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Le réseau social des chercheurs de la communauté de l'Association Information et Management Résumé : À mesure que la communauté de recherche française en systèmes d'information s'agrandit, le besoin d'en comprendre les spécificités se fait de plus en plus pressant. Cet article s'attache à mettre en évidence la structure du réseau social qui sous-tend la communauté de l'Association Information et Management (AIM). Elle s'appuie sur l'analyse des réseaux de co-écritures dans la revue Systèmes d'Information et Management (SIM) et les communications au colloque de l'AIM. Cette étude du réseau social, qui manquait à la compréhension des particularismes de la communauté francophone, répond à trois questions : quelle est la structure du réseau social des co-écritures ? Qui sont les acteurs centraux ? Comment le parcours professionnel des chercheurs impacte-t-il leur niveau de centralité ? L'objet de cette étude est de contribuer à la discussion sur les spécificités de la communauté française des SI en vue de renforcer son identité collective. Elle est aussi un moyen pour chacun de ses acteurs de s'interroger sur ses pratiques de co-écritures et sur son rôle dans le réseau social de recherche.

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Scale adaptation, where authors alter the wording of an already published scale, is a deeply rooted social practice in IS research. This paper argues that the time is ripe to question this activity as well as the beliefs that have progressively formed around it. We identify and challenge five fallacious scale adaptation beliefs that hinder the development of more robust measure development norms. Contributing to this area of research, this paper offers a conceptual definition of the cognitive validity concept, defined as the extent to which a scale is free of problematic item characteristics (PICs) that bias the survey response process and subsequent empirical results.Building on this conceptualization effort, a new methodological process for assessing the cognitive validity of adapted IS measures is introduced. Through a series of three programmatic studies, we find converging evidence that the method can benefit the IS field by making the scale adaptation process more robust, transparent, and consistent. Along with the method, we introduce a new index that IS scholars can use to benchmark the cognitive quality of their scales against venerable IS measures. We discuss the implications of our work for IS research (including detailed implementation guidelines) and provide directions for future research on measurement in IS.

The current study examines the ways in which new age organizations use digital culture to promote “holistic” visions of personal and social well-being. Concepts of holism are common in contemporary and new age management settings, but are largely undertheorized by organizational scholars; moreover, the relations between holism and techno-culture, increasingly recognized by digital sociologists, are largely missing from organizational scholarship. Using the lens of “communicative capitalism,” we carry out a case study of “HappyAppy,” a French techno-startup association concerned with well-being related applications, to understand how holistic ideas are deployed and shaped within this association. We find that that holism is marked, on the one hand, by “autarkic” fantasies, involving subjective integration and immersion, and on the other, by “relational” fantasies, involving interpersonal connection and participation. Moreover, each of these versions of holism is associated with distinct critical possibilities. We use these results to theorize the role of digital holism at the intersection of new age management and digital culture, outlining an agenda for future research.