Severe natural catastrophes in the early nineties have brought about a lack of financial capacity in the catastrophe line of the global reinsurance market. The finance industry reacted to this situation by issuing innovative products designed to spread the excess risk more widely among...

This paper examines the socio-economic status of the members of Switzerland's third language community - and hence its second largest linguistic community. Our goal is to check if a minority status in a demolinguistic sense is associated, in the case of Italian-speakers, with a divergence from...

Earnings reported by North American firms are conditioned by specific contextual factors that enhance their contractual and value relevances: regulatory oversight by securities commissions, relatively strict accounting and auditing standards, an extensive financial analysis industry and active...

The following paper deals with resistance to radical organisational change and different ways to explain this phenomenon. Our goal is to show in which way a theoretical perspective concentrating on power, routines and individual rationality can contribute to a better understanding of resistance.

Nous etablissons la notion de distance monotone entre un ensemble de variables et une variable opposee a cet ensemble. Cela permet de formaliser le lien entre deux proprietes, la coherence et la stabilite d'unsous-modele de regression et finalement d'etablir un critere de choix de modele base...

In this paper, we propose an analyze a model built to treat data presenting the following characteristics: 1. they appear in an aggregated form 2. the aggregated terms may be considered as multivariate measures performed by instruments of random accuracy, or by the same instrument in changing...

Cette these a pour objectif d'analyser l'impact du Marche Unique Europeen sur les strategies internationales des PME. est-ce que la mise en oeuvre du Marche Unique Europeen affectera les pratiques d'internationalisation des PME europeennes?

Ce texte rappelle les changements qui ont donne naissance au marketing relationel, ses implications en matiere d'organisation de la fonction marketing au sein des entreprises et les conditions devant etre satisfaites pour qu'il soit mis en pratique dans le secteur du private banking.