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For the Academics there is a difference between the teaching of management control and the practice of controllers. Why … this distinction ? This paper shows that management control is a management performance process. The management control …
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This paper examines the centralised monitoring of an upstream supply chain (USC) in the context of a mass customisation production system. We propose an adaptation of the material requirement planning framework to manage demand uncertainty at each stage of the USC. New analytical relations that...
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management. A framework showing the complementarities between those two fields is set up. After a literature review on those two … fields we explain that economic intelligence and knowledge management are two complementary aspects of a single issue, namely … management encompasses both tacit and explicit knowledge. Both concepts emphasise the following criteria (learning practices …
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This article provides an overview of the literature on the psychological value of time. It discusses various determinants of the discount rate and the possibility of hyperbolic discounting. The historical approach helps us to trace the origins of the concept of psychological value of time. This...
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This article discusses a study that attempts to reach a better understanding of how the potential franchisees come to their decisions and attempts to compare this process with franchiser's perceptions. It initially focuses on the identification and on the decision-making process of French...
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We study comparative statics of Nth-degree risk increases, as de ned by Ekern (1980), within a large class of problems that involve bidimensional payoffs and additive or multiplicative risks. We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for unambiguous impact of Nth-degree risk increases on...
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, the relationship between the variables is a major characteristic of management problems. We suggested, for instance, a …, the replacement of the theory of measurement by fuzzy logic modifies the paradigmatic framework of the "management with … other management in uncertainty disciplines (cost management, finance, etc.). …
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This article aims at discussing the various dimensions of budget allocation decisions made by final consumers. We review the main research and offer a conceptual typology of allocation choices at different levels (time, efforts, product categories, brands…). Then, we make suggestions to carry...
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Le rôle du temps dans le processus de transformation des organisations est à la fois évident et complexe. A travers l'exemple de la modernisation de la RATP entre 1989 et 1992, l'A. souhaite démontrer que le temps, tour à tour allié précieux (mais avec des pièges redoutables) et arbitre...
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We propose a theory to manage the uneasy relation between strategic choice, chance, and determinism (or inevitability). To do so, we locate arguments in intellectual history that have a clear bearing on this relation. We introduce and defend four conjectures that outline the relationship between...
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