Outsourcing is one of the main origins of firm's shrinkage. Outsourcing strategy can be defined as the purchase of a product or a service, which was previously internally realized. This purchased resource remains indispensable to the value creation chain. This paper tries to provide elements of...

(VF)Les structures publiques, dont les collectivités territoriales, tendent à mettre en œuvre des principes issus de la gestion du secteur privé. Des services en charge du contrôle de gestion sont-ils pour autant instaurés ou développés? Pour y répondre, nous observons les évolutions...

Presents a paper by Lauchlin Currie written in January 1991 in which he makes suggestions for organizational changes that might serve to improve the formulation of monetary policy in Columbia.

In this work we discuss the impact of the new ICT techno-economic paradigm upon the vertical and horizontal boundaries of the firm and ask whether the change in the sources of competitive advantage has resulted in changes in the size distribution of firms and also in the degree of concentration...

A growing literature is concerned with the effects of flexible workplace systems or High Performance Work Organizations (HPWOs) on wages. This paper makes use of a new employer-employee-linked panel data set for Germany to examine the effects of adopting HPWOs on wages as well as on the wage...

This paper investigates the effects of organizational and technological changes on job stability of different occupational categories in France. We conduct an empirical analysis in which we make extensive use of a unique data set on a representative sample of French establishments. Working with...

El presente estudio aborda la problemática referente a la satisfacción de los acreditados del INFONAVIT que adquieren viviendas nuevas de fraccionamientos edificadas con recursos propios de constructores, teniendo como área geográfica de estudio la Ciudad de Umán, Yucatán. Es importante...

While organizational mergers may not yet be as commonplace in public enterprise as in private industry, they present similar challenges in terms of the complexities of seamlessly blending the multiple stakeholders involved. As a result, despite their often grandiose ambitions, mergers have not...