This paper suggests that a principal-agent perspective may be one of several useful ways of analyzing the family. The principal-agent literature has so far ignored an important set of cases where the principal is incapable of defining and defending her own interests, and so is assigned an agent...

Justifications for the welfare state in general, and for social protection in particular, have come from three sources: market failures, specifically the inability of commercial and community-based insurance mechanisms to provide cover against all forms of risk; doctrines of human rights,...

Dans l'ensemble, la gestion de projet souscrit à une perspective rationnelle et objective selon laquelle l’organisation est relativement libre de tensions politiques, psychosociales, et culturelles. Si ces hypothèses semblent être adéquates dans le cadre de la gestion quotidienne et...

En gestion de projet, le dépassement des délais ou des coûts est fréquent. Le contrôle de projet ou la mesure de la performance s’avère important. À cet égard, l’outil de mesure de performance disponible est la valeur acquise, laquelle repose sur une planification de base PERT / CPM....

International development has been an active research field for almost fifty years. Most authors agree on the overall failure of development assistance projects (DAP), even though some results may be encouraging. The high failure rate of these projects requires reflection. Far from opposing a...