infonet-economy

D’après l’OCDE (2009), la plupart des entreprises créées en Afrique sont des SARL (ou assimilées) et la plupart des emplois provient de cette catégorie d’entreprises. Conscientes des enjeux de l’entrepreneuriat collectif, les autorités de la plupart des pays d ’ Afrique de l ’ Ouest et Centrale se sont engagées à créer un environnement politique, institutionnel, juridique et...

In recent years, some significant cases of fraud have been noted in recent years in the Swiss banking sector. The consequences of these malicious acts involve many costs and a severe loss of image for the concerned banks. The purpose of our research is to identify the factors that cause employees to commit such acts that are harmful to their employers. In this paper, we attempt to...

The purpose of this research was to explore self-directed learning (SDL) in the context of online learning. The experiences of traditional and nontraditional learners engaged in an online course as part of a degree-seeking program are explored in terms of readiness for SDL and the processes of planning, monitoring, and evaluating one’s own learning in the online context. The findings...

This paper applies a social capital perspective to study how business units leverage individuals’ external networks to explore and exploit resources outside the firm’s boundaries. We explore this matter inductively by analysing the development and leveraging of social capital at the business unit level in a global commodity company. Our findings show how individuals’ strong and weak...

Our study examines the nomological network of active procrastination in comparison with passive procrastination. In particular, we examine the effects of the five factor model with the aim to understand which personality traits predict academic procrastination. We also test the effect of passive and active procrastination on academic performance to study the unique contribution of...

A principal-agent relationship exists between hotel owners and the management companies which often operate their hotels. In addition, they both act as principals to a mutual agent, the hotel's General Manager, who is tasked with trying to achieve each parties' objectives. Extensive research on hotel management agreements which govern the owner-operator relationship has...

As internal allocation of resources becomes more elaborate, companies striving for innovation often struggle to develop and implement radically novel projects that do not fit their established formal organization, logics or routines. Indeed, such projects face significant internal challenges due to which they are often not initiated at all or terminated internally before reaching...

Entrepreneurship and the startup phenomenon have received considerable attention from researchers, with a particular focus on topics such as the identification of: new ventures’ success factors, conditions that foster entrepreneurial processes and new venture creation (Grimaldi & Grandi, 2005; Maine et al., 2015; Roberts, 1991; Smilor, 1987; Sternberg, 2014; Stuart & Abetti,...