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Ecological money and finance. Introducing ecological risk-free assets
No full textInternational audienceThis article contributes to the ecological money and finance literature by introducing a prototype ecological monetary policy mechanism, in which the Central Bank issues reserves in exchange for ecological risk-free assets (ERFAs) measuring the ex-post contribution of banks' loans portfolios to sustainability. We first describe the mechanism using double entry accounting and discuss its theoretical foundations. We then raise analytical intuition on some of its potential financial, economic and ecosystem effects using Philia 1.0, a new ecological PK-SFC model. We finally discuss the extent to which the prototype ecological monetary policy could contribute to the UN SDGs and identify new avenues for future research
Business Model Canvas et pérennité des PME en environnement hostile : Une méta-analyse en contexte congolais
No full textNational audienceThe purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of hostile environment on SME’s sustainabilityvia the Business Model Canvas (the model). In terms of the size and especiallytheir limited resources, it is difficult to sustain their business if they don’t use resilientbusiness model to cope with the hostility of business environment. The goal of the paperis to validate the model to highlight the importance of the Business Model as a tool forresilient SME to environmental constraints and to identify some business models thatwould be suitable for such SMEs operating in hostile environments. We applied this researchto Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) SME and defined business models to avoidby Congolese SME in hostile environments.Keywords: Hostile environment, sustainability, Business Model Canvas, Democratic Republic ofCongo, Small and Medium Enterprise.Le présent article interroge la littérature sur les liens qui peuvent exister entre l’environnementhostile, le Business Model Canvas et la pérennité d’une PME. En effet, au regard desa taille et surtout de ses capacités limitées en ressources, il est difficile pour une PME depérenniser ses affaires, si elle ne met pas en place un modèle d’affaires de résilience pourfaire face à l’hostilité de son environnement d’affaires. L’intérêt de cette étude est de tenterd’établir des liens entre ces trois concepts, de ressortir l’importance du Business Modelcomme outil de résilience des PME face aux contraintes environnementales et d’identifierquelques modèles d’affaires qui conviendraient aux dites PME opérant en environnementhostile. L’étude s’inspire du contexte de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC),pays du Sud dont les riches potentialités d’affaires contrastent avec la triste réalité de sesPME opérant dans un environnement quasi structurellement hostile.Mots clés : Environnement hostile, pérennité, Business Model Canvas, République Démocratique duCongo et PME
Mobility in European container port rankings
No full textInternational audienceThis paper investigates changes in European container port rankings, in order to determine if and how a new dynamic phase can follow a phase of maturity in a container port range. We examine mobility in ranking during 2000–2019 and shed light on the influence of neighbouring ports in a range as well as the level of maturity of each range. Findings from three different methods (Gini coefficient and the Lorenz curve; Markov chains; Spatial Markov Chains) show that, overall, there is a low probability for ports to change status and to enter into a new dynamic phase. Our results confirm that path dependence plays an important role in port systems, with very low inter-class mobility. When mobility occurs, it is mostly for small and medium ports, and this mobility is higher when ports are surrounded by large ports. These results suggest that competition with existing larger ports can be good for the port system rather than allowing traffic to concentrate in a small number of ports. Finally, mature port ranges can enter a renewed dynamic phase, as smaller ports seek either to compete for market share or alternatively seek mergers with large ports where competition possibilities are absent
Cross-national consistency of place-related identity dispositions as antecedents of global brand advocacy among ethnic Chinese at home and abroad
No full textInternational audienceWe study how various place-related identity dispositions (ethnic identity, identification with global consumer culture, cosmopolitanism, immigrant consumers’ acculturation to a host society) affect ethnic consumers’ global brand advocacy within and outside their home country. With data collected from n = 1,101 ethnic Chinese born in China and living in three countries (China, Canada, France), we shed light on the consistency or generalizability of these dispositions as predictors of brand advocacy in relation to global brands from six countries and eight product categories. We offer conceptual and empirical contributions to literatures on market globalization, the roles of place-related identity dispositions, and global brand preference formation. We derive practical implications from the study’s findings for global market segmentation and targeting in general, and the global targeting of Chinese diasporas in particular
Network inventory deployment for responsive fulfillment
No full textInternational audienceCustomer expectations on fulfillment responsiveness is growing with prevalent home delivery practices via eretailsor omnichannel operations. Tight responsiveness requirements, such as x-hour delivery, requires physicalavailability of inventory near demand locations. This raises a need for a broad and dense inventory network anda smart inventory deployment model. Although building such a decentralized network is financially unviablefor most companies, the recently emerging Physical Internet can enable affordable access to a decentralizednetwork by transforming the asset-driven logistics to service-driven logistics. Under such context, we build aNewsvendor-based inventory model with partial pooling, induced by responsiveness requirements, followedby a pragmatic heuristic inventory solution, W-solution. Through numerical experiments we investigate theadvantage of the decentralized network and W-solution over the centralized network and an allocation-basedinventory model, a pre-allocation model. The results demonstrate that decentralization can increase profitsignificantly by capturing more demand through more responsive fulfillment. That is, extra sales exceed thecost saving from risk-pooling in centralized system. The W-solution saves extra cost by exploiting poolingmore smartly than the pre-allocation model, especially under decentralized network. We also show that theW-solution does not always result in less inventory than the pre-allocation model but rather it depends on salesmargin unlike the common rule of thumb for inventory pooling. Furthermore, through the case of a drop-shipmanufacturer in the US market, we provide empirical evidence of the benefit of network decentralization overthe risk pooling when responsive fulfillment is required
Entrepreneurs are from Mars, bankers from Venus: Representational gaps between struggling entrepreneurs and loan officers.
