en gestion: La RFG de 2002 à 2017