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This paper gives an account of a study of the emergence of SRI in France. This research aims at understanding the process favouring the integration of SRI within financial market. We focus on the role of mutual funds. The interpretation is elaborated with legitimacy theory, more precisely with...
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What is the impact of voluntary corporate environmental disclosures on the cost of equity? The present study will attempt to answer this question. The empirical research is based on companies listed in the French SBF 120 stock market index. In 2006, most of these companies devoted a section of...
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Until recently, the field of strategy has neglected the question of what it means to be a strategist. Based on an analysis of 68 interviews with strategy practitioners, our results highlight four main tensions that emerge from strategists' discourses on strategizing work: the social tension, the...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the contours of the emerging business education and institutions in a multi-polar world and to identify the causes of the strategic convergence of management education, to explore the limitations of the dominant models of management education...
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We propose a theory to manage the relation between strategic choice, chance and inevitability. To do so, we locate arguments in intellectual history and complexity science that have a clear bearing on this relation, and suggest that strategic choice, chance and inevitability are reciprocally...
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This paper undertakes the issue of portfolio insurance from the perspective of a risk-averse agent requiring his financial wealth to grow at a floored rate in excess of an equity benchmark. The suggested solution is a generalization of the CPPI approach within a two-equity asset framework. The...
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One of the requirements for a strategy to be successful is the use of the proper management system to implement it. The purpose of this paper is to report on an empirical investigation dealing with this issue. Specifically the research attempts to answer the following general questions: Do...
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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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Experience suggests that strategy entails some interplay of choice, chance, and determinism as causal elements. Specifically, strategy is predicated on causality, or the principle that strategic choices have causes as well as consequences. Yet our discipline lacks a fundamental theory of...
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