L'objectif principal de cet article est de présenter les principales composantes du paradigme constitué par la théorie positive de l'agence. La première partie est centrée sur le passage du niveau individuel à l'organisation conçue comme un noeud de contrats. La deuxième partie porte sur...

L'objectif de cet article est de présenter les travaux de M.C. Jensen au sein d'un ouvrage collectif consacré aux "grands auteurs en finance". La présentation est articulée en 4 points portant successivement sur les apports à la finance de marché, à la finance d'entreprise, à la théorie...

(VF)L'objectif de cet article est de proposer une analyse comparative fondée sur la théorie contractuelle des organisations de deux formes d'organisation concurrentes au sein du système français de l'enseignement de la gestion : les Grandes Ecoles de Gestion (de statut consulaire) et les...

Carrying out successful succession in family businesses is an issue of vital significance for businesses themselves, and a great challenge for the pragmatics of family business management. It is also an issue important for the dynamics of Poland's economic development since it regards a wide...

We characterize how the size distribution of plants, within narrowly defined industries, changed in Italy over a ten-year time span, and relate this to the stock of civic capital at the provincial level. Data on plant size come from the 1991 and 2001 Italian censuses. Civic capital turns out to...

Self-leadership is theoretically assumed to be the key management approach in modern knowledge work because it strengthens the employees’ commitment. This study examines the relationship between self-leadership and affective organizational commitment empirically. An underlying assumption in...

This paper centres around the question of ownership of firms and managerial competition and how these affect managers and employees’ incentives to invest in human capital. We argue that employees’ incentives in human capital investment are affected by both ownership and competition since...

A contemporary organization is becoming more and more complex and dynamic. Managing such an organization often requires new solutions in order to face the fast-expanding comprehensiveness in economy, politics and private life. Understanding complex connections between the elements of a system...

This paper examines the relationship between organization contextual variables and humanresource management (HRM) practices in small firms. The proposed model is based on anintegration of theoretical perspectives, including the resource-based approach, institutionaltheory, transaction cost...

We use new firm-level data to examine the effects of spinoffs and privatization on corporate performance in a rapidly emerging market economy. Unlike the existing literature, which analyzes spinoffs almost exclusively in advanced economies, we control for accompanying ownership changes and the...