The paper dives into the controversies that make markets, exploring the processes at play behind the renewal of competitive landscape. The analysis of such processes is complex for several reasons: because they happen in environments riddled with ambiguities, because they involve temporal...

The article offers an illustration of the respective role of institutions and contracts and their interactions in the coordination process of contracting parties, drawing upon an empirical analysis of defense procurement contracts in France. The articles seeks to provide an explanation of the...

Research into accountancy has concentrated largely on professional accountants and has tended to ignore accounting clerks. Based on a micro-historical approach and the case of a French company as a starting point, this study explores the evolution of workspace and demonstrates how the space...

Les transformations récentes du secteur de la Défense font émerger une question centrale, celle de sa dynamique d'innovation. L'implication croissante des PME-PMI innovantes aux côtés des grands maîtres d'oeuvre nous porte à nous intéresser aux modèles de sous-traitance mis en oeuvre et...

With the end of the Cold War, U.S. defence systems integrators have refocused on the core of their business, military or governmental. Boeing has been the only integrator that has maintained a dual civil-military business and that has even managed to build on this duality. The article uses the...

Within the behavioral research in sales promotion, the product and brand usage is almost never taken into account by researchers, in spite of its relevance as a mediating variable between sales promotion and satisfaction or loyalty. This research, applied to clothing, aims at studying the direct...

This paper compares the relevance of subjective age as a criterion to segment the fashion market in four countries: China, South Korea, France and USA.Following the validation of a new invariant scale between cultures, the effects of subjective age on innovativeness and consumer media habits are...

From the conceptual differences between chronological age and subjective age, this paper examines the potential of subjective age as a segmentation variable of the fashion market. The results show that the gap between actual age and subjective age increase while aging. Only subjective age has an...

This study tries to understand the sustainable competitive advantage in interorganizational perspective. It is based on a conceptual framework integrating the different «resources-based perspectives». The approach is qualitative; it is based on multiple case studies carried upon nine Tunisian...