On apprend plus par la conversation des Doctes, que par la lecture de leurs livres <italic>Les épistres de Seneque</italic> Translation by François de Malherbe, Paris, Anthoine de Sommaville, 1639, p. 21 Small and medium-sized enterprises, because of their limited resources, use a variety of sources and are...

As the component of environmental scanning that is concerned with science and technology, products, production processes, hardware and information systems, the concept of technological scanning, especially in small business, has received little empirical attention in the past. This paper aims to...

Contrary to neoclassical theory that envisioned the economy solely as competing firms whose only objective was profit maximisation, it is now known that not only does development require networking between these firms, but that the quality of networks is an important factor of their dynamism...

Increasingly scenarios are used as an important component of long-term planning. But not all scenarios are equally valid and equally useful for the decision-maker. Defining a scenario as a "synthetic process which stimulates step by step and in a plausible fashion a series of events which...

In the first part of this paper, the federal expenditures affecting the scientific activity of the province of Quebec, directly or indirectly, are identified. In the second part, there is an attempt to measuring the impact on the economy of those expenditures. Finally, a comparison is made with...

In this paper, we analyse the world model which represents the most ambitious attempt yet to bring together six great forecasts comprising population, resource depletion, food supply, capital investment, pollution and space. We wish to show on the one hand that the model has serious limitations...

Many studies on the effects of new technologies on employment, particularly in the field of electronics, are often either too general, too technical, or both. This paper, which is part of a larger research project, attempts to avoid these pit-falls by presenting a "micro" as well as a "macro"...

Using a case study of ten SMEs the authors apply a model of human information processing which provides a frame to help understand the entrepreneur's use of information to identify opportunities. Their model integrates an algorithmic or pattern type of information processing and a heuristic or...

The goal of this paper is to identify the factors that precede and may cause sudden changes in the pace of growth of high-growth SMEs or gazelles. A retrospective longitudinal case study of seven high growth SMEs that had undergone a total of 14 sudden shifts in growth reveals that a number of...

[fre] Le dynamisme particulier des PME depuis plus de 20 ans déjà semble montrer quelques signes d'essoufflement, suite à la dure récession de 1991-93. Mais le maintien d'un environnement favorable relié à la segmentation de plusieurs marchés, aux besoins d'un milieu de travail à taille...