Dans cette communication, on présente les résultats d’une recherche entreprise sur la sélection d’un corpus d’articles qui se rapporte à l’approche basée sur les ressources. On cherche à y mettre de l’ordre de même que l’on propose une typologie qui permettra de faire le point...

It is traditionally claimed that the State has three main categories of policies to implement: allocation, distribution and stabilization policies. In the present chapter we will be concerned only with stabilization policies or, more generally, with the role public policies may have in...

Beyond the four traditional images of the « 2.0 » pointed out in the literature – 2.0 as platform, many-to-many, community and emergent – we suggest that « rule-governed universes, when adopting 2.0 practices, have to incorporate a new « factory » of collective intelligence. This «...

If we define e-competencies as the competencies developed in order to support the online activity of the organization, there is very few if any research that studies the relation between e-competencies development and firm’s performance.From the resource-based theory we studied empirically...

This article analyzes whether firm innovation is influenced by the transfer of knowledge among cluster firms. To test the hypotheses, we directly estimated the measurement and the structural model parameters where cooperation, workforce mobility, and institutions were defined as manifest...

The purpose of this article is to propose a generational view of the organization in order to think about the firm evolution between continuity and adaptation. Especially, we suggest that the “intergenerational transmission of knowledge and competencies” may be an enabler of assets...

The introduction of Online Reverse Auctions in interorganizational relationships was at the origin of supplier’s distrust against industrial buyers. The majority of suppliers perceive ORA as a great shift in their relationships with buyers. We suggest a model which deals about suppliers...

Although the term of Business Model (BM) is widely used in day-to-day retailing and more specifically in electronic commerce, the concept needs further analysis in this specific industry. The goal of the article is to identify the various elements of BM for retailers, and to develop a typology....

The aim of our work is to study the Business Model (BM) of small and micro business (SMB) in West Africa. Our research is based on a conventionalist and institutionalist approach of the concept of BM. BM and the convention are our conceptual and theoretical initial choice, while the...