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Challenges of International Management on the Dawn of the 21st Century

Lemaire, Jean-Paul; Mayrhofer, Ulrike; Milliot, Eric - HAL - 2012

This article explores the multiple and interwoven effects of accelerating international market integration in order to allow economic actors to better distinguish upcoming stakes. The authors identified four related, often connected, research perspectives within the international business field....

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Does Team-Based Compensation Give Rise to Problems when Agents Vary in their Ability ?

Meidinger, Claude; Rullière, Jean-Louis; Villeval, … - HAL - 2001

This paper reports the results of an experiment on how team composition influences both the contract offer of employers … ceases trying to monitor her team through a contract offer when agents vary in their ability. In this case, agents focus more … heavily on their teammate's behaviour than on the principal's offer and therefore, regardless of the level of team …

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Self-Confidence and Teamwork : An Experimental Test

Rullière, Jean-Louis; Pinto, Luis Santos; Vialle, Isabelle - HAL - 2011

We use a laboratory experiment to study how perceptions of skill influence teamwork. Our design is based on Gervais and … Goldstein (2007) theory of teams. Team output is increasing in skill and in effort, skill and effort are complements, and … that the presence of overconfi-dent workers in teams is beneficial for firms since it raises effort provision and team …

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The strategy of parallel approaches in projects with unforeseeable uncertainty: the Manhattan case in retrospect

Lenfle, Sylvain - HAL - 2011

This paper discusses the literature on the management of projects with unforeseeable uncertainty. Recent work demonstrates that, when confronted with unforeseeable uncertainties, managers can adopt either a learning, trial-and-error-based strategy, or a parallel approach. In the latter,...

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Risk analysis in project early phase taking into account the product lifecycle: Towards a generic risk typology for bidding process

Botero, Juan Diego; Béler, Cédrick; Noyes, Daniel - HAL - 2013

During the project early phase, considering a bidding process (BP), a client makes a request for a work or service to potential providers and then he chooses, by analyzing the responses, the one that will be accepted. From the bidder point of view, there are several risks when responding because...

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The spatial organisation for cooperation: what knowledge can we use from a historical analysis to understand the design of a new campus at Saclay ?

Scotto, Caroline - HAL - 2013

This proposal is part of the thesis which is looking at the conception of the Campus Paris-Saclay (France) being part of the implementation of a nationwide public policy the main purpose of which to give France a higher education and research system of excellence. One of many reforms is to...

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Using design theory to characterize various forms of breakthrough R&D projects and their management: revisiting Manhattan & Polaris.

Lenfle, Sylvain; Masson, Pascal Le; Weil, Benoît - HAL - 2014

In this paper we propose to revisit two emblematic projects, Manhattan and Polaris, with the models developed by design theory. In particular we demonstrate, relying on recent advances in design theory, how these major projects, traditionally presented as radical innovations, are in fact quite...

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Desarrollo local y procesos de alineación de portafolios de proyectos: Caso Comunidad de Camurí Grande, Estado Vargas, Venezuela

Suárez, María Daniela Gómez - HAL - 2013

El desarrollo local puede definirse como el crecimiento sostenible desde un punto de vista global, que considere a grandes rasgos aspectos económicos, sociales y medioambientales, lo que implicaría realizar una serie de proyectos enfocados a alcanzar metas en cada una de esas áreas. Los...

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Exploration and Project Management

Lenfle, Sylvain - HAL - 2008

Project management in academic studies tends to be regarded as an adequate solution to the problems raised by innovation. This paper sets out to question this tendency to equate projects and innovation which, in our view, can lead to the improper use of projects to manage innovation. We argue...

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Projectification of the Firm : the Renault Case

Midler, Christophe - HAL - 1995

Many industrial firms are implementing fundamental changes in their organizations to increase the efficiency of their product development processes. Here we focus on the relations between project management models and the permanent organization and processes of the firm. The case of the French...

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