1This paper draws on Bourdieu's sociolinguistic theory to interpret the overrepresentation of Anglophone accountants vis-a-vis Francophone comptables in the formative years of North America's first professional accounting association. In a linguistic market, where English was taken for granted...

This paper analyses Rural Pacts which are regional development tools created by the Quebec?s National Policy on Rurality firstly adopted in 2001 and renewed from 2007 to 2014. It aims at understanding their historical and political background in order to explain how and why this contractual...

Quebec’s Aboriginal poverty is severe, and the large gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal education levels is the most important factor in explaining it. In the report, the author examines the relationship between education levels and employment for Quebec Aboriginals. Comparing outcomes...

The author intended to propose o brief presentation of the mandate from the new Romanian civil code perspective and he started from the actual rules of the mandate and from its presence in the day to day practice. The presentation of the mandate in the new Romanian civil code is concluded by the...

The author presents the presumed sound investments from the perspective of the new Romanian code. As a persistence of his concern in the area of the new institution of administration of the property of others, the author propose a analysis of the administration forms, of the person of the...

Using data from a survey of 769 firms, this paper provides empirical evidence of the nature of innovation and its determinants within knowledge intensive business services (KIBS). The aim of the paper is to analyse how KIBS innovate and whether they innovate differently in three Canadian...

Winter and summer 7-day low flows of eighteen natural rivers in the St. Lawrence River watershed of Quebec were analyzed over the period from 1934 to 2000. The rivers were first subdivided into three modes using principal component analysis. Two of these modes are located on the south shore of...