The evolution of consumer behaviour (a dual demand of a large variety and personalised products) has encouraged firms to enlarge their product range. As a result, certain products have a very short life cycle (a few weeks to a few months). The supply chain for these products cannot be exactly...

We study the deterministic optimization problem of a profit-maximizing firm which plans its sales/production schedule. The Firm knows the revenue associated to a given level of sales, as well as its production and storage costs. The revenue and the production cost are assumed to be,...

We study the deterministic optimization problem of a profit-maximizing firm which plans its sales/production schedule. The firm controls both its production and sales rates and knows the revenue associated to a given level of sales, as well as its production and storage costs. The revenue and...

Includes selected papers from the 9th International Symposium on Working Time, Paris (2004), looking at the increasing use of results-based employment relationships for managers and professionals, and the increasing fragmentation of time to more closely tailor staffing needs to customer...

Quel est l’impact des modes en Sciences de Gestion, plus spécifiquement dans le domaine des recherches sur l’absentéisme? Ce sujet de recherche est particulièrement vulnérable aux modes, du fait de sa complexité et du nombre important de facteurs susceptibles de l’influencer. Ainsi,...

Le thème central est "comment construire son Business Plan" pour être efficace. La construction d'un Business Plan professionnel doit suivre une méthodologie rigoureuse. Ce livre explique en détail ce qu'est un Business Plan et ce, quelque soit le type de projet industriel, commercial ou de...

Les années 2000 sont celles du web 2.0 interactif et de l’essor des réseaux sociaux. Se profilent aujourd’hui les applications de géolocalisation, la mobiquité, l’intelligence ambiante, l’essor du web 3.0… Les médias et les nouveaux médias sont en mutation et participent de...

With the emergence of the NGOs in our globalized economies, large companies developdiverse types of corporate-NGO partnerships (CNPs). Some researchers raised interrogations on their strategic issues. In our thesis, we study the CNPs specific contribution to the evolution of large companies’...

The aim of our work is to study the Business Model (BM) of small and micro business (SMB) in West Africa. Our research is based on a conventionalist and institutionalist approach of the concept of BM. BM and the convention are our conceptual and theoretical initial choice, while the...

The introduction of Online Reverse Auctions in interorganizational relationships was at the origin of supplier’s distrust against industrial buyers. The majority of suppliers perceive ORA as a great shift in their relationships with buyers. We suggest a model which deals about suppliers...