This text aims at highlighting a typology of small firms which, beyond those resting upon size or industry, allows to distinguish the firms according to their internal organization and the type of market on which they act. We will thus try to arrange the population of SMEs which is still often...

La double nécessité à laquelle se trouve confrontée la puissance publique - dynamisation de la croissance au moyen de l'aide aux entreprises et renforcement des règles prudentielles transnationales - invite à se demander dans quelle mesure les divergences résultant de la mise en...

Ce rapport vise à fonder et mesurer la notion de surcoût dans les DOM qui, comme le rappelle le cahier des charges, "constitue une caractéristique reconnue au plan juridique pour les activités exercées dans les régions ultra périphériques à laquelle il apparaît désormais nécessaire...

This article aims to demonstrate the need for a radical break with the methodological individualism that dominates the fields of economics and management, and especially finance. It advocates the need to try to understand the issues, and the methods that are required to coordinate economic...

What people do with brands has always been considered a source of value for them. Nonetheless, during the last decade, this phenomenon has been accelerated by the rising power of consumer communities, backed by the development of the internet and social media. It has been shown today that the...

Compared to equity-based companies, the challenge posed by partnerships resides in the nature of the undertakings given by their partners and owners, which may be backed by all their personal wealth. Although financial performance is rarely questioned, even if it is debatable, the concept of,...

This article aims to demonstrate the need for a radical break with the methodological individualism that dominates the fields of economics and management, and especially finance. It advocates the need to try to understand the issues, and the methods that are required to coordinate economic...

The management sciences are largely based on the figure of an economic agent who seeks to maximise his or her own individual interests, in the same way as the celebrated homo economicus. The whole corpus of finance relies on this fundamental hypothesis. However, developments in this field, as...

Management science is based on the idea of an economic agent who seeks to maximize his personal interest, i.e. the so-called homo economicus. The bodies of academic literature of finance and marketing rely mainly on this fundamental hypothesis. However, recent developments during the last decade...