Capitalist private property opposes "personal" private property insofar as it separates the worker from actual production means by seeking, through accumulation, to improve value for value and not the relation with nature. It is necessary to think of enterprise outside of the company context...

English Abstract: This study examined various types of corporate financial behaviour during the period from 1990 to 1993 and their relationship to certain factors, in particular company size. It identified the different determinants of corporate financial structure and assessed their respective...

English Abstract: The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the behavior of manufacturing firms, in particular the small ones and to go deeper into the conclusion of a previous paper (Equity and Rate of Return, ewp-fin-9608001 and International Council of Small Business, Sydney, June...

It is possible to study companies according to their methods of gaining access to finance, and in particular the stock market. Two approaches are possible. The first looks at the organization of such access through the relationships built up by the company with suppliers of capital, enabling the...

As a response to ongoing economic, social and environmental crises, many private actors have enlarged their definition of 'value' to include environmental and social elements. Such practices, however, appear incompatible with the current epistemological structure of academic financial discourse....

The purpose of this article is to propose a typology of the economic behaviour of French industrial companies in 1993 based on a sample of more than 7,000 companies participating in the Balance Sheet Data Centre of the Banque de France. The objective is therefore to explain how productivity and...

The study examines the balance sheet structures of both French and west German incorporated firms in manufacturing and their evolution during the last business cycle in the late eighties and early nineties. The point of departure is to focus on the relative importance of the different financing...

What consumers do with brands has always been considered a source of value. During the last decade, this phenomenon has been accelerated still further by the rising power of consumer communities, supported by the growth of the internet and social media. It has been shown that the success of a...