Recent fashion phenomena in the field of management have received growing attention by scholars and management practitioners alike. Much of the existing management fashion literature however operates without providing a clear conceptual and theoritical fonction. It tends to build on common-sense...

There are many problems related to design a networks. Among them, the message routing problem plays a determinant role in the optimization of network performance. Much of the motivation of this work comes from this problem which is shown to belong to the lass of nonlinear convex multicomodity...

This acticle summerizes research findings published on the advertising in China by leading Anglo-Saxon marketing and management journals over the past ten years. Its goal is to highlight the implications of these findings for the marketing personnel of foreign firms wishing to market and...

The objective of operations on futures markets may be either hedging or speculation. In this paper, we wish to give a desciption of futures markets with two groups of operators with heterogeneous expectations: hedgers-speculators, and pure speculators. The existence of carry-over costs is taken...

'Knowledge management' (KM) figures among the most popular recent conceptual innovations in business management. In this article, we analyze the recent surge of KM from a fashion perpective. We present an analysis of the emerging discourses building on the term 'knowledge management ; ' in...

Earnings management can be defined as a purposeful intervention by executives into a firm's financial reporting process in order to secure some gains for themselves, for some firm stakeholders (e.g. investors), or from other firm stakeholders (e.g. debtholders). In this context, a firm's...

Knowledge management ca be seen as the pragmatic evolution of ideas in the field of organizational learning. Its main interest is the improvement of organizational capabilities on all levels of the organization through better use of the resource 'knowledge'.

This Study examines the impact of ERP Solutions on the paradigms of business and management.

This article spans the literature from organizational learning to knowledge management by indicating out the various combinations in the field. First, it provides an overview of the divergent debates in the field of organizational learning; focusing on the content , agents and proces of...

In the present contribution , the concept development of competence and capability-related research from its beginnings in the 1950s to the most recent contributions of the 1990s will be illustrated. Common themes in the different approaches will be highlighted and their idiosyncratic...