L’équipement de l’organisation industrielle – les ERP à l’usage

Abstract

The book is made up of various descriptive and critical studies about the implementation and operationalization of ERP (enterprise resource planning) or IMP (integrated management programs) in an industrial situation. ERP is information treatment technology that aims to integrate information systems into a single database for the set of industrial functions. The book’s central discussion is concerned with whether ERP can or cannot form an organizational equipment, in the sense of changing the organization itself and its way of working and planning. Put together by Dominique Vinck and Bernard Penz, the book presents the results of the research program “Information society” from the National Scientific Research Center (CNRS) coordinated by the Department of Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies (STIC) and the Department of Human and Social Sciences (SHS). The work counts with the collaboration of researchers and professors from five French institutions, one Irish institution, one Mexican institution and an industrial engineer, dedicated to the management of companies, business and information systems. Vinck is a sociology professor at Pierre Mendes-France University (UPMF) and at the National Polytechnic Institute at the Grenoble Industrial Enginnering School and a member of the PACTE laboratory (CNRS/Grenoble University), where he co-directs the transversal device “Sciencesociety”. In a way, the book gives continuity to his previous productions: Ingenieurs au quotidien. Ethnographie de l’activite de conception et d’innovation (PUG, Grenoble, 1999, with an American edition by MIT Press, 2003), Pratiques de l’interdisciplinarite (PUG, Grenoble, 2000) e Denise Alvarez Postgraduate Program in Industrial Engineering, Fluminense Federal University, Niteroi, Brazil denisealvarez@neict.uff.br