Partant des conditions dans lesquelles s'élabore la " mesure " en matière responsabilité sociale, d'une part, et de l'insertion de la RSE dans la pensée stratégique, d'autre part, l'article montre que l'évaluation relève d'une logique de communication. Communication ne signifiant pas...

This article analyses through a rent seeking model, the relationship between institutions' quality and natural resources. Depending on the institutions quality, each country has a specific structural capacity to stand natural resources dependency. It is shown that for each country, a threshold...

This paper provides new evidence on the linkages between a large array of institutional arrangements (on product, labour and financial markets) and employment performance. Our analysis includes unemployment, inactivity and jobless rates, thus allowing us to control for possible substitution...

This paper examines the exporting behaviour of Russian manufacturers by considering the effects of firm characteristics and external conditions. Two measures of export behaviour are considered: the decision to export and the share of exports to developed markets. I find that specific exporting...

Most of the literature dealing with the location of foreign direct investment (FDI) has ignored the fact that multinational enterprises (MME) are not stateless and that their activities take place within an international political system : the return on their FDI can be influenced by the quality...

The motivation for introducing statutory minimum wages in many developing countries is often threefold: poverty-reduction, social justice and growth. How well the policy succeeds in attaining these goals will depend on the national context and the numerous choices made when designing the policy....

The motivation for introducing statutory minimum wages in many developing countries is often threefold: poverty-reduction, social justice and growth. How well the policy succeeds in attaining these goals will depend on the national context and the numerous choices made when designing the policy....

L'émergence et l'affirmation, dans les années 1970-80, d'une " nouvelle économie institutionnelle " , branche de l'économie dominante, peut sembler paradoxale. Voilà près de trente ans que prolifère ce mot d' " institution " dans la littérature professionnelle des économistes. Le...

La réflexion que nous avons entreprise situe en son cœur la question de l'institution. Il ne s'agit pas ici de se servir de ce terme comme le font les économistes adeptes de la New Institutional Economics pour ajouter un peu de supplément sociopolitique mal fondé à la froide logique...

Cet article articule les explications du changement institutionnel de l'économie des conventions et de la théorie de la régulation. La première section prend appui sur la théorie de la connaissance objective de Karl Popper, pour éclairer les relations entre les règles (versant objectif de...