We investigate the dynamic effect that the Tandroy's unsustainable practices have on the forest. The Tandroy people live in Androy, a region located in the southern part of Madagascar. They are mainly an agricultural and cattle herding society whose subsistence relies on the slash-and-burn...

The interdependency of socio-ecological systems and the increased reach of human activity have led to major political and scientific challenges in the governance of environmental resources. This chapter reviews the state of our knowledge on the matter. The chapter begins by discussing the...

Improving information about individual opportunity costs of deforestation agents has the potential to increase the efficiency of REDD when it takes the form of a payment for environmental services scheme. However, objectives pursued in REDD projects may vary across policy makers. Within a...

This article uses a competence-based approach to the firm in order to analyse the recent destabilisation of internal labour markets. We argue that increasing knowledge codification made possible by the diffusion of information and communication technologies has made competences less dependent...

Twenty-one papers explore the accomplishments, limitations, and unmet needs of the field of new institutional economics. Papers discuss the theories of the firm; contracts--from bilateral sets of incentives to the multilevel governance of relations; institutions and the institutional...

This theoretical paper argues for a strategic role of rule transgression in organization whereby transgression is understood as an element of normal functioning rather than as a pathology of organization. Following strategic analysis (Crozier and Frieberg) and joint regulation (Reynaud), we...

Cet article théorique cherche à réhabiliter le rôle de la transgression des règles dans l'organisation. Critiquant la condamnation systématique de tout phénomène transgressif par les sciences de gestion, nous cherchons à montrer qu'une partie du phénomène ne doit pas être compris...