This contribution to the study of the factors’ allocation modes of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) by firms of emerging economies gets over the dual approach concentrated on the lack of uses of equipment and on their consequences. Authors focus on the dynamics of use, as...

(VF)Comment entretenir un flux constant d’innovations? Pour répondre à cette question, cet article étudie les liens entre les différentes innovations de la firme, en particulier technologique et organisationnelle. Cinq études de cas sont choisies pour leur caractère emblématique de neuf...

French Abstract: Dans les grandes sociétés, trois "parties constituantes" peuvent prétendre au pouvoir ultime : les actionnaires, les dirigeants et les salariés. La théorie de la suprématie actionnariale est devenue dominante à compter des années 1990 ; le meilleur exemple en est le...

Cet article décrit, en recourrant aux approches DEA et aux frontières de production stochastisques, la mise en place d'un outil de benchmaking interne dans le secteur des services. Il permet également de valider l'utilisation de temps standards d'opérations lorsque la fonction de production...

The main assumption of the paper is that the differentials of competitiveness related to ICT are nowadays less dependant on the level of the investments than on the level of their use. ICT are generally studied within the framework of developed economies and less of their impact on developing...

This paper aims to take into account the increasing weight of Eastern Europe in European car production. Through the product life-cycle theory and the Dunning model, recent foreign direct investment and the location of new plants are seen as new steps in enlarging the productive space of...

This article proposes to analyze, in the first part, the evolution of economic indicators of the craft sector, in terms of job creation, turnover, and added value. Then, this analysis will make it possible to study the characteristics and evolution of artisanal SMEs before examining the dynamics...

This study aims to show that for pro growth industrialization, contemporary industrial policy needs to emphasis on improvement of energy production and of the quality of human capital with application on Central Africa sub region. After a literature review on industrial policy concept, we have...

The determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) of the manufacturing industries, in particular innovation and industrial policy, constituted the seminal contribution of Crépon, Duguet and Mairesse in the late 1990. This study aims to explain the TFP of the 5 branches composing the...

In this paper, we examine the hypothesis of the increasing role of regional level for designing and driving industrial politics in France. We consider the case of aerospace industry and Aquitaine region. We adopt a historical approach, and consider three key periods. The first corresponds to the...