On the basis of the recent concepts of epistemic communities and communities of practice, we show that the firm can be defined according to a form of double duality: cognitive and organisational. The interest of this approach is to put ahead the differentiated behavior from the manager and the...

La Responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise est un problème qui interpelle tous les acteurs d’une économie qu’elle soit développée ou non. Pour un pays en développement ou la force de proposition est largement attendue de la société civile et des opérateurs économiques surtout en...

On the basis of the recent concepts of epistemic communities and communities of practice, we show that the firm can be defined according to a form of double duality: cognitive and organisational. The interest of this approach is to put ahead the differentiated behavior from the manager and the...

On the basis of the recent concepts of epistemic communities and communities of practice, we show that the firm can be defined according to a form of double duality: cognitive and organisational. The interest of this approach is to put ahead the differentiated behavior from the manager and the...

We present, a relatively new and unpublished concept here : the " ba ". This one is advanced by two authors : I. Nonaka and N. Konno [1998]. They show that this concept - shape of place where take place interactions - is a foundation of creation of new knowledge in an organization. Our...

Les PME forment une catégorie d’entreprises synonymes des spécificités et de diversité. Après avoir adopté une méthodologie d’étude de ces entreprises, nous postulons que celles-ci peuvent utiliser des systèmes de gestion de la qualité de type ISO 9000 principalement comme guide....

Keywords Création de connaissance, Vision entrepreneuriale, ISO 9000, Management de la connaissance, PME

In the last decades, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been deeply studied. Many researchers focused on the best social report form underlining advantages, and they shown that these documents follow more and more often balance-sheets. This work analyses the relation between the writing...

Les PME de l’industrie manufacturière en France disposent d’un bon niveau de fonds propres, et sont faiblement endettées. Les délais de paiement pèsent davantage que dans les PMI allemandes et leur rentabilité est en retrait.