In the media, the term drought is being used almost interchangeably with famine in the context of the current southern African food crisis. Lesotho is cited as one of the countries affected by food insecurity and was the first to declare a national emergency. But what is the real picture in...

Although Communities of Practice have become a core concept in understanding how knowledge is managed within organizations, there have been few studies of the praxis of formation of Communities of Practice. In this article, we report on a Grounded Theory study of the members of a previously...

In a second best environment, the optimal policy choice sometimes follows first best rules, as described in a number of scattered works. This paper presents a formal general argument which allows to unify much of the literature. It lays down the information structure and separability...

How can we identify whether innovation processes in an organization, a region or a sector are stagnating? Moreover, how can we assess the degree of innovation stagnation? These are issues at the core of the management of innovation literature, and the challenge of how to answer these questions...

Les alliances stratégiques et les fusions-acquisitions sont théoriquement considérées aujourd'hui comme de véritables leviers de création de valeur. Cette création de valeur prend différentes formes, à savoir essentiellement une valeur stratégique, une valeur substantielle, une valeur...

Cette recherche porte sur les actions au point de vente. Une étude qualitative menée auprès de professionnels et de consommateurs de produits agroalimentaires en grandes et moyennes surfaces permet d'identifier comment les entreprises peuvent développer des relations avec les consommateurs...

Du fait de leur impact présumé sur la sécurité des organisations à haut risque, les interactions régulateurs-régulés constituent une des thématiques importantes des recherches dans le domaine de la gestion des risques, tout en restant néanmoins peu explorée. A partir d'une étude...

Despite the increased strategic importance of environmental innovation on the one hand and corporate social responsibility on the other, there are still few studies that show firm voluntary measures create a primary determinant of environmental changes. First, we clarify the meaning of voluntary...

Relationships between health and economic prosperity or economic growth are difficult to assess. The direction of the causality is often questioned and the subject of a vigorous debate. For some authors, diseases or poor health had contributed to poor growth performances especially in low-income...

This article explores the main determinants of the hazard of recidivism among ex-prisoners. We use a nationally-representative sample of prisoners released in 1996-1997 in France, drawn from a 5-year follow-up survey run by the French correctional administration. We estimate semiparametric...