Mobile business is conducted extensively through mobile phones, which, unlike wired e-commerce client computers, can be used anywhere and anytime, and consequently are often used in social settings such as while walking on a sidewalk, eating in a restaurant, driving a car, and waiting for an...

Based on a literature review, this article draws a conceptual framework about the different uses of IT to control networks of firms. Four ways of using IT are discussed and compared. Rather than opposing one another, they are usually part of a pool of control mechanisms with which they interact...

Travail nomade, mobile, télétravail à domicile... En quelques années, le travail à distance, soutenu par les TIC, est devenu une réalité incontournable. Les pratiques de management se sont réinventées autour de la mobilité. Cet ouvrage présente les nouveaux modes d'organisation, de...

Quinze réflexions pour une meilleure action managériale.

Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near...

We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions...

Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near...