Motivated by the consequences of firm’s defensive behavior, we test the impact of market regulation on R&D effort. Our estimates show that this impact is positive, namely on high technology industries. Besides the view of monopolistic profits as innovation rewards, these results can be...

On the basis of an in depth analysis of the flow of revenues within the music industry and of the emerging practices, we attempt to understand the logic at play in the current evolution of the structure of the industry. We claim that the record companies used to play a role that was useful for...

This paper studies the role of intrinsic motivation, reputation, and reciprocity in driving open source software innovation. Unlike previous literature based on survey data, we exploit the observed pattern of contributions - the .revealed preference. of developers - to infer the underlying...

This chapter contains a method for organizational diagnosis. The method allows the diagnosis (1) of any job position;(2) of any organizational unit: a work team, a marketing department, a project-group, etc.; (3) of any type of organization which resembles a firm : small and large organizations,...

In this paper, we suggest a theoretical framework for ambidextrous organization. The relevance of this framework’s is tested by the study of the case of a fast moving consumer goods company. However we suggest to put the management controller role at the core of the ambidexterity logic in...

Contingency formulations of Human Resource Management (HRM) theory suggest that the effectiveness of HRM practices should vary across firms. This study examined whether the relationship between HRM practices and productivity in manufacturing companies is contingent upon organizational climate...

Several formulations to the mixed-model assembly line have been proposed in the literature. Such a problem is concerned with the production of a variety of product models. Vehicles fall into that category. The underlying assumptions of those models are often restrictive, therefore limiting their...