The issue of the links or underlying mechanisms between IT (Information technology) and the firm performance remains unclear. Empirical research has obtained mitigated results.The Resource-based View seems more particularly adapted for explaining the heterogeneity of firm results.Powell and...

Purpose this study focuses on the policy of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) launched in the chemical industry in the 1980s and known as “Responsible Care”. The debate surrounding this issue prompts us to question the ever-changing nature of this policy and the way to measure the...

The article determines which conflict resolution mechanisms are constructive and which are destructive, through analysing contractual agreements in European biotechnology enterprises. In the article, the term mechanism is used to refer to tools or the way in which conflicts are resolved....