This article, which draws on recent literature on organizational communities, raises the question... more This article, which draws on recent literature on organizational communities, raises the question of the coherence of the firm through the analysis of the dialectic interaction between hierarchies and Knowledge-Intensive Communities (KnICs) within the firm. Focusing on the cognitive dimension of the firm, we analyze the matching between hierarchies and KnICs and draw conclusions as to the coherence of the firm. Using two key elements (the frequency of interactions and the intensity of communication between communities), we draw a typology allowing a better understanding of the processes of coordination and knowledge creation within the firm.
Do elites capture foreign aid? This paper documents that aid disbursements to highly aid-dependen... more Do elites capture foreign aid? This paper documents that aid disbursements to highly aid-dependent countries coincide with sharp increases in bank deposits in offshore financial centers known for bank secrecy and private wealth management, but not in other financial centers. The estimates are not confounded by contemporaneous shocks such as civil conflicts, natural disasters and financial crises, and are robust to instrumenting with predetermined aid commitments. The implied leakage rate is around 7.5% at the sample mean and tends to increase with the ratio of aid to GDP. The findings are consistent with aid capture in the most aid-dependent countries.
لهأ ،ةعامج ،ةسرامملا ،يعامتجلاا ملّعتلا ،حلطصملا ملع :ةيحاتفملا تاملكلا Abstract: Any well-define... more لهأ ،ةعامج ،ةسرامملا ،يعامتجلاا ملّعتلا ،حلطصملا ملع :ةيحاتفملا تاملكلا Abstract: Any well-defined academic term is inherently tied to the discipline from which it emerges. Nonetheless, academic disciplines go beyond the knowledge of specific terms. For this reason it is important to create a consistent and unified glossary of Arabic terminology for the contemporary social sciences. This paper will focus on the terminological difficulties of translating the concept of «Communities of Practice», which is central to contemporary social sciences, into Arabic. It is the author’s contention that any difficulties associated with the proper contextualization of this term into Arabic is to do with the phrase «community» itself a concept of central importance to the Western academic discourse. This paper shall explore the development of the concept of a «community» and the theoretical difficulties confronted in replicating the same meaning in Arabic. Following that, this paper argues that th...
In the past, the exodus of skills from the southern to the northern hemisphere was Heraclitean, p... more In the past, the exodus of skills from the southern to the northern hemisphere was Heraclitean, permanent and irreversible, so it was often likened to a hemorrhage of brains and a bias to development. For a long time reduced to its pejorative connotation, this "brain drain" begins over the last two decades to include new realities of belonging to an international scientific community allowing reconnections and feedbacks. Through a prism of economics of knowledge, we propose in this paper to examine this transformation of the very nature of brain drain, synonymous to a new global economic win-win-win game.
... André Orléan pour m'avoir fait l'honneur de participer au jury de cette thè... more ... André Orléan pour m'avoir fait l'honneur de participer au jury de cette thèse. Je remercie GhaziBen Saad, Tayeb Saadi, Frédéric Koessler, Gaël Giraud, Murat ... spécialement à Sabine et Khalid, pour tout. Cette thèse leur est également dédiée. Page 9. Page 10. Sommaire ...
For centuries, the “left brain” prevailed and has been particularly deployed in the processes of ... more For centuries, the “left brain” prevailed and has been particularly deployed in the processes of value creation. Nowadays, the advent of creative industries seems to be synonymous to a revenge of the “right brain”. The main conclusion of this article is that these new dynamics would involve mainly the Northern Hemisphere, capitalizing on age-long creative cultural genes and receptive grounds. Through the iPad stylized fact and the Sperry's model of hemispheric specialization, this article discusses the degree of appropriation of the intangible-based economic dynamics in both developed, emerging and peripheral countries, and outlines the contours of the global architectures of knowledge and creativity.
Cet article propose d'interroger les fondations micro-evolutionnaires du programme de recherc... more Cet article propose d'interroger les fondations micro-evolutionnaires du programme de recherche de la theorie evolutionniste de la firme chez Nelson et Winter (1982) et de l'examiner a la lumiere d'une nouvelle perspective evolutionniste, dite memetique. En confrontant la tradition evolutionniste neo-schumpeterienne a la theorie des replicateurs, et en insistant sur la definition de l'unite de replication de l'evolution economique, ce travail exploratoire propose une reflexion sur les fondations micro-evolutionnaires de la theorie evolutionniste de la firme.
