La proximité comme perception de la distance. Le cas de la télémédecine

Damien Talbot, Sandra Charreire-Petit and Alexis Pokrovsky

Revue française de gestion, 2020, vol. N° 289, issue 4, 51-74

Abstract: The various modes of proximity are frequently apprehended through objective measurement models. However, in their early works, scholars of the Proximity school also emphasized the subjective nature of proximity: this initial insight has progressively lost ground in recent research works. Our purpose in this paper is to revisit this subjective dimension, using a qualitative research. We have interviewed actors involved in five telemedicine projects developed in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes area. The main theoretical contribution of our research is to reveal how the subjective dimension of proximity shapes every of its modes, although in a dual and ambivalent manner. We evidenced that this subjective construct of proximity combined with the ambivalence of expressions generates the sense of a ?global? proximity. We therefore advocate for a redefinition of proximity as a global compounded notion contrary to previous views articulating multiple modes of proximities.

Date: 2020
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