This paper deepens our understanding of individual resilience, which is generally considered as a positive and fixed capacity, overlooking its darker and dynamic nature. Based on an exploratory multi-case study as well as direct participation and observation in a community of Management PhD students, we propose an integrative and dynamic perspective of individual resilience. To gain a fuller un...

Les méthodes agiles apparaissent dans les années 1990 dans le secteur informatique et se diffusent dans toujours plus d’organisations, au-delà des seules directions informatiques. Dans cet article nous cherchons à comprendre sur quel système d’idées, de valeurs, de croyances, sur quelle idéologie donc se fondent les acteurs pour transformer leurs organisations en déployant ces méthodes dans leu...

Sous l’impulsion des idées issues du « Nouveau Management Public » (Hood, 1991), la sphère publique est confrontée à un phénomène de managérialisation, se matérialisant notamment au travers du déploiement d’outils de contrôle (De Vaujany, 2006), et transformant son mode de fonctionnement. Si la littérature fait état de cas de difficultés dans le déploiement et l’utilisation de ces outils (Fabre...

Understanding that many projects are bound to fall through during their development or experience a much sooner than expected end for different reasons, I set out to investigate how managers in creative settings handled these delicate situations. While the literature accounted for the motives behind the decision to prematurely end a project as well as spoke to the competencies or behaviors that...

This article examines the manufacture of organizational comics, a particular type of visual artifacts, which aims at shaping employees’ representation about the future of their work. This article is based on a case study in the aviation industry which is currently shaken by the generalization of robots and automation. We investigate how organizational comics, presenting a bright side of the Fut...