Les recherches consacrées à la relation inter-fonctionnalité - performance d'un nouveau produit font état de résultats contradictoires. Si le recensement des contingences théoriques affectant cette relation par Troy, Hirunyawipada et Paswan (2008) semble exhaustif, celui des facteurs...

Cet article apporte un éclairage sur la consommation alimentaire de produits locaux, qui serait privilégiée par 83% des français en 2010. Après avoir défini le concept, la perspective consommateur et les stratégies développées pour se positionner sur ce marché sont abordées autour de...

People normally know they should follow a few preventive health behaviors in order to have a better and long life: to not smoke, to have a balanced diet low in fat and rich in vegetables and fruits, to exercise regularly, to avoid heavy drinking, to take medical screens for dangerous diseases,...

White certificate obligations impose energy savings targets on energy companies and allow them to trade energy savings certificates. They can be seen as a means of internalizing energy-use externalities and addressing energy efficiency market failures. This paper reviews existing evaluations of...

We investigate how moral hazard problems can cause sub-optimal investment in energy efficiency, a phenomenon known as the energy efficiency gap. We argue that such problems are likely to be important for home energy retrofits, where both the seller and the buyer can take hidden actions. The...

The current literature on business models lies mainly in the literature on strategy and competitive advantage and focuses on their role as descriptors of actual phenomenon, often by reference to taxonomic categories. In this essay we explore how business models can be seen as a set of cognitive...

Climate change mitigation requires to replace preexisting carbon-intensive capital with different types of cleaner capital. Coal power and inefficient thermal engines may be phased out by gas power and efficient thermal engines or by renewable power and electric vehicles. We derive the optimal...

: MOISE est une méthodologie de gestion de la connaissance qui comporte une étape de spécification de la connaissance, laquelle distingue la connaissance statique de la connaissance dynamique. Cette étape met en œuvre un langage de représentation de la connaissance graphique (LRC) qui...

Notre société dite société de l'information est en train de laisser la place à une société de la connaissance. La théorie de Shannon a permis de poser un cadre formel pour l'étude de l'information. Le présent papier propose une transposition de cette théorie à l'étude de la...

Although the building sector is recognized as having major potential for energy conservation and carbon dioxide emissions mitigation, conventional bottom-up and top-down models are limited in their ability to capture the complex economic and technological dynamics of the sector. This paper...