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Quand le marché interne devient conversationnel : conception des produits et modification des règles

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  • Olivier Biencourt
  • Thierry Jolivet

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[fre] La conception et le développement des produits peuvent être analysés au travers de deux modèles opposés, l'un analytique (représentatif de la production en série), l'autre interprétatif (caractérisant davantage les situations où il y a une fréquence importante de lancement de nouveaux produits). Partant d'une étude de cas approfondie, dans une entreprise d'assurance, on montre d'abord la nécessaire cohérence, à l'intérieur d'une entreprise, entre le mode de conception des produits et les règles constitutives d'un marché interne du travail. À un modèle analytique, seront associées des règles fortement prescriptives et faiblement interprétatives. Un modèle interprétatif, que l'on préférera qualifier de conversationnel, laissera place à une marge de manœuvre plus importante : le but à atteindre ne sera pas prédéterminé, mais se construira au cours de l'interaction entre les acteurs, à l'image du déroulement d'une conversation. Prenant appui sur deux populations de l'entreprise, les informaticiens et les commerciaux, on examine ensuite les conséquences organisationnelles d'un changement dans le mode de conception des produits. Dans un cas, il va y avoir modification d'un marché interne dans le but d'intégrer des mécanismes compatibles avec le modèle interprétatif. Dans un autre, où le marché interne n'existait pas, on le voit se constituer, dès son origine, sur des principes de nature conversationnelle. [eng] In literature, there are two theories about product development practice. The dominant approach is analytical and problem oriented. An alternative approach is interpretative. This interpretative approach views product development as entering into a process in which people are already engaged. It sees the interactions between the different communities involved in product development as a set of conversations. In this paper, we take the exemple of two populations inside an insurance company : the computer scientists and the marketing people, who sell life insurance products. Historically, this firm is, for the computer scientists, an internal labor market. But we observe a modification of the rules, and the new rules are gouverned by the idea of conversations between different agents of the firm. For the marketing people, we see the creation ex nihilo of an internai labor market. This internal market is caracterised by rules in which conversations take place.

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  • Olivier Biencourt & Thierry Jolivet, 2000. "Quand le marché interne devient conversationnel : conception des produits et modification des règles," Revue d'Économie Industrielle, Programme National Persée, vol. 93(1), pages 51-72.
  • Handle: RePEc:prs:recind:rei_0154-3229_2000_num_93_1_1024
    DOI: 10.3406/rei.2000.1024
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