Motivated by the consequences of firm’s defensive behavior, we test the impact of market regulation on R&D effort. Our estimates show that this impact is positive, namely on high technology industries. Besides the view of monopolistic profits as innovation rewards, these results can be...

The place of wife in the little familial business. A study from the report of failure (18th-20th century) This article tries to put forward the place of wife in the French little familial business from the 18th to the 20th century. We have worked in 307 files of failure from the departmental...

Paris, 17 Octobre 2008. A l’initiative de La Fondation Nationale pour l’Enseignement de la Gestion des Entreprises (FNEGE), les premiers Etats Généraux du Management ont réuni ce jour au Sénat 400 spécialistes pour débattre des problèmes de société dans le contexte de la crise...

The inductive approach advocated by the Grounded Theory is applied to e-learning training methods as they appear in the experience gained. According to companies the adoption decision is largely dependent on coherence between the technological environment, the quality of the information system...

L'effet de surprise stratégique demande une préparation. Il n'y a pas de surprise si les concurrents peuvent deviner les intentions ex-ante. Nous examinons comment un dirigeant éclairé réussit à activer les règles du jeu des acteurs d'un district en sa propre faveur. Les données...