Inclusion Of Human Factor Both In Economics And In Management

The taking account of the human factor in economic theory and science of management is increasingly necessary in order to better understand economic and management issues such as development, economic growth, and well-being, the ability of companies to innovate and survive in a competitive environment and so on. But introducing this essential factor is not simple in a theoretical point of view and implies include new, and sometimes competitor, concepts. Furthermore definition of concepts and the classifications differ greatly according to the authors. Most of the studies distinguish individual human characteristics from the complex domain of human interactions, in fact these concepts are often strongly nested. In this work, we choose to compare different concepts issued both from field of economics than from field of management. These fields are a priori very distinct but confrontation of the concepts helps, according to us, identify the implications of the different approaches, contributes to better define and classify the concepts about human factors. The aim is to get out of the fragmented view of each discipline and sometimes even specific areas of each of its disciplines and also to stress the importance of taking into account the human factor in theoretical considerations.