Published in 1979, L’emprise de l’organisation by Pagès, Bonetti, de Gaulejac, and Descendre offers us the opportunity to reflect on the evolution of organizations in recent decades. On the one hand, this historical perspective allows us to distinguish the trends that have steadily become more widespread over the last decades: the predominance of financial controls, the influence of formal rules, controlled autonomy, remote governance, the power of abstraction, the depersonalization of power relations, and, consequently, the weakening of authority. On the other hand, the trends that have been severely diminished include: organizational identification, community attachment, collective identity, the ideological dimensions of church, and the managerial creed.