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Espaces de discussion, management et épuisement professionnel
Un certain nombre de travaux ont montré l’intérêt des espaces de discussion dans la prévention des risques psychosociaux. Cependant, il n’existe pas à ce jour de validation empirique quantitative de leurs effets et de leurs antécédents. Cet article propose tout d’abord un outil de mesure de la présence des EDD et de leur qualité. Il montre les effets des EDD sur la limitation de l’…
Institution partenaire
Français / 20/10/2017
Learning with feature side-information
Very often features come with their own vectorial descriptions which provide detailed information about their properties. We refer to these vectorial descriptions as feature side-information. The feature side-information is most often ignored or used for feature selction prior to model fitting. In this paper, we propose a framework that allows for the incorporation of feature side-…
Institution partenaire
English / 18/10/2017
Forecasting and granger modelling with non-linear dynamical dependencies
Traditional linear methods for forecasting multivariate time series are not able to satisfactorily model the non-linear dependencies that may exist in non-Gaussian series. We build on the theory of learning vector-valued functions in the reproducing kernel Hilbert space and develop a method for learning prediction functions that accommodate such non-linearities. The method not only…
Institution partenaire
English / 18/10/2017
Regularising non-linear models using feature side-information
Very often features come with their own vectorial descriptions which provide detailed information about their properties. We refer to these vectorial descriptions as feature side-information. In the standard learning scenario, input is represented as a vector of features and the feature sideinformation is most often ignored or used only for feature selection prior to model fitting.…
Institution partenaire
English / 18/10/2017
Outward R&D spillovers in the home country: the role of reverse knowledge transfer
This study examines how foreign R&D investment may explain interfirm variations in productivity performance of home country firms in terms of spillovers. Many have studied spillovers from MNCs to host country’s firms, but there is still scarce evidence on spillovers from outward FDI to the home country. This study analyzes spillovers from foreign R&D investment and hypothesizes…
Institution partenaire
English / 16/10/2017
Scope effects in contingent valuation: : does the assumed statistical distribution of WTP matter?
Economic theory assumes that willingness to pay (WTP) increases with the quantity of the consumed good. This implies that there should be a scope effect in contingent valuation studies. However, in previous issues of Ecological Economics, several authors criticized the contingent valuation (CV) method for the absence of such effect or its inadequacy. In this paper, we contribute to…
Institution partenaire
English / 09/10/2017
Quelles relations entre la RSE, la gouvernance et la performance financière ?
Cet article analyse les liens entre la gouvernance, la RSE et la performance financière au travers d’une approche structurelle fondée sur une approche PLS-PM pour un échantillon de 600 firmes américaines et européennes. Nos résultats montrent tout d’abord que la gouvernance et certaines variables financières sont des antécédents de la RSE. Le déterminant principal de la RSE est donc…
Institution partenaire
Français / 25/09/2017
How vulnerable is risk aversion to wealth, health and other risks? ::an empirical analysis for Europe
This paper empirically assesses how financial risk aversion reacts to a change in individuals’ wealth and health and to the introduction of both financial and health risks using the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Individuals in our sample exhibit financial risk aversion decreasing both in wealth and health. Financial risk aversion is also found to…
Institution partenaire
English / 25/09/2017
Optimal design and pricing of e-services
Ideally, the price of a service should take into account the cost structure, the perceived value to customers and the competition. Apparently, the only method satisfying these properties which is valid even for non-homogeneous services was proposed by Debély et al. (2008) and Fragnière et al. (2008). However, this method has a major drawback: to be able to construct the model, one…
Institution partenaire
English / 25/09/2017
SME Internationalization and distant emerging economies: : exploring the market entry role of asian global cities
This paper suggests a tentative conceptual framework to study the internationalization of foreign/OECD-based SMEs (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) attracted by fast growing emerging markets, such as China and other Asian economies, and the supportive role of global cities as market gate focal points providing a wide range of financial and non-financial services facilitating…
Institution partenaire
English / 19/09/2017
Comment sont évaluées les cibles d’OPA en Suisse et en France ?: similitudes et différences
L’article se focalise sur les pratiques actuelles d’évaluation, en Suisse et en France, dans le contexte des offres publiques d’achat. Les auteurs exposent successivement leur méthodologie, leurs principaux résultats et quelques enjeux pratiques et académiques.
