(Sous la direction de Michel Poitevin) Impartition et sous-traitance apparaissent souvent comme des synonymes : pourtant, les deux termes recoupent des réalités distinctes. La sous-traitance renvoie aux modalités - économiques ou légales - de toute forme de délégation. L'impartition...

Why is it that firms that compete within the same industrial sector have divergent productivity growth over time? Is this phenomenon related to specific characteristics of their organizations, their human capital, their capital investments or a mix of all of these parameters? This paper provides...

This paper examines innovation processes or technical change-generation processes at the firm level. It emphasizes the notion that the element of technical and technological change that is a determinant of productivity growth is strongly induced by internal factors related to the firm's...

The importance of technical change as a crucial element explaining inter-country differences in levels and rates of change in industrial productivity has been increasingly acknowledged. Hence, growing significance has been attached to developing the capability to generate such change. However,...

Les partenariats public-privé impliquent la participation de trois acteurs qui ont des objectifs et des compétences distinctives différents : l'État, l'entreprise et la communauté des citoyens-consommateurs. Le rôle de l'État est de concevoir et d'assurer la prestation de services...