Search results for "Governance"

Governance dello stato e stato della governance: una panoramica

2007

Governance, contract structure and risk assessment in inter-firm relationships (IFRs) and venture capital investments

2012

Etude de la gouvernance d’une association dans un contexte de fusion

2018

International audience; L’objet de ce travail est d’étudier la gouvernance cognitive au sein d’associations qui ont fusionné. Une étude de cas réalisée au sein d’une association d’aide à domicile permet de mettre en lumière les confrontations entre les différents acteurs et le processus d’apprentissage qui nourrit des adaptations dynamiques et innovantes.

Approche responsable pour le patrimoine : coopération, participation, documentation / Approccio responsabile al patrimonio architettonico: cooperazio…

2014

Nel quadro del Programma Italie Tunisie, l’esperienza del Progetto APER viene introdotta con riferimento ai diversi livelli e alle opportunità della cooperazione: tra realtà transfrontaliere, tra istituzioni dello stesso Paese e tra studiosi di diverse discipline. Passando ai contenuti scientifici, dopo aver illustrato il campo di applicazione e le potenziali ricadute, si pone l’accento sul tema dell’integrazione tra salvaguardia e valorizzazione, come sintesi teorica e operativa degli obiettivi del Progetto APER. Seguendo l’evoluzione dell’approccio al patrimonio architettonico, dall’origine dello stesso concetto allo sviluppo degli obiettivi della conservazione prima e della valorizzazion…

Le recours au dialogue avec les parties prenantes dans l'exercice de la responsabilité sociale des entreprises (RSE) : proposition d'une typologie

2021

Since Freeman's work (1984), dialogue with stakeholders has become a central theme in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) (Bonnafous-Boucher & Pesqueux 2006; Brown & Dillard 2015; Brown et al. 2020).This dialogue is strongly encouraged by international standards (ISO 26000, GRI, IIRC, AA1000SES, OCDE Principles), which describe it as a tool to inform the decisions of organizations and to allow stakeholders to make their views heard.While the concept of dialogue is omnipresent in the literature, the use of dialogue as a management device is little questioned and documented in scientific studies. How is the dialogue organized by companies? What are the roles of stakeholders? In…

Alliance formation as growth opportunity for non-publicly traded companies: a value-added service provided by private equity investors

2016

We analyze the role of Private Equity firms (PE-Firms) as a governance mechanism, focusing on their role as social intermediaries, helping their portfolio companies to form alliances and thereby spurring entrepreneurial growth. Alliances as long term inter-firm cooperations are considered to be a main source of firm-innovation. External growth via alliances is especially important for small to medium sized companies (SME) – largely dominant in Europe (up to 99%)–, because their internal resources are limited. Since a few years, these facts lead governments to undertake actions aimed to create environments that boost inter-firm linkages and entrepreneurial clusters. In European countries, su…

Does fragility of States affect realization of Education for all? An empirical essay

2009

More than one child out three, in the world, who don't access to school live in countries which are in conflict or which have governments non-engaged in politics of poverty reduction or which lacks of operating capacity. Given this, in these fragile States, mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa, universal primary schooling will be off target for 2015, so invalidate the Millennium Development Goals. Thus, does fragility of States constraints, in a practical way, the goal of Education for all? In this paper, explanations are provided and empirically tested using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). From the results, several types of fragilities represent major obstacles to achieving UPE. According …

Crowdsourcing for innovation: understanding the role of IPR, governance and fairness in crowdsourcing contests

Essays on the Performance, Subsidization and Internationalization of Social Enterprises

2020

Social enterprises are hybrid organizations that tackle societal challenges by using conventional business models. Being hybrid organizations means that social enterprises pursue dual objectives: social (developmental) and financial. By taking performance, subsidization and internationalization perspectives, this thesis contributes to understanding the hybridity of social enterprises and how this hybridity drives their general operations and key decisions such as foreign market selection and targeting strategy.

Private Equity Investors as Matchmakers: Alliance Formation between PE-backed firms

2016

International audience; Alliances as long term inter-firm cooperation are seen as an important factor of economic growth. They are particularly important for small to medium sized companies whose internal resources are scarce. This article analyses the role of Private Equity Firms that constitute a major source of financing for non-publicly traded small to medium sized companies, in the formation of alliances for their portfolio companies. While previous studies analyse the question in the light of mainstream theories, we rely on the dual theory of the firm, combining the contractual/mainstream view and the knowledge-based view. Contrary to the current literature, our study does not rely on…