This paper aims to investigate the impact of interpersonal networks on the innovativeness of inventors. A significant amount of literature has been devoted to the analysis of network effects in the economic and managerial sciences. The main research works in this field have emphasized the strong...

This paper aims to analyze the impact of recent industrial changes on the governance structure of power relationships. To achieve this goal, three insights are discussed. First, the definition of what a firm is in both economic theory and in corporate law is clarified. Second, the four core...

The firm was evicted from economic analysis for a long time. It appeared as a particular and substantial "scope" thanks to the economist R.H. Coase at the end of the 1930'S but sunk into oblivion for three decades. This paper deals with the 1970's renewal of interest in the theory of the firm,...

In this article, I defend that since power is a strong vehicle of cooperation both within and between firms, organizational economists, who often reject power from their analysis, have to reconsider this concept for analyzing the intra- and inter-organizational cooperation. To do it, I use the...

Environmental and climate change concerns have become in the last two decades very high on the competitive, political and socio-technical programs of market economies as the 2009 Copenhagen summit has shown. This context appears to be an opportunity to reconcile economic imperatives and...

Partant d'une critique de la théorie fictionnaliste de la firme en tant que noeud de contrats, cetarticle met en exergue les fondements ontologiques de la firme en tant qu'entité réelle. Lesdébats juridiques traditionnels sur la nature de la firme sont « recontextualisés » dansl'intention...

This paper intends to depart from a critique of the nexus of contracts theory of the firm endowed with its moral personification to propose some theoretical foundations of the firm as a real entity. Some old legal views of the corporation are mobilized to complete the conceptual vacuity of...

The emergence and development of global network-firms have strongly contributed to reconsidering the legal-economic regulatory models of industrial relationships and modern capitalism. Using diverse relational governance mechanisms, the network-firm is based both on capital disintegration and on...