In France, the development of the Internet has been influenced by the evolution of the inherited information technology. France had many of the elements needed for the Internet to flourish: excellent engineering schools, participation of scientists and academic researchers in data networks,...

Le commerce électronique pose des problèmes économiques et de gestion à la fois bien connus sous certains aspects (dynamiques d'intégration, stratégies de marque) et nouveaux par d'autres (dynamique de constitution des modèles d'affaires dans un contexte de forte croissance, articulation...

[fre] Le modèle de la grande distribution est caractérisé par la mise en scène dans le magasin d'une offre exhaustive, concurrentielle et comparable de produits aux caractéristiques assez bien définies. L'ajustement marchand s'y effectue dans le cadre d'une relation client intermittente,...

The adjustment between supply and demand was characterized in mass retailing by the display of an exhaustive, competitive and comparable offering of products with clearly-defined and visible characteristics. Adjustment between this supply and demand was framed by an irregular, indirect,...

We report here on research aiming to reconstruct urban mobilities and communication practices through mobile phone base data. We have developed a software probe that can be implemented on a user's mobile phone, and which allows the joint recording and collection of the successive locations...