No full textInternational audienceAlthough abundant, the literature on entrepreneurial failure has thus far overlooked the period of financial difficulty prior to bankruptcy when entrepreneurs run the risk of failure and depend on the support of their financial partners to prevent it. The present research aims to address this gap with an in-depth analysis of the loan officer-entrepreneur relationship under these specific circumstances. Using cognitive mapping, we compare the mental representations of both parties to understand how far successful collaboration is possible in such situations. Relying on a framing approach, this study provides a new understanding of the features of the loan officer-entrepreneur relationship, their representational gaps, and the tendency of each to externalize problem-solving
Rating of equity crowdfunding platforms
No full textInternational audienceThis paper examines the impact of a rating of equity crowdfunding platforms on funding campaign success. We hand-collect data from five renown Chinese equity crowdfunding platforms on 583 fundraising campaigns between 2016 to 2021. Our analyses reveal the valuable signaling effect of the platform ratings. A one-unit difference in the rating category affects the funding success between approximately 8 % to 13 %, depending on the respective regression specifications
MASS CUSTOMIZATION’S ONLINE SALES CONFIGURATOR CAPABILITIES AND PURCHASE INTENTION:: THE ROLES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL EMPOWERMENT AND OWNERSHIP
No full textInternational audienceThis research studies the influence of sales configurator capabilities on psychological empowerment and purchase intention in the context of online mass customization. After having customized video game controllers, 263 individuals answered the survey about dimensions of configurator capabilities and psychological empowerment. The results show that, in general, the perceived usefulness of these tools increases the consumer’s perception of power. However, the dimension "focused navigation capability" does not seem to influence psychological empowerment. Acquisition of power and mastery seems to go hand in hand. In order to have a perception of power, individuals do not wish to be very brand-oriented in their process of selecting a customizable product. Furthermore, psychological empowerment does not influence purchase intention there is indeed an indirect effect through the mediation of psychological ownership. Our research contributes to the literature on psychological empowerment by highlighting the dimensions of the e-configurator most likely to increase the perception of power, the psychological ownership and finally the purchase intention
D126: Resourcefulness: beyond Bricolage and Effectuation with(out) limitation of Resources
No full textInternational audienceIn a context marked by growing uncertainty, entrepreneurs face the question of resource scarcity in a burning way. Which resources can be used in a resource-constrained environment? How to gain access to resources? When talking about access to resources in an uncertain and resource-constrained environment, most researchers in entrepreneurship will think about effectuation (Sarasvathy, 2001) and bricolage (Bakker and Nelson, 2005). Both logics can coexist in the same entrepreneurial process (Nelson et Lima, 2020; Servantie et Rispal, 2020). Nevertheless, there is a gap in the literature concerning the interconnections between effectuation, bricolage and resources. Our objective is to contribute to the research stream of resourcefulness (Williams et al., 2021) that offers an opportunity to bridge these concepts under a wider theoretical framework. We focus on the theme of “resources”, a theme that was absent from the original writings by Lévi-Strauss on bricolage. The main aim of our empirical qualitative study is to contribute to develop and specify the theoretical framework of resourcefulness by using the concept of resourcing (Feldman, 2004). By doing so, we also clarify how bricolage and effectuation are organized in a resourceful process