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Integrating Environmental Issues Into Corporate Strategy: A Catalyst for Radical Organizational Innovation
This paper presents the results of a study conducted in manufacturing firms operating in the electrical and electronic sectors in Quebec. It investigates the extent to which environmental concerns are integrated into corporate strategy and the entire product development stages. Special attention is paid to the underlying decision process and the benefits derived from being green . Un étude conduite auprÚs des entreprises québécoises oeuvrant dans les secteur électrique et électronique permet d'évaluer le niveau d'intégration des préoccupations environnementales dans la stratégie corporative et dans les différentes phases du cycle de développement des produits. Les résultats de l'étude analysent les processus décisionnels sous-jacents ainsi que les bénéfices encourus par les entreprises qui ont privilégié une stratégie environnementale plus intense.Electrical indystry; Electronical industry; Environnemental concerns; Product development, Industrie électrique ; Industrie électronique ; Préoccupation environnementales ; Développement des produits
Technological Penetration and Cumulative Benefits in SMEs
The relative importance of the benefits derived from the adoption of computer-based administrative and production applications depends to a large extent on the level of technological penetration attained by a particular firm. This evolutionary perspective is investigated in an empirical study carried out in manufacturing firms operating in one specific sector of industrial activity.
L'importance relative des bénéfices provenant de l'adoption des nouvelles technologies de l'information et de production sont fonction en grande partie du niveau de pénétration technologique atteint par la firme. Cette perspective évolutionniste est étudiée dans le cadre d'une recherche empirique menée auprÚs de petites et moyennes entreprises manufacturiÚres innovatrices oeuvrant dans le secteur du métal.SME ; Adoption of new technologies, Adoption de nouvelles technologies ; PME
Incentive Effects on Risk Attitude in Small Probability Prospects
Most studies on the role of incentives on risk attitude report data obtained from within-subject experimental investigations. This may however raise an issue of sequentiality of effects as later choices may be influenced by earlier ones. This paper reports instead between-subject results on the effect of monetary stakes on risk attitudes for small probability prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities predicted by the prospect theory. But under high stakes, we provide some evidence that risk seeking behavior is dramatically reduced. This could suggest that utility is not consistently concave over the outcome space, but rather contains a convex section for very small amounts.Risk attitude; Incentives; Decision; Experiment
ComplĂ©ments biographiques : Pour la suite des recherches autour de lâoeuvre de Gilles Tremblay
Moignard, B. (2008). LâĂ©cole et la rue : fabriques de dĂ©linquance. Recherches comparatives en France et au BrĂ©sil. Paris, France : Presses universitaires de France.
Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux et Marcelle DeschĂȘnes : pionniĂšres dans le sentier de la crĂ©ation électroacoustique
Lâauteure tente de cerner les attitudes « masculines » et « fĂ©minines » de la crĂ©ation musicale des cinquante derniĂšres annĂ©es afin de faire ressortir la contribution de deux compositrices quĂ©bĂ©coises, Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux et Marcelle DeschĂȘnes, au dĂ©veloppement de la musique Ă©lectroacoustique au QuĂ©bec. Par une mise en contexte historique, lâauteure situe dans un premier temps le milieu dans lequel elles ont vĂ©cu leur enfance, leur adolescence, et leur formation musicale Ă MontrĂ©al et Ă Paris ; puis la maniĂšre dont elles ont traversĂ© le discours dominant des annĂ©es 1970, pour finalement aborder leur rĂŽle de pionniĂšres. Parce quâelles voulaient sortir des sentiers battus, elles ont compris que les nouveaux outils technologiques pourraient leur servir Ă exprimer musicalement une nouvelle sensibilitĂ© artistique. En ce sens, elles furent les « sherpas » du milieu Ă©lectroacoustique au QuĂ©bec.A review of âmasculineâ and âfeminineâ attitudes towards music composition of the past fifty years highlights the contributions of Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux and Marcelle DeschĂȘnes to the development of QuĂ©bĂ©cois electroacoustic music. The author re-creates the historical context for the composersâ childhoods, adolescences, and periods of training in Montreal and Paris, and follows this with a discussion of how they negotiated the dominant trends of the 1970s. She then turns to the composersâ roles as pioneers: in their wish to depart from well-trodden paths, Coulombe Saint-Marcoux and DeschĂȘnes turned to new technological tools that would allow them to express a new artistic sensibility. From this perspective, they should be considered the âsherpasâ of QuĂ©bĂ©cois electroacoustic music
Incentive Effects on Risk Attitude in Small Probability Prospects
Most studies on the role of incentives on risk attitude report data obtained from within-subject experimental investigations. This may however raise an issue of sequentiality of effects as later choices may be influenced by earlier ones. This paper reports instead between-subject results on the effect of monetary stakes on risk attitudes for small probability prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities predicted by the prospect theory. But under high stakes, we provide some evidence that risk seeking behavior is dramatically reduced. This could suggest that utility is not consistently concave over the outcome space, but rather contains a convex section for very small amounts.Risk attitude; Incentives; Decision; Experiment
Robert, A. D. (2004). Le syndicalisme enseignant et la recherche : clivages, usages, passages. Grenoble : Presses universitaires de Grenoble et INRP.
