Les organisations : un nouvel objet - article ; n°6 ; vol.44, pg 1461-1477

Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations - Année 1989 - Volume 44 - Numéro 6 - Pages 1461-1477
A New Subject: the Study of Organisations
History as expressed through the Annales has not given much importance to decision making at and to institutions. One possible way to understand better these problems is to focus the historical approach on the organizations themselves, in cooperation with varions organisation sciences. This article surveysfour areas where such an approach might be profitable for historians: the analysis of organizations as producers of knowledge and of interrelations; their long-range elements of stability; the paths to innovation; the interconnections between strategy and structure. Organization sciences can thus help historians to overcome the cleavage between economy, society and civilisation and to shift their emphasis toward apprenticeship and transformation processes.
17 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.