Are institutionalism and structuralism compatible or do they confront each other? This article suggests an answer to this question, starting from an analysis of the structuration of these two paradigmatic fields of social sciences. It observes the existence in economies of both structuralist...

The paper aims to show the overall coherence of the system of thought Commons employed to build his institutional economics. For that and in order not to stay enclosed within the American context Commons’ ideas have been considered to be dependent upon, we read him through the methodological...

The literature of organizational capabilities has overlooked the role of values. We present an institutionalist view of the capability phenomenon accounting for the values occurring in three levels: in the action at routine level, at the organization level and at the institutional environment...

Space and Territory are, today, the subject of a large amount of work in the Social Sciences and Humanities aimed at renewing theories. Strategy and, more generally, the management sciences, cannot afford to be absent from this movement. The purpose of this article is to take part in this...

L'espace et le territoire font aujourd'hui l'objet d'un regain d'intérêt tant dans les sciences sociales en général que dans les sciences de gestion en particulier. Cet article se propose de traiter de quelques-unes des dimensions de ce renouveau à partir d'une perspective plus...

Ce papier cherche à montrer que les problèmes éthiques posés par les pratiques monétaires et financières dans la mondialisation néolibérale ne sauraient être analysés à partir de la seule critique aristotélicienne d’une certaine chrématistique, l’accumulation d’argent comme...

This article analyzes whether firm innovation is influenced by the transfer of knowledge among cluster firms. To test the hypotheses, we directly estimated the measurement and the structural model parameters where cooperation, workforce mobility, and institutions were defined as manifest...

Cette note est une note pédagogique sur la modélisation démo-économique en macroéconomie. Les première et deuxième sections dressent un bilan historique ainsi qu'une définition générale de ce type de modélisation. Il faut attendre l'explosion démographique des pays en développement...

This paper examines for the first time inequality of opportunity for income in Africa, by analyzing large-sample surveys, all providing information on individuals' parental background, in five comparable Sub-Saharan countries: Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Madagascar and Uganda. We compute...

A new analysis of large-sample surveys in five comparable Sub-Saharan African countries allows measuring for the first time inequality of opportunity in Africa, aside inequality of resources and of living standards. We confirm the prevalence of high levels of inequality among the region’s...