In this paper, we analyse the "direct investment v. export" decision of a multinational firm in competition with a potential entrant in a host country. We consider that there exists an asymmetry between the skills of workers from the host country and those of workers from the multinational's...

Oliver E. Williamson is the 2009 co-recipient (with Elinor Ostrom) of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, awarded ‘for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm’.

Characterisation of unbounded resources of a social system within the sociological interpretation has resulted in a large number of different notions, which are relevant in different situations. From the view point of statistical mechanics, these notions resemble free energy. In this paper the...

[paper in French]This paper describes the design and implementation of an experimental device aiming to;supply local fruits and vegetables to food aid recipients in the area of Montpellier in France. It reports;the process that led various actors, including one of the authors of the paper, to...

Le journalisme moderne et libre est né, historiquement, à peu près partout, comme un journalisme d’opinion. Les journaux ont fleuri, à toutes époques et dans tous les pays, dans des moments de fracture sociale, comme des étendards dans la bataille des idées, des moyens de combat pour la...

Le marché mondial du vin est caractérisé par un développement sans précédent en ce qui concerne la production, mais aussi l'aire géographique qu'il comprend. La surproduction qui a tendance à dégénérer en une crise est due premièrement à l'apparition de nouveaux acteurs sur ce...

Over the last decade, business literature has identified knowledge management as one of the key tools in managing a modern company. In this regard, it is possible to identify, measure and manage the critical intangibles in a company by means of intellectual capital statements that can provide...