THE COORDINATION BETWEEN THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK AND THE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF THE FIRM: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN THE PUBLIC SECTOR AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR IN TUNISIA

Abstract

The institutional framework is the business environment; the management system should allow the firm to be adapted to the context, to react and to try to change its institutional framework. The objective of this research work was to answer the following question: the management of the company is it tributary of the coordination between the institutional framework and the management system? The conceptual analysis demonstrates that the institutional framework conditions the management of the firms through its three components: the market, the legal context and the sociological referential. Concerning the influence of the management system on the institutional framework, the conceptual analysis has shown that it is practiced through three components: the ethics, the mode of functioning and the procedure of regulation. The empirical results permitted, firstly, to validate the components as well as the means of influence used by the institutional framework and the management system; then, to confirm the existence of a reciprocity relation and to evaluate the importance of the influence of each component in this relationship, and finally, to identify the significant differences between the private and the public sectors in Tunisia

Keywords

• Institutional framework, Market, Legal context, Sociological referential, Management system, Ethics, Mode of functioning, Procedure of regulation

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