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...

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...

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,...

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...

This paper explores corporate social responsibility (CSR) within the franchising sector. More specifically, using regulation theory, stakeholder-agency theory, transaction cost analysis, and literature on plural form, along with an empirical study conducted on the franchising sector in the...

It is now being assumed — without strong feelings or controversy — that thousands of intelligent objects will be connected to the Internet in the near future. These prospects might gladden hearts or scare weaker souls. They are, day after day, ever more likely ...

Can the digital sector relaunch France’s national economy ? For a few years now, this question has nagged experts and spawned topquality reports. Despite their relevance, these documents all err by too simply separating the “new technology”, adorned with all virtues and loaded with...

The strategic value-curve approach has been widely acclaimed for at least ten years as a major innovation in the strategic field ; it meets a great success in many industries, based on its authors’ –Kim & Mauborgne- promise to make the competition irrelevant. The approach relies on a graphic...