Knowledge is increasingly recognized as one of the most critical resources in the modern workplace, because the way knowledge is learned, shared and used determines organizational innovation and effectiveness. In my dissertation, I build on construal level theory to explore the relationship...

Efficiency arguments explain why commercial intermediaries exist and will continue to be involved in the exchanges despite the spread of digital networks. Commercial intermediaries provide producers and consumers with a set of information, logistic, securization and insurance (and liquidity)...

This conceptual paper introduces various models to describe and pilot complexity across organizations, through a compared study on three objects: the town, the IS and the firm. We suggest three organizational models which follow each other in the time: the feudal model, the functionalist model,...

Alors que l’approche par les ressources et les compétences est apparue au départ en tant que théorie de l’avantage concurrentiel, elle a rapidement étendu son champ de compétences à la question des frontières de la firme. Prenant essentiellement ancrage dans les faiblesses de la...

La dégradation du marché du travail, importante en Europe, plus récente aux Etats-Unis, n’est ni purement conjoncturelle, ni propre aux seules économies développées. Des mouvements contrastés affectent au Nord comme au Sud les salaires et les emplois, en nombre et en qualité. Les...