In the early 1980’s, Bernard Lassudrie-Duchêne was one of the first authors to analyse theorically and empirically the international production process decomposition (or fragmentation). This phenomenon, which explains a large part of the intermediate goods international trade, has become one...

Including real options in firms ’ value raises numerous difficulties. Limitations concerning the relevance of option pricing models outside financial markets are the most salient, but carrying out a valuation implies other assumptions, especially on firms’ governance. In particular,...

Dès son arrivée aux affaires, l’administration Clinton a entrepris une politique d’amélioration de la compétitivité de l’économie américaine par la technologie : « Technology for Economic Growth ». Cette politique, qui doit beaucoup au vice président Al Gore, vise à réorienter...

This paper investigates to which extent exporters, importers and multinational firms have a greater propensity to start innovation activities. We merge two consecutive French Community Innovation Surveys (CIS), and apply the model of Crépon et al. (1998) to a sample of first-time innovators...

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...