A principal needs a worker for the production of a good. The worker can be hired as an internal agent, or an external agent under a contract. These two organizational modes correspond to in-house production and outsourcing, respectively. In each case, the agent earns experience benefits: future...

In this paper, we extend Aumann’s (Ann Stat 4:1236–1239, 1976) probabilistic agreement theorem to situations in which agents’ prior beliefs are represented by a common neo-additive capacity. In particular, we characterize the family of updating rules for neo-additive capacities, which are...

We analyze household income dynamics using longitudinal data from Indonesia, South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal), Spain and Venezuela. In all four countries, households with the lowest reported base-year income experienced the largest absolute income gains. This result is robust to reasonable amounts...

Les rapports entre les entreprises et la société constituent un champ qui a été peu pris en compte par les sciences sociales. Pourtant, la vie quotidienne est largement déterminée par ce que font - ou ne font pas - les entreprises. Acteurs économiques omniprésents, elles jouent...

Les possibilités de souscrire directement des services IT en ligne transforment les usages et les pratiques, et ébranlent le positionnement des directions de système d’information. Analysés sous l’angle des relations entre le système d’information et les parties prenantes, quatre...

The issue of using informative priors for estimation of mixtures at multiple time points is examined. Several different informative priors and an independent prior are compared using samples of actual and simulated aerosol particle size distribution (PSD) data. Measurements of aerosol PSDs refer...

Despite the discourses on SMEs benefits for implementing CSR strategy, despite the growing number of CSR related tools addressing this issue, SMEs are poorly involved in CSR strategic approach. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the drivers and the blocks of CSR integration into SMEs...