This article examines work-family balance. Data from the Workplace and Employee Survey(WES) was used to assess the overall situation of this phenomenon in Canada. Representative statistical data was used to determine to what extent employers have taken the work-family challenge into account. Our...

Artist run centres constitute an original model of production and diffusion of artistic products. They are composed of artists, who take on activities of communication, management, as well as production and distribution of artistic products, without abandoning their initial reason for being,...

The effect of proximity on development has fostered much interest over recent years and STORPER has put forward the hypothesis of a winning configuration for the 3rd millenium, that is one based on innovation, organizations and territory. Our research was conducted with firms of three high tech...

The paper analyses the theoretical bases of the theses of the Creative Class and Creative City. The objective is to highlight the contributions of authors that preceded Richard Florida?s work and which put forward the factors susceptible to contribute to a city becoming a creative place. This...

The multimedia sector largely contributed to the economic reconversion of Montreal during the 90s. This article explores the question of whether the Montreal multimedia sector can be considered an innovative milieu. While the sector is rather young, since it exists since 10 years or so, the...

Traditionally, the concept of innovation has been associated to the world of technologies and has been analyzed in an individual or entrepreneurial context. This paper proposes that innovation is embedded in a much larger and multidimensional process. Certainly, the innovation is a technologic...

Research aimed to analyze the role of the social actors, in France and in Quebec, in the governance of the conciliation. At the end of research, we propose the track of a strategy renewed around the concept of flexi-security, in a new and widened meaning. Thus, while the flexi-security of...

Research aimed to analyze the role of the social actors, in France and in Quebec, in the governance of the conciliation. At the end of research, we propose the track of a strategy renewed around the concept of flexi-security, in a new and widened meaning. Thus, while the flexi-security of...