L'étude de la diffusion des principes du New Public Management suit principalement une perspective néo-institutionnelle et l'hétérogénéité des pratiques est souvent expliquée par la notion de découplage. En France, les Collectivités Territoriales et leurs associations partenaires sont...

Family business literature shows that family and nonfamily firms differ with respect to their financial reporting decisions. However, although the literature on financial reporting in fami - ly firms has developed over the last ten years, it is mostly oriented towards earnings management and...

Family business literature shows that family and nonfamily firms differ with respect to their financial reporting decisions. However, although the literature on financial reporting in fami - ly firms has developed over the last ten years, it is mostly oriented towards earnings management and...

Purpose – Owing to its specificities, the family small and medium enterprise (SME) shows a particular behavior as for the creation, development, sharing, protection and transmission of knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to study the specificities of the processes of knowledge creation and...

O objetivo desta pesquisa é estudar a internacionalizaçâo da PME familiar baseando-se, por um lado, na abordagem pelo conhecimento e em particular do aprendizado organizacional e por outro lado, na literatura relacionada às especificidades da empresa familiar. Do ponto de vista teorico...

The aim of this theoretical contribution is to analyze the processes of organizational learning and knowledge development within the small and medium sized family firm. Due to its founding characteristics, family SME seems to be a closed, hermetic and rigid organization. Besides, the specificity...

Despite the profusion of studies concerning knowledge-based processes within the firm, rare studies tried to analyse them for the family business. Due to its specificities, this entity shows a particular behaviour as for the creation, development, sharing, protection and transmission of...

La présente contribution, à portée théorique, vise à analyser l'entreprise familiale selon deuxpoints de vue, organisationnel et stratégique. Il s'agit d'abord de montrer l'existence d'unparticularisme de l'entreprise familiale s'agissant de sa configuration de propriété et de...

This paper aims to contribute to the new stream of literature dealing with knowledge in family firms by analyzing the role of organizational knowledge in the internationalization of this type of firm. First, the study will try to emphasize the specificity of family firms as for double-loop...

The financial behavior of the family firm is a recurring topic in the literature. Hirigoyen's pioneer research (1984) reveals the specificity of the financial behaviors of industrial family medium-sized companies compared to those of the other categories of firms. This type of firms set out...