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

After a survey of the main agribusiness global value chain analysis methods, the authors propose a larger pattern from the global value chain concept developed by Gereffi. They focus on the necessity of a quantified economic characterization and a diachronic study of the global value chain. This...

This article reviews the carmaker-driven industrial restructurings that positioned First Tier Suppliers (henceforth FTS) at the heart of the world’s automobile system. It also draws necessarily temporary conclusions about their performance. The article is organised into three main sections....

Cet article s’intéresse au rôle stratégique de l’activité de stockage du gaz et de sa régulation lorsqu’il existe un marché spot de la ressource. Dans la lignée de la littérature sur ce thème, nous envisageons l’activité de stockage comme un instrument de flexibilité pour les...

(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...