Editorial Policy

Projectic is an issue which aims to promote in English, Spanish and French, topics related to emerging thematics linked to the field of human action com-plexity within the organizations. It is coordinated by the Société Européenne de Projectique and sponsored among others by the IAE Metz School of Management of the Université de Lorraine.

In fact, it would be appropriate to back off from the so-called close rationa-lity, which mainly refers to the conventional approach and sets aside whatever goes beyond it (emotions, intersubjectivity, intentionality, etc.), to move towards open approaches which are aware of the limits of reason, face contradictions and paradoxes, and are systematically based on the research of decompart-mentalization. The fact of considering actions as complex leads to question the type of rationality involved within organizations in understanding entrepreneurial and managerial practices. In this light, it becomes a matter of repositioning the complexity of human action to be developed within its environment in general, and more particularly within the organization. Indeed, the complexity experienced by the human in order to manage, undertake and innovate beings to be developed within the framework of the organization plays an important role in understanding and transforming the human action.

The will to (re)introduce complexity to understand organizations through the action of development within research in management reflects a certain need, namely that of going beyond a blind spot, where the complexity of action has been the subject of research studies that are often too partitioned and partitioning. The objective is to focus on the entirety of development within organizations, which would help understand and establish links between the individual action around the knowing subject and the collective action. Thereby, this issue aims to take part in the establishment of thoughts underpinned by new conceptual and methodological knowledge for the action of managing and undertaking within organizations. In this perspective, papers that are expected are those wishing to address the complexity of action within organizations under a new and original angle, helping generate new knowledge to our scientific community.

The journal mainly welcomes contributions from one of these 5 axes:

• Project management and complexity
  
• Innovation and foresight
  
• Territories and sustainable development
  
• Learning and collective intelligence
  
• Governance and stakeholders

Projectic has an “immediate open access without charge or embargo” editorial policy, under which articles are published under a CC-BY licence. This license requires that reusers give credit to the creator. It allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, even for commercial purposes.

This policy complies with the definition of Open Access used by the Directory of Open Access Journals – DOAJ: ”journals where the copyright holder of a scholarly work grants usage rights to others using an open license (Creative Commons or equivalent). This allows for immediate free access to the work and permits any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.”

The publication of articles in Projectic is free of charge for the authors and is not subject to any fee whatsoever. There is no publication contract, as the authors retain copyright and all publication rights without restriction. The publisher authorises and encourages depositing the publisher’s pdf in an open archive and recommends HAL.