The purpose of the article is to analyse the consequences of the constraint of shareholder value on the wage level and equilibrium unemployment rate. We will relate the new program of maximization of the firm, as well as the one of the trade union. We obtain an increase of the unemployment rate...

In this paper we analyze the effects of an environmental policy on the diffusion of a clean technology in an economy where firms compete on the output market. We show that the share of adopting firms is non-monotonic with the stringency of the environmental policy, and that the adoption of the...

In this paper we analyze the effects of an environmental policy on the diffusion of a clean technology in an economy where firms compete on the output market. We show that the share of adopting firms is non-monotonic with the stringency of the environmental policy, and that the adoption of the...

The impact of environmental innovation on the marginal pollution abatement cost at the firm level is investigated. We show that the common assumption that innovation reduces the marginal abatement cost is wrong. We draw some implications about the incentives to innovate under environmental...

This work studies the seniority and the hierarchical level of product champions. The hierarchical level is positively correlated to the size of investment of the innovation projects and the level of seniority is positively associated to the most innovative projects. The seniority of champions...

Information systems (IS) research has examined a broad range of factors influencing the effective adoption of information technology (IT). However, so far, much remains to be done with respect to the exact role played by socio-emotional processes and their influence on IT adoption in the...

La nutrition suscite un intérêt croissant chez les industriels de l'agroalimentaire. Chaque année, on assiste ainsi à des lancements de plus en plus nombreux de nouveaux produits présentant des bénéfices nutritionnels. Cependant, il est utile de rappeler que la nutrition n'est pas un...

The decision, in July 2005, of French government to create « poles de compétitivité », can be understood like through an old and fertile research tradition, initiate by works of A. Marshall. This tradition has developed and enriched by notions of « industrial district » or « clusters »....

Les Rencontres de Cargèse ne sont pas une école d’été comme les autres. Des responsables R&D et Innovation travaillent, pendant quatre jours, avec des chercheurs en pointe sur les questions d'économie, de sociologie et de management de la R&D et de l'innovation. Les Rencontres de Cargèse...