The methodology developed by the Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA) for the economic evaluation of the indirect effects of large public R&D programmes is described, with special reference to space projects. It is designed to provide a minimal estimation, with the use of direct...

<!--Début du contenu @xml:lang="en"--> ?This article aims at analysing the mechanisms by which a large Research Infrastructure, here a synchrotron, co-constructs the ecosystem to which it belongs and uses it in order to sustain and feed its own evolution dynamics. Our analysis relies on the study of the French synchrotron SOLEIL. We...

Purpose: In this paper, the authors look back at James March’s main contributions to the evolution of organizations and their decision-making. No other author in management science has been quoted as much. Yet, his view on these issues is often far removed from the dominant academic...

Abstract Objectives Respondent-Driven Sampling (RDS) is a variant of link-tracing, a sampling technique for surveying hard-to-reach communities that takes advantage of community members' social networks to reach potential participants. While the RDS sampling mechanism and associated methods of...

This paper proposes a model of forgetting in organizations. Based on organizational theory and strategic management literatures, and on the authors previous empirical work. The proposed model suggests that forgetting is a phenomenon that cannot be dissociated from learning. It conduces to...

<!--Début du contenu @xml:lang="en"--> ?Innovation strategies are played both in adapting products to the laws of competition and in the new architecture of value that transform business models. Boldness in external cooperation and linking knowledge disjoint form the basis of these new strategies.? <!--Fin du contenu @xml:lang="en"-->

We investigate wealth returns on an administrative panel containing the disaggregated balance sheets of Swedish residents. The expected return on household net wealth increases with net worth, exceeding the risk-free rate by 9% for households in the top 0.01%. The expected wealth return is...