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Fab Labs Download PDF file fr
2012-05-11 Fab Labs [Scenario] by Julien Bicrel Fab Labs are small workshops equiped with machine tools allowing personal fabrication and prototyping of a variety of objects. The first Fab Lab was created within the (Massachussets Institute of Technology) MIT in the early 2000s and today, Fab Labs are part of a world network. The promise of Fab Labs is rich, encompassing innovation together with the development of Southern countries or sustainability, and Fab Labs definitely challenge the contemporary productive model.   Read more
What’s mine is yours - How collaborative consumption is changing the way we live - by Rachel Botsman et Roo Rogers Download PDF file fr
2012-05-11 What’s mine is yours - How collaborative consumption is changing the way we live - by Rachel Botsman et Roo Rogers [Reading report] by Julien Bicrel What’s mine is yours is the first reference work on collaborative consumption, a movement that proposes nothing less than a socially enriched economy, new activities (such as car-pooling, coworking, cohousing…) and new business models. Using a number of examples, the authors show that collaborative consumption is more than a marketing trend: it is a force for change with a real impact in terms of sustainable development and a mean to build stronger communities. Read more
Getting out of the “Deadly management” Download PDF file fr
2012-04-19 Getting out of the “Deadly management” [Proceedings] by Christian Oyarbide The multiple activities of Christian Oyarbide crystallize around the thought on management and are as many prisms allowing to tackle managerial issues under different angles. First in professional life, since after leading a private profit insurance company, Christian Oyarbide took the head of a mutual insurance company (La France Mutualiste); then as a writer (Mon boss, des trucs et ses tics - 2007, Mortel Management – 2009, Mortel Management 2 : la valse des souris – 2011) and blogger («Mortel management »). Both his experience of management and his amazing freedom of speech and expression explain his public success. Finally,... Read more
Skills-based sponsorship, a tool in the service of human resources?
2012-04-16 Skills-based sponsorship, a tool in the service of human resources? [Research paper] by Céline Peudenier Corporate Volonteerism is an innovative patronage policy. Instead of giving financial help to philanthropic projects, companies lend out their employees skills to non profit organizations. Though it is usually considered as a Corporate Social... Read more
Entrepreneurship after the collapse of the USSR - Study of the first small entrepreneurs in a provincial city of Russia
2012-03-13 Entrepreneurship after the collapse of the USSR - Study of the first small entrepreneurs in a provincial city of Russia [Research paper] by Marine Bikard Through the time of transition, Russian experience is an exceptional laboratory to study the rise of capitalism and its institutionalization. Based on a field study of the first small entrepreneurs, this essay offers a new approach of different... Read more
The 104 Adventure
2012-02-10 The 104 Adventure [Research paper] by Valérie Senghor Graduated in Corporate Law from HEC in 1993, Valérie Senghor has then always been trying to use her management abilities to serve her two passions: innovation and culture. First she worked for some small multimedia companies, then decided to take... Read more
Networks of Social Entrepreneurs India
2012-02-05 Networks of Social Entrepreneurs India [Research paper] by Alban Leveau-Vallier This paper aims at deciphering and mapping the network of social entrepreneurs in India. We consider that social entrepreneurs in India belong to two main groups, competing for the domination of the social entrepreneurship field : the traditional... Read more
Independent publishers and the social critique
2012-02-05 Independent publishers and the social critique [Research paper] by Fleur d'Harcourt An efflorescence of small and subversive independent publishing houses has, over the last decade, made a dent in the traditionally conformist world of publishing houses. Independent publishing houses have now become central actors in the... Read more
The evolution of the Chinese banking system since the reform and the opening
2012-01-06 The evolution of the Chinese banking system since the reform and the opening [Research paper] by Jie Zhu The Chinese banking market is one of the most attractive markets for investors and bankers in the West. Since the reform and opening up of China in 1978, the banking system is well built and ready to adapt to the global banking system. In 2001,... Read more
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