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Currently, economic environment is unbalanced, it has become changing and uncertain. In this context, a formal analysis is not sufficient to make a decision. Indeed, decision makers meet difficulties to produce sophisticated tools in a way as fast as the environment evolution. The various instruments and methods established of decision-making, such as software of recruitment, choices of management methods being more and more quickly exceeded and obsolete. In a wild competition framework, the organization and its decision makers must make fast and effective strategic decisions. Vis-a-vis this established fact, the decision makers could sometimes copy the decisions of the others. This 'copy' can follow a cognitive process, but also purely irrational and unconscious. Thus, our study is focused on the concept of emo-decisional contagion which tends to describe a 'mass copying', as describing by Slovin et al. (1999) in their study of the impact of the contagion in the banking environment. According to us, in an undeniable way, the contagion leading the organizational leaders to copy their competitors or their similar is dependent of the emotions and their contagiousness. Thus the emotion is considered as a dimension of organization and it leaders decision making. For this purpose, this paper, after having described the role of the emotional contagion in the strategic and managerial decision-making, exposes the model of research. Depuis maintenant quelques années, l'environnement des entreprises n'est plus stable, il est devenu changeant et incertain, l'analyse formelle seule n'y est, alors, plus satisfaisante. En effet, les hommes n'arrivent pas à produire des outils sophistiqués de manière aussi rapide que l'évolution de l'environnement, les différents instruments et méthodes préétablies de prise de décision, tels les logiciels de recrutement, les choix des méthodes de management ou stratégiques, se trouvant de plus en plus vite dépassés et obsolètes. Face à une concurrence sauvage, l'entreprise et ses décideurs doivent prendre des décisions stratégiques rapides et efficaces. Face à cet état de fait, les décideurs copient parfois les décisions des autres décideurs. Ce copiage' peut suivre un processus cognitif, mais aussi purement irrationnel et inconscient. Ainsi, notre étude se focalise sur le concept de contagion émo-décisionnelle qui tend à décrire un copiage en masse', comme le décrivent Slovin et al. (1999) dans leur étude de l'impact de la contagion dans le secteur bancaire. Selon nous, la contagion conduisant les dirigeants d'entreprise à copier leurs concurrents ou leurs congénères est liée, de façon indéniable, aux émotions et à leur contagiosité. L'émotion est, ainsi, distinguée comme une dimension de la contagion des entreprises et de leurs dirigeants à prendre des décisions stratégiques. À cette fin, ce papier, après avoir décrit le rôle de la contagion émotionnelle dans la prise de décision stratégique d'entreprise, expose le modèle de recherche.
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