Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is a tool used to evaluate the potential socio-economic impact of public investment choices. In many countries, particularly in France, this tool is used to support decision-making related to transportation infrastructure. In the context of difficult budgetary...

Purpose This research aims to compare the contributions of two authors and practitioners from the 1920s whose work was, to a certain extent, at odds with the dominant scientific management approach of the period. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, a comparative textual analysis of texts...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to highlight the way Mary P. Follett's ideas on management have emerged. Design/methodology/approach – The research explores the different opportunities Mary P. Follett has regarding management issues. It also analyses Follett's way of reasoning in some of...

We propose a methodology based on the use of clustering techniques derived from data analysis and multi-attribute decision analysis methods aiming at purposeful multidimensional poverty measurement. Our contribution to methodological knowledge insists on the necessity to build “meaningful...