The aim of this paper is to show the complexity of the political, legal, social and economic environments where the Algerian State-Owned Firms operate. These environments are qualified by "uncertainty" given the instability of the different parameters cited. Since 1988, Algeria has initiated...

Les bouleversements économiques qui secouent le monde, n'ont pas épargné les pays en voie de développement comme l'Algérie et ont touché la quasi-totalité des secteurs économiques y compris ceux considérés comme stratégiques en bénéficiant de la protection de l'Etat, tels que le...

“Big Data is the oil of the new economy” is the most famous citation during the three last years. It has even been adopted by the World Economic Forum in 2011. In fact, Big Data is like crude! It's valuable, but if unrefined it cannot be used. It must be broken down, analyzed for it to have...

Ces dernières années, un engouement particulier a été consacré pour " les ressources humaines " et " le travail collaboratif ". Cette combinaison miraculeuse a été baptisée " Knowledge Management ". En faisant référence aux théories évolutionnistes de la firme, il faut considérer la...

" Une entreprise qui ne gagne que de l'argent est bien pauvre ! " disait Henry Ford. Cette phrase résume en fait la philosophie du " Balanced Sorecard ". En 1996, Kaplan et Norton formalisent pour la première fois, le concept de " The Balanced Scorecard ". La traduction française du Balanced...

This work addresses the relevance of establishing a Brazilian database consisting of public domain patent documents through the use of the International Patent Classification (IPC). Between 1971 and 2001, a total of 245,225 patent applications have been filed with the Brazilian Patent Office and...

Most of the online searches process through combinations made with boolean operators. We wish to show, in this paper, that it is very easy to search online databases differently. This concept involved searches grounded to non-boolean concepts.

This study shows the importance of patents as a source of technological information in Latin America. We studied the industrial property offices' websites and the kind of patent information available such as laws, gazette, statistics, cost, forms, and contacts. We found at the USPTO and PCT...