Qu’est-ce qu’une recension d’ouvrage?
Une recension d’ouvrage (ou analyse critique de livre) est un type de document qui fournit une analyse critique et documentée d’un livre.
Elle comprend habituellement un résumé des principaux messages et des arguments clés du livre et communique l'avis éclairé de l’auteur de la critique.
Les recensions de livre universitaires sont écrites pour les chercheurs qui connaissent bien le sujet – ils peuvent même être experts du sujet – et/ou qui sont prêts à lire le livre analysé.
Il est important que la critique de livre dépasse la simple description du contenu du livre et qu’elle fournisse une évaluation critique des idées et des arguments développés dans l’ouvrage.
Bref, il importe d’évaluer le livre, ses forces, ses faiblesses, et de voir dans quelle mesure il contribue à un domaine de la recherche.
Pourquoi lire une critique de livre?
Les chercheurs lisent une recension d’ouvrage afin d’avoir une opinion éclairée sur la qualité d’un livre et de déterminer si le livre mérite d’être lu.
Ils veulent savoir rapidement si leurs pairs considèrent que le livre apporte une contribution significative à leur domaine de recherche et s’il accroît nos connaissances sur le sujet abordé.
Pourquoi écrire une critique de livre?
Écrire une recension d’ouvrage développe les compétences en écriture et en analyse.
Avant d’écrire une recension d’ouvrage, il est fortement recommandé de contacter les éditeurs de la revue dans laquelle vous souhaitez publier afin de leur demander s’ils seraient intéressés par une analyse critique du livre que vous avez choisi.
Comment écrire une critique de livre?
La recension d’ouvrage contient généralement les informations suivantes :
- La notice bibliographique complète de l’ouvrage (par ex., Auteur, titre, année de publication, éditeur…);
- Une section qui présente la thèse générale du livre analysé;
- Un résumé des principales idées développées dans le livre;
- Une section qui énumère les principaux points forts du livre;
- Une section qui traite des principales faiblesses de l’ouvrage;
- Une section qui présente votre évaluation critique du livre.
Les recensions de livre ne sont généralement pas structurées de la même manière que le livre analysé.
Au lieu d’essayer de couvrir tous les aspects du livre, il est préférable de se concentrer sur quelques points que vous jugez importants.
Où trouver des critiques de livres dans le domaine de la recherche en management?
Plusieurs revues universitaires dans le domaine du management ont une section consacrée aux critiques de livres (et des éditeurs dédiés aux critiques de livres).
Vol20 - 3

The Laws of Globalization and Business Applications

Juliane Engsig.
Pages : 287-297
In The Laws of Globalization and Business Applications, Pankaj Ghemawat continues to defend his antithesis against the common image of the world as global. He does so by introducing the two regularities of international activity: the law of semiglobalization and the law of distance. Through a range of empirical methodologies, Ghemawat tests these two laws and finds that international business interactions rarely exceed 30%. Based on these results, Ghemawat challenges our assumptions that the world is globalized. He explains that international business interactions continue to be important but that the world is rather semiglobalized. The majority of business flows continue to occur locally, which indicates that different types of distance continue to restrain business activities. These findings should, according to Ghemawat, change both how researchers study international busi
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Vol20 - 5

Building new theoretical foundations to understand organization through temporality

Anthony Hussenot.
Pages : 529-533
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Vol19 - 3

Unplugged - Book Review Essay : Questions a Book on ‘Questions Business Schools Don’t Ask’ Doesn’t dare to Ask

Thomas Klikauer.
Pages : 228-239
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Unplugged - My Own Book Review - Writing for Scholarly Publication as a contribution to scholarly conversation

Anne Sigismund Huff.
Pages : 240-247
The “unplugged” section seeks to experience new forms of book reviews. We regularly grant a wild card to a world-class scholar to review his/her own Classic. In “My own book review”, authors will tell us the story of what I was trying to do with sometimes some auto-ethnographic considerations. By recounting the building process of one seminal research with a contemporary lens, they may give some insights for the current craft of research and also share with us renunciations, doubts and joys in their intimate writing experience.
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Vol18 - 4

