[eng] By considering the firm as a knowledge processor instead of an information processor, we show in this paper that the dimensions of the theory of the firm (existence, coherence and frontier of the firm...) have to be reconsidered and become more adequate to experiments and facts. In a first...

[eng] This contribution focuses on the simulation of the emergence and evolution of communities of practice, a concept brought forwards originally in sociology in the early 90's by Lave and Wenger (1990) and Brown and Duguid (1991). In a first part, the main theoretical principles on which...

[fre] Cette contribution analyse la restructu ration des liens entre l'État, l'industrie et la recherche dans l'organisation et l'exécution de projets de défense au Royaume-Uni, comme un processus de tâtonnement continu entre les forces de marché et les exigences de l'économie de la...