The purpose of this paper was to decipher the contradictions and the ambiguities of crowdfunding as a term and as a practice to reveal the deeper significance of its underlying Zeitgeist.Three steps were followed. In the first one, the authors underline the ambiguities of crowd as a concept in...

We thought that, in order to introduce “The International Research Handbook of Crowdfunding”, an overview or, more precisely, a cartography of the academic literature on crowdfunding would help position this highly developing funding mode. Studied data come from the Business source complete...

En l'absence de cadre conceptuel susceptible de s'appliquer à un agent dépourvu d'autorité directe dans l'exercice de ses missions, cette recherche vise à opérationnaliser la construction de légitimité des contrôleurs de gestion. En se fondant sur une étude exploratoire menée auprès...

La société du risque fait aujourd'hui l'objet de nombreux développements, tant sur le plan de la politique (Cf. par exemple, A. Giddens, Les conséquences de la modernité, L'Harmattan, Paris, 1994, U. Beck, La société du risque, Flammarion, collection " Champs ", Paris 2001) que sur celui...

Avant d'entamer une recherche sur les rapports du personnel d'une entreprise au risque ou à l'incertitude, il est nécessaire de cerner ce que l'on entend par cet objet de recherche. De fait, ni le terrain ni le " sens commun " n'apportent de réponse suffisamment précise pour initier un tel...

La théorie du contrat social, dont Macneil est sans nul doute le principal contributeur, propose une alternative à la théorie des contrats classiques. Cette théorie est de plus en plus répandue en gestion. Au fil du temps, elle s'est imposée comme une clé de lecture essentielle dans...

Decisions taken by the manager of a bank are subject to the regulatory discipline of the Basel Committee in conjunction with the supervisory discipline of the Board of Directors, a body that represents shareholders. This research demonstrates that the two types of discipline act in complement to...

The research shows that banking relationships are important to lending. However, few studies focus on the banking relationships in syndicated loans, although these loans have became a major source of financing. The last financial crisis clearly shows the impacts of credit rationing and...

Decisions taken by the manager of a bank are subject to the regulatory discipline of the Basel Committee in conjunction with the supervisory discipline of the Board of Directors, a body that represents shareholders. This research demonstrates that the two types of discipline act in complement to...

The transparency of credit institutions is currently an issue of crucial importance not only with regard to the adaptation of regulatory tools (Basle II, IAS-IFRS international norms etc.)but also to the banking, financial and economic consequences. The current crisis places the importance of...