What can studying the creation of knowledge tell us about how new technical fields emerge and develop? This paper shows how a knowledge community may be necessary to support the legitimacy of new products that undergo performance evaluation before purchase. Using historical and ethnographic data...

English Abstract: This paper presents evidence of the head-on open access competition which took place on the market of long-distance passenger rail services in Poland in 2009-2015. The regional governments-owned challenger managed to raise its market share to more than 33% (2010) but eventually...

Développement durable et gestion internationale : enjeux et perspectives d'avenir. Texte d'introduction au numéro thématique

(VF)La question de la combinaison de l’affrontement et de la coopération dans les stratégies concurrentielles est ici traitée du point de vue des séquences stratégiques multidimensionnelles (SSM). Il s’agit de successions d’actions et de réactions stratégiques de firmes opérant sur...

This article explores the contributions of the method of scenarios in the identification of what motivates strategic decisions. Direct data collecting methods implicitly postulate that the individual is sincere and is a priori rational. Yet, the characteristics of strategic decisions are such...

Mergers and acquisitions generally lead to disappointing results. In this article, we give a complementary explanation of these bad results by focusing on a specific actor:the CEO of the purchasing company. In particular, this research addresses two questions:(1) What mistakes (related to...

(VF)La démarche stratégique connaît à l’heure actuelle une évolution importante induite en particulier par le processus de globalisation qui concerne entre autres la vie socio-économique marquée par une complexité rapidement croissante, ainsi que par les exigences d’un développement...

Following the worldwide surge in cooperative alliances and mergers & acquisitions, this article attempts to evaluate the effects of the national environment on alliance strategies. Based on a sample of 4632 interfirm linkages formed by French and German companies, the empirical study shows that,...

The transformations of the finance sector linked to the emergence of new actors (pension funds, mutual funds, hedge funds…) and its globalization have changed the rules of corporate governance and the competitive context of industrial companies. The theme of the influence between finance and...

Our contribution aims to develop some theoretical constructs about network determinants of multinational corporations and small partners strategic alliances instability. In the case of multinational constellation networks, instability may be a strong strategic tool to maximize global network...