A 20% price gap between national brands and private labels is generally asserted in literature. We show that the evolution of this price gap, in recent years, questioned this assertion. We explain this by a combination of competition and the evolution of French institutional rules. Nevertheless,...

We study the traditional described price gap between national brands and private labels. First, we present several observations relating to the evolution of this price gap on recent years, and emphasize the role played by the competitive game and the French institutional game in the dynamic of...

Entrepreneurship is undoubtedly a social process and creating a firm requires both the mobilization of social networks and the use of social capital. This book addresses the gap that exists between the need to take these factors into consideration and the understanding of how network...