In France, some farmers have taken up the call to subscribe to environmental protection in their professional activity. Integrated farm management tries to reconcile the concept of maximising profits with the social demands that activities be ecologically sound. Small farmers seek solutions to...

In its February 2008 issue, the Harvard Business Review (HBR) classified “collaborative” technologies (social networking sites, virtual worlds, multi-player games, the peer‐to‐peer economy) as one of the 20 most important developments in the business world. A study from The McKinsey...

Port cities have in common the need to manage both urban growth and port growth on territories which are as constrained by their historical legacies as by their ambitious developments. The exacerbation of inter-port competition hinges on the ability of port authorities to meet the requirements...

The Master Grande Ecole curriculum at EM Normandie School is organized around junior consulting projects and real problem solving activities aiming at bridging the gap between classroom knowledge and professional competencies. Since the 90’s students are involved in regular consulting...

This article proposes a reflection on maritime policies. Stakeholder’s positions and representations are analysed with a political science perspective using the cognitive policy analysis approach. The creation of the European Maritime Safety Agency serves as case study. The results demonstrate...

On one hand, IS are expected to improve performance, especially in terms of production factor productivity (SESSI, 2006, 2007), and on the other hand simplify the seemingly ever-increasing complexity within the firms. Research has often focused on how to implement IS, but very little on the...

If catastrophe seems to be, for many authors, the matrix of modern times, it is relatively absent from managerial concerns. The approach of catastrophic risk management seems to suffer from a rigid dominant definition of risk and oscillate in a movement between omission and overstatement. This...

A 20% price gap between national brands and private labels is generally asserted in literature. We show that the evolution of this price gap, in recent years, questioned this assertion. We explain this by a combination of competition and the evolution of French institutional rules. Nevertheless,...

We study the traditional described price gap between national brands and private labels. First, we present several observations relating to the evolution of this price gap on recent years, and emphasize the role played by the competitive game and the French institutional game in the dynamic of...

The longevity of some family businesses is a fascinating phenomenon and there are many researchers who would like to discover the well-kept secrets of the 'philosophical stone' of the long-lasting firms. In this quest, some have advanced that to survive, over the long run, the family firm must...