France's early adoption of Minitel and EDI in the 1980s was both a stimulus and an inhibitor to Internet-based e-commerce. It hindered the adoption of the Internet, but it also created the conditions for a rapid catch up when France switched to the Internet in 1997. The French were already open...

L’exceptionnelle performance de l’économie des Etats-Unis durant les années 1990 a conduit les économistes à s’interroger successivement sur le phénomène de la nouvelle économie, la réalité de ses effets favorables et les risques qu’elle engendre. Au cœur de ces trois...

Nous vivons un choc numérique, qui n'est plus une déformation lente, mais une rupture brutale, planétaire, rapide et globale. Aucun secteur, aucune activité ne sont épargnés. Mobilité, outils collaboratifs, objets connectés, big data… le monde numérique est là et irrigue toutes les...

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...

L’avènement du numérique, qui change notre rapport à l’information et à la connaissance, bouleverse nos modes de collaboration et nos modèles économiques.

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)...

Governments continue investing in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), and e-services have become governments’ priority. But research shows that e-services implementation accentuate inequalities. Using a study of egovernment implementation in Lebanon as a background, this paper...

Governments continue investing in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), and e-services have become governments’ priority. But research shows that e-services implementation accentuate inequalities. Using a study of egovernment implementation in Lebanon as a background, this paper...