Abstracts
Résumé
Nous proposons dans ce document un ensemble d’hypothèses sur lesquelles un cadre théorique pour l’entreprise réseau pourrait s’appuyer. Pour atteindre cet objectif, nous analysons, d’une part, le cadre théorique de l’entreprise traditionnelle basé essentiellement sur la théorie économique néoclassique, la théorie des coûts de transaction, la théorie de l’avantage concurrentiel basé sur les ressources, la théorie de l’avantage concurrentiel basé sur les activités et la théorie de l’organisation industrielle. D’autre part, nous définissons l’entreprise réseau et présentons ses principales caractéristiques. En confrontant les hypothèses de base de ce cadre traditionnel aux caractéristiques de l’entreprise réseau, nous montrons qu’elles ne constituent pas une base adéquate pour modéliser cette dernière. D’où la pertinence de l’ensemble des hypothèses proposées.
Abstract
The network enterprise characterizes economic transition and change. Many scholars defend the position that we need to adjust our organizational theories to this new reality. This paper proposes a number of hypotheses on which a theoretical framework for the network enterprise could be based on. To do that, we start by examining the foundations of the traditional enterprise as viewed by the neoclassical, the activity-based and the resource-based theories of the firm, as well as by transaction costs and industrial organization theories. In parallel, we analyze the particularities and different forms of the network enterprise. By confronting the hypotheses on which the theories examined are based with the characteristics of the network enterprise, we find that the former do not provide an adequate basis to model the network enterprise. This brings us to propose a new set of hypotheses on which to base a theory of the network enterprise.
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