This article focuses on the impact of derivative markets on the American crude oil market. It first analyses the depth and liquidity of the market, and shows that there is a huge increase in activity from 1989 to 2003. Then the study focuses on prices volatility. The latter is separated into two...

This survey paper presents some new advances in theoretical aspects of differential game theory. We particular focus on three topics: differential games with state constraints; backward stochastic differential equations approach to stochastic differential games; differential games with...

One of the central questions in corporate finance is whether investors prefer to receive their payouts from corporations in the form of cash dividends or as capital gains. We know that most firms pay dividends, even though doing so is costly in various ways. And we know that the market reaction...

Capitalizing on the company’s crucial knowledge is an important operation for company’s success. The first step in knowledge capitalizing is to identify the crucial knowledge for which capitalizing operation is required. The crucial knowledge identification is an ill-structured and...

After introducing a definition of knowledge, we explain causes the emergence of knowledge based problems in firms. We structure this field through two dimensions : - material base nature of knowledge : human or formal - levels of knowledge management : creation, capitalization and transfert....

This article focuses on the impact of derivative markets on the American crude oil market. It first analyses the depth and liquidity of the market, and shows that there is a huge increase in activity from 1989 to 2003. Then the study focuses on prices volatility. The latter is separated into two...

The development of theoretical contributions is extensively discussed in management research. However, the processes of developing theories and their relationships to the processes of submitting. Reviewing and revising papers are relatively neglected, in particular in MIS. Work has already been...

Deeply linked to the operational modes of industrial society and to the characteristics of each country, the traditional and modern models compresive four kinds of career: bureaucratic, professional, enterprising and sociopolitic.