Book Reviews Special Forum - Around the Communicative Constitution
of Organizations perspective. James R. TAYLOR & Elizabeth VAN EVERY (2014), When organization fails. Why authority matters

Consuelo Vasquez.
Pages : 309-313
The unplugged section edits some book reviews special forums dedicated to a topic, an author or a theoretical perspective. The unplugged section edits some book reviews special forums dedicated to a topic, an author or a theoretical perspective. This second forum considers three important volumes gravitating around the communicative constitution of organizations perspective. Originated in a seminal contribution from one our reviewers, Robert McPhee, who based his work on Giddens’s structuration theory, this perspective experienced different avenues and forms now a “rather heterogeneous theoretical endeavor” (Schoeneborn et al., 2014). Montreal School of organizational communication constitutes one of the main pillars of this perspective; James R. Taylor and François Cooren recently offered some stimulating volumes, carving out their own path within organizational communication studies. The CCO perspective has significantly disseminated in the field of organizing studies and an effective conversation henceforth unfolds with various discursive studies.
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Book Reviews Special Forum - Around the Communicative Constitution
of Organizations perspective. François COOREN (2015), Organizational discourse.

Robert McPhee.
Pages : 314-320
The unplugged section edits some book reviews special forums dedicated to a topic, an author or a theoretical perspective. The unplugged section edits some book reviews special forums dedicated to a topic, an author or a theoretical perspective. This second forum considers three important volumes gravitating around the communicative constitution of organizations perspective. Originated in a seminal contribution from one our reviewers, Robert McPhee, who based his work on Giddens’s structuration theory, this perspective experienced different avenues and forms now a “rather heterogeneous theoretical endeavor” (Schoeneborn et al., 2014). Montreal School of organizational communication constitutes one of the main pillars of this perspective; James R. Taylor and François Cooren recently offered some stimulating volumes, carving out their own path within organizational communication studies. The CCO perspective has significantly disseminated in the field of organizing studies and an effective conversation henceforth unfolds with various discursive studies.
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Book Reviews Special Forum - Around the Communicative Constitution
of Organizations perspective. François COOREN et al. (2014), Language and communication at work: Discourse, narrativity and organizing.

Yvonne Giordano.
Pages : 321-328
The unplugged section edits some book reviews special forums dedicated to a topic, an author or a theoretical perspective. The unplugged section edits some book reviews special forums dedicated to a topic, an author or a theoretical perspective. This second forum considers three important volumes gravitating around the communicative constitution of organizations perspective. Originated in a seminal contribution from one our reviewers, Robert McPhee, who based his work on Giddens’s structuration theory, this perspective experienced different avenues and forms now a “rather heterogeneous theoretical endeavor” (Schoeneborn et al., 2014). Montreal School of organizational communication constitutes one of the main pillars of this perspective; James R. Taylor and François Cooren recently offered some stimulating volumes, carving out their own path within organizational communication studies. The CCO perspective has significantly disseminated in the field of organizing studies and an effective conversation henceforth unfolds with various discursive studies.
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Vol17 - 1

Book Review - Michel ANTEBY (2013), Manufacturing Morals. The Values of Silence in Business School Education. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
Kenneth (Ken) Starkey.
Pages : 78-82
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Book Review - Adam MORTON (2013), Emotion and Imagination. Cambridge ; Malden: Polity
Åsa Wettergren.
Pages : 62-71
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Book Review - Gibson BURRELL (2013), Styles of Organizing: The Will to Form. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Hervé Corvellec.
Pages : 72-77
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Vol17 - 2

Book Review - W. Richard SCOTT (1995), Institution and Organizations. Ideas, Interests and Identities. London: Sage

W. Richard Scott.
Pages : 136-140
The “unplugged” section seeks to experience new forms of book reviews. We regularly grant a wild card to a world-class scholar to review his/her own Classic. In “My own book review”, authors will tell
us the story of what I was trying to do with sometimes some auto-ethnographic considerations. By recounting the building process of one seminal research with a contemporary lens, they may give some
insights for the current craft of research and also share with us renunciations, doubts and joys in their intimate writing experience.
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Book Review - Nils BRUNSSON (1985), The Irrational Organization: Irrationality as a Basis for Organizational Action and Change. New York, NY: Wiley.

