We analyze the survival and success of a large sample of Canadian penny stock initial public offerings (IPOs), launched mostly by small and unprofitable firms from 1986 to 2003. The failure rate of these IPOs is lower than the one observed in the U.S. for larger IPOs, probably because of lax...

(VF)Cet article vise à approfondir la compréhension des caractéristiques associées au succès du partenariat logistique. Nous faisons l’hypothèse que la confiance et le contrôle sont positivement reliés au succès du partenariat vertical logistique et analysons les liens entre ces...

This study examines the influence of gender on four objective aspects of career success. After controlling human capital, family context, socioeconomic origin, values and motovations, as well as structural variables, gender continues to have an effect on two of the four aspects: salary and...

Cet article s'intéresse à la mise en place d'un tableau de bord au sein d'une région française. A partir d'une étude de cas, l'objectif de cette recherche est de décrire les évolutions de la mise en place de cet outil, de son développement par les administratifs à son rejet puis à son...

L’objectif de cette recherche est d’évaluer le degré de convergence des résultats des travaux empiriques sur les facteurs explicatifs du succès des joint ventures (JV). Une première partie recense les critères de performance retenus dans la littérature et en propose une...

The purpose of this research is to identify the predictors of hierarchical success for 3,067 male and female managers. Variables were drawn from five bodies of research perspectives that are frequently used to explain career advancement: human capital theory, socioeconomic origin, family...

Presents the recommendation of three meetings at which the 14 African countries of the CFA France Zone discusses measures to alleviate the negative effects of the 1994 CFA franc devaluation. Recommendations deal with social protection policy, and the administration and functioning of social...

In the first part, Maldonado examines the phenomenon of informal sector apprenticeship, based on surveys in Bamako,Lome, Nouakchott and Yaounde undertaken from 1977 to 1979. He analyses, after vocational training, the functioning of the apprenticeship, describing how the extended family and...

The authors re-assess the informal sector in French-speaking Africa. They first look at the classical interpretations of how the informal sector is perceived in the context of development: as a result of international capitalism or as a correction to an unbalanced development. They situate the...

Reviews ILO strategies and methods of economic and social promotion in the informal sector in the 1980s and 1990s.