N° 84 - June 2006

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Editorial: Francis LEFEBVRE,

Secrétaire général du Comité de rédaction

TRIAL BY FACT

A start-up looking for a business model, or the strategic art of trial and error

Vincent BARTHELEMY,
doctorant au PREG-CRG Ecole Polytechnique,
and
Thomas PARIS,
chercheur au CREG HEC, chercheur associé au PREG-CRG Ecole Polytechnique

Chronicles of an absorption by the marketplace: Free software

Marie Coris,
maître de conférences, E3i, IFReDE-GRES, Université Bordeaux IV

IN QUEST OF THEORIES

Classical finance theory: A parenthesis of fifty years?

Hélène Rainelli-Le Montagner,
professeur, IAE de Paris – GREGOR –
Université de Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne

TRIAL BY FACT

Risk capital in industry: What are big groups going to do in start-ups?

Alla BEN HADJ YOUSSEF,
docteur en sciences de gestion, chercheur associé :
IGS Paris (CR2S-Management), CIME et A2ID

OVERLOOKED…

On grapes and men: Institutional regulation and the growth of AOC wines

Sylvain Rousset,
ministère de l’Agriculture et de la Pêche, Paris,
et
Jean-Baptiste Traversac,
CESAER-INRA, Dijon

MOSAICS

Frédéric Kletz :
Piercing the secret of costs: An engineer’s view of how firms operate — On Claude Riveline’s Évaluation des coûts. Éléments d'une théorie de la gestion.

François Engel :
Europe, what have you done to bookkeeping? On Michel Capron’s Les normes comptables internationales.

Colette Depeyre :
Relocated: Reasons to be optimistic — On Suzanne Berger’s Made in monde.

Yih-teen Lee :
Taiwan, a textbook case for understanding the new globalized economy: On Suzanne Berger and Richard Lester’s Global Taiwan: Building competitive strengths in a new international economy.

Dominique Jacquet :
Saving private capitalism! On Patrick Artus and Marie-Paule Virard’s Le capitalisme est en train de s'autodétruire.

DEBATED

Are the French really “damned”? On Jean-Pierre Dupuis’s article, “Being a ‘damned Frenchman’ in management in Quebec”