Our research started with the following question: have longstanding family businesses been conducting sustainable development policies long before the word became a fashion. After presenting our methodology, we investigate the sustainable development concept and review the family business (FB)...

This paper weaves together two strands of literature: one on sustainable development (SD) and one on family business (FB), with a focus on the longevity of FB. We investigate the SD literature and then review the FB one on longevity, in light of the key questions related to SD. Using 27 h of...

Dans cet article nous cherchons à comprendre comment, en vue d'une transmission à la génération suivante, les successeurs potentiels d'une entreprise familiale sont façonnés pour passer du statut d'héritier à celui d'entrepreneur familial. Dans une première partie nous expliquons à...

In this article we highlight the role played by widows in French Family businesses. We take a historical point of view in order to highlight the significance of our topic. We show the role of French family law in enabling widows to become entrepreneurs. Then we relate the life of the wife of a...

Cet article propose une étude du cas d'une entreprise familiale qui vient d'entrer dans la catégorie des ETI par son chiffre d'affaires. Nous observons le début de la structuration de son système de pilotage de la performance. Nous nous proposons de montrer que la structuration d'un SPP ou...

The place of wife in the little familial business. A study from the report of failure (18th-20th century) This article tries to put forward the place of wife in the French little familial business from the 18th to the 20th century. We have worked in 307 files of failure from the departmental...

Nous souhaitons présenter en commun ici un travail qui s'appuie sur des recherches réalisées séparément, dans deux disciplines distinctes, l'histoire de l'art et l'histoire du management. Les recherches que nous présentons portent en outre sur deux époques et deux milieux d'activité...

This article presents an experiment in full cost accounting applied to the case of an industrial process. It aims at exploring the difficulties of putting full cost accounting into practice. Its specific contribution to the growing body of experiments in full cost accounting is that it attempts...

In this article we demonstrate, through the case of Egypt, how the emphasis on one specific learning mode from primary through to secondary school, and to a lesser extent, culture, impact learning abilities. We describe how Egyptian students are impaired when confronted to learning modes they...

This article presents a subset of a research work on the enhancement of cooperation in negotiation with a focus on the intra-organizational context. This article focuses on identifying negotiator styles and tests the impact of three variables on their performance and evolution. The variables...