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Les méthodes visuelles, créatives et narratives dans la recherche qualitative en SIC et design: contributions et défis méthodologiques pour le chercheur
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Editorial: fake news, misinformation, and supply chain disruptions: the role of emerging technologies
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Cultural Crowdfunding Platforms in Latin America: From ‘Creative’ Discourse to Entrepreneurial Strategies
No full textInternational audienceThis chapter looks at the diffusion of crowdfunding platforms in Latin America and their implantation in the so-called ‘creative economy’. Articulating macro and micro-level analyses, this chapter investigates both the ideological discourse on ‘creativity’ that permeates public policy devoted to cultural crowdfunding platforms in Latin America and platform entrepreneurs’ response to it. The chapter asks the following questions: What kind of discourse on crowdfunding circulates in public, para-public institutions and in the industry? What is the impact of this discourse on national public policies promoting local ‘creative ecosystems’? How does it translate into national public policies towards local ‘creative’ ecosystems? More broadly, this chapter investigates how crowdfunding in Latin America may be considered an example of ongoing changes in the digital or creative industries and in public policy on creativity. Methodologically, the chapter is based on an analysis of public policy and industry reports, on 41 semi-structured interviews and participant observation with representatives from public institutions and platform entrepreneurs undertaken in 2016 in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, as part of the ANR ‘Collab’ funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR). Research was complemented with online interviews and report analysis in 2022
Empowering middle managers to free their strategic capabilities
No full textInternational audiencePurpose This article aims to better understand how empowered middle manager engage in change translation? Relying on the notions of building and dwelling strategizing, the authors analyze the micro-practices of middle managers during organizational change, when middle managers are freed from time-consuming administrative activities. Design/methodology/approach This empirical study relies on a qualitative embedded case study approach that involves comparing two banking units belonging to a large French bank. The qualitative data were collected from three different sources: exploratory and semi-structured interviews, observations and secondary data. The coding analysis enables to distinguish middle managers' dwelling and building strategizing during organizational change. Findings The study’s findings show how managers translate organizational change relying on both building and dwelling strategizing. By doing so, managers enable to adapt the prescribed strategy to local circumstances and foster front-line empowerment. Research limitations/implications Even though the findings are based on the analysis of a single organization, the authors provide several theoretical insights. First, the authors contribute to the recent academic debate in strategy-as-practice literature by showing the recursive relation between building and dwelling strategizing. The authors also shed a new light on middle managers' strategizing by emphasizing the idea that middle managers are not only passive change “translators” but that middle managers enact a real agency in the organizational change process. Practical implications From a managerial perspective, the study’s findings enable to enlight what empowering middle managers means in practice. Indeed, the authors show clear empirical illustrations of how middle managers can be empowered by both organizational structure and top-management support. The results also reveal how empowering middle managers enable to empower their team by three different activities: (1) federate the team spirit to facilitate collaboration; (2) develop employees' capabilities and (3) adjust managers' activity according to employees' needs. Originality/value While multiple current new ways of organizing encourage to transform organizations from inefficient bureaucracies into flatter and more dynamic project-based teams, calling into question the importance of middle managers' strategic role, this study provides an original case study of an organization that chose to run against the tide and created an additional middle management level
Happy Entrepreneurs? Everywhere? A Meta-Analysis of Entrepreneurship and Wellbeing
No full textInternational audienceEntrepreneurship can be fulfilling and enhance wellbeing, but also highly stressful and diminish wellbeing. This meta-analytical review synthesizes 319 effect sizes from 94 studies and 82 countries to establish whether individuals derive greater wellbeing from working for themselves or for someone else. The answer is partly positive in favor of entrepreneurship but depends on the components of wellbeing under investigation (positive wellbeing or negative wellbeing/mental illbeing) and the institutional context (especially the rule of law). We contribute by developing the component view of wellbeing as an organizing framework and by advancing an institutional perspective to guide research on entrepreneurs' wellbeing
Temporality and meaningful entrepreneurship
