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Value proposition of an outsourced Project Management Office
(2018)
For the past decades, outsourcing has become a key strategic decision for many organizations. Lots of research and analysis have been conducted on the outsourcing topic underlining its benefits and its contributions to a ...
Technology and infrastructure co-creation from the bottom-up : Institutional, sociomaterial, improvisational and symbolic accounts from the field : The case of grassroots internet infrastructure development in Belarus / Aljona Putilina Zorina ; sous la direction de D. E. Avison
(2012)
This dissertation is a multi-perspective inquiry into the phenomenon of grassroots end-user innovation. It focuses on the processes of end-user innovation and technology co-creation and investigates how these developments ...
Organizational and field-level responses to institutional complexity : The case of french Grandes Ecoles de Commerce / Farah Kodeih ; sous la direction de Hamid Bouchikhi
(2011)
This dissertation explores how organizations cope with multiple and heterogeneous institutions, a situation recently referred to as institutional complexity . It is based on the study of French Business Schools, known as ...
Needle Pulling Thread : The Emergence, Diffusion, and Transformation of Ready-to-Wear Fashion in New York and Paris between the 1940s and the 1970s / Yue Zhao ; sous la direction de Marie-Laure Djelic
(2012)
In this dissertation, I study the emergence, diffusion, and transformation of ready-to-wear fashion in New York and Paris from the 1940s to the 1970s through three component papers. The comparative study in paper 1 reveals ...
The making of meanings : The role of institutions and actors in the co-construction of field level interpretations and meaning systems / Afshin Mehrpouya ; sous la direction de Marie-Laure Djelic et de Nicolas Mottis
(2011)
This dissertation explores the interaction between structure and agency in the context of multi-level institutionalization. Institutions interplay in complex ways across the field, national and transnational levels. Those ...
Essays on private equity and mutual funds / Maurice McCourt ; sous la direction de Sofia Ramos et de Sridhar Arcot
(2018)
Investment manager skill is one of the most researched topics in finance, so readers may wonder why there are still theses such as this one which launches three new Essays on the topic. There are two parts to the answer. ...
From global template to local enactments : a longitudinal account of ERP practice diffusion in chinese subsidiaries of a french multinational corporation / Julien Malaurent ; sous la direction de D. E. Avison
(2011)
This dissertation explores the mechanisms of global information systems (IS) diffusion and adoption of a French multinational corporation (MNC) within Chinese settings. By using an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system ...
Managers in disputes and use of alternative dispute resolution in France / Adrian Borbély ; sous la direction de Ayse Öncüler
(2012)
This dissertation explores resistance factors toward Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) that can be observed in French companies, more precisely in relation with the micro interactions between managers and lawyers as ...