Cet article offre un point de vue sur la façon dont les idées théoriques d’Ilya Prigogine, enracinées dans les sciences physiques, peuvent influencer et inspirer les spécialistes de la théorie des organisations et de la gestion stratégique. Pour ce faire, la section suivante de cet article offre un bref exposé de quelques-unes des idées scientifiques originales de Prigogine et ses collaborateurs sur la dynamique des systèmes loin de l’équilibre qui ont fait date en sciences physiques. Il e...

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard invented the model of the Silicon Valley start-up and set in motion a process of corporate becoming that made it possible for HP to transform itself six times over the 77 years since its founding in the face of sweeping technological changes that felled most of its competitors over the years. Today, HP is in the throes of a seventh transformation to secure its continued survival by splitting in two independent companies: HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise....

A mi chemin des thèses écologiques et de celles défendues par l’école de l’apprentissage, la contribution de Robert Burgelman à la stratégie est à la fois originale et un peu étrange. Originale d’abord, parce qu’elle est, dès le début des années quatre-vingts, assez subversive. Elle fait, en effet, la part belle à l’analyse des processus au dépend du contenu et montre les limites de l’influence du top-management sur la stratégie en vigueur de la firme. En particulier, l’acteur local n’y es...

Based on extensive primary research conducted over more than fifteen years, this book documents the differential contribution of HP's successive CEOs in sustaining the company's integral process of becoming. It uses a comprehensive strategic leadership framework to examine and explain the role of the CEO: (1) defining and executing the key tasks of strategic leadership, and (2) developing four key elements of the company's strategic leadership capability.The study of the strategic ...

This Element presents several frameworks of strategy-making that serve to analyze organizational evolution processes within and beyond the firm. These frameworks form an integrated evolutionary ecological lens to examine the dynamics of strategy-making in organizational evolution. They highlight the role of the internal selection environment for analyzing processes and practices at various managerial levels (top, middle, and operational) within the organization. The Element also explains t...

Several of the most important and influential political economists of communication working today explore a rich mix of topics and issues that link work, policy studies, and research and theory about the public sphere to the heritage of political economy. Familiar but still exceedingly important topics in critical political economy studies are well represented here: market structures and media concentration, regulation and policy, technological impacts on particular media sectors, informat...