À l’origine de cette thèse se trouve la question suivante : « Qu’est-ce qui rend possible et justifie que les licenciements économiques soient de plus en plus nombreux dans les entreprises en bonne santé ? » Autrement dit : « en quoi les décisions de licenciement sont-elles des...

ABSTRACT & RÉSUMÉ : Digitalization in Sub-Saharan Africa enhanced the accessibility of communications by the majority of the poor who had been excluded among others from social media, independent information channels, mobile banking and e-commerce. The creation of new economic opportunities,...

This article aims to show how crowdfunding can be a catalyst for entrepreneurship in Morocco. To this end, we propose to elucidate, first of all, the concept of crowdfunding, its mode of operation, and its different typologies. Second, we highlight the state of play of crowdfunding and its...

Microfinance is often addressed in the literature as a tool to fight against poverty. Microcredit offers an opportunity to improve the standard of living for people who find it difficult to access the financial system. The purpose of the microfinance market is to occupy the situation of poverty...

In Senegal, as elsewhere in the WAEMU zone, access to credit for vulnerable microentrepreneurs is a major concern despite the important role of traditional microfinance institutions. To effectively solve this problem, Islamic microfinance has been identified as an alternative offer, alongside...

Using a data set which is largely free of survivorship bias, this study analyzes the persistence of the performance of French equity funds from 1993 to 2002. The main empirical result is that persistence, although detected in some years, appears to be a quite unstable phenomenon, strongly...

Some contemporary Islamic banking and finance practices have raised legal controversies that arguably eliminate any substantial differences between them and their conventional counterparts. These practices seek their legitimacy from adherence to merely contractual requirements in terms of form...

The aim of this paper is to question the cognitive capitalism hypothesis: are the major transformations of the wage labour nexus and regime of accumulation, created a new capitalism era? A positive answer to this question then relegates to a second rank the thesis of financial capitalism. For...

The present study proposes to examine the link between the organisational policies of the investment management companies and the performance of the managed funds. This study is based on about fifteen exploratory talks organized with persons in charge of investment management companies, and on...