This paper is a comparative analysis of the recent evolution of the French and the Anglo-Saxon profession regulations of auctioneers in terms of entry barriers and exercise of the profession. Firstly, following Stephen and Love's (1999) framework of the regulation of legal profession, we...

The Office of Cultural Affairs of the City of Dallas manages the acquisition and conservation of a broad collection of commissioned and donated works of public art, contributing to make Dallas a vibrant place to live and work and a great place to visit. Facing reduced availability of public...

In cultural consumption it is quite reasonable to expect that the formation and the evolution of preferences, and the related individual choice behaviour, is affected by various interactions within families, peer and other social groups. Our investigation focuses on a specific form of "indirect"...

Although patent litigation has become increasingly global, with litigants earning billion-dollar verdicts and seeking judgments in many different jurisdictions around the world, scholarship has been almost completely silent on how such litigation develops outside the United States. This void in...

The report summarizes the agenda, scientific contents, results, contribution to the future direction of the field, and outcomes of the Exploratory research workshop held in Rome and Sabaudia (Italy) on Octobre 7-10th 2013.Le rapport synthétise le déroulement, les contenus scientifiques, les...

Depuis une trentaine d’années, les activités ludosportives en milieu rural occupent une place non négligeableau sein de nombreux territoires touristiques, témoignant ainsi d’un nouveau rapport au temps, au corps et à la nature ausein de la société occidentale. Parmi ces activités, le...

The main objective of this paper is to empirically test the variables of the theory of transaction costs and resource based view that influence on the decisionof internationalization of production processes. A logistic regression with data from companies in 15 European countries was estimated,...

This paper analyzes the strategies of the Canadian corporation Quebecor, a conglomerate regarded as the prototypical media company and a veteran in the process of gradual media convergence. This case study is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 1999 and 2005, and on a review of the...