7 Editorial
11 Contributors to this issue
13 Recruiting and retaining in employment persons with disabilities.
A case study in home improvement stores – Christophe Everaere
The Act of February 11, 2005 has increased the pressure to encourage companies (over 20 employees) to hire and retain in employment persons with disabilities (quota of 6% of workforce). How does a company in home retail “Do IT Yourself ” sector fulfill this requirement? This paper provides answers to this question by studying the obvious need to adapt working conditions and also the need to adapt management practices. The high motivation of disabled people to have a job, to work like anyone and to be equal to the task, is questioned. Recommendations are made to promote the management of this particular human resource.
33 Scholar-practitioner collaboration. Between pretense and epistemic necessity – Anne Mesny, Chantale Mailhot
This paper aims at feeding and clarifying the debate about the need for collaboration between management scholars and practitioners. Three epistemic focal points are used to shed light on scholar-practitioner collaboration: (1) the status given to practitioners in the knowledge production process; (2) the relationships between collaboration, rigor and relevance and (3) the differences between practitioners’ knowledge and scholars’ knowledge. Following the discussion of these three epistemic issues, the authors then specify the conditions for, and the limits of, scholar-practitioner collaboration in the field of management studies.
47 A critique of diversity from a gendered perspective – Virginie Martin There has been a recent increase in the number of studies on the subject of diversity. These studies appear particularly interested in assessing the effects of the diversity on performance. More specifically, diversity is in such cases often measured by social demographic factors, with a particular focus on gender. This paper intends to revisit the concept of diversity at it is presently encountered in this mainstream literature. We will critically assess its present meaning, and in the end offer a somewhat different conception of diversity. Our work on gender is based on our empirical work involving interviews with female board members employed by some of the largest French quoted companies.
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61 The challenge of despatialization for management – Laurent Taskin
The notion of “despatialization” recently appeared in the management literature dedicated to the study of new forms of work organization. This notion suffers from a lack of conceptual background that this article aims at filling in. The interest of this notion is twofold: first, it allows to identify the characteristic of a management that suits to remote working arrangements, depending on its intensity, geographical dispersion and autonomy of workers as well as the use of ICT; second, this notion allows to simultaneously consider the managerial issues addressed by new forms of work organization that have been studied separately in the literature until now: virtual teams, mobile working and teleworking.
File: Management and business networks New prospects
Guest Editors: Vincent Chauvet, Barthélémy Chollet
79 Management and business networks. Review and prospects Vincent Chauvet, Barthélémy Chollet
97 The effect of the CEO’s network structure on his compensation.
The French case – Marie-Hélène Vigliano, Germain Barré
This article aims to study the influence of the CEO’s network structure on his compensation. This effect can be analyzed through the links that the CEO of a particular company has with other CEOs who belong to the same boards. A model is developed and tested using an approach based on social network analysis and a sample, consisting of 103 executives of French companies listed on the CAC 40 and SBF 120, is analyzed for the year 2002. The results of this research show that, in France, the CEO’s network determines his compensation.
111 Explaining the professionnal development network of managers Séverine Ventolini
In spite of the interest for social networks, the determinants of these have not been explored. In this article we wonder what is the role of people in the building of their personal developmental network. A quantitative study test how behavior, personality and job design variables impact the pattern of network.
127 Gender perceptions and business networks among female entrepreneurs Christina Constantinidis
The paper explores the issue of business networks among female entrepreneurs in terms of gender. The aim is to explore these womens perceptions and 182 Revue française de gestion – N° 202/2010
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behaviours and to understand related difficulties. Our contribution is double.
We identify factors contributing to network construction with a focus on individual perceptions and offer an explanation for the difficulties women face.
145 Networks of boards of directors and the adoption of corporate governance practices – Nathalie Del Vecchio
Recent research into the role of boards of directors has adopted a cognitive point of view rather than a traditional governance perspective rooted in agency theory (Charreaux and Wirtz, 2006). The present study examines the structural embeddedness of boards and the influence of networks of boards of directors on the adoption of corporate governance practices. More specifically, it focuses on two aspects of social capital, namely the cohesion between actors within dense and closed networks (Coleman, 1988), and openness within networks containing numerous structural holes (Burt, 1992). The main results of this study emphasize the crucial role of board’s network openness in the adoption of corporate governance practices and the importance of the diversity of cognitive resources acquired by boards of directors within their social networks.
163 Industrial dynamics and networks of alliance in biotechnology David Catherine, Frédéric Corolleur, Corine Genet
The aim of this paper is to analyze the evolution of alliance networks and especially the division of labor that occurs between different types of actors in the biotechnology sector. This paper contributes to a comparison of the evolution of dedicated biotechnology firm’s networks for two main application areas of biotechnology that are agrofood and human health. This analysis is based on a sample of 1037 alliances signed by 123 biotechnology firms in French during the period 1977-2005.
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