Efficiently exploiting existing business while simultaneously exploring new opportunities can generate tensions for actors who find themselves at the crossroads. It is the case of exploration entities’ managers, who have to pursue a long term exploration mission, while being often evaluated through short term exploitation-oriented corporate governance rules. Based on four longitudinal studies...

L’objectif de cet article est de montrer que l’imovation n’est ni une extension des travaux sur l’imitation, ni une extension des théories de l’innovation. Elle est définie comme « une stratégie particulière qui permet pour les entreprises qui sont incapables d’innover régulièrement mais qui refusent d’imiter ses concurrents ». L’imovation peut être un objet de recherche singulier qui nécessite...

As illustrated by the neologism “uberization”, there is increasing concern over new forms of work intermediated by digital platforms. If these crowdwork platforms first have been perceived as market-like organizations, further research pointed out how management is still prevailing in algorithmic governance form. “Operator-type” platforms, such as Uber, are increasingly depicted as pure discipl...

Malgré l’importance de l’économie informelle dans l’économie nationale et internationale, les entreprises de ce secteur font toujours face à de nombreuses difficultés qui mettent en danger leur existence. Aujourd’hui, la recherche de survie, de pérennité et de rentabilité vitale obligent les dirigeants des très petites entreprises du secteur informel à développer de nouvelles stratégies de fonc...

This article aims to offer a renewal of the natural-resource-based view of the firm as introduced in 1995 by Stuart Hart. This study suggests shifting how we theorize resources by taking an ecocentric perspective on resources, focusing on their governance and questioning resources rarity as the unique source of competitive advantage. Building on a multiple-case study of organizations or industr...