Interorganizational relationships have greatly evolved during the last decade. Alliances, partnerships and networks have become most common for designating the way firms create new structures and organizational arrangements. Such a trend can be explained by various factors but the increasing...

The aerospace industry is most challenging for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) which are involved as subcontractors. New conditions such as globalization and technology-led competition bring about major changes in terms of which capabilities are required to sustain corporate growth. This...

Whereas most experts recognize the substantial differences in the construction sector between developed and developing countries, very little is known about <italic>how</italic> and <italic>to what extent</italic> construction project governance actually differs between the two contexts. In order to shed light on these...

Project teams today often work in complex collaborative and extended settings, especially when multinational firms or international projects are involved. Studies on projects have attempted to identify and measure the factors that influence collaboration. Many models have been proposed,...

(Sous la direction de Michel Poitevin) Impartition et sous-traitance apparaissent souvent comme des synonymes : pourtant, les deux termes recoupent des réalités distinctes. La sous-traitance renvoie aux modalités - économiques ou légales - de toute forme de délégation. L'impartition...

Today's changing environment is bringing about a major transformation of the way organizations operate. Most of the discussion about such evolving environment focuses on the necessity for organizations to continuously renew their stock of knowledge and competencies. This renewal takes place...

Small and medium enterprises have strengthened their importance during the last decades in most industrialized countries, including the United States, Germany, Japan and Canada. The province of Quebec makes no exception as firms of less than 200 employees generate a substantial portion of its...

This paper presents empirical evidence on the relationship between innovative efforts and performance on international markets for the specific case of small firms acting as specialized suppliers. In addition to tangible efforts such as R&D expenditures, intangible efforts are also considered....