This article, which draws on recent literature on organizational communities, raises the question... more This article, which draws on recent literature on organizational communities, raises the question of the coherence of the firm through the analysis of the dialectic interaction between hierarchies and Knowledge-Intensive Communities (KnICs) within the firm. Focusing on the cognitive dimension of the firm, we analyze the matching between hierarchies and KnICs and draw conclusions as to the coherence of the firm. Using two key elements (the frequency of interactions and the intensity of communication between communities), we draw a typology allowing a better understanding of the processes of coordination and knowledge creation within the firm.
Do elites capture foreign aid? This paper documents that aid disbursements to highly aid-dependen... more Do elites capture foreign aid? This paper documents that aid disbursements to highly aid-dependent countries coincide with sharp increases in bank deposits in offshore financial centers known for bank secrecy and private wealth management, but not in other financial centers. The estimates are not confounded by contemporaneous shocks such as civil conflicts, natural disasters and financial crises, and are robust to instrumenting with predetermined aid commitments. The implied leakage rate is around 7.5% at the sample mean and tends to increase with the ratio of aid to GDP. The findings are consistent with aid capture in the most aid-dependent countries.
لهأ ،ةعامج ،ةسرامملا ،يعامتجلاا ملّعتلا ،حلطصملا ملع :ةيحاتفملا تاملكلا Abstract: Any well-define... more لهأ ،ةعامج ،ةسرامملا ،يعامتجلاا ملّعتلا ،حلطصملا ملع :ةيحاتفملا تاملكلا Abstract: Any well-defined academic term is inherently tied to the discipline from which it emerges. Nonetheless, academic disciplines go beyond the knowledge of specific terms. For this reason it is important to create a consistent and unified glossary of Arabic terminology for the contemporary social sciences. This paper will focus on the terminological difficulties of translating the concept of «Communities of Practice», which is central to contemporary social sciences, into Arabic. It is the author’s contention that any difficulties associated with the proper contextualization of this term into Arabic is to do with the phrase «community» itself a concept of central importance to the Western academic discourse. This paper shall explore the development of the concept of a «community» and the theoretical difficulties confronted in replicating the same meaning in Arabic. Following that, this paper argues that th...
In the past, the exodus of skills from the southern to the northern hemisphere was Heraclitean, p... more In the past, the exodus of skills from the southern to the northern hemisphere was Heraclitean, permanent and irreversible, so it was often likened to a hemorrhage of brains and a bias to development. For a long time reduced to its pejorative connotation, this "brain drain" begins over the last two decades to include new realities of belonging to an international scientific community allowing reconnections and feedbacks. Through a prism of economics of knowledge, we propose in this paper to examine this transformation of the very nature of brain drain, synonymous to a new global economic win-win-win game.
... André Orléan pour m'avoir fait l'honneur de participer au jury de cette thè... more ... André Orléan pour m'avoir fait l'honneur de participer au jury de cette thèse. Je remercie GhaziBen Saad, Tayeb Saadi, Frédéric Koessler, Gaël Giraud, Murat ... spécialement à Sabine et Khalid, pour tout. Cette thèse leur est également dédiée. Page 9. Page 10. Sommaire ...
For centuries, the “left brain” prevailed and has been particularly deployed in the processes of ... more For centuries, the “left brain” prevailed and has been particularly deployed in the processes of value creation. Nowadays, the advent of creative industries seems to be synonymous to a revenge of the “right brain”. The main conclusion of this article is that these new dynamics would involve mainly the Northern Hemisphere, capitalizing on age-long creative cultural genes and receptive grounds. Through the iPad stylized fact and the Sperry's model of hemispheric specialization, this article discusses the degree of appropriation of the intangible-based economic dynamics in both developed, emerging and peripheral countries, and outlines the contours of the global architectures of knowledge and creativity.
Cet article propose d'interroger les fondations micro-evolutionnaires du programme de recherc... more Cet article propose d'interroger les fondations micro-evolutionnaires du programme de recherche de la theorie evolutionniste de la firme chez Nelson et Winter (1982) et de l'examiner a la lumiere d'une nouvelle perspective evolutionniste, dite memetique. En confrontant la tradition evolutionniste neo-schumpeterienne a la theorie des replicateurs, et en insistant sur la definition de l'unite de replication de l'evolution economique, ce travail exploratoire propose une reflexion sur les fondations micro-evolutionnaires de la theorie evolutionniste de la firme.
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