The place of wife in the little familial business. A study from the report of failure (18th-20th century) This article tries to put forward the place of wife in the French little familial business from the 18th to the 20th century. We have worked in 307 files of failure from the departmental...

Paris, 17 Octobre 2008. A l’initiative de La Fondation Nationale pour l’Enseignement de la Gestion des Entreprises (FNEGE), les premiers Etats Généraux du Management ont réuni ce jour au Sénat 400 spécialistes pour débattre des problèmes de société dans le contexte de la crise...

The inductive approach advocated by the Grounded Theory is applied to e-learning training methods as they appear in the experience gained. According to companies the adoption decision is largely dependent on coherence between the technological environment, the quality of the information system...

We study the compensation package offered by family firms. Using matched employer-employee data for a sample of French establishments in the 2000s, we first show that family firms pay on average lower wages to their workers. This family/non-family wage gap is robust to controlling for several...

The paper introduces status as re ecting an agent's claim to recognition in her work. It is a scarce resource: increasing an agent's status requires that another agent's status is decreased. Higher status agents are more willing to exert e ort in exchange for money; better-paid agents would...

This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot scheme of incentives in a major government agency. The incentive scheme was based on teams and covered quantity and quality targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We...

Probability weighting is one of the cornerstones of decision-making theories accommodating gambling preferences. This paper examines its relevance to explaining employee stock option exercise behavior. We characterized the optimal exercise policy for a representative employee with Rank-Dependent...