In this work, we aim to provide an in-depth understanding of the organizational learning curve and why significant differences in the rate of learning exist across organizations. We review what is known about organizational learning curves as well as what is unknown. In sum, much is known and...

(VF)Cet article contribue à la littérature épistémologique en sciences de gestion. Pour cela, il questionne comment les débats scientifiques s’organisent et évoluent dans un réseau académique en sciences de gestion. La réponse à cette question est apportée par l’examen d’un...

Operations Research / Management Science (OR/MS) can be described as the discipline of applying advanced analytical methods to help making better decisions and has been around in the agricultural and forestry management sectors since the fifties, approaching decision problems that range from...

The purpose of this paper is to show the possible contributions of the history to management. In a first part, through imaginary dialogue founded on the respective works of two historians, the points of cohesion, discussion and rupture are exposed which characterize the epistemological and...

America is the world leader in innovation, but many of the innovative ideas that are hatched in American start-ups, labs, and companies end up going abroad to reach commercial scale. Apple, the superstar of innovation, locates its production in China (yet still reaps most of its profits in the...

The methodological competences of researchers in a specific area are essential for the development of that area as well as maintaining high standards of research. Considering the variety of paradigms and the wide range of instruments which are necessary for measuring and analysing the phenomena...

The purpose of this paper is to describe the social and economic mutations from the conceptual framework and the factors leading up to the occurrence of these mutations. In this matter, the paper will approach areas in which social and economic mutations interfere and also getting to interact...

Rede, in verkorte vorm uitgesproken op vrijdag 20 september 2002 bij de aanvaarding van het ambt van bijzonder hoogleraar aan de Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, vanwege de Vereniging Trustfonds Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, met als leeropdracht Mathematische Besliskunde, in het...

The research paper is focused on a new concept of efficiency and to its immediate links with optimisation. This most general concept of approximate efficiency generalises the usual concept of efficiency in ordered vector spaces, so it has also significant implications in applied management...