Much research on acculturation around global experiences has focused on the “type” of overseas experience—e.g. expatriate, repatriate, inpatriate, flexpatriate. The experiences of people in those categories and across various demographics (single/married/divorced; gender; sexual orientation)...

Cet article est le deuxième d’une série de quatre articles de recherche consacrés à la réforme de la reddition des comptes et de l’organisation comptable du secteur public en Belgique et à sa transition d’une comptabilité camérale vers un système intégré de comptabilité...

We explore the effect of foreign direct investment on economic growth in developing countries, distinguishing between mergers and acquisitions (“M&As”) and “greenfield” investment. A simple model underlines that, unlike greenfield investment, M&As partly represent a rent accruing to...

The Directive 2002/91/CE on the energy performance of buildings requires that by end 2020, all new buildings within Member States are “nearly zero-energy”. Though this is technically feasible for any new construction, the problem of reducing the energy consumption of the existing building...

A poverty penalty arises when the poor pay more than the non-poor to access goods and services. An example is the cost to access credit. While still high, microcredit interest rates are lower than the interest rates charged by moneylenders. Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) usually justify the...

Cet article est le premier d’une série de quatre articles de recherche consacrés à la réforme de la reddition des comptes et de l’organisation comptable du secteur public en Belgique et à sa transition d’une comptabilité camérale vers un système intégré de comptabilité...

While we do not mean to imply that there are insurmountable or even clear distinctions between the social sciences, we claim that economists can still provide an original analysis of class, which should be regarded as complementary to those developed by sociologists. Following the tradition of...

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) lend to the poor, fostering these individuals’ financial inclusion. However, microfinance clients suffer from high interest rates, a type of poverty penalty. Reducing margins and lowering interest rates should be a target for MFIs with a strong social...

La question de la légitimité des chefs, bien que particulièrement importante dans les organisations, reste à ce jour peu définie, peu modélisée et peu explorée empiriquement. À travers une étude s’appuyant sur des interviews menées auprès de 120 travailleurs, nous avons cherché à...

How do women leaders such as board members and top managers influence the social performance of organizations? This paper addresses the issue by exploiting a unique database released by a Senegalese network of 36 financial cooperatives sharing identical governance characteristics and placed...