Investment treaty law – which is scattered over 3 000 international investment agreements adopted over a period of 50 years – is a crucial but complex basis for regulating international investment flows. Investment treaties are often thought to be silent on investors’ responsibilities to...

We develop an approach to studying new business governance models and we illustrate how these models take the general interest into account. We outline the main prevailing trends, in the context of the QuÈbec model of development, and discuss the new conceptions of the state and of its role in...

Although it has a rich history, the social economy does not yet have a clear, unanimously supported definition. This makes it difficult to delineate and follow the evolution of the social economy for statistical purposes. Some definitions of the social economy only incorporate the non-market...

The financing of public goods through public policies, private donations or sales is a debate that currently strongly affects the social economy. Empirical studies are tempered regarding the relation between these different types of resources (crowding in or crowding out effect). Using a...

L'économie sociale est de plus en plus souvent associée explicitement à la notion d'innovation sociale. Comme un concept analogue à celui d'innovation technologique dans l'analyse de la dynamique économique, l'innovation sociale peut être vue comme un concept opératoire dans l'analyse de...