In the context of a rapid and massive extension of salaried apprenticeships, an increasing number of organizations are confronted with issues regarding the support and retention of employees that simultaneously carry out their apprenticeships while completing academic programs. Faced with these...

L’organisation, un acteur social à forte personnalité De l’action collective à l’organisation

In this paper we revisit the issue of the scope of bargaining between firms and unions. It is shown that an agreement between parties on the bargaining agenda may endogenously emerge only on the Efficient Bargaining arrangement, provided that union's power is not too high.

Common wisdom suggests that firms with higher productivities earn higher profits and the higher productivities of the firms benefit consumers by increasing outputs. We show that productivity difference may not matter for outputs and profits in presence of wage bill maximizing labor unions. Our...

This paper studies the problem of location-quantity choice in a duopoly in which the wage paid by each firm is set by the corresponding monopoly union. Compared with the outcome obtained in location-price choice game, we find that the wage setting choice for both unions does not change in our...

Common wisdom suggests that firms with higher productivities earn higher profits and the higher productivities of the firms benefit consumers by increasing outputs. We show that productivity difference may not matter for outputs and profits in presence of wage bill maximizing labor unions. Our...

This paper addresses the question of what options are available to regulate the sector in the near future. In order to answer this question, the paper focuses on the problem of investment and innovation in an ex ante regulated sector. Relying on existing literature, we argue that ex ante...

This article focuses on an epistemological consideration concerning the idea of change resistances, he propose an methodological alternative for the audit of these resistances. These two objectives aim to facilitate the implementation and the management of organizational change process . We will...