infonet-economy

Growing requirements for accountability and risk management put decentralized models of public governance under pressure. This article investigates the drivers for change from a completely decentralized, network-oriented model to a more centralized, and procedural governance model of school restaurants in a Swiss city. It focuses on the pressures and challenges that this municipality...

Il suffit parfois d’un détail pour qu’une organisation échoue à atteindre ses objectifs, alors même que la stratégie a été longuement réfléchie, que les compétences sont présentes, tout comme les volontés individuelles. Mais lequel? Tenter de répondre à cette question, c’est interroger la culture de l’entreprise. Le manager de terrain n’est parfois ni un expert, ni un stratège, et...

While business model innovations are critical to a company’s long-term survival, they are still poorly understood compared to other kinds of innovations. In this paper, we investigate prior research and reframe business model innovation through a practitioner lens. We report on a content analysis of interviews with CEOs of small and medium enterprises in the technology industry, with...

Internationalization speed currently receives once again substantial attention in the internationalization literature. Internationalization speed already formed an integral part of the incremental approach to internationalization 40 years ago. It received center stage position in the more recent born global and international new venture debate. However, there are new developments in...

This paper explores the extent to which Idiosyncratic risk of the target increases acquires shareholders wealth in cross-border takeovers. Using a sample on 15,619 cross-border takeovers, we find that cross-border add value to target firms stockholders. Our results show that the well documented superior acquirer gains in cross-border deals do not persist for firms with low...

Customer relationship management (CRM) is one of the most frequently adopted management tools and has received much attention in the literature. This study advances research on CRM by investigating the impact of the relative time according to which interventions are implemented in different areas (customer management, CRM technology, organizational alignment, and CRM strategy) on CRM...

Cette recherche examine la gestion des résultats comptables par les dirigeants d’entreprises françaises sujettes à des opérations de fusions-acquisitions. La recherche comptable suggère que les transactions de fusions-acquisitions offrent un cadre propice à la gestion des résultats pour les dirigeants de l’entreprise acquéreur (Easterwood, 1998 ; Erickson et Wang, 1999 ; Louis, 2004...

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...

Using data on corporate venture capital (CVC) investments by US corporations between 2001 and 2013, we analyze their CVC expenditures based on their positions in syndication networks and their financial resources. The generalized-method-of-moments models used show that these companies’ annual CVC expenditures depend on the number of co-financing relationships they have and their cash...