Nils Brunsson.
Pages : 141-144
The “unplugged” section seeks to experience new forms of book reviews. We regularly grant a wild card to a world-class scholar to review his/her own Classic. In “My own book review”, authors will tell us
the story of what I was trying to do with sometimes some auto-ethnographic considerations. By recounting the building process of one seminal research with a contemporary lens, they may give some
insights for the current craft of research and also share with us renunciations, doubts and joys in their intimate writing experience.
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Vol17 - 5

Book Review - Mats ALVESSON & Jörgen SANDBERG (2013), Constructing Research Questions: Doing Interesting Research, Los Angeles, CA: Sage.

Jean M. Bartunek.
Pages : 404-409
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Book Review - Hervé CORVELLEC (2013), What is Theory? Answers from the Social and Cultural Sciences, Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press.

Anette Hallin.
Pages : 410-416
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Book Review - Helen SWORD (2012), Stylish Academic Writing, Harvard, MA: Harvard University Press.

Viviane Sergi.
Pages : 417-425
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Vol16 - 1

Book Review - Silvia GHERARDI (2013), How to Conduct a Practice-based Study: Problems and Methods. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
Daniel Geiger.
Pages : 88-94
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Book Review - Isabelle HUAULT & Chrystelle RICHARD (2012), Finance: The Discreet Regulator: How Financial Activities Shape and Transform the World. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Glenn Morgan.
Pages : 95-105
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Book Review - Giovanni BATTISTA DAGNINO (2012), Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
Wojciech Czakon.
Pages : 106-112
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Vol16 - 2

Book Review - Ulrike MAYRHOFER (2013), Management of Multinational companies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Eric Milliot.
Pages : 176-194
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Davis R. Gibson (2012), Talk at the Brink: Deliberation and Decision during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Princton: Princton University Press
Hervé Laroche, Véronique Steyer.
Pages : 195-203
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Vol16 - 3

Arne Carlsen, Stewart Clegg & Reidar Gjersvik (2013), Idea work: lessons of the extraordinary in everyday creativity. Oslo: Cappelen Damm
Garance Maréchal.
Pages : 332-340
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Bruno Dyck (2013), Management and the Gospel: Luke's Radical Message for the First and Twenty-First Centuries. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
Yvonne Smith.
Pages : 341-348
This book is a masterful analysis of Jesus’ radical ideas regarding managers
and management. These ideas, when understood in the context of the
Greco-Roman management system, present transformational possibilities for
21st century managers. A change model that utilizes Jesus’ ideas and his
discussion about the Kingdom of God frames the book.
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Scott L. Montgomery (2013), Does Science need a Global Language? English and the Future of Research. Chicago: Chicago University Press
Susanne Tietze.
Pages : 349-356
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Vol16 - 4

Paul Du Gay & Glenn Morgan (2013), New spirits of capitalism ? Crises, Justifications and Dynamics. Oxford : Oxford University Press
Benjamin Taupin.
Pages : 505-514
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Edward Luttwak (2012), La montée en puissance de la Chine et la logique de la stratégie. Paris: Odile Jacob
Bertrand Venard.
Pages : 515-522
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Book Review - Jean-François CHANLAT, Eduardo DAVEL & Jean-Pierre DUPUIS (2013), Cross-cultural management, culture and management across the world. London ; New York: Routledge

