The average voting procedure reflects the weighted average of expressed opinions in [0,1]. Participants typically behave strategically. We evaluate the discrepancy between the average taste and the average vote. If the population is sufficiently large, it is possible to construct approximations...

In June 2005, the scientific journal Long Range Planning devoted a special issue to organizational failure, with a focus on papers showing that firms are largely encouraged to learn from failures, but that this is often easier said than done. At the same time, the Journal of Organizational...

The history of accounting for private railway companies in Germany shows that these companies played a major role in the diffusion of historical cost accounting principles and gave birth, together with big other joint stock companies, to the dynamic" or second stage of capitalist accounting, at...

Background : There are limited data available on the economical burden of psoriasis and its impact on everyday life. Objective : The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of psoriasis on personal and professional life, and to evaluate the cost of psoriasis for the patient. Methods : We...

The assumption of log-concavity is a flexible and appealing non-parametric shape constraint in distribution modelling. In this work, we study the log-concave maximum likelihood estimator of a probability mass function. We show that the maximum likelihood estimator is strongly consistent and we...

This paper is devoted to a new approach of differential games with state constraints. We explain a new method, general enough to study discontinuous problems but efficient enough to provide numerical schemes. We present this method in a game of kind: the target problem and in a game of degree:...

Accompagnement destiné à améliorer la performance d'individus, le coaching est à la mode dans les entreprises, et largement nourri de pratiques venant du sport.