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...

La divergence des buts représente un risque majeur pour la performance de l'entreprise. Sur la base d'une méthodologie originale, nous montrerons, à partir de l'étude du cas d'une unité opérationnelle appartenant à une grande entreprise de service française, comment le chercheur peut...

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...

This article analyzes the different phases the Information Systems--Sociology relationship has gone through and points out some specific features of sociologists and Information Systems scientists in their conceptualization of Information Technology (IT). It shows that both academic fields...

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...

L'Afrique fait depuis quelques mois les titres de la presse économique internationale : certains pays ont un fort taux de croissance, les Chinois y investissent massivement et certaines firmes multinationales occidentales envisagent de s'y développer. Sans envisager que les pays d'Afrique...

Cette comparaison internationale fondée sur les monographies de trente entreprises et douze établissements, offre une dimension nouvelle et concrète à la compréhension des relations formation et emploi, organisation du travail et éducation. Elle met clairement en évidence les grandes...