Procédure administrative

Depuis la première édition parue en 2000, la révision totale de l'organisation judiciaire fédérale, entrée en vigueur le 1er janvier 2007, a instauré de nouvelles voies de recours et règles de procédure tant au niveau du Tribunal fédéral qu'à celui des autorités administratives fédérales de recours par la création du Tribunal administratif fédéral et une révision complète de la loi fédérale sur la procédure administrative (PA). En 15 ans, la jurisprudence fondée sur la Constitution, la CEDH et les lois de procédure a été très abondante. Les lois cantonales ont été modifiées; le canton de Vaud s'est doté d'une loi complète de procédure administrative en 2008. L'objectif est de mettre en parallèle la procédure administrative fédérale et celles des cantons romands et Berne, en comparant les dispositions et en mettant en évidence leurs divergences. Facilitant l'accès à la jurisprudence topique et casuistique, cette approche par étapes de la procédure administrative non contentieuse, puis contentieuse, en passant par la décision administrative, est destinée aux praticiens, étudiants, administrés et membres de l'administration dans les nombreux domaines de l'activité de celle-ci vu la vaste portée de la procédure administrative.

A rationalist perspective on the autonomy of international sport governing bodies : towards a pragmatic autonomy in the steering of sports

International sport governing bodies (ISGBs) are built on the foundations of freedom of association and traditionally enjoy a large degree of autonomy in their decision-making. Their autonomy is increasingly confined, however, and their hierarchical self-governance is giving way to a more networked governance, in which different stakeholders exert power in different ways and in different contexts in a complex web of interrelationships. Taking a rationalist perspective on the autonomy of ISGBs, this article demonstrates that ISGBs are deploying strategies to safeguard their waning governing monopoly over international sport. Opting for an inductive approach, the authors present four possible conceptualizations of autonomy as applied to ISGBs, namely political autonomy, legal autonomy, financial autonomy and pyramidal autonomy. For each dimension, they describe the different strategies ISGBs wield in order to safeguard different dimensions of their autonomy. This article uses governance theories to hypothesize that the autonomy of ISGBs can be understood as 'pragmatic autonomy' since ISGBs only cede certain aspects of their autonomy under particular circumstances and when being subject to specific threats. Acting in a rationalist manner, they are able to keep control over governance developments in sport by using indirect and more subtle forms of governance.

Synergy Sources, Target Autonomy and Integration in Acquisitions

Determining the appropriate level of integration is crucial to realizing value from acquisitions. Most prior research assumes that higher integration implies the removal of autonomy from target managers, which in turn undermines the functioning of the target firm if it entails unfamiliar elements for the acquirer. Using a survey of 86 acquisitions to obtain the richness of detail necessary to distinguish integration from autonomy, the authors argue and find that integration and autonomy are not the opposite ends of a single continuum. Certain conditions (e.g., when complementarity rather than similarity is the primary source of synergy) lead to high levels of both integration and autonomy. In addition, similarity negatively moderates the relationship between complementarity and autonomy when the target offers both synergy sources. In contrast, similarity does not moderate the link between complementarity and integration. The authors' findings advance scholarly understanding about the drivers of implementation strategy and in particular the different implementation strategies acquiring managers deploy when they attempt to leverage complementarities, similarities, or both.