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...

Cooperatives are a specific type of organization. For a century, they represented an important means of organisational and strategic structuring of agricultural and food sectors in France. By the early 1990s, an accelerated process of concentration is observed between agricultural cooperatives....

Our paper aims to analyze the relationship between asymmetric alliance instability forms and motives on the one hand, and secondly to estimate the effects of the alliance configuration (external environment, relationships between parents and performance) on how to change the allocation of...

This paper aims to present international partnerships issues in the Mediterranean agribusinesses through a survey of twenty operators located in five countries (France, Lebanon, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco) and involved in four food chains (cereals, milk, poultry, oilseeds). The survey was...

(VF)Cette contribution se propose de confronter le point de vue théorique et le point de vue des praticiens sur le concept de responsabilité sociétale des entreprises (RSE). Après avoir esquissé les fondements théoriques et montré l’importance stratégique des dimensions sociétales de...

It was the title chosen in January 2004 for the 12 pages of the "Agreste" restitution of the primary results obtained through this second investigation, to the partners and interviewed firms, which was intended to question the evolutions of the regional agro-food sphere over 5 years (1998-2003)....

Les lancements de nouveaux produits sont en proie à des risques d’échec très importants. Et pourtant, on constate que la plupart des travaux en sciences de gestion ont un biais en faveur du succès. Ce constat justifie pleinement l’intérêt d’une recherche empirique – fondée sur...

Jaffe and Palmer (1997) present three distinct variants of the so-called Porter Hypothesis. The weak version of the hypothesis posits that environmental regulation will stimulate certain kinds of environmental innovations. The narrow version of the hypothesis asserts that flexible environmental...

L’alliance de marques et/ou de produits marqués est une technique de mise en avant des marques qui repose sur l’exploitation jointe de la composante marque par deux entreprises partenaires. L’intérêt des managers pour ces alliances vient probablement d’une prise de conscience de la...