The paper analyses whether the economics of the firm is, or can be, historically relevant. In order to answer this question, we re-examine the famous historical case of vertical integration Fisher Body-General Motors. The archive related to this famous case being now accessible, we consider that...

The transformation of world?s main stock markets into enterprises acting in a competitive environment is in progress and its consequences are not all known. Three strategies are competing with each other: vertical integration of exchange and CSD; horizontal growth of the market share to an...

The paper focuses on the case of urban cities. It analyzes how urban cities articulate sustainable development, information and communication technologies (ICT) development with their territorial strategy. The paper first defines the notions of durability, sustainable city, green IT which are...

While there is today a large consensus around the extent and causes of climate change and the environment deterioration as well as on their mid-long term economic consequences if nothing is done, the international community remains divided regarding the nature, the scale and the schedule of the...

Through the statement of four controversies, respectively dealing with the inclusion of companies working with hired labour, the respect of the cultural identity of handicrafts, the degree of marginality of producers? groups and the eventuality of building a ?local fair trade?, the author shows...

In this paper, we present an original experience led by professional organizations to encourage SMEs of the agro-food industry to adopt good practices of sustainable development. The collective construction and the diffusion of a guide of good practices of sustainable development are considered...

We build upon a renewed typology of organizational configurations, as a starting point towards a new theory of strategic and organizational change. Four configurations are identified. Each of them consists of a specific set of four attributes: knowledge types, organizational forms, societal...

This paper aims to show that the organizations of standardization participate to an institutional dynamics which contributes to sustainable development. It is based on economic approaches and on an analysis of the project of ISO 26000 ? guidance standard for social responsibility. Standards and...