infonet-economy

In this book, the authors take us on a journey that helps us understand the notion of entrepreneurship in multiple and interesting ways. Fundamental questions are first answered, such as: Why entrepreneurship is important for our society? Do entrepreneurs add to the wealth of a nation, contribute to the development of a society, create social change and stimulate the business climate…

The practice of lobbying in the interest of economic or social groups plays an important role in the policy making process of most economies. We carry out a multi-level network analysis of the relations among lobbying organizations in the EU transparency register, focusing on the domain of finance and climate. We find that the network centrality of organizations has no simple…

We develop a model of foreign direct investment (FDI) in which financially liquid foreign firms acquire liquidity-constrained target firms. Using a large dataset of emerging-market acquisitions, we find evidence supporting three central predictions of the model: (i) firms in external finance dependent and intangible sectors are more likely to be targets of foreign acquisitions; (ii)…

In this paper, we stud y team cohesion and leadership style of staff and managers working in a retirement home . We used two well - known questionnaires, the Group Environment Questionnaire (GEQ) and the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ), which we translated in French and validated. The GEQ and the MLQ were submitted respectively to the employees and the team…

The aim of this paper is to develop a typology of workers base d on work - life balance (WLB) or imbalance (WLI) and satisfaction about this (im) balance (SWLB) . For this purpose, we use the data available in the special module “Work, Family and Wellbe ing” of the European Social Survey 2010. Our a priori typology includ es seven categories, namely the “work - centered” (WLI…

As suggested by previous results, whether, when designing robots, we should make use of social stereotypes and thus perpetuate them is question of present concern. The aim of this study was the identification of the specific conditions under which people’s judgments of robots were no longer guided by stereotypes. The study participants were 121 individuals between 18 and 69 years of…

People’s fairness preferences are an important constraint for what constitutes an acceptable economic transaction, yet little is known about how these preferences are formed. In this paper, we provide clean evidence that previous transactions play an important role in shaping perceptions of fairness. Buyers used to high market prices, for example, are more likely to perceive high…

A service experience corresponds to a soci al process in which the “production” involves both a provider and a client. Th is production process relies on the well- being of them both to ensure proper value creation. We posit that the link between well-being and value creation can thus also be studied from the risk management perspective (i.e. “ill-being” and “value destruction…

The main objective I pursue in this thesis is to better understand how different factors may independently and in combination influence retailers' ordering decisions under different supply chain structures (single agent and multi agent), different demand uncertainty (deterministic and stochastic), and different interaction among retailers (no interaction, competition and…