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This paper deals with the relationships between plural form and performance in franchising networks in Europe. It is … performance. The model has been estimated using panel data on 41 publicly listed European franchising networks in the 1998 … indicator of its plural form (franchise proportion). Following an instrumental approach, the network performance is measured at …
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Although principal investigators (PIs) are becoming key strategic actors in shaping new scientific trajectories, little is known about how they strategise in an evolving publicly funded research environment. Drawing on thirty interviews and extensive documentation from Ireland's science,...
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Although Principal Investigators are key actors in scientific fields, there is little focus on what they actually do in shaping new scientific directions. This paper studies PIs practices to better understand their roles. Our central contribution is to identify the different ways in which PIs...
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Despites the great interest caused by social networks in Business Science, their analysis is rarely performed both in a global and systematic way in this field: most authors focus on parts of the studied network, or on a few nodes considered individually. This could be explained by the fact that...
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Despites the great interest caused by social networks in Business Science, their analysis is rarely performed in both a global and systematic way in this field. This could be explained by the fact their practical extraction is a difficult and costly task. One may ask if equivalent information...
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This paper aims at discovering the national influences inside the Governing Council of the ECB for setting interest rates. We use a textual analysis of national newspaper articles related to each European central banker to analyze their expressed preferences. We proceed to a cluster analysis...
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This study investigates the influence of background diversity of bank board members on performance and risk. Using data … degree of diversity by considering various aspects (gender, citizenship, age, experience, tenure, ethnicity, nationality …, education level and type) and find significant impacts on bank performance. On the whole, diversity is in general positively …
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Les circuits courts alimentaires sont réputés plus vertueux d’un point de vue environnemental que les autres circuits de distribution, car ils s’inscrivent généralement dans une échelle géographique restreinte. Cette communication vise à vérifier cette bonne réputation...
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L'hyper-croissance est un phénomène perturbateur pour la PME : les exigences de rentabilité sont fortes et les équilibres financiers sont fragiles. Malgré les potentiels de croissance, les sources de défaillance sont nombreuses. Une analyse comparative d'indicateurs financiers nous permet...
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Les fusions-acquisitions suscitent l'intérêt des chercheurs en finance qui tentent de déterminer la performance de ces … revue de la littérature de la performance des fusions-acquisitions afin d'améliorer notre compréhension des résultats des …
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