Depuis une vingtaine d'annees, l'interet affiche a l'egard des nouvelles pratiques de gestion ne s'est pas dementi tant dans la presse a large diffusion que dans les ecrits plus scientifiques. Dans un premier temps, nous proposons d'examiner la teneur de ces ecrits. Nous ferons en suite un...

Dans cet article, nous prendrons appui sur l'etude des particularites de la gestion des entreprises bresiliennes que nous avons qualifie de feodal, afin de donner quelques indications sur ce que pourrait etre un prototype du dirigeant feodale. Nous reviendrons ensuite sur notre terrain afin...

In this paper, we intend to demonstrate the industrial modernity has in no way altered the old regime structure of Brazilian society. In fact, quite the contrary is true. On the basis of interviews, histories of several large private Brazilian organizations, analyses of published material and...

It is well known that modern governments are unwilling to use poll taxes because it corresponds to political suicide. Still, poll taxes are allegedly the most efficient form of taxation. Building on Eaton and Rosen (1980) and Peck (1989), the goal of this paper is to show a case where an excise...

This paper uses the transformed data method proposed in Duan (1994) to develop a maximum likelihood procedure for the estimation of the deposit insurance pricing model of Duan, Moreau and Sealey (1995). An empirical analysis is carried out on ten large US banks to illustrate the proposed...