Michaël Vigas-pires.
Pages : 523-534
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Vol15 - 1

Book Review - Peter W. G. MORRIS, Jeffrey K. PINTO and Jonas SöDERLUN (2011), The Oxford Handbook of Project Management, Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press
Rolf A. Lundin.
Pages : 125-31
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Book Review - Marta SINCLAIR (2011), Handbook of Intuition Research, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Pub.
Yvonne Giordano.
Pages : 133-144
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Vol15 - 2

Book Review - Philippe BAUMARD (2012), Le vide stratégique, Paris: CNRS
Wojciech Czakon.
Pages : 225-233
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Book Review - Zygmunt BAUMAN (2011), Collateral Damage: social inequalities in a global age, Cambridge, Malden: Polity Press.
Ruud Kaulingfreks.
Pages : 234-238
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Book Review - Gerald RAUNIG, Gene RAY & Ulf WUGGENIG (2011), Critique of Creativity: Precarity, Subjectivity and Resistance in the 'Creative Industries', London: Mayfly Books.
Stephen Linstead.
Pages : 239-244
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Vol15 - 3

Book Review - Gino CATTANI, Simone FERRIANI, Lars FREDERIKSEN & Florian TAUBE (2011), Project-Based Organizing and Strategic Management, Bingley: Emerland
Yvan Petit.
Pages : 332-342
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Book Review - Richard SENNETT (2012), Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation, New Haven: Yale University Press
Christian Maravelias.
Pages : 343-349
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Vol15 - 4

Book Review - Philippe D’IRIBARNE (2012), Managing corporate values in diverse national cultures, the challenge of differences, New York: Routledge
Eléonore Mandel.
Pages : 340-351
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Book Review - Carl CEDERSTRÖM & Peter FLEMING (2012), Dead Man Working, Washignton: ZerO books
Daniel King.
Pages : 352-358
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Vol15 - 5

Book Review - Patricia H. THORNTON, William OCASIO & Michael LOUNSBURY (2012). The Institutional Logics Perspective: A new approach to Culture, Structure, and Process. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Roger Friedland.
Pages : 582-595
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Book Review - K. SAHLIN-ANDERSSON, R. GREENWOOD, C. OLIVER & R. SUDDABY (2012), Institutional Theory in Organization Studies Los Angelos: SAGE Publications
April L. Wright.
Pages : 596-599
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Vol14 - 1

Book review - Jakob KRAUSE-JENSEN (2010), Flexible Firm: The Design of Culture at Bang & Olufsen. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books
Helena Karjalainen.
Pages : 79 - 88
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Vol14 - 2

Book review - GOLSORKHI D., ROULEAU L., SEIDLl D., & VAARA E. (Eds.) 2010, Cambridge Handbook of Strategy As Practice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Patrick Regnér.
Pages : 157 - 176
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Book review - BAUM J. A. C. & LAMPELl J. (Eds.) 2010, The Globalization of Strategy Research, Advances in Strategic Management, vol. 27, Bingley: Emerald.
Florence Allard-Poesi.
Pages : 157 - 169
Baum and Lampel address the emergence of research perspectives, alternatives to the current North American field which is considered dominant in strategic management today. As introduction, the editors present a narrative of the emergence of strategic management that defines its contours (objects, appropriate methods) and thus, gives it legitimacy. This narrative, which considers the 1977 Pittsburgh conference as a founding event for the field, contributes to the consecration of North American research, and with it a definition of strategy as a sequential process (formulation, implementation), an object to be studied using the canons of logical empiricism.
Yet, it is this relatively limited definition of strategic management, along with online access to European publications (in particular, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies) that gave rise to increasing research debate. As this growing debate is located outside North American borders, the publishers do not hesitate to speak of a “globalization of strategic management research”, despite the essentially European origins of the contributors.1
In order to justify the necessity of alternative perspectives, Baum and Lampel underline the variety of strategic discourse employed by the authors united in this work, yet also observe a certain fragmentation in the field of strategic management. This fragmentation would undermine dialogue among researchers, dialogue that this work intends to regenerate.
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Vol14 - 3

