The paper proposes an analytical framework for comparing different business models for producing information goods and digital services. It is based on three dimensions that also refer to contrasted literature: the economics of matching, the economics of assembling and the economics of knowledge...

The current paper explores the use of the Resource-Based View in the analysis of the firm boundary decision. It is proposed that resources that are valuable, rare, imperfectly imitable and non-substitutable are those that have the least likelihood of being outsourced. This proposition is tested...

The paper dives into the controversies that make markets, exploring the processes at play behind the renewal of competitive landscape. The analysis of such processes is complex for several reasons: because they happen in environments riddled with ambiguities, because they involve temporal...

Constatant qu’en gestion il est souvent fait référence au terme de vision et d’entreprise ou de dirigeant “ visionnaires ”, mais que paradoxalement il n’existe pas de définitions précises de ces termes, notre recherche se propose d’effectuer une analyse de la littérature portant...

This research aims at studying the adaptation of an inter-organisational control configuration (in terms of strategy, structure and control) to the evolutions of the environment. The empirical research is based on a case study of a civil aerospace engine maker called Aeromotor. This motorist has...

Although three quarters of GDP in developed economies come from service activities, studies on the location of activities focusing on manufacturing activities, which leads to underestimate the strengths and weaknesses of the territories. This paper deals with the notions of competitiveness or...

Les services représentent près des deux tiers des richesses créées dans les territoires des pays développés. L'objectif du groupe de travail : " Économie des services et territoires " est de proposer une analyse de la localisation des activités de services, en France, et des liens entre...