The interpretations of the Waterloo campaign are numerous, diverse and constantly reworked, so they are part of history no less than the event itself. This article briefly reviews them before considering more carefully two selected interpreters, i.e., Clausewitz and Stendhal. It likens the...

Among the range of practices that bring personal assistance to people in firms, coaching is getting a growing popularity, even if the need for it and the way it is used remain unclear. In such a context, this study aims at understanding the reasons why associates of a leading consulting firm...

This paper proposes a model of the decision-maker’s confidence in his probability judgements, in terms of an implausibility measure – a real-valued function on the set of probability functions. A decision rule is axiomatised according to which the decision-maker evaluates acts using sets of...

In this paper, the authors study the possibility of controlling asset price volatility through financial innovation in a three-period finite competitive exchange economy with incomplete financial markets and retrading.

The paper has a twofold aim. On the one hand, it provides what appears to be the first game-theoretic modeling of Napoleon’s last campaign, which ended dramatically on 18 June 1815 at Waterloo. It is specifically concerned with the decision Napoleon made on 17 June 1815 to detach part of his...

It is often stressed that the process of IASC standard setting and its output are very much influenced by the Anglo-American accounting approach. This is considered to be one of the major reasons for the obvious reluctance of countries to adopt the international accounting standards. The...

The aim of this research work is the study of quality information systems in services companies. The first part of the report describes the many definitions of service quality and ways to measure it. <p> Based upon these approaches, the second part suggests a framework designed to ensure quality...</p>

Planning and management control in France in 1998, the major changes in the management control systems.

This paper analyzes the way of thinking of the managers when they have to take a decision on a complex situation.

The article proposes an answer to the question of why people care about justice in the workplace.