Outsourcing and its corollary, offshoring, often mistaken, go on growing, in spite of some ebbing away. It has been especially the case for the financial services industry over the last couple of years. The insurance sector is no exception, even though the trend started off later than in the...

Offshoring goes on growing, in spite of some ebbing away. It has been especially the case for the financial services industry over the last couple of years. As a result of this trend, it is the double stake of globalization and industries specialization that is being addressed. The comprehensive...

Different types of markets exist throughout the world but how are they created? In this book, an interdisciplinary team of authors provide an evolutionary vision of how markets are designed and shaped. Drawing on a series of case studies, they show that markets are far from perfect and natural...

Efficiency arguments explain why commercial intermediaries exist and will continue to be involved in the exchanges despite the spread of digital networks. Commercial intermediaries provide producers and consumers with a set of information, logistic, securization and insurance (and liquidity)...

The electronic marketplaces, as an interorganizational entity, is not limited to a transactional dimension. Indeed, those companies that survived the initial consolidation have increasingly expanded their functions and contribute to a new competition dynamic. This new competitiveness has set off...

Les 3 essais sont les suivants : 1. "Les leçons du boom technologique américain : place et rôle des technologies de l'information (TI) dans l'économie américaine" ; 2. "La concurrence" ; 3. "Les relations interentreprises"

Firms such as Ikea, First Direct, Apple or Royal Canin think and act in an unconventional way. They build up new societal and economic territories around emerging cultural and social wants and trends. They use a proactive marking approach. They coopt outside stake holders and put the emphasis...