This paper should be considered as a co-construction, a dialogue between a researcher in management science and a technician of public administration. We aim at discovering if sustainable development practices modify the meaning actors give to their work in the public administration field. We...

Research on the impact of open market share repurchases has been hindered by the lack of data available on actual share repurchases in many countries, including the US. Using a previously unused database containing detailed information on 36,848 repurchases made by 352 French firms, we show that...

The objective of this research is to study the reactions of consumers when faced with a hyperchoice situation. Two experiments were carried out, varying the number of products displayed in a jewelry department. The results show that increasing the number of products has a positive effect on the...

This paper examines the impact of market liquidity on seasoned equity offerings (SEO) characteristics in France. We find that, besides blockholders’ takeup, liquidity is an important determinant of SEO flotation method choice. We document higher direct equity offering flotation costs, but also...

The objective of this research is to explore the decision-making process of consumers when faced with food products that have values-based labels. An experimental methodology was used to test the impact of a label of origin guaranteed by the European Union, the Protected Geographic Indications...

The rigor/relevance debate has generated an intense conversation. Despite a growing consensus on the need for research to be more impactful, scholars have drawn radically different paths to bring research and practice closer. This accumulation of contributions that are often unarticulated with...

Ce chapitre explore les déterminants interne et externe de l'achat d'un logement, mobilisant les concepts de psychologie, psychanalyse, d'urbanisme de sociologie et d'économie afin de mieux comprendre les relations entre un individus et son logement. Il présente d'une part les déterminants...

This paper shows a fuzzy relational clustering method in order to perform the clustering of symbolic data. The presented method yields a fuzzy partition and prototype for each cluster by optimizing an adequacy criterion based on suitable dissimilarity measures. This work considers two...

As marketers love to teach students, differentiation must be the focal point of marketing strategy. But what happens when a firm's competitive set is shared by similar customers, perceived differentiation is weak among rivals, and loyalty is a thing of the past? This was the dilemma the French...