The role of organization intermediaries in the science-/techno-push versus user-centric approaches of health care innovation
European Journal of Innovation Management (EJIM)
Authors: Valérie MERINDOL, Alexandra LE CHAFFOTEC and David W. VERSAILLES
Title (EN):"The role of organization intermediaries in the science-/techno-push versus user-centric approaches of health care innovation"
Title (FR): "[xxx]"
Journal:European Journal of Innovation Management (EJIM)
Ref: TBD (in press), available on Emarald Insight on Nov 5th, 2021
Les organisations intermédiaires et l’innovation en santé : les multiples facettes de l’intermédiation de réseau
Innovations, Revue d’économie de management de l’innovation
Authors: Valérie MERINDOL, Alexandra LE CHAFFOTEC and David W. VERSAILLES
Title (EN):"Les organisations intermédiaires et l’innovation en santé : les multiples facettes de l’intermédiation de réseau"
Title (FR): "[xxx]"
Journal:Innovations, Revue d’économie de management de l’innovation
Ref: accepted for publication on Sept 7th, 2020, in press
Boundary spanners and the orchestration of resources: global-local complementarities in action
European Management Review
Authors: Valerie MERINDOL and David W. VERSAILLES
Title (EN):"Boundary spanners and the orchestration of resources: global-local complementarities in action"
Title (FR): "[xxx]"
Journal:European Management Review
Ref: vol 17(1), pp 101-119 - published on paper on Apr. 19th, 2020
Ref: published online first on Sept 1st, 2018, in press
DOI: DOI:10.1111/emre.12321
Abstract (EN): This research focuses on managerial roles and practices in the local–global deployment of the orchestration of resources.
We aim at understanding how local and global managers contribute to ‘sensing’, ‘seizing’ and ‘reconfiguring’ in a transnational firm. We offer an
exploratory, explanatory and theory‐building case study and an abductive method grounded in the microfoundations of managerial activities. The field
research develops inside THALES business units. We obtain two main conclusions that are consistent with our abductive method: we characterize how
the boundary‐spanning function serves the orchestration of resources and highlight the importance of team and network boundary‐spanning modalities.
We identify the complementarities between local and global boundary spanners, and we show that rules create the framework suited to empowering the
dynamics of team or network boundary spanning at the local and global levels.
Boundary objects as the missing link in resources orchestration:
an exploratory study of Dassault Mirage IV and Rafale programs
Management International
Authors: David W. VERSAILLES and Valerie MERINDOL
Title (EN): "Boundary objects as the missing link in resources orchestration:
an exploratory study of Dassault Mirage IV and Rafale programs"
Title (FR): "[Les objets frontières comme lien manquant dans l'orchestration des ressrouces:
une étude exploratoire des programmes Mirage IV et Rafale de Dassault Aviation]"
Journal: Management International (HEC Montréal)
Ref: 23(4), 102-117 (online Aug 31st, 2019) article in EN
DOI: TBD
Abstract (EN): In this contribution, we investigate the use of boundary objects (Star and Griesemer) for the orchestration of resources (Teece).
We propose a comparative case study elaborating on two Dassault Aviation military fighters under an abductive approach. In this contribution, we
elaborate on the micro-foundations approach. Our contribution discusses several properties of boundary objects in relation with the orchestration
of resources: type, granularity, openness, malleability, and completeness. We conclude that boundary objects are critical to orchestration.
Their properties explain why they diversely impact on sensing, seizing and reconfiguring. They elaborate on knowledge articulation and teamwork,
and require specific ways of working.
Unpacking the constituents of dynamic capabilities: a microfoundations perspective
Management International
Authors: David W. VERSAILLES and Nicolai J. FOSS
Title (EN): "Unpacking the constituents of dynamic capabilities: a microfoundations perspective"
Title (FR): "Comment identifier les composants des capacités dynamiques: la perspective des micro-fondations"
Journal:Management International
Ref: 23(4), pp 18-29, article in EN (online Aug 31st, 2019)
DOI: TBD
Abstract (EN): This position paper updates about methodological and epistemological issues on the micro-foundations perspective.
We propose that conceptual divergences between the different streams of contributions to dynamic capabilities (DCs) research (the Eisenhardt
versus Teece divide) hide discrepancies about methodological aspects, and about the locus of DCs. We zoom out from current epistemological debates
about the microfoundations to explain the necessity of multi-level approaches, and to clarify the interpretation of the Boudon-Coleman “bathtub”.