No full textInternational audienceTemporality is an under-researched area in entrepreneurship and business ethics, even though entrepreneurs are particularlyafected by a fast-paced work environment. How do they position themselves in relation to the acceleration of time in orderto construct meaning for their activity? We draw on ffty-four semi-structured interviews with entrepreneurs to outline thediferent ways in which they perceive a faster pace of work. We show how the meaning they give to their activity variesaccording to whether they accept or resist the acceleration of time: (1) By claiming to accept a high work rate, entrepreneursmay see work as a way of keeping busy, having fun, forgetting, or achieving efciency; (2) by asserting that they resistthe acceleration of time, they view work as a way of setting ethical goals, doing their job better, experiencing unexpectedencounters, or being creative. These two diferent perspectives on time and meaning are not incompatible: It is possiblethat achieving a harmonic balance between periods of acceleration and deceleration of time may foster the construction ofmeaningful entrepreneurship
Circulations de la figure du « pervers narcissique » : formule, portraits, motifs
No full textInternational audienceBien que dépourvue de consensus scientifique psychiatrique, l’expression« pervers narcissique » sert de qualificatif pour caractériser de nombreux comportements dans les sphères professionnelles, amicales ou familiales. Comment envisager et saisir la circulation de cette figure dans des domaines si variés ? Afin de répondre à cette question, nous analysons les trajectoires de la formule « pervers narcissique » dans les médias. Puis, nous interrogeons la trivialité de cette figure en nous penchant sur des portraits médiatiques du « pervers narcissique ». Enfin, nous mettons au jour les « réserves » symboliques de la figure en dressant les contours de ses trois principaux motifs : la marionnette, le masque et le vampire. Ceci permet de mieux comprendre laperformativité de la figure du « pervers narcissique »
“When money is more valuable than people…”: The pandemic as a call for business to care
No full textInternational audienceAbstract The COVID‐19 pandemic created extreme conditions in which the need for care was overwhelming and led to competing stakeholder demands. What are society's expectations of business in such conditions, and how might these expectations challenge traditional understandings of the business in society relationship? Using a qualitative survey during the initial stages of the pandemic, the study draws on participants from the US public to identify what they viewed as responsible and irresponsible business behavior in response to the COVID‐19 crisis. Analysis reveals that participants' perceptions are strongly rooted in ethics of care reasoning. This reasoning exposes gaps in CSR and stakeholder theories around “who and what really counts”, while offering a different conception of balancing business self‐interest with external demands. Drawing on this finding, the study joins scholarship highlighting the need for a political care movement and argues that untangling care from neoliberal capitalist logics would resolve many of the competing stakeholder demands and paradoxes that characterize grand challenges such as the COVID‐19 pandemic
Lean manufacturing systems in the area of Industry 4.0: a lean automation plan of AGVs/IoT integration
No full textInternational audienceIndustry 4.0 represents a new industrial paradigm ignited by disruptive technologies that can transform manufacturing into a cyber-physical system that integrates products, people and processes. However, there is little guidance concerning how to implement and integrate Industry 4.0 technologies by existing lean manufacturing (LM) systems. We select autonomous guided vehicles (AGVs) and internet of things (IoT) to develop an action plan that helps managers integrate Industry 4.0 technologies into their manufacturing systems and achieve lean automation. We conducted a case study of a large manufacturing company that introduced AGVs and IoT to automate its lean operations. We used socio-technical systems (STSs) design logic to integrate the two distinct domains (lean and automation) into an action plan that successfully meets six lean automation objectives. The findings demonstrate that AGVs implementation should include three phases: design, integration and continuous improvement. The lean automation objectives are: cost, reusability, reliability, simplicity, compactness, fit, engage and culture. The lean automation plan successfully manages the interactions and interplay between social factors (people and culture), technical factors (infrastructure and technology) and operational factors (routines and processes). The lean automation plan has significant managerial implications helping companies integrate lean philosophy, which is people-centric, with Industry 4.0 technologies, which promote efficiency via automation
Government Digital Transformation: Understanding the Role of Government Social Media
No full textInternational audienceThis study aims to examine the role of government information in cultivating people’s initial willingness to engage in China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) program based on the push-pull-mooring framework. A total of 505 effective responses from Chinese netizens were collected through an online self-administered questionnaire survey, and the data was submitted to a two-stage Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling-Artificial Neural Network analysis. The analytic results revealed that privacy concern, trust in technology, and CBDC’s reachability have strong and positive influences on people’ CBDC engagement behavior. In addition, the information quality (IQ) and perception of trust in government social media (TGSM) have positive and significant influences on respondents’ government social media engagement (GSME). The present study is among the first in the field that attempts to investigate the roles of government information and GSM in assisting the diffusion of CBDC, suggesting the importance of the government’s proactive role in managing social media as a means aligning to nation’s national strategy