The resolution of a concrete problem lies at the heart of action research approaches. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the practical difficulties implied by the adoption of a participative approach where the problem to be solved is constructed collaboratively with organizational...

When public research laboratories and industry meet to produce and exchange knowledge and technologies, they face decisions about how to frame these collaborations to make the best use of each partner’s resources, ensure a productive and fair outcome, and defuse any tensions and conflicts. In...

Noting that the use of Internet is not only utilitarian but experiential indeed cultural, this dissertation describes in depth and explains what people lives in their online consumer experiences. This description is done through the three great social and personal changes brought by the advent...

The competition between SEAQ International and Continental European equity markets to attract transactions in the most actively traded European stocks has intensified since the late 1980s. Because their transactions are organised in a different manner, and because reporting standards are not the...

Ce papier présente les résultats d’une étude exploratoire afin de contribuer à une meilleure compréhension du rôle des alliances stratégiques des PME pour concilier entre les innovations d’exploration et les innovations d’exploitation. La nouvelle approche des innovations et des...

Le dispositif de l’Aide complémentaire santé (ACS) a été mis en place au 1er janvier 2005 afin d’inciter les ménages dont le niveau de vie se situe juste au dessus du plafond CMU-C à acquérir une couverture complémentaire santé (CS). Même si le nombre de bénéficiaires a lentement...