Nous tentons ici de relier dans un cadre commun quelques concepts, nord-américains (USA), japonais, et français, qui nous ont permis, durant quinze ans, à la fois de réaliser des applications innovantes très diverses dans des entreprises et des organisations tout aussi diverses, et de mener...

Knowledge management is now a huge domain, where it is difficult to have a clear view of the manipulated concepts and their crossed-relations. The development of that domain requires now a theoretical framework including concepts from various theories as Knowledge Economy, Information Systems,...

The coordination of companies in the supply chain (SC) is a pillar of achieving better overall performance. Although often studied, research does not usually take into account the influence of the relationships amongst companies in the supply chain. Marcotte et al. [1] propose a collaborative...

The new awareness of the consumers regarding environmental issues should allow companies to gain a competitive advantage by obtaining eco-labels which certify the low impact of a product on the environment. Getting such label requires to analyse a product according to rules expressed in natural...

Using a 2006 household survey in Mali, we compare current poverty rates and inequality levels with counterfactual ones in the absence of migration and remittances. With proper hypotheses on migrants and a selection model, we are able to impute a counterfactual income for households currently...

La topologie des marchés financiers émergents peut être établie soit selon le critère habituel de la proximité géographique, soit selon un critère de proximité du régime monétaire. En considérant explicitement les différences de régimes monétaires, et plus spécifiquement les...

We estimate a system of three behavioral equations for Brazilian children and teenagers (school absenteeism, health status and child labor). We relieved the assumption of independence of the disturbance terms of each equation. Moreover, if causality mechanisms between these three components...

L'objectif spécifique de l'étude Damier est double. Le premier est de préciser la mesure quantitative des délocalisations (y compris les relocalisations) à partir de données individuelles d'entreprises. La seule étude de ce genre existante [Chanteau 2009] peut servir de base à ce travail...

In the late 90's, after severe financial and economic crisis, accompanied by inflation and exchange rate instability, Eastern Europe emerged into two groups of countries with radically contrasting monetary regimes (Currency Boards and Inflation targeting). The task of our study is to compare...

This article aims to expand existing empirical knowledge on the impact of debt level on profitability of companies. We analyze a sample of an unbalanced panel of 2325 unlisted French companies of trade sector spanning over a period of 1999 to 2006. By using the generalized method of moments...