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)....

Our contribution aims to develop some theoretical constructs about network determinants of multinational corporations and small partners strategic alliances instability. In the case of multinational constellation networks, instability may be a strong strategic tool to maximize global network...

En distinguant information et connaissance nous développons une approche de la firme fondée sur les compétences intégrant les perspectives stratégiques et évolutionnistes. Nous insistons particulièrement sur la dynamique de co-construction des compétences distinctives au niveau de la...

This paper concentrates on the analysis of organizational resources, competencies and capabilities as well as on the organizational architectures which facilitate their acquisition and use. On the basis of these concepts, the paper proposes an analysis grid which is then applied to a case study...

Political activism positively affects firm innovation. Firms that support more politicians, politicians on Congressional committees with jurisdictional authority over the firms' industries and politicians who join those committees innovate more. We employ instrumental variables estimation and a...

This paper examines the impact of financial constraints on innovation for established firms. We make use of a direct measure of the existence of financial constraints obtained thanks to a specific survey addressed to French established firms (FIT, Sessi). This is a distinctive feature of this...

This Working Paper deals with the progresses, but also with the deficiencies, of the Cuban revolution in the economic field, until the recent de-dollarization. It underlines its economic challenges at the beginning of the XXIst century, as well as its internal forces and external opportunities...

French Abstract: Cet article présente les enjeux propres aux études d’impact en Europe. Il propose une introduction historique et dresse un panorama des différentes pratiques des études d’impact. L’accent est mis sur la procédure de diffusion de cette innovation stratégique que...

Compte tenu de l'intérêt croissant des économistes pour le champ de l'économie sociale (ou tiers-secteur), cet article a pour but d'analyser et de synthétiser les différents arguments auxquels a recours la littérature anglo-saxonne sur les organismes à but non lucratif pour expliquer...