French Clusters: Organizational Forms Ready to Innovate in Human Resources Management?
The settings of networks are getting developed all over the world to generate collaborative innovation; in France, they take in particular the name of “poles of competitiveness”. The literature in management analyzed the operation of these territorial networks of organizations. But whereas their roadmap also consists in producing managerial innovation, throughout practices of human resources management which are at the interface of different organizations, the state of knowledge remains weak on this point. Do the French clusters represent an organizational form also innovating in term of human resources management? On the basis of the contextualist approach, but also of a theoretical framework associating institutional entrepreneurship and actor-network, this article questions the methods of the managerial innovation in twelve French poles of competitiveness. It clarifies the managerial principal innovation of these territorial networks: the innovation of process.