Stars experience contraction and/or expansion phases at different stages of their existence. Seismic measurements of internal rotation have shown the need to improve the physical description of transport processes of angular momentum and chemical elements during these rapid phases of evolution. In addition, spectropolarimetric surveys suggest a strong-fields/weak-fields dichotomy among the intermediate-mass stars. Understanding how these fields interact with the differential rotation forced by the contraction could help us to address the origin of the magnetism of these stars. This thesis aims at making progress on the issue of the angular momentum transport induced by the contraction of a magnetised, or non-magnetised, stellar radiative zo...