MOTTIS Nicolas

The interactions between climate change and financial institutions are still insufficiently explained. Through economic research and a managerial analysis of the practices of a French institutional investor, this thesis analyzes the twofold problem faced by these organizations: measuring their extra-financial impact while managing the new financial risks induced by climate change. We first show how the organization's actors rely on a global reference framework - the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals - to meet the challenges of measuring the impact of responsible investment. We then show that a brutal energy transition scenario significantly increases the financial risks of companies in certain sectors and that this risk is, to date, only partially taken into account by the financial markets. The analysis of practices at the micro level shows that this lack of consideration can be explained by the impact of existing routines on the construction and use of new climate risk management tools and by risk perceptions that are too far removed from those of climate scientists.

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The S&OP process is often thought of as a process for aligning supply and demand in simple, linear supply chains with a single market and a single plant. Multinational companies today have more complex supply chain configurations with specialized plants that serve multiple markets. This paper analyzes how multinational companies configure their S&OP governance processes to link plants and markets, and how this governance influences their ability to achieve alignment between supply, demand, and financial plans. Through interviews with companies, a typology is defined for the observed S&OP governance models. This typology suggests that an authoritative type of S&OP governance, both in the plant and in the market, leads to more successful S&OP outcomes. A link is also established between S&OP effectiveness and formal alignment measures for financial planning. From this, elements of Management Control are refined to enable the conceptualization of S&OP by recognizing the influence of accounting on the governance of the S&OP process to ensure transparency and cross-functional engagement in multinational supply chain contexts. Four normative rules for successful S&OP process governance and alignment in a multinational supply chain configuration context are derived.

The back cover states: "In an increasingly competitive world where business models are changing, managers and executives are looking to broaden their vision and act one step ahead. And what if management research could help them? Unknown, difficult to access and sometimes disconnected from reality, it is nevertheless full of nuggets that are far removed from the managerial "ready-to-think". High-level researchers, consultants and seasoned educators, the authors offer answers to questions as important as: Is management a science or an art? What does a researcher bring to the company when he conducts research-intervention? Why return to theory in continuing education? What can we learn from theories on the consumer, performance improvement, governance? Practitioners and researchers have everything to gain from a better mutual understanding: this is the challenge that À la pointe du management proposes to take up.

4th cover : "In an increasingly competitive world where business models are changing, managers and leaders are looking to broaden their vision and act with a head start. And what if management research could help them? Unknown, difficult to access and sometimes disconnected from reality, it is nevertheless full of nuggets that are far removed from the managerial "ready-to-think". High-level researchers, consultants and seasoned educators, the authors offer answers to questions as important as: Is management a science or an art? What does a researcher bring to the company when he conducts research-intervention? Why return to theory in continuing education? What can we learn from theories on the consumer, performance improvement, governance? Practitioners and researchers have everything to gain from a better mutual understanding: this is the challenge that À la pointe du management proposes to take up.

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In the lively debate that has been going on for some years about the differences between the French and German economies, one idea that is frequently raised is that of a "German model" that would be more efficient overall than its French counterpart. On this point, most of the discussion focuses on the structural and macroeconomic characteristics of each of the two countries. In France, the emphasis is rather on the support that the public authorities can provide to companies (tax or social protection system, labor costs, support to specific sectors, etc.), whereas on the other side of the Rhine, this dimension is relatively secondary. Strangely, one aspect is often neglected, or even completely forgotten: management. Nevertheless, it is in the day-to-day work of companies, large and small, that this "German model" is implemented, its success depending a lot on the way projects and teams are managed. This article is therefore interested in some of the characteristic features of German-style management, and in the differences it presents with French-style management. The objective is to complete the analysis and the understanding of the "German model" by a micro-economic perspective, referring more to concrete practices within companies than to the great macro-economic debates.

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Socially responsible investment (SRI) in France is based on a “best in class” approach as opposed to the “exclusion” approaches used in other countries such as the United States or United Kingdom, where the rejection of sin stocks has been dominant historically. The objective of this research note is to examine whether the French SRI market, by focusing more on financial rather than on ethical considerations, compared with other countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, or even Sweden, may lead to a form of “mainstreaming” of SRI processes. The authors explore several convergent mechanisms. First, the authors analyze the importance of the mainstreaming issue in the history of SRI as well as in the contemporaneous debate in the academic literature on the links between financial and extra financial (SRI) performance. Second, the authors review the role played by ethical finance laws adopted in France in the early 2000s in the development of the SRI market. Finally, the authors discuss the results of a survey of French SRI analysts working both for large institutional investors and asset managers in France in 2009.

This thesis examines the interaction between structure and agency in the context of multi-level institutionalization. Institutions interact in complex ways at the field, national and transnational levels. This complex dynamic conditions both the interpretations and beliefs generated by actors and their mobilization of meaning to put interpretations and beliefs into practice in the case of multiple demands. The two empirical studies explore this in detail, the first focusing on the role played by national institutions in the transnational regulation of SWFs, and the second on the role of actors and institutions in the evolution of interpretive frameworks applied to socially responsible investments. Both studies are based on qualitative research methods that draw on a variety of data sources, including participant observation, interviews, and numerous documentary and secondary sources. These studies resulted in three research articles, two empirical and one conceptual. The two empirical articles, Sovereign Wealth Funds, International Monetary Funds and Transparency and From God to Markets, address theoretical questions about the role of actors and institutions at different levels of the field, society and transnational space in the interpretive and semantic constitution. Both articles refer to and enrich other theoretical frameworks, notably in the areas of transparency, the interpretive study of accounting, transnational governance, social movements and soft law. The third article, Corporate Social Responsibility and "Market Karma", proposes a conceptual framework for the mechanisms that are supposed to translate corporate social behavior into financial performance. It introduces different characteristics of the firm as well as institutional factors impacting this link. The thesis as a whole sheds light on how competing institutions condition the behavior of actors and how actors selectively mobilize institutional frameworks and semantic inputs.

Professional soccer clubs exhibit the characteristics of many organizations in an exacerbated way. Through their case, this thesis offers an original insight into the issues of governance and organizational identity in a context of institutional change. Part I analyzes the governance dynamics of the clubs and highlights the importance of urgency, accentuated by the high level of media coverage of the field, as well as the existence of identity claims linked to a change in institutional logic. Part II shows how some actors have made this change possible by actively redefining the boundaries of the field through discourse and the development of proto-institutions. Finally, Part III highlights the role of management tools and a reinterpretation of past failures in adapting organizational identity to this new logic and insists on the importance of 'sameness' as the deepest layer of identity.

The interdependencies between coordination and incentive mechanisms within organizations are still insufficiently explicit. The purpose of this paper is to make progress on this point by combining two approaches: the first, which comes from industrial production management, bases the coordination of the organization's activities on the modeling of the technical flows that cross it. The second is based on a general principle of duality between operations management and human resources management, with the decentralization of the one going hand in hand with the centralization of the other, and vice versa. In the case of information technology, it appears that human resources are at the heart of the technical model, which poses an original and particularly interesting problem. The dynamics of coordination and incentives that are articulated around this reality are explored. Two typical models, built from an international comparative study on banking informatics, allow us to understand the theoretical modalities that this articulation can take. Beyond the elaboration of these models, the thesis illustrates the role of the theoretical construction in a concrete intervention intended to improve the management of banking IT within an organization. An example of an intervention on a transversal coordination problem during which an original steering mode was developed is discussed in detail.