Journal Article

By redistributing the competitive advantages between industrialized and low-cost countries and disrupting well established positions, climate challenges, energy or digitization are real opportunities for French industry. The technological, economic, social and environmental current and future have the potential to stop the infernal dynamic of deindustrialization that strikes so severely our country for decades. Better: these mutations can sign the advent of a new industry in conquering France, and more than in the past because this industrial France will be more competitive, more innovative and attractive. To us, the public and private actors, to support and ensure a successful transition and happy to the industry of tomorrow by acting on three key levers: investment in innovation, enterprise internal processing and construction industrial Europe. [googletranslate_en]

This position paper presents the state-of-the art of the field of workplace commitment. Yet, for workplace commitment to stay relevant, it is necessary to look beyond current practice and to extrapolate trends to envision what will be needed in future research. Therefore, the aim of this paper is twofold, first, to consolidate our current understanding of workplace commitment in contemporary work settings and, second, to look into the future by identifying and discussing avenues for future research. Representative of the changing nature of work, we explicitly conceptualize workplace commitment in reference to (A) "Temporary work", and (B) "Cross-boundary work". Progressing from these two themes, conceptual, theoretical and methodological advances of the field are discussed. The result is the identification of 10 key paths of research to pursues, a shared agenda for the most promising and needed directions for future research and recommendations for how these will translate into practice.

Following a case study in a network of small tourism organizations, the article proposes a model of management skills of sustainable development focusing on meta-skills that help to absorb the additional complexity leads to organizational level. Then, it analyzes the combinatorial process resources and skills, internal and external, originally observed new skills. [googletranslate_en]

We use Census and Labour Force Survey (LFS) data for the period from 1971 to 2012 to investigate whether the Canadian Wage and employment structures have polarized, that is, whether wages and employment have grown more in high- and low- than in middle- paying occupations. We find that there has been faster growth in employment in both high- and low-paying occupations than those in the middle since 1981. However, up to 2005, the wage pattern reflects a simple increase in inequality with greater growth in high-paid than middle-paid occupations and greater growth in middle than low-paid occupations. Since 2005, there has been some polarization, but this is present only in some parts of the country and seems to be related more to the resource boom than technological change. We present results for the US to provide a benchmark. The Canadian patterns fit with those in the US and other countries apart from the 1990s when the US undergoes wage polarization not seen elsewhere. We argue that the Canadian data do not fit with the standard technological change model of polarization developed for the US. 1.

“The times they are a-changin,” a famous song title by Bob Dylan, also applies to our profession and our subject of study. Information technology has always been a driver for innovation. The recent years, however, have seen IT-based innovations that truly impact everybody’s lives. Everything that can be digitized will be digitized, and this trend is continuing at an amazing speed. For a discipline that looks at the design and utilization of information systems these are exciting times. Yet, it is also a time full of challenges. While our discipline has much to contribute, it competes with other disciplines for topics and ideas. Also, the scope of topics studied has become broader and broader, and so have our methods. While initial work in Business and Information Systems Engineering (BISE) was often rooted in artificial intelligence, database systems, or operations research, the community has adopted new approaches to address new types of problems. Nowadays, we also have a strong group of academics working primarily with empirical methods or methods from microeconomics, to name just a few. This development towards a more multi-paradigmatic discipline also had its challenges and there were controversial discussions along the way.

Changing labour markets, increased calls for selection and excellence, and increased diversity and individualisation have repercussions on how educational systems can prepare youth for work, optimise knowledge production, achieve equality of opportunity, and socialise students into active civic engagement. This paper discusses four central tasks of schooling and examines to what extent societal developments challenge education policy to deliver on the tasks at hand. Particular attention is given to the challenges Europe’s strongly diversified educational systems are currently facing. Both the Netherlands and Germany, for example, have been offering vocationally oriented pathways alongside traditional academic higher education for some time. But today’s ongoing changes in job descriptions, mainly due to ever-accelerating technological developments, are causing a risk of skills obsolescence which can only be avoided by continuous upskilling and/or reskilling of a sufficiently flexible workforce. Overcoming differences of intelligence as well as differences of diverse socioeconomic, ethnic and linguistic backgrounds by way of education is another challenge, as is fostering “soft” skills and political awareness. This paper investigates the effectiveness of current education systems in preparing citizens for a functioning modern society.

This paper proposes a framework for analyzing the self-assessment as one of the devices can be used in human resources management to optimize the skills of employees.  Indeed, today the performance of a company is not assessed solely through economic and financial ratios. It is clear that the effectiveness of HR management and management strategy that initiates are also highlighted. They allow the organization to mobilize its skills in order to gain and maintain a competitive position within a given industry.  The purpose of our research is to provide food for thought about the inseparable links between self-assessment and management by skills. This contribution will support in particular on a study in an industry where self-evaluation is mandated by law since 2002. [googletranslate_en]

Nora-Minc report on the computerization of the French company time now over forty years. He compared prophetically the bank to "the steel of tomorrow," citing market saturation, production surpluses, inadequate capital, disrupted telematics and informatics, as well as production costs .  The current digital revolution that affects the investment bank strangely resonates with the diagnosis mentioned above, even if it occurs in a fundamentally different context.  In fact, the investment bank has suffered during the past decade, a triple shock:  First, the CIB has faced a major crisis over the period 2007-2008;  Second, and partly in response to this crisis, investment banks suffered massive regulatory impact;  Finally, as it was before the retail banking, investment banking is facing? the challenge of digital transformation.  Resulting from multiple innovations if not technological revolutions, digital transformation is certainly a potential source of growth and productivity gains, but it is inevitably accompanied by a cultural change and organizational adjustments that need to be mastered. [googletranslate_en]

Finance, global object rapidly changing, is difficult to regulate. But its regulation is necessary because it irrigates the whole economy. The 2008 crisis has reopened important regulatory sites and asked again, acutely, the difficulty of trying to master a global object from a split political space. [googletranslate_en]