Digital technologies allow the implementation of more decentralized Property Rights (PR) systems as compared to those traditionally set-up by public authorities at the national level. The self-implementation of exclusive rights of use over information and the design of self-regulation by virtual...

This paper proposes a qualitative study of the ethical values that chairmen use in the letter included in the annual report of 52 listed French firms. An in depth study of the European and North American ethical and moral philosophy enables us to build a grid of concepts within the letters. The...

The present thesis addresses - cross-cutting the fields of organization sociology, strategic management and human resources - the motivation-stakes, the strategic challenges and the phenomenology inherent to the conduction of a diversity policy in the companies. The innovative nature of a...

The concept of global performance is used in managerial literature in order to assess companies' implementation of sustainable development. It refers to an holistic conception of performance. In this this paper we intend to confront the theoretical representation of a balanced integration of...

Abstract: Social requirements concerning corporate social responsibility focus on transparency and harmlessness of firm activities: a factory or a quarry must be invisible, odorless, and silent. Firms must show that they respect those requirements in order to gain legitimacy. They must change...

The objective of this paper is to present different approaches that explain the corporate social responsibility. First, we describe two approaches based on economic (rational approach) and moral considerations (moral approach). Second, we propose an alternative approach that suggests that...

The development of the movement of social responsibility throughout the world encouraged the emergence of standards on corporate social responsibility to meet the needs for credibility and comparability of the behaviors of the companies. It is in this objective that the reference frame of social...

This paper proposes to confront theoretical and professional perspectives on corporate social responsibility (CSR), which is the subject of renewed interest by both academics and practitioners. After outlining the conceptual bases and showing the strategic importance of social dimensions in the...

Social requirements concerning corporate social responsibility focus on transparency and harmlessness of firm activities : a factory or a quarry must be invisible, odorless, and silent. Firms must show that they respect those requirements in order to gain legitimacy. They must change...