Abstract
The state of the art is an indispensable step in a research process. The author presents a feed-back on his approach in the matter. The objective here is to provide some answers and tracks of reflection to the following question: How to structure the complexity without giving up the thematic exhaustiveness of a state of the art in management science? The used approach presents the originality to show how several computing applications can be combined to ra-tionalize the work of documentation, analysis and synthesis which the researcher will have to make.