This paper aims at analysing the differences between two major research fields: Economic intelligence and knowledge management. A framework showing the complementarities between those two fields is set up. After a literature review on those two fields we explain that economic intelligence and...

The current competition game implies processes like alliances with competitors, inclusion of customers and suppliers at early stages of innovation, relations with States, or anticipation of public acceptance. At the heart of all these processes and many others, information processing has become...

Comment se construit une communauté de pratique? Grâce à l’observation et au suivi durant deux années d’un « réseau de soin » composé de chirurgiens dentistes, cet article met en exergue le rôle structurant de trois mécanismes relationnels. Le développement harmonieux d’une...

Alliances avec des concurrents, participation des clients et des fournisseurs aux tous premiers stades d'une innovation ou encore partenariats avec des Etats, les exemples de coopération des entreprises avec leur environnement sont toujours plus nombreux ; ces partenariats peuvent même au...

This paper considers the optimal design of dynamic research contests when the buyer can set time-dependent prizes. We derive the buyer-optimal contest and show that it entails an increasing prize schedule. Remarkably, this allows the buyer to implement a global stopping rule. In particular, the...

This paper studies the optimal design of dynamic research contests. We introduce interim transfers, which are paid in every period while the contest is ongoing, to an otherwise standard setting. We show that a contest where: (i) the principal can stop the contest in any period, (ii) a constant...

Hidden Champions (HCs) are small- and medium-sized global market leaders that repeatedly show superior innovation capabilities and economic performance. However, empirical evidence on how the digital transformation may affect their success story remains scarce. I argue that HCs show stronger...

This paper considers the optimal design of dynamic research tournaments when the buyer can set time-dependent prizes. We derive the buyer-optimal tournament and show that it entails an increasing prize schedule. Remarkably, this allows the buyer to implement a global stopping rule. In...

This paper considers the optimal design of dynamic research contests when the buyer can set time-dependent prizes. We derive the buyer-optimal contest and show that it entails an increasing prize schedule. Remarkably, this allows the buyer to implement a global stopping rule. In particular, the...

The General Electric Company (GE) is widely regarded as one of the world's most successful corporations of the 20th century. This paper aims to critically analyse the corporate strategy of GE during the period from 1981 to present under the leadership of two very different but equally...