This article concerns strategic moves developed by the Danone group since its creation. The proposed analysis shows that the group has considerably evolved, both at the levels of strategic business units and geographic markets. Changes have been conducted according to the strategic objective of...

De plus en plus d'entreprises vendent leurs murs, estimant que la propriété des bâtiments immobilise des capitaux nécessaires à leur développement.

"Bringing health through food to as many people as possible" - this is the strategic mission of the French Danone group who has become a leading actor in the food-processing industry: Danone is the world's number 1 for fresh dairy products, number 2 for infant nutrition and bottled waters, and...

Islamic and conventional investment funds have the same purpose. However, unlike conventional funds, Islamic funds offer different investment contracts and have to invest in accordance with a set of selection rules. This dissertation focuses on developing theoretical and empirical analysis...

The development of market-based finance and amendments to regulation on bank powers have supported a larger involvement of US banks in financial activities over the last decades. Changes in the structure of income question risks though. Especially, with a performance perspective: does...

Since the 1990s’, a relatively ample research has been undertaken regarding the measurement of the volatility of bank earnings over time. The comparison between traditional deposits-loans banking and financial activities is a further specific theme in bank performance research. Few analyses...

The disclosure of information to workers can take several forms (company journal, meeting with shop stewards, etc). This paper is about a form rarely studied: the boss's speech at the work medal ceremony. These medals were created by the ministry of commerce in France in 1886. The success of...

In June 2005, the scientific journal Long Range Planning devoted a special issue to organizational failure, with a focus on papers showing that firms are largely encouraged to learn from failures, but that this is often easier said than done. At the same time, the Journal of Organizational...