We elaborate on these aspects to explain how to enhance research on DCs, and more generally in strategic management. We discuss specific issues
in relation with the selection of units of analysis and with the elaboration of field research protocols. We also propose practical recommendations
adhering to the micro-foundations approach
Keywords (EN): Dynamic capabilities, Resource orchestration, Research heuristics, Microfoundations, Methodology of the social sciences,
Situational analysis, Methodological individualism
Understanding dynamic capabilities: the microfoundations perspective
Introduction by the guest editors to the special issue on Microfoundations of Dynamic Capabilities
Management International
Authors: Valérie MERINDOL, David W. VERSAILLES, Nicolai J. FOSS, and Agusti P. CANALS
Title (EN): "Understanding dynamic capabilities: the microfoundations perspective Introduction to the Thematic issue on Microfoundations of Dynamic Capabilities"
Title (FR): ["Comprendre les capacités dynamiques: l'approche par les micro-fondations Introduction au numéro thématique sur les Microfondations des capacités dynamiques"]
Journal:Management International
Ref: 23(4), pp 9-17, article in FR, EN, SP (online Aug 31st, 2019)
DOI: TBD
Abstract (EN): Introduction to the Thematic issue on Microfoundations of Dynamic Capabilities
Keywords (EN): Dynamic capabilities, Resource orchestration, Research heuristics, Microfoundations, Methodology of the social sciences
Vers un nouveau modèle de gouvernance de l’innovation pour les programmes de Défense et de Sécurité:
la dynamique de l’innovation ouverte et des communautés ‘Open Source’
Economie et Institutions
Authors: Thomas LE TEXIER and David W. VERSAILLES
Title (FR):"xxxxx"
Title (EN): "[TBD]"
Journal:Economie et Institutions (Canada)
Ref: Vol. 12 et 13, (inprint 2008-2009), pp. xx
Thematic issue on : (Guest editor: David W. VERSAILLES)
Subjectivisme économique, figures du besoin et de l’utilité marginale
à travers les éditions des Grundsätze (1871-1923) de Carl Menger
Cahiers d'économie politique
Authors: David W. VERSAILLES
Title (FR):"Subjectivisme économique, figures du besoin et de l’utilité marginale à travers les éditions des Grundsätze (1871-1923) de Carl Menger"
Title (EN): "[TBD]"
Journal:Cahiers d'économie politique (Canada)
Ref: nb xx, (Dec.), pp. 91-108
DOI: doi.org/10.3917/cep.051.0091
Abstract (EN): This contribution argues that Menger’s Grundsätze ground economic subjectivism in cognitive features.
It elaborates on need-satisfaction in relation with the use value of goods. It details the various forms raised for utility in Menger’s
texts and distinguishes between both Grundsätze editions. The second edition (1923 – edited by his son Karl) turns out as the starting point of an
interpretation lowering the cognitive content of the 1871 text and, therefore, the originality of the representation of individuals. With the various
aspects of needs and utility, with the concept of use value, Carl Menger’s economic subjectivism does exist on an autonomous basis.
Abstract (FR): Cette contribution argumente que les Grundsätze de Carl Menger fondent le subjectivisme économique dans la théorie cognitive.
L’article entre dans le détail des figures du besoin en liaison avec la notion de valeur d’usage. Il revient sur les figures de l’utilité pour distinguer
les éditions des Grundsätze. La seconde édition (1923) a été le point de départ d’une lecture qui amoindrit l’originalité du raisonnement initial (1871)
en gommant les aspects cognitifs de la représentation de l’individu. Avec les différentes figures du besoin et de l’utilité, dans le concept de valeur
d’usage, le subjectivisme de Carl Menger existe en matière économique de façon autonome.
Friedrich Hayek vs. Karl Popper : Eléments pour un débat sur la connaissance économique
Revue de philosophie économique
Authors: David W. VERSAILLES and Christian SCHMIDT
Title (FR):"Friedrich Hayek vs. Karl Popper : Eléments pour un débat sur la connaissance économique "
Title (EN): "[TBD]"
Journal:Revue de philosophie économique
Ref: vol 1, nb2, pp. 111-139
DOI: TBD
Abstract (FR): A première vue, la chronologie des œuvres de Hayek et Popper, leurs biographies, leurs thèses méthodologiques en faveur
de l’individualisme, leurs ennemis communs (historicisme, holisme et planisme) et leurs références croisées peuvent laisser envisager l’existence d’un
véritable débat intellectuel entre les deux hommes, sinon d’une convergence sur le fond. La similitude de leurs thèses et leur " amitié " ne reposent que
sur la conclusion commune que l’histoire ne permet pas d’énoncer des assertions nomologiques. Cette trouble coïncidence renvoie, en réalité, à des conceptions
très éloignées de la connaissance scientifique en économie. A travers leurs analyses de l’historicisme et de la méthode expérimentale, nous démontrons que
la divergence entre eux est patente sur le plan de l’épistémologie des sciences sociales.
Asbtract (EN): Hayek’s and Popper’s bibliographies, their biographies, their methodological theses in favor of individualism, their common commitment
against historicism, historism and planism, and crossed references in their writings bring us to infer (at least) some intellectual debate between them, or
even some deeper mutual understanding. It is not. Hayek and Popper demonstrate on their own that history cannot provide the social sciences with nomological
statements. This confusing coincidence and their "friendship" are nothing but the conclusion of autonomous and together irrelevant views about scientific
knowledge in economics. We inquire in this paper their analysis of historicism and the status they attribute to experiments; we conclude that Hayek and Popper
opted for diverging paths in the epistemology of the social sciences.
Les libertariens et le libéralisme, étude normative de la liberté ou économie positive?
Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines
Review article of...
BOUILLON, Hardy (ed) (1995),
Libertarians and Liberalism, Essays in Honour of Gerard Radnitzky on his 75th birthday
Authors: David W. VERSAILLES
Title (EN):"Les libertariens et le libéralisme, étude normative de la liberté ou économie positive?"
Title (FR): "[xxxxx]"
Journal:Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines
Ref: Vol 7 Nb 4, (Dec) pp. 633-647
DOI: TBD
Review article of:Hardy BOUILLON (ed) (1995),
Libertarians and Liberalism, Essays in Honour of Gerard Radnitzky on his 75th birthday,
Aldershot, UK: AVebury, 360p
Values and Social Order
Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines
Review article of...
Gerard RADNITZKY and Hardy BOUILLON (eds) (1995), Values and Social ORder, 2 vols.
Authors: David W. VERSAILLES
Title (EN):"Values and Social Order"
Title (FR): "[xxxxx]"
Journal:Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines
Ref: Vol 6 Nb 1, (March) pp. 201-215
DOI: TBD
Review article of:Gerard RADNITZKY and Hardy BOUILLON (eds) (1995),
Values and Social Order,
vol. 1 - Values and Society (272 p.)
vol. 2 - Society and Order (224 p.)
Aldershot, UK: Avebury