Industrial district are often described as systems of firms in static equilibrium, in which changes in the environment or in the power of stakeholders can break the cooperation mechanism and lead to the crisis and even death of the district. The authors analyse two industrial districts, Biella...

The urban population has considerably increased in Morocco since 1950 due to the rural exodus. The urban system is relatively unbalanced and is dominated by the agglomeration of Casablanca. The level of primacy has decreased since the 1970s to the benefit of a few large agglomerations. The...

The competitiveness of a territory is more and more explained by factors that combine technological innovation, recognized as a key element of the competitive advantage of an economic system, with knowledge, creativity, and sometimes even art and culture. In some areas of ancient...

Decades of accumulated knowledge empowers our quest to de-bias human cognition. However, I propose that improvement methods aimed at certain biases may introduce new biases due to cognitive and situational limitations: Such limitations give rise to simplifying and protecting processes (SPPs),...

In this research we explore the issue of “competence management”, as usually defined in the corporate vocabulary, mostly in the human resource (HR) function, and more particularly of “strategic competence management” (long run management of competences which are critical to achieve...

French Abstract: Cet article présente une évaluation comparative de l’efficacité et de l’équité du régime linguistique de l’Union européenne à l’aide de trois grandes enquêtes statistiques publiées par Eurostat. L’efficacité du régime linguistique actuel, fondé sur...

From an inquiry about three fundamental modes of knowing, we propose an interpretation of rationality as "trilogical". We come out, from that point, to the hypothesis of a trilogy of value. This hypothesis, as articulating objectal values, relational values, and political values, offers new...

Cost analysis is more implemented in public organizations. Methods and expected uses are quite similar to those encountered in the private sector, but effective uses are more difficult to assess and compare considering the wide variety of organizational context existing in the public sector.

La méconnaissance réciproque de deux univers constitués d’un côté par les universitaires et de l’autre par les artisans est totale. Leur origine cependant est fondamentalement comparable, le désir de comprendre et de maîtriser des phénomènes c’està- dire la connaissance et de...

Les médias s’accordent, comme les publics auxquels ils rapportent les événements d'urgence (catastrophes naturelles, incendies, accidents domestiques, émeutes, guerres civiles ou non, boycotts, rumeurs, krachs boursiers, etc.), pour reconnaître que certaines situations, constituent des...