La responsabilité sociale des entreprises (RSE) peut-elle devenir un objectif de l'entreprise ? Comment expliquer son succès actuel ? Pour répondre à ces questions, ce texte revient d'abord sur les objectifs assignés à l'entreprise dans les différentes théories contemporaines. Les...

This is an analysis on management skills and capabilities that should be taken into account in the family business internationalising procedure. Also the importance of IT is studied in facilitating such a procedure. Family business problimatics is also mentioned, as well as its...

This paper investigates causalities between small businesses and the shadow economy in ten New Member States of the European Union in the years 2000–2005. The transition from a centrally planned to a market economy, with deregulation and privatization of economic activities, has yielded new...

It is widely recognized that the economic recovery largely depends on the improvement of the SME sector. In the order to determine the opportunities and to analyze the challenges faced by Romanian SMEs in (post)crises period, the paper presents first a short review of the national economy and...

In Brazil, studies, research and activities directed to understanding the forces that drive the future is quite recent. The first initiatives known date back to the seventies. This article presents the evolution and development of the prospective activities (foresight), future studies and...

The main aim of the paper is to identify the succession strategies (especially the ways in which they attempt to balance the strive to maintain family’s control over the company with the goal of firm’s growth) of the first generation of Polish entrepreneurs. Research survey was conducted on...

Cette recherche met l’accent sur les conditions relatives à l’élaboration d’une plateforme technologique dans l’objectif d’identifier quelle en est, ou quelles en sont, les composantes clefs structurant l’émergence d’un écosystème d’affaires. Elle mobilise pour cela la...

As a result of catastrophic events, firms and other organizations are faced with input shortages and price shocks. Firms can respond to these events using a variety of “resilience” actions, or tactics. Here we provide a microeconomic foundation for analyzing a comprehensive range of these...