Mélissa Boudes

Le Mans Université

Labour Market Intermediaries (LMIs) with a social purpose, or Labour Market Social Innovation, are bubbling since the 1980s due to the fragmentation of labour standards and the growing number of “non-standard forms of work”. However, they face an important lack of legitimacy especially in countries like France where labour market is highly regulate...

CNRS 4, FNEGE 4, HCERES C

Les coopératives d’activité et d’emploi sont des structures permettant à des entrepreneurs individuels de développer leur projet dans un cadre collectif. En cherchant à concilier entrepreneuriat, salariat et coopération, elles permettent d’expérimenter de nouvelles formes de protection sociale, mais sont également soumises à des tensions entre logi...

Can work groups emerge among the selfemployed? The situation of the self-employed is usually described in terms of solitude since they are not part of a work team. Under the wage-earning paradigm, work groups are a resource for workers. This comparison of three research studies shows how the self-employed use available services and organizations (c...

The social enterprise, as the archetypical hybrid organisation, is increasingly attention from policymakers and businesses. The former consider them as a means to meet social needs using efficient business models ; the latter perceive them as a way of increasing social responsibility and/or accessing new business opportunities. Apparently, their hy...

Dans un contexte de transformation du travail et d’augmentation de la précarité, cette thèse aide à comprendre comment de nouvelles formes de travail émergent, se développent et parviennent à répondre aux besoins et aspirations sociales en matière de travail. Cette étude s’intéresse plus particulièrement aux dynamiques d’innovation sociale qui s’ap...

If the benefits of trust within collaborative relationships are subject of numerous studies, few scholars focus on its undesirable side effects. Our case study attempts to fill this gap. It questions the institutionalisation process of trust, specifically the resulting mechanisms of trust self-reproduction. From semi-structured interviews and archi...

SIMPACT is a research project funded under the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme from 2014- 2016 and is the acronym for «Boosting the Impact of SI in Europe through Economic Underpinnings». The project consortium consists of twelve European research institutions and is led by the Institute for Work and Technology of the Westphalian Univ...

Rethinking work at the intersection of the institutional orders. The case of the activities and employment cooperatives. Through the case of the activities and employment cooperatives (AEC) we study how a new institutional logic emerge in the field of the work management. This longitudinal study, from the emergence of the AEC to the latest evolutio...