Previous research on corporate social responsibility generally acknowledges that consumers develop more favourable perceptions of responsible firms. Yet few empirical works have focused on the effects of the firm's societal communication and of its characteristics on brand equity. In this paper...

Cet article étudie l'insertion de ces migrants ruraux sur le marché du travail de la province du Guangdong à partir d'une base de données originales issues d'une enquête sur les paysans-ouvriers (ming gong), réalisée en 2006. A partir de modèles de durée, nous portons une attention...

In asserting that the number of firms reporting small profits is abnormally high, thus suggesting that earnings management has taken place, accounting researchers assume that the distribution of reported earnings should be smooth for unmanaged earnings. This has never in fact been demonstrated....

We devise an experiment to explore the effect of different degrees of bargaining power on the design and the selection of contracts in a hidden-information context. In our benchmark case, each principal is matched with one agent of unknown type. In our second treatment, a principal can select...

We conducted a sensitivity analysis of results in weighted voting experiments by varying the following two features of the protocol by Montero et al. (2008): (a) the way subjects' roles are reassigned in each round (random versus semi-fixed roles) and (b) the number of proposals that subjects...

This paper aims at understanding whether firms should engage in CSR communications towards consumers, or let independent third parties do so. A generalisable sample of 275 adults participated in an experiment, manipulating third-parties credible information (positive information, negative, or...

Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme and a team-based payment scheme. We find that women...

La conciliation travail-famille est aujourd'hui une question cruciale en France et au Québec, du fait du défi démographique, du défi de l'emploi (quantité mais aussi qualité) et d'un nouveau contexte sociopolitique.De nouveaux acteurs émergent en effet sur la scène politique en la...

Le développement des services de conseil, d'orientation et d'accompagnement professionnel ne peut se comprendre indépendamment de la prise en compte des transformations affectant l'emploi et la protection sociale, et notamment de la diffusion de la doxa de l'activation. Ce champ professionnel...

A partir de 1996, la politique de développement rural française définit des zones de revitalisation rurale (ZRR) : les entreprises de moins de 50 salariés peuvent y bénéficier d'exonérations de charges à condition (entre autres) d'augmenter leur effectif salarié. Ces zones regroupent...