The strategic value-curve approach has been widely acclaimed for at least ten years as a major innovation in the strategic field ; it meets a great success in many industries, based on its authors’ –Kim & Mauborgne- promise to make the competition irrelevant. The approach relies on a graphic...

The specificity of mobile technologies lies in an 'anywhere-anytime connectivity'. Organisations have only recently realised what opportunities are offered by equipping their employees with this technology that is supposed to bring lots of benefits to organisations. However, the impact of a...

Motivated by the consequences of firm’s defensive behavior, we test the impact of market regulation on R&D effort. Our estimates show that this impact is positive, namely on high technology industries. Besides the view of monopolistic profits as innovation rewards, these results can be...

The standardization of partially substitutable components destined to meet a set of needs is studied. The monocriterion approach to standardization proposed in the last century is highlighted by taking into account several criteria and an economic valorization through modeling by linear...

Les normes techniques, élaborées par les principaux acteurs économiques, sont d'application facultative. Leur adoption par les entreprises s'explique par les garanties qu'elles fournissent. Le commerce intracommunautaire et, dans une moindre mesure, le commerce international sont régis par...

Consumers’ participation in the different phases of product or service production process is developing from ordinary to more creative forms. However, the literature has mainly focused on the latter, even though simple and non-creative participation is now widespread in our society. After...

The aim of this paper is to discuss the theoretical framework of quality management. We propose a conceptual model based on the convention theory. This framework enables to understand the quality as a social construct, but also the reasons why quality is managed by institutions. In this...