This paper applies a social capital perspective to study how business units use an individual’s social capital to explore their environment and exploit resources available from individual networks. We explore this matter inductively by analysing the development and exploitation of social...

The model presented in figure 1 - the collaboration ontology roles game model (CORG) , is an adaptation of the SECI model proposed by Nonaka and Takeuchi in 1995. According to the authors, the process of knowledge creation is an iterative process which continuously cuts four modes of knowledge...

L’objectif de cet article est de contribuer à une meilleure compréhension des mécanismes et des difficultés inhérentes à la construction d’une communauté de pratique. Nous montrons notamment comment la négation de la dimension stratégique des communautés de pratiques peut conduire...

We test the hypothesis that "genuine" or "convincing" smiling is a costly signal that has evolved to induce cooperation in situations requiring mutual trust. Potential trustees in a trust game made video clips for viewing by potential trusters before the latter decided whether to send them...

Appréhender le comportement des agents face au risque est une gageure depuis les multiples contestations dont fit l’objet le modèle d’Espérance d’Utilité. Cet article s’appuie sur le cadre de travail de la Prospect Theory initié par Kahneman et Tversky, en apportant un éclairage...

In this article the authors examine the motivation behind the formation of risk pools. They do so by using as suitable study data survey information collected among the rural poor of the Philippines. They discuss the possibility that network formation comes as the result of an attempt to...