The effects of worker participation have been evaluated and recognised as positive from all points of view. This evidence is confirmed, under certain conditions, by the motivational, industrial and business relations paradigms. The problem faced today does not lie in its necessity – shared...

The difficulty in running a self-managed firm has been one of the arguments used in economics literature to prove the non-viability of the model. People who are sufficiently talented and willing both to manage worker-owners and to assume processes of collective decision-making are a scant...

(VF)Cet article expose une modélisation du processus d'apprentissage organisationnel développée grâce à deux recherches empiriques qualitatives successives. L'article met en évidence en particulier le rôle que joue la migration des savoirs dans le développement des apprentissages les...

Quality assurance is a means of quality management which is essential in interfirm relations, whatever the branch of activity. Small and medium-sized firms are increasingly becoming involved in the process of industry certification. However, little research has been carried out concerning the...

I explore and review the introduction of real options in strategic management studies. My aim is to contribute to a better understanding of the origin of the real options. By distinguishing between shadow and real options and implementing entrepreneurship in the traditional option valuation...

Confirming the well known thesis knowledge is power, A. Toffler argued that the knowledge based society represents the acme of the human society development and P. Drucker said that the developed countries passing through the knowledge based society represents the biggest change of the modern...

Social and administrative sciences categorize rewards with some dimensions. However, these interpretative models seem to be elusive because they do not consider all the elements of rewards system within public administration. The goal of this paper is to suggest a new classification considering...

The article is dedicated to the problem of improving information and analytical support of innovation management. For that, the author proposes a conceptual and methodological framework of integrated management analysis of innovation which constitutes an absolutely new kind of management...

The term "big data" has become an indispensable part of the corporate landscape. It refers to large volumes of data that originate from a wide variety of data sources (e.g., social media, assistance programs, surveillance cam-eras, or loyalty cards). Especially in recent years, the mass of data...

This paper discusses Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) from the perspective of an insurance company; however, the framework presented and solutions discussed are broadly applicable to any industry or business sector. The paper begins by identifying insurance value drivers as well as the risks...