The diffusion of ICT in small businesses remains low (only 12% of small businesses in France have a website for performing online transactions, Eurostat 2010). One issue is whether ICT can be used effectively by these small structures and how the use of technology can improve the competitive...

Studies of the economic impact of tourism returns rarely offer a comparison between their potential driving effects and the costs of their accumulation. The aim of this paper is to devise a tourism macroeconomic profitability indicator capable of determining how the tourism sector can present a...

Un courant de recherches en fort développement dans le domaine de la stratégie explore dans une perspective socio-constructiviste les structures concurrentielles en privilégiant les perceptions des acteurs de l’industrie. Ce courant est parvenu à démontrer que les dirigeants tendent à...

The diffusion of ICT in small businesses remains low (Eurostat 2010) and yet among IT applications, the Internet offers opportunities for such businesses to develop their business activity (Scaglione, Schegg et Murphy, 2009). One issue is whether the Internet can be used effectively by these...