The enactment of a legal status for microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the Economic and Monetary Community of Central African States (CEMAC) was an urgent need for it ought to monitor the activities of microfinance and its actors. This initiative resulted in the Rules of April 13, 2002 through...

Online consumer reviews (OCR) are conceptualized as a specific form of online word-Of-Mouth, gathering both positive and negative information, numerical (ratings) and textual (comments) information, and which are driven by consumers for consumers on Internet plateforms. In this dissertation, we...

This thesis deals with social inequalities in health-Related behaviours such as lifestyle risk factors for health (precisely, obesity and alcohol consumption) and the utilisation of health care services, in a number of OECD countries. This work relies on an applied micro-Economics approach,...

Within the behavioral research in sales promotion, the product and brand usage is almost never taken into account by researchers, in spite of its relevance as a mediating variable between sales promotion and satisfaction or loyalty. This research, applied to clothing, aims at studying the direct...

The objective of this thesis is to analyze the forms in which the presence of a strategic risk control implementation process of collaborative relationships between small business and its stakeholders, influence its performance and learning, and can characterize the "Relation Superior". The...

aHow to organize collective action to be innovative ? is a burning question for organization, territories and States.Through a definition of innovation process in terms of knowledge and relationships between actors, we try to explore the governance arrangements of collective action in non-food...

Efficient best-first search algorithms have been developed for deterministic two-player games with two-outcome.We present a formal framework to represent such best-first search algorithms.The framework is general enough to express popular algorithms such as Proof Number Search, Monte Carlo Tree...

Since ten years, an increasing proportion of pension funds faces to severe financial difficulties, addressing some questions about the management of these institutions and the effectiveness of the regulatory framework. This thesis aims to analyze the investment decisions and financial risk...

SOE reform is an important aspect of China economic reform. It witnessed several experiences from the operation mechanisms reform (1978-1992) to the establishment of the modern enterprise system (Since 1993), and gradual privatization through MBO (1998-2005). China’s SOE reform is gradually...

As only very few studies have investigated how intellectual (and hence mainly digital) work affects our embodiment, my case, a dance intervention in a bank involving employees, was a good way to study bodies in action. During their work with the artist, employees were standing on the boundary...