Research works haven’t yet shed much light on the performance of the location choice of multinational companies. The aim of this publication is to highlight the link between geographically embedded knowledge, the location of a multinational company and its consequential performance. We put...

This publication presents theoretical documents dealing with the capacity of a community of practice to create useful knowledge favouring the innovative process in its emerging stage. This research aims at a better understanding of innovative communities, and deals with the 2 situated dimension...

In this paper, we propose a time-varying long memory model where the fractional integration parameter varies nonlinearly according to Smooth Transition Regressive (STR) model. To estimate the fractional integration parameter, we suggest a new estimation method based on wavelet approach. In...

This article questions the impact of contest « Challenge Projets d’Entreprendre » on entrepreneurial intention of students, but also its real contribution to the creation of innovative firms as motivation and stimulation factors. The results confirm its role of «awakening» among students,...

Strategic scanning: usefulness of « in-the-field” information for small and medium-sized businesses and industries looking for new outlets product/market Most publications concerning Scanning deal with information that is mainly or exclusively of documentary origin. Therefore, a whole area of...

This paper examines the dynamic dependence between American and four developed stock markets, namely, Japan, United Kingdom, Germany and France during a recent period including the global financial crisis 2007-2009. The econometric approach is based on the extreme-value time-varying copula...

The financial crisis has fueled interest in alternatives to traditional asset classes that might be less affected by large market gyrations and, thus, provide for a less volatile development of a portfolio. One attempt at selecting stocks that are less prone to extreme risks, is obeyance of...

The most import effect of ICT on the tourism sector is on distribution because it involves exchanges, during all the stages of sales, between suppliers, intermediaries and clients that can be dematerialized. Thus, Internet has changed the structure of intermediation in this industry with the...

In the last few years, small firms have had difficulties to finance their projects via the traditional bank system. A new type of financing has recently appeared in Europe and in particular in France: the crowdfunding. It is a method for funding a variety of new ventures, allowing individual...

Le capital risque industriel (CVC) joue un rôle moteur dans le développement d’innovations technologiques. C’est à la fois un apport en fonds propres ainsi qu’en compétences techniques et stratégiques aux start-up. Mais c’est également une stratégie entrepreneuriale réalisée à...