Records management: France in search of a direction Available to Purchase

This article reviews the late emergence of records management in France and its recent development through the impact of the e‐environment and international standards and through the dominance of the French public‐sector approach to, and practice of, RM. The French government has launched the French “administration” on the road to e‐government, a strategy that will impact on the private sector in its relations with regulatory and other state bodies.