IS and extreme situations

Abstract

As a preamble, I would like to thank
Pascal Lièvre who supported me during the
long process which led to this special issue. For a long time, he has been sailing in extreme situations. The
polar expeditions constitute for
him a field of study but also
part of his life, allowing him to
develop an organizational ethnography approach on such research objects. Since 2005 he has
laid the foundations for a definition of a
extreme management situation from
the concept of management situation
Girin whom he describes as extreme when
three registers are associated with it: evolutionary, uncertain and risky (Lièvre, 2005),
we will resume in our own way this
definition work in this introduction