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...

What is the impact of voluntary corporate environmental disclosures on the cost of equity? The present study will attempt to answer this question. The empirical research is based on companies listed in the French SBF 120 stock market index. In 2006, most of these companies devoted a section of...

This article examines the structure of coopetition and its significance in R&D agreements. An original approach is proposed and used to account for coopetitive behaviours in six R&D consortia subsidized by the European Commission. The findings of this exploratory research show that in collective...

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses several topics within the issue including developing an interest in materiality for the organizational research, workshops on materiality, and linking of materiality with the strategy practice agenda.

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...

The electronic marketplaces, as an inter- organisational information system, are not limited to a simple transactional dimension. Indeed, those having survived the consolidation phase gradually widened their functions and contribute to a new competing dynamics. The latter is at the origin of the...