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In search of an alternative to shareholder value maximization

Giraud, Gaël; Renouard, Cécile - HAL - 2011

This paper argues that mainstream economic the- ory, far from providing an indisputable plea in favor of shareholder value-maximization, o ers striking arguments showing quite the opposite: pro t maximization cannot be a legitimate prioritar- ian goal for private rms. This opens the door for a...

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The CSR-Firm Performance Missing Link: Complementarity Between Environmental, Social and Business Behavior Criteria?

Cavaco, Sandra; Crifo, Patricia - HAL - 2010

This article analyses the complementarity between various dimensions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and … financial performance. We hypothesise that the absence of consensus in the empirical literature on the CSR-financial performance … different CSR components. We investigate such relationships using a sample of 595 firms from 15 European countries over the 2002 …

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Atlas of wooden furniture industry in Jepara, Indonesia

Roda, Jean-Marc; Cadène, Philippe; Guizol, Philippe; … - HAL - 2007

In this document, we study the industrial district of Jepara, Indonesia. It is specialised in furniture production, for Indonesian consumption as well as for worldwide exports. We summarize the main features of the dynamics of the firms involved in the Jepara industrial complex with a...

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Strategic activities in support of young French SMEs

Branchet, B.; Augier, B.; Boissin, J.P.; Quere, B. - HAL - 2010

In this paper we closely study young French Small and Medium Enteprises (SMEs). We highlight the structure of this target firms and we build a typology of corresponding business models. The business models stemming from this typology are typical (to the greatest extent possible) and actionable....

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"Demand Readiness Level" (DRL), a new tool to hybridize Market Pull and Technology Push approaches

Paun, Florin - HAL - 2011

Analyzing the evolution of the innovation models, from the linear process (“concept” for Schumpeter, “R&D push” for Abernathy, Utterback, “co-innovation” for Shapiro), integrated and systemic process (“coordination process” for Hardy, Iansiti, Chen, “innovative management”...

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