The aim of this empirical study conducted in 505 firms is to discuss the strategic alignment framework within the context of agile organizations that use outsourcing, partnering an strategic alliances as support of business strategy. We used Structural Equation Modelling for data analysis and...

La crise économique favorise la multiplication des indicateurs physiques et invite à s'interroger d'une part sur leur rôle et leur logique et modélisation et d'autre part sur les conséquences de leur utilisation.

La crise économique favorise la multiplication des indicateurs physiques et invite à s'interroger d'une part sur leur rôle et leur logique et modélisation et d'autre part sur les conséquences de leur utilisation.

Motivated by the consequences of firm’s defensive behavior, we test the impact of market regulation on R&D effort. Our estimates show that this impact is positive, namely on high technology industries. Besides the view of monopolistic profits as innovation rewards, these results can be...

Chemical industry's managers have developed since mid-1970' a management and prevention risk policy named “Responsible Care”. This policy was a first draft for a sustainable management even if these two concepts were not exactly synonymous. Through genealogy of this practice and its use in a...

The literature on R&D collaboration highlights a broad set of rationales for allying with other organizations. At the same time, it has been reported that there exists a large variety of forms of collaboration. Nevertheless, the relation between the motives to collaborate and the different forms...

Refocusing deals with the tendency of the groups to grow on controlled markets. It is a result of several constraints : capital budgeting in a world sized competitive environment, maximizing the return on capital employed, taking over the goodwill for the benefit of financial investors, leaving...