Empirical research with a purpose of identifying a firm's competencies is quite rare even if results allow for a highlighting of the roots of competitive advantage, discussion of identification methodologies of competencies and, sometimes, questioning of the possibility of such identification....

There has been a constant evolution of the banking business portofolio in the past two decades, due to economic globalization, deregulation and the advert of new technologies. This trend is still the same today and is even more marked by the emergence of production businesses, the latter been...

(VF)Les assureurs qui affirment ne pas vouloir se diversifier dans les métiers de la banque se raréfient ; la majorité des grands assureurs européens se sont lancés dans la banque, et de nouvelles expériences sont en train d’être menées. Ce travail est l’un des premiers à se...