The purpose of this article is to propose a typology of the economic behaviour of French industrial companies in 1993 … behaviour and the competitive forces ( M. Porter, 1986 ) affecting these companies is then examined on the basis of a sub-set of …

identify specific types of economic behaviour and to relate them to companies' investment, and particularly intangible … investment, decisions. It is first of all necessary to define competitiveness and to suggest a measurement indicator suited to …

. But the dimension of the Combrain behaviour is wide&cover the whole world with Internet. Even if they are a menace, it …

motivated? A standard result in economics is that firms offer autonomous jobs to promote worker motivation. But surprisingly … motivates them. Does autonomy in fact trigger motivation? I argue in this study that motivation may trigger autonomy, and thus … motivation, and that motivated workers have a lower cost of processing information than unmotivated ones. While motivated workers …

Differences in asset measurement techniques can have a major impact on reported capital costs. Their influence on total … that different methods of asset measurement could lead to quite large variations in reported capital costs. Considered in … the context of total unit costs, however, the differences created by these asset measurement effects were relatively small …