This paper presents a theoretical model of remanufacturing where a duopoly of original manufacturers produces a component of a final good. The specific component that needs to be replaced during the lifetime of the final good creates a secondary market where independent remanufacturers enter the...

This article examines the railway concessions in France in the 19th century as examples of a principal – agent relationship between the state and a contractor. I show that one of the main assumptions of the agency theory, the asymmetric information at the benefit of the agent, is not verified....

When an incumbent firm is in charge of a distribution network, it accumulates information on the state of the network. This `common value' information creates a winner's curse during auctions for renewing the concession. The municipality contracting out the provision of the service trades off...

La méthodologie de la théorisation enracinée est une approche devant permettre de générer des théories innovantes et légitimes d’un point de vue scientifique. Elle peut toutefois faillir à atteindre ces deux objectifs, en particulier à cause de la tension vécue par le chercheur entre...

Sustainable open innovation often has idea generation as a key step. When faced with challenge of stimulating ideation, organizations have few things they are sure about. An experiment was conducted to identify what type of stimulating written communication yields the biggest number of submitted...

Analyser la structure et la dynamique d'utilisation des outils de gestion pose assez naturellement la question des processus par lesquels ces outils sont inventés. Le processus, ou l'activité, de conception peut précéder la phase de diffusion et de mise en œuvre, mais on peut également...