Mois : janvier 2006

Purpose – Owing to its specificities, the family small and medium enterprise (SME) shows a particular behavior as for the creation, development, sharing, protection and transmission of knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to study the specificities of the processes of knowledge creation and development in family firms. Design/methodology/approach – Through a questionnaire, hypotheses of the model were tested. The study is based on […]

The financial behavior of the family firm is a recurring topic in the literature. Hirigoyen’s pioneer research (1984) reveals the specificity of the financial behaviors of industrial family medium-sized companies compared to those of the other categories of firms. This type of firms set out effective structures enabling them a better financial management because, on the one hand, they have a long term vision and, […]

L’objectif de la recherche est d’étudier l’internationalisation de la PME familiale en se fondant, d’une part, sur l’approche par les connaissances et en particulier celle de l’apprentissage organisationnel, et d’autre part sur la littérature portant sur les spécificités de l’entreprise familiale. D’un point de vue théorique, l’on réalise une articulation des théories de l’apprentissage et de la création de la connaissance avec les théories séquentielles […]