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...

French Abstract: Dans les grandes sociétés, trois "parties constituantes" peuvent prétendre au pouvoir ultime : les actionnaires, les dirigeants et les salariés. La théorie de la suprématie actionnariale est devenue dominante à compter des années 1990 ; le meilleur exemple en est le...

Pour de nombreux Africains, l'eau n'est pas seulement la source de la vie, mais aussi un moyen de purification et un centre de régénération. Les rituels et les cultes de l'eau, tels que «Mami Wata», conduisent leurs adeptes à la libération du corps et de l'esprit. Mais les rites...

This chapter presents the methods and contributions of evolutionary approach to economic dynamics. First, we expose why economic dynamics can indeed be considered as evolutionary. Second, we discuss sources of diversity and selection mechanisms that drive these dynamics, in the context of...

The implantation of an ERP (abbreviation for "Enterprise Resource Planning") system is an enterprise project that implies the remodeling of the information system, mostly the rethinking of management procedures within the organization. The expansion and the complexity of these projects demand a...

The implantation of an ERP (abbreviation for "Enterprise Resource Planning") system is an enterprise project that implies the remodeling of the information system, mostly the rethinking of management procedures within the organization. The expansion and the complexity of these projects demand a...

Participation is a savings from salaries device which aims at sharing firms benefits with workers. To do so, firms have to pay to their employees an amount whose computation depends on fiscal benefits and is based on a legal formula. As this device should be reformed, the authority in charge of...

French Abstract: Les économistes ont coutume de distinguer entre une composante positive et une composante normative de leurs travaux, ce qui est une singularité de leur discipline, car cette distinction n'a pas de répondant exact dans les autres sciences sociales. Elle a fortement évolué...

In the development of the general equilibrium theories, Hicks and Allais played an essential role. We are studying here the contributions which were theirs respectively in Value and Capital (1939) and in the Traité d’économie pure (1943). The accent is put on three points: the theory of...