Abstract
One of the most sriking features of the post‐World War II rationalization process in France is the fragmentation of large firms into a series of key “functions” (Production Department, Engineering Department, Personnel Department...)‐ This paper deals with a particular aspect of this process, namely the creation of the Engineering Department and especially, one of its basic management tools, operation time, i.e., the time required to perform a given production task. Our narrative traces the main turning points in the construction of operation time in the 1950s. It will lead to an analysis of the consequences of the insertion of this tool on the functioning and the trajectory of major French firms between 1945 and 1975.
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