Increasing soil salinity threatens the sustainability of irrigation schemes in several rice growing areas of the world, particularly in western Africa. Desalinisation is needed to sustain irrigated rice cultivation. However, to keep track of the effectiveness of any desalinisation method,...

The concept of business models and consequently business model innovation has its foundation in corporate practice, strategic management, and industrial economics. However, business models are not a strategy but constitute the core and driver of a strategy as well as the key for decoding,...

Each financial crisis calls for ¡ª by its novelty and the mechanisms it shares with preceding crises ¡ª appropriate means to analyze financial risks. In <em>Extreme Financial Risks and Asset Allocation</em>, the authors present in an accessible and timely manner the concepts, methods, and techniques...

[eng] Indexed management and averages theory . One hypothesis assumes that indexed passive management is a resurgence of Quételet’s (1835-1869) averages theory in the modern finance. First the author shows that the portfolios choice theory and the canonical breaking up of financial risk are...

[eng] Excessive volatility : irrational behaviours or intellectual dividing ? . The main assumption to explain high volatility of markets is the irrational behaviours of investors. This analysis contrasts the « good » economy with the « bad » stock exchange. The author presents the origins...

Organizations are open systems operating under conditions of substantial turbulence, risk (known unknowns), and uncertainty (unknown unknowns) and seeking to balance stability and coherence with flexibility and change in pursuit of higher levels of efficacy and routine excellence. In addition,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a holistic picture of how and to what extent Cohen and Levinthal’s (1990) seminal article on absorptive capacity was used in knowledge management (KM) and intellectual capital (IC) research from 1990 to 2013. Design/methodology/approach –...