On the basis of the recent concepts of epistemic communities and communities of practice, we show that the firm can be defined according to a form of double duality: cognitive and organisational. The interest of this approach is to put ahead the differentiated behavior from the manager and the...

On the basis of the recent concepts of epistemic communities and communities of practice, we show that the firm can be defined according to a form of double duality: cognitive and organisational. The interest of this approach is to put ahead the differentiated behavior from the manager and the...

The aim of this paper is to suggest that the concept of the dependence effect and of the consumer sovereignty, developed by Galbraith, has to be reexamined in a knowledge-based economy. We reconsider these concepts in the light of the consumption routine. In this perspective, the main result of...

[eng] Based on an organisational knowledge creation model, we propose a new lecture of schumpeterian conjecture. Taxonomy of the variety of innovative behaviours of SME is elabored by considering knowledge for innovate. [fre] En nous fondant sur un modèle de création de connaissance...

The purpose of the paper is to present possible approaches of the innovative potential of the regions, with an empirical application concerning the relation between characteristics of regions (scientific and technological density) and the firm’s competencies. Regions, which are territories...

L'objectif de l'article est de souligner l'importance des compétences, notamment les compétences relationnelles, dans le processus innovatif des entreprises. L'innovation ne peut se résumer à la seule R&D et nécessite souvent le développement de réseaux, de rela tions diverses qu'il...

Cet article traite du cas des villes urbaines et de la manière dont développement durable (DD), technologies de l'information et de la Communication (TIC) et stratégie territoriale se combinent au niveau local. Il définit, dans une première partie, les notions de durabilité, de ville...