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In and out of control : the consumption of loudness in the metal community / Max Chauvin ; sous la direction de Simon Nyeck et de Dominique Bouchet
(2014)
The consumption of live music during concerts can have dire consequences for individuals and society alike. This dissertation explores consumers motivations to expose themselves to extreme sound levels. Focusing on metal ...
Cadres intermédiaires et frontières dans l'organisation : enjeux de collaboration, d'expérience du travail, et de réalités organisationnelles / Ricardo Azambuja ; sous la direction de Annick Ancelin =
(2015)
This dissertation investigates middle-managers work, experience of work, and construction of organizational reality. It draws its empirical material upon a seven month multi-site ethnographic fieldwork within a medium-sized ...
Etude du processus de convergence entre le plan comptable américain et les normes IFRS : Institutions et institutionnalisation au sein de changement global en comptabilité / Lisa Karasiewicz Baudot ; sous la direction de Marie-Laure Djelic et de Chrystelle Richard =
(2014)
This dissertation explores the efforts of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) to produce a common set of accounting standards accepted for worldwide market ...
From global formulation to local legitimation : the trajectory of urban sustainability / Joel Bothello ; sous la direction de Marie-Laure Djelic
(2014)
This dissertation focuses on the development of a powerful idea in transnational space referred to here as a world myth and demonstrates the effect of this myth on contemporary organizational structures and discourses. My ...
Managing an early modern giant : issues and initiatives at the Dutch East India Company / Wim Van Lent ; sous la direction de Stoyan Sgourev
(2014)
The recent financial crisis has reinvigorated an academic interest in the precepts upon which rational economic behavior is based. Answering to the need for a better understanding of capitalism s fundaments, this dissertation ...
Determinants and consequences of internal audit function quality / Like Jiang ; sous la direction de Paul André
(2015)
I develop a new input-based measure of internal audit function (IAF) quality and investigate the factors that incentivize firms to establish a high-quality IAF as well as the economic consequences of a high-quality IAF. ...
Identity in the political economy of institutions : taxation, group conflict and the perception of democracy / Chee Meng Tan ; André Fourçans, Supervisor.
(2015)
This dissertation, Identity in the Political Economy of Institutions: Taxation, Group Conflict and the Perception of Democracy, contains three essays that study the impact of the economics of identity on taxation, social ...
Modeling complex decision processes / Prithwiraj Mukherjee ; sous la direction de Arnaud De Bruyn
(2014)
This thesis contains three essays dealing with the modeling of complex decision processes in marketing. Each of these deals with a different aspect of complex decision making, either at the individual or at the network ...
The diffusion of Internet use across China : spatiotemporal models with policy implications / Li Zheng ; Albert Bemmaor, Supervisor.
(2014)
Although spatiotemporal models have been developed to capture the diffusion of new offerings in space and time, these efforts can hardly be used to assess the potential impact of policy decisions due to (i) their relatively ...
From animosity to affinity : institutional complexity and resource dependence in cross sector partnerships / Alireza Ahmadsimab ; sous la direction de C. Gilles Van Wijk
(2015)
This dissertation investigates how organizations reconcile different institutional logics in the development of cross sector partnerships. It is based on longitudinal data from three cases of partnership between firms and ...