On the basis of several nationalandinternational studies in thefield of business and professional services the aim of this paperistoreconsider the core question of provider-customer interface. It first shows that the question of the relationships between internal and external business services...

[fre] Emploi et marchés du travail d'un secteur quelles comparaisons internationales ? . S'appuyer sur des comparaisons internationales pour analyser les questions d'emploi et de marchés du travail ne peut se faire que si l'on admet la complexité et la diversité des déterminants de l'emploi...

The definitions of goods and services have been debated among economists for more than two centuries. This article seeks to consider the definitions currently used from a critical perspective and to offer a new general definition of services that is compatible with the existence of several...

[eng] This paper aims at analysing the demand for consultancy services from large corporations and especially the different modes of management of such recourses. A large survey, based on interviews with top management, is interpreted. The types of firm's structures, partly derived from...

[eng] The service relations and their regulation. . In this article, it is argued that, in order to integrale services into economic thought, we need further elaboration of the relations of service, that is new technical, social and institutional means of narrowing the gap between supply and...

[fre] La linéarité de la frontière du prix des facteurs . . On se propose, dans cet article, d'élucider un point central de la controverse Samuelson-Garegnani concernant la « frontière du prix des facteurs ». Pour P.A. Samuelson en effet (1962), il est possible de présenter une...