In this empirical paper, I am looking at how individuals make reputational judgement of pharmaceutical companies when they prescribe a medicine, and, how the Mediator’s scandal in France has changed rules, material practices and the institutional logic. The literature review explores first the...

Digital technologies play a major role in the profound changes that characterize political and economic regulations both within nation states and in international relations. They often provide the conditions for these evolutionary processes by means of new modes of information circulation, of...

Ce papier présente les résultats d’une étude exploratoire afin de contribuer à une meilleure compréhension du rôle des alliances stratégiques des PME pour concilier entre les innovations d’exploration et les innovations d’exploitation. La nouvelle approche des innovations et des...

The decision, in July 2005, of French government to create « poles de compétitivité », can be understood like through an old and fertile research tradition, initiate by works of A. Marshall. This tradition has developed and enriched by notions of « industrial district » or « clusters »....

Network industries are now characterized by a regime of permanent innovation, while they continue to be fixed and sunk cost industries, due to the high level of investments in R&D and infrastructures. Players in these industries need to coordinate their investments; hence a threat of collusion....

Efficiency arguments explain why commercial intermediaries exist and will continue to be involved in the exchanges despite the spread of digital networks. Commercial intermediaries provide producers and consumers with a set of information, logistic, securization and insurance (and liquidity)...