During the past decade, Qatar has changed status. A micro invisible state on a world map with a little presence in the regional balance in the Middle East, Qatar has become a cultural power (al-Jazeeras success), diplomatic (the arbiter of political transitions) and financial (QIA). It is...

Family businesses are an important part of the world economy (Anderson and Reeb, 2003) and show significant differences in their corporate governance compared to non-family firms. Although displaying evident unique features, family firms have received relatively little attention as distinct from...

This paper empirically parallels two approaches: The first one follows the studies of Halicioglu (2009), Jalil and Mahmud (2009), and Jayanthakumaran et al. (2012) which attempt to introduce energy consumption and trade into the environmental function (related carbon dioxide ‘CO2’ emissions...

Notre article s’interroge sur le rôle que les Prix RSE et DD peuvent jouer dans le développement des politiques RSE des entreprises. Constituent-ils une validation a posteriori de pratiques RSE élaborées d’abord dans des entreprises ? Sont-ils en même temps susceptibles de créer de...

There is little evidence in the literature of research concerning management methods using emotions, to support human capital considered as a competitive advantage. The objective of this work is to establish a link between the impact of emotions on the physical and mental behavior, and an...

Cet article a pour objectif d’analyser le processus d’innovation sociétale, en le situant dans le contexte des organisations d’entreprise. Un approfondissement sur le rôle du sens dans ce processus conduit à la notion constructiviste de co-création organisationnelle du sens. Le rôle...

We empirically reinvestigate the issue of excess comovement of commodity prices initially raised in Pindyck and Rotemberg (1990) and show that excess comovement, when it exists, can be related to hedging pressure and speculative intensity in commodity futures markets. Excess comovement appears...

This study has been conducted to empirically examine the determinants of domestic credit to private sector (DCPS) in Pakistan over the period from 1980 to 2009. The relationship is determined using Johansen and Juselius’s framework and NLS and ARM based error correction model to complete the...

Franchising has become a dominant model of retailing in the Western world and is also developing in emerging countries, with the internationalization of franchisors. The paper is an attempt at explaining the significant differences in the development of franchise between Morocco, Algeria and...

A partir d’une synthèse des nombreuses études sur la situation économique et politique de ce pays depuis son indépendance, soit de manière directe (études spécifiques sur l’Algérie), soit de manière indirecte (études sur les stratégies de développement des Etat rentiers), nous...