Francophone Organizational Analysis (1950-1990)

An Overview

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5828699
AutoresJean-François Chanlat (0000-0003-1878-4707, École des Hautes Études Commerciales, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, autor de correspondencia)
Año1994
Volumen15
Número1
Páginas47-79
Fecha de publicación1994-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaOrganization Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0170-8406 • E-ISSN: 1741-3044
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/017084069401500103
OpenAlexW2101276657
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas62

Interest in organizations first appeared between World War I and World War II, with the American studies led by Mayo. Since then, interest has grown and spread to most industrialized countries. In the sixties, in Anglo-Saxon countries and especially in the United States where research was first conducted, organiza tional analysis developed into an independent field of investigation. Economic growth, the proliferation and expansion of organizations and a marked tendency 'to rationalize the world' have compelled an increasing number of West ern researchers to question the social dynamics of organized groups. This interest has been reinforced over the past few years by the failure of collectivist solutions, the growing popularity of private enterprise as well as by the type of management thinking that presently predominates in Western countries, but more generally by the prevalence of thinking about the world in organizational terms. Given this general tendency, which is observable in most industrialized countries, this paper aims to demonstrate how Francophone analysis has evolved and remains distinct to this day from Anglophone - and more particularly from the American main stream - analysis

Organizational analysis · Popularity · Accounting and Organizational Management