The OtoKar company (luxury coaches, cooperative, 800 persons, in the Spanish Basque Country) presents specific organizational features: model is very far from the hierarchical traditional one and, to our mind, it borders on the "intelligent" organizational model (Peter Senge, 1998). Complexity...

Le budget est de plus en plus critiqué. Certains suggèrent même qu'il puisse être abandonné. Cela marquerait l'échec d'un outil apparu dans les années 1930 et qui avait connu un grand succès depuis. Il est encore trop tôt pour savoir si les critiques conduiront à sa disparition. Mais...

Cet article tente d'identifier les facteurs favorisant le développement d'un comportement orienté client chez le personnel en contact avec la clientèle opérant dans l'entreprise de services. Il a aussi pour objectif d'en proposer un modèle explicatif. Un examen de la littérature produit...

The environment complexity in which supply chain members are evolving leads them to adopt opposite strategies in a constructive way. In this sense companies tend to create value by cooperation and, at the same time, capture value by competition. This ago-antagonistic behavior generates a...

This paper proposes new concepts of strong and coalition-proof correlated equilibria where agents form coalitions at the interim stage and share information about their recommendations in a credible way. When players deviate at the interim stage, coalition-proof correlated equilibria may fail to...

This paper shows that utility differences between the self-employed and employees increase with financial development. This effect is not explained by increased profits but by an increased value of non-monetary benefits, in particular job independence. We interpret these findings by building a...

We test the wealth maximization theory of quitting behavior on the German Socioeconomic Panel (1985-2003). With the interpretation of job satisfaction as an expression of the experienced preference for the present job against available alternatives, the propensity to stay in the present job is...