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...

La problématique de la création d'entreprises et ses rapports au territoire intéresse l'économie régionale depuis plus de vingt ans. Un argumentaire explicatif s'est progressivement construit, sollicitant l'apport de l'économie du travail, de l'économie industrielle et de l'économie...

Les interrogations sur la soutenabilité du business modèle de production et consommation des produits de luxe a fait l'objet des plusieurs travaux de recherche mais aussi des approches pragmatiques des professionnels des plus grands marques de luxe en France. Celles - ci ont décidé de créer...

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'effervescence dans les sciences économiques et sociales autour de l'élaboration d'indicateurs complexes du bien-être, alternatifs aux indicateurs de richesse dits classiques tel que le Produit Intérieur Brut (PIB) par habitant, implique le développement parallèle d'outils pour la...

This paper experimentally investigates if and how people's competitiveness depends on their own gender and on the gender of people with whom they interact. Participants are given information about the gender of the co-participant they are matched with, they then choose between a tournament or a...