This research has been done in the context of the REPONSE (2010-2011) post survey. The interviews aimed at characterizing the companies' adjustment processes to the 2008 crisis and how they have been discussed, negotiated or forced by management direction. The methodology is built on two parts:...

This paper studies the elements which can explain the transformations of the concept of non profit sector after the French Revolution from 1789 to 1898. Our analysis is grounded on the study of economic thought as well as economic and social facts. Two periods are defined. From 1789 to 1898, the...

Higher education establishments have a very important role for local development, especially for medium-sized towns. Universities are at the origin of jobs, and income, therefore they play a role for local development. In the last decades, local authorities have found it logical to relocate...

This paper tries to explain how the confrontation between economic liberalism, politic liberalism and civil liberalism, from 1789 to 1901, leads to transform the way of thinking of the non profit sector.