Book Review - Edward FREEMAN, Jeffrey HARRISON, Andrew WICKS, Bidhan PARMAR, and Simone de COLLE (2010), Stakeholder Theory: The State of the Art.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Karan Sonpar.
Pages : 209-220
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Vol14 - 4

Book Review - Stewart CLEGG, Martin HARRIS and Harro HöPFL (2011). Managing Modernity: Beyond Bureaucracy? Oxford: Oxford University Press
André Spicer.
Pages : 251-262
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Book Review - Mats ALVESSON and Andre SPICER (2010), Metaphors We Lead By: Understanding Leadership in the Real World. Abingdon, UK: Routledge
Tyrone S. Pitsis.
Pages : 263-269
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Vol14 - 5

Book Review - Mie AUGIER and James G. MARCH (2011). The Roots, Rituals, and Rhetorics of Change: North American business schools after Second World War. Stanford, CA: Stanford Business Books
Kenneth (Ken) Starkey.
Pages : 371-380
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Vol13 - 3

Book Review - Strategy without design: The silent efficacy of indirect action - Robert CHIA and Robin HOLT, Cambridge University Press, 2009
Ajit Nayak.
Pages : 205-213
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Vol13 - 5

Book review - Ronald S. BURT 2010 Neighbor Networks: Competitive Advantage Local and Personal, New York: Oxford University Press.
Barthélémy Chollet.
Pages : 382 - 390
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Book Review - Mustafa F. ÖZBILGIN (Ed.) Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Work – A research companion, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar
Florence Villesèche.
Pages : 384-389
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Vol10 - 3

Organizational Evolution and Strategic Management, by Rodolphe Durand
Bernard Forgues.
Pages : 71-75
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Vol3 - 1

Book Review - Communautés de pratique et management par projet : A propos de l'ouvrage de Wenger (1998) Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning and Identity
Valérie Chanal.
Pages : 1-30
Cet article présente la théorie des communautés de pratique et de l'apprentissage développée par Etienne Wenger dans son ouvrage Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning and Identity. L'ouvrage défend une perspective sociale de l'apprentissage, inséré dans les pratiques collectives au sein des communautés de pratique. Il offre une grille de lecture originale des phénomènes d'apprentissage collectif, de création de significations et d'identité. L'article propose dans un premier temps une synthèse des apports théoriques de l'ouvrage de Wenger centrés sur le concept de communauté de pratique et ses liens théoriques avec l'apprentissage collectif. Il présente ensuite les parties de l'ouvrage traitant de la conception d'architectures d'apprentissage dans des organisations considérées comme des constellations de communautés de pratique interconnectées. Pour terminer, nous cherchons à appliquer le dispositif conceptuel de Wenger au management par projet afin d'en discuter à la fois les apports et les limites dans ce contexte précis. Il apparaît que la théorie des communautés de pratique fournit des concepts utiles pour interpréter certaines tensions inhérentes au management par projet. En revanche, l'assimilation de la notion de projet à celle de pratique pose des difficultés d'ordre théorique. La confrontation de ces deux concepts ouvre une réflexion sur un enrichissement mutuel entre la théorie des communautés de pratique et les travaux sur le management par projet.
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Knowledge as Social Praxis: A Review of Selener's (1997) Participatory Action Research and Social Change
Peter Reason.
Pages : 23-31
Peter Reason, from the University of Bath, reviews Daniel Selener's book on Participatory Action Research, and offers some comments about collaborative forms of action research.
The full reference for the book reviewed is:
Selener, Daniel (1997), Participatory Action Research and Social Change,2nd ed., Ithaca, NY: The Cornell Participatory Action Research Network, Cornell University. ISBN: 9978-95-130-X.
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