Comment certains systèmes se maintiennent-ils malgré un environnement incertain et changeant ? Cette question reste peu explorée dans la littérature, en particulier en ce qui concerne la compréhension des efforts des acteurs pour reproduire des croyances et des schémas de pensée. Dans...

L’institution participe à l’organisation de la vie sociale. Elle fournit une base à l’action collective en fédérant un ensemble d’individus autour de règles, de normes et de sens partagés. Si l’institution reflète persistance et stabilité, elle n’est pas pour autant immuable....

L’institution participe à l’organisation de la vie sociale. Elle fournit une base à l’action collective en fédérant un ensemble d’individus autour de règles, de normes et de sens partagés. Si l’institution reflète persistance et stabilité, elle n’est pas pour autant immuable....

L‟institution, par définition, reflète une notion de persistance. Elle cadre durablement la pratique des acteurs à travers un ensemble d‟éléments réglementaires, normatifs et cognitifs. Par ailleurs, cette persistance n‟est pas le résultat d‟un pur effet institutionnel. Elle...

The objective of this study is to analyse the response capacity of Turkish manufacturing industry to growing international competition from low-wage countries and to real exchange rate fluctuations. To analyse these competitive pressures and the responses of enterprises, developments in profit...

The paper presents the advantages that the Romanian enterprises can gain on the European Market by implementing the quality management systems. At the same time there is pointed aut the information regarding the National Standardization Body and it's degree of integration in similar European...

The economic ethics tries to define common rules relative to the economic system. Thus, the ethics formalization is at issue, so that ethics can be integrated at firm level. Ethical standard, as a specific tool of formalization, compromises between a responsible behaviour, a state of technique...

In the Dixit-Stiglitz model of monopolistic competition, entry of firms is socially too small. Other authors have shown that excess entry is also a possibility with other preferences for diversity. We show that the cost structure and workers's rents can also explain excess entry.

The apprenticeship system is generally associated with the construction industry. However, the manufacturing industry actually employs a greater amount of persons in apprenticeable occupations than construction. With the rise in value of the Canadian dollar and increased international...

This paper discusses a model of vertical an horizontal product differentiation within the Dixit-Stiglitz framework of monopolistic competition. Firns coompete not only in prices and horizontal attributes of their products, but also in the quality that can be controlled by R&D activities. Based...