This paper considers the threat of stricter regulation as a policy instrument to enhance innovation into cleaner technology. It is argued that in some contexts the government would find it optimal to regulate with positive probability but not with certainty. In those contexts the optimal policy...

Dans le contexte de la Nouvelle Économie, le rôle du leader est beaucoup moins de diriger des exécutants que de mobiliser leur connaissance et leur intelligence. Par conséquent, il est préférable pour les leaders d'adopter un point de vue résolument éclectique sur l'ensemble des...

Creation-Date: 2006-05-01

Sous la direction de Benoit A. Aubert et Jean-Grégoire Bernard Les organisations, qu'elles soient privées ou publiques, locales ou globales, diversifiées ou non, fonctionnent dans des environnements constamment en évolution, ce qui rend cruciales l'analyse et la gestion des relations...

(Sous la direction de Michel Poitevin) Impartition et sous-traitance apparaissent souvent comme des synonymes : pourtant, les deux termes recoupent des réalités distinctes. La sous-traitance renvoie aux modalités - économiques ou légales - de toute forme de délégation. L'impartition...

The Civil Protection Act (Bill 173), passed on December 19, 2001, gives the government the power to adopt a by-law on technological risk management. In the elaboration of this by-law, the Ministry of Civil Protection wanted to obtain information on the American Risk Management Program (RMP)...

As a new regulation comes into effect, a program of inspection must be set up to guarantee that the requirements are completed by the subjected facilities. Then the facilities must make the necessary corrective actions within reasonable times. Various questions arise when we evoke the subject of...

In many domains, opinion plays a very significant role which will not stop growing. It is true more than ever in the environmental and health domains, but also in industrial risks. Is it necessary to worry about it? Won't today's mindset become tomorrow's regulation? We show the characteristics...

This paper is the introduction to a forthcoming anthology (published by Ashgate) of economic contributions to the subject. It ties the articles together, starting with a primer on corporate strategy, then considering corporate environmental strategy, and concluding on implementation issues. Cet...