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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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La problématique de cet article est l'étude des réseaux de relations sociales des membres du conseil d'administration (CA) ainsi que de leur utilisation dans l'acquisition de ressources par la firme. Pour ce faire, une étude de cas a été réalisée. D'après les résultats, les membres du...
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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...
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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...
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Dans une première partie, nous développons l'hypothèse selon laquelle l'internationalisation de la R&D des firmes peut se comprendre comme un moyen de partager des connaissances tacites au sein de réseaux fondés sur une proximité située. Nous montrons de quelle manière une telle...
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L'internationalisation de la R&D des firmes est considérée aujourd'hui comme une stratégie destinée à accroître les connaissances des grandes firmes dans un espace cognitif mondial fortement polarisé. Deux questions principales se présentent qui constituent les deux objets...
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Quelles représentations les films véhiculent-ils du "monde des affaires" dont ils sont, en tant que produits industriels, eux-mêmes issus ? Quelle est la nature et quels sont les enjeux d'une représentation qui apparaît singulièrement critique ? A travers l'analyse comparative de 43...
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