This eighth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains eight articles. Topics covered are: a progress report on endogenous growth theory; recent productivity developments in Canada and the United States; monetary policy in...

Le présent article présente un modèle intégré de veille stratégique, méthodologie de base en gestion de projet. Les étapes importantes sont : étalonnage, gestion des connaissances, isomorphisme, aspiration. Le modèle permet de mieux identifier les risques lors des innovations menant à...

En gestion de projet, le dépassement des délais ou des coûts est fréquent. Le contrôle de projet ou la mesure de la performance s’avère important. À cet égard, l’outil de mesure de performance disponible est la valeur acquise, laquelle repose sur une planification de base PERT / CPM....

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...