"Placing himself at the crossroads of economics, law, and sociology, Christian Bessy investigates the contemporary transformation of intellectual property rights (IPR). He demonstrates how entities previously considered inappropriate have now become the object of property rights by means of a...

[fre] En suivant une approche néo-institutionnelle inspirée de celle de North, nous montrons comment le brevet joue son rôle d'incitation à l'innovation et de vecteur de sa diffusion. En général, on suppose que la règle de droit incite à une codification des connaissances en échange de...

[fre] Le propos de cette recherche est de relier l'examen des licenciements économiques à celui des formes de gestion de la main-d'œuvre. L'analyse par branche d'activité des licenciements économiques, sur la période 1980-1985, montre que les activités les plus représentatives d'une...

Many common features of the legal regulation of the employment relationship have attracted little attention, although they are to be found in contracts with possible litigation, as for instance the possibility for the employer to reduce the mobility of the employee or to prevent them from...

[eng] The current transformations of French labour market intermediaries regulation increase the interest in an accurate analysis of these intermediaries’ role and their positioning in the market. The French Ofer survey (Offre d’emploi et recrutement, 2005) on the recruitment practices of...

Intellectual Property Rights is cutting edge in addressing current debates affecting businesses, industry sectors and society today, and in focusing not only on the enabling welfare effects of IPR systems, but also on some of the possible adverse effects of IPR systems.