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...

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...

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...

Cet article évalue le coût de l'inflexion de la politique parisienne des transports intervenue dès 2001 en analysant ses effets sur l'accessibilité des emplois en Île-de-France. La diminution de l'espace viaire alloué à l'automobile dans Paris est à l'origine d'un allongement des temps...

Le dispositif RMI combine une allocation différentielle, un accès aux droits sociaux et des mesures de suivi ou d'incitation. Depuis sa création en 1988, son fonctionnement réel permet de distinguer trois logiques d'intervention ; revenu de subsistance ; complément salarial et allocation de...

L'ouvrage de Pap Ndiaye vient indéniablement combler un manque : celui d'une approche socio-historique de la discrimination d'un groupe, ici les Noirs de France métropolitaine. Face aux réticences à une catégorisation publique du fait ethno-racial, l'auteur argumente pour que soit rendue...