In this paper, we consider the factors influencing the adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ict) by firms and intend to identify the sources of inequalities in this process. We test the influence of organizational and spatial factors on the intensity of ict use by French...

This article presents a model allowing us compare the scientific production of universities on clear and explicit grounds. Such bilateral comparisons are then used to build dominance networks, rankings, and reference classes. The paper presents the results obtained for the main us research...

This paper is concerned with the incentive properties of the St Matthew Effect by which since Merton [1968] one usually describing the various cumulative advantages that obviously affect academic competition. We introduce a model of sequential contests in which the agents that have initially...