Le rĂŽle de la musique dans la tradition des fĂȘtes commĂ©moratives Ă QuĂ©bec entre 1859 et 1959
Les FĂȘtes du 400e anniversaire de la ville de QuĂ©bec en 2008 sont issues dâune longue tradition commĂ©morative qui illustre les tensions dans les reprĂ©sentations de lâhistoire, entre le savant et le populaire, et entre lâĂglise et lâĂtat. Car si ce dernier sâest plu Ă remĂ©morer lâapport de Champlain Ă la fondation de la ville et de la civilisation canadienne-française, lâĂglise a toujours revendiquĂ©, de son cĂŽtĂ©, lâimportance de rappeler la prĂ©sence de Mgr de Laval dans le dĂ©veloppement de la jeune colonie. Lâanalyse du rĂŽle de la musique dans la tradition des FĂȘtes commĂ©moratives Ă QuĂ©bec entre 1859 et 1959 illustre Ă la fois lâimpossibilitĂ© de sĂ©parer le tandem de ces deux ïŹgures majeures de la fondation de la ville de QuĂ©bec et la complĂ©mentaritĂ© de leur reprĂ©sentation dans lâĂ©laboration des programmes musicaux dont les choix tĂ©moignent de lâair du temps. Depuis ces airs dâopĂ©ras si en vogue au XIXe siĂšcle et chantĂ©s par des artistes amĂ©ricains, les FĂȘtes ont progressivement fait appel aux musiciens et aux chanteurs locaux, pour ïŹnalement intĂ©grer Ă leurs programmes des Ćuvres de jeunes crĂ©ateurs de la rĂ©gion de QuĂ©bec. On aura aussi observĂ© que si le souvenir de Champlain est indissociable de celui de Mgr Laval, leur commĂ©moration rĂ©ciproque a suscitĂ© des manifestations musicales diïŹĂ©rentes, mais complĂ©mentaires, oĂč folklore et chanson cĂŽtoyaient des Ćuvres de crĂ©ation.The celebration of Quebec Cityâs 400th anniversary in 2008 emerges from a long tradition of celebrations illustrating conïŹicts arising from the representation of history, conïŹicts between high (scholar) and low (popular) culture, between Church and State. If the State has focussed on reminding us of Champlainâs role in the founding of the city and the French-Canadian civilization, the Church has always claimed the importance of Mgr Laval in the development of the young colony. In studying the role music played in ceremonies celebrating Quebec City between 1859 and 1959, a clear picture emerges : the impossibility to separate Church and State, so important in the founding of Quebec City, but also how they complement each other and how the programming of music not only reïŹects this complementarity but also the Zeitgeist. If operas arias sung by American artists were so much heard during the 19th century, local musicians and singers were gradually called on in celebrations, up to the point where ultimately, works by young composers from the region of Quebec City were part of the music programming. If the memory of Champlain is closely linked with that of Mgr Laval, their reciprocal commemoration initiated musical events that were diïŹerent but complementary where folk music and songs were heard along with works of composers
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