This paper intends to measure the effects of public infrastructures on firms’ productivity from a sample of 10 subsectors of the Senegalese modern sector. The model used for that purpose is based on the decomposition of the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth which includes the contribution...

Ideas and values of "sustainable development" are transfered from the international to the national level in policy-making processes and give way to a recomposition of rural development policies : we study that policy transfert. In Mali and Madagascar, sustainable development policies are quite...

(VF)Après la vague d’information, les normes ISO 9000 constituent sans aucun doute l’effort organisationnel le plus important ces dix dernières années permettant de rendre visibles les savoirs de l’entreprise. Mais on sait encore peu de choses sur les conséquences de cette codification...

Although left for a few decades the era Taylorism, we have done nothing but enter the era of the accoutable persons i.e. people who, making decisions, are able and have the will to justify them; there is a true request which started to appear in the field of the finance (in France, Law of...

On the basis of the recent concepts of epistemic communities and communities of practice, we show that the firm can be defined according to a form of double duality: cognitive and organisational. The interest of this approach is to put ahead the differentiated behavior from the manager and the...

On the basis of the recent concepts of epistemic communities and communities of practice, we show that the firm can be defined according to a form of double duality: cognitive and organisational. The interest of this approach is to put ahead the differentiated behavior from the manager and the...

Influencé par la presse hexagonale, dans un pays où l'amiante est interdit depuis 1996, on peut croire que la page de l'amiante est définitivement tournée. C'est faire preuve de naïveté. La production d'amiante, qui avait chuté à la fin des années 90, augmente régulièrement depuis...

On the basis of the recent concepts of epistemic communities and communities of practice, we show that the firm can be defined according to a form of double duality: cognitive and organisational. The interest of this approach is to put ahead the differentiated behavior from the manager and the...

La Responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise est un problème qui interpelle tous les acteurs d’une économie qu’elle soit développée ou non. Pour un pays en développement ou la force de proposition est largement attendue de la société civile et des opérateurs économiques surtout en...

The increase in the size of the groups and the rise of the requirements of the customers give a renewed interest to the problem of control by the central seat of its establishments' activity. The study of a significant group of the great French distribution shows the complementarity of the...