Institution partenaire
Français / 19/09/2017
Program understanding models ::an historical overview and a classification
During the last three decades several hundred papers have been published on the broad topic of “program comprehension”. The goal was always the same: to develop models and tools to help developers with program understanding during program maintenance. However few authors targeted the more fundamental question: “what is program understanding” or, other words, proposed a model of…
Institution partenaire
English / 18/09/2017
On the efficiency of school tracking: : a perspective from outcomes in dual VET in Switzerland
In this paper, we examine the efficiency of the sort done by the Swiss lower secondary school tracking system, looking at students’ outcomes in dual vocational education and training (VET)—the most common education type at the upper secondary level in the country. We discuss a simple Ricardian model about the process of school tracking based on the absolute advantage (i.e., the…
Institution partenaire
English / 18/09/2017
A process for co-creating shared value with the crowd: tourism case studies from a regional innovation system in western Switzerland
Despite the presence of a regional innovation system, the gross value added attributed to tourism in the Swiss region of Valais is declining. Innovation policies fostering private initi-atives and collaboration between companies, researchers, and coaching services have been reinforced recently, and policy instruments are in place to support strategic indus-tries. However, no…
Institution partenaire
English / 11/09/2017
Students’ perception of the flipped classroom ::teaching consumer behavior and market research classes in two Swiss Universities
Marketing instructors have traditionally sought to use experiential and active learning methods in their teaching. The flipped classroom is a learner-centered innovative pedagogical approach that moves the delivery of class material outside the classroom to focus on collaborative activities during class sessions. This qualitative exploratory research aims at understanding how…
Institution partenaire
English / 28/08/2017
Collaborative demand forecasting with integration of event-based judgements
Mathematical forecasting approaches can lead to reliable demand forecast in some environments by extrapolating regular patterns in time-series. However, unpredictable events that do not appear in historical data can reduce the usefulness of mathematical forecasts for demand planning purposes. Since forecasters have partial knowledge of the context and of future events, grouping and…
Institution partenaire
English / 19/06/2017
Trade, growth, and welfare impacts of the CFTA in Africa
This paper provides a comprehensive and cohesive analysis of the likely effects of a Continental Free Trade Agreement (CFTA) in six African countries. Our analysis considers four incremental liberalisation scenarios. The first scenario consist in the elimination of tariffs for agricultural goods. In the second scenario we add the elimination of tariffs on manufactured goods. The…
Institution partenaire
English / 12/06/2017
An interdisciplinary approach for cultural heritage valorisation and visualization
City-Zen is an interactive temporal knowledge-browsing platform that aims to valorise cultural heritages. While many organizations propose relevant data sets, they are hardly accessed, analysed and reused because of the formats inconsistency and the inappropriate information browsing and visualization. The goal of the project is to valorise the existing cultural heritage through a…
Institution partenaire
English / 12/06/2017
Modeling Swiss SMI's experience of performance measurement
The purpose of this paper is to examine performance measurement through the current key performance indicators’ (KPIs’) best practices applied by Swiss small and medium industries (SMIs) active in discrete manufacturing. The methodology used for this study was mainly based on the completion of an online survey that was statistically analyzed with a focus on the main KPIs used to…
Institution partenaire
English / 12/06/2017
The credit commons ::a commoning protocol of monsters
The Commons discussion proliferates on natural resources and material reproduction. When this discussion happens, it tends to distance itself from the “digital commons”, as the latter should be understood as something different: an area of instability, of undefined laws, or even of abuse. We would like to contribute to a law of the commons discussion with an approach that considers…
Institution partenaire
English / 08/05/2017
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