{"title":"Veblen, Economic Policy and the Present Crisis","authors":"P. Ramazzotti","doi":"10.3166/EJESS.26.73-90","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3166/EJESS.26.73-90","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the paper is to discuss Veblen’s views of how and why business requirements intrinsically contrast the livelihood of the community. It contends that, unfortunately, Veblen’s notion of pecuniary gain is either too restrictive or too broad to conceive of an economy that overcomes the profitability-serviceability dichotomy. A proper understanding of the dichotomy and of possible policies to contrast it has to situate it within capitalist market relations, where important social categories are turned into commodities despite their incompatibility with such a role. This typically Polanyian approach aims to conceive of a policy that acts on the degree of commodification of the economy and, in particular, of its fictitious commodities, thereby avoiding waverings between the forced acquiescence to the status quo and the millenarian expectation of an all-encompassing change.","PeriodicalId":352454,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Economic and Social Systems","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130913532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Self-organisation of interest communities: an evolutionary approach","authors":"Sylvain Dejean","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1145162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1145162","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to study the role of individual on the self-organizing process of interest-based community. Contrary to the classical conclusions in which the presence of free-riding behaviour damages the sustainability of online community, our findings show that the heterogeneity of individual contributions favour the self-organization of interest-based communities. We also consider two designed strategies which link the ability to provide information for the community and the perceived switching costs. The results show that both positive and negative correlations between contributions and switching costs may lead to the emergence of self-organized community of interest. If agents are (not) sensitive to the diversity of information, a positive (negative) correlation between contributions and switching costs is likely to produce self-organization. RESUME. L'objectif de cet article est d'etudier le role des contributions individuelles sur les processus d'auto-organisation des communautes d'interet en ligne. Contrairement aux conclusions traditionnelles qui montrent que le comportement de passager clandestin est nuisible aux succes des communautes en ligne, nos conclusions montrent que l'heterogeneite des contributions individuelles favorise l'auto-organisation de ces communautes. Nous considerons egalement deux strategies qui lient la capacite des contributeurs a produire de l'information et les couts de changement percus lors d'un deplacement vers une autre communaute. Les resultats montrent que des correlations positives et negatives entre contributions et couts de changement peuvent toutes les deux conduire a l'auto-organisation. Si les agents sont (ne sont pas) sensibles a la diversite informationnelle, une correlation positive (negative) entre contributions et couts de changement conduit a l'auto-organisation des preferences au sein des communautes.","PeriodicalId":352454,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Economic and Social Systems","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129725663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Functional Chains of Knowledge Management. Effects on Firms' Innovative Performance","authors":"U. Cantner, K. Joel","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1027561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1027561","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of Knowledge Management (KM) for the innovation success of firms. It is assumed that the functional chains of KM lead directly and indirectly to more innovative success via enhancing the recombination of internal and external knowledge assets. To analyse the embedding of KM in a firm's internal system of innovation we establish a structural equation model. We capture KM as latent concept and trace different functional chains by which KM impacts. Using data on KM and innovation success of 351 German firms of the manufacturing sector and knowledge-intensive services located in Thuringia and Hesse, our findings confirm the (dynamic) capability function of KM, which leads via improving exploitation of internal and external innovation assets to more innovation success.","PeriodicalId":352454,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Economic and Social Systems","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132528175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Le travail domestique est-il un résidu ?","authors":"Marie-Agnès Barrère-Maurisson","doi":"10.3166/EJESS.22.57-68","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3166/EJESS.22.57-68","url":null,"abstract":"There is a history of domestic work, like there is a history of professional work, even if both are indissolubly dependent. Since an about sixty years, one can determine \"three ages of the relations between the professional and the domestic work\" which illustrate a general movement of exteriorisation of the services from the private sphere of the family towards the public sphere of the services economy. Important transformations have affected domestic work during these three ages concerning the place of exercise, attribution or the division between the sexes, the qualification and the social recognition. Today, the development of the uses of services to the person (or the family) led to a displacement of the cut between domestic work and the professional, and more largely between employment (qualified and not qualified), and between the sexes. Finally, domestic work, such as there still remains in the households, \"hard core\" of the task sharing between men and women, remain a such socially irreducible residue then?","PeriodicalId":352454,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Economic and Social Systems","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124769627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CLASSIFICATION OF RECURRING UNEMPLOYED WORKERS AND UNEMPLOYMENT EXITS","authors":"M. Cottrell, P. Gaubert","doi":"10.1051/EJESS:2000108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/EJESS:2000108","url":null,"abstract":"This study focuses on recurring unemployment, that is people with two or more spells of unemployment during the period of observation (July 1993 – August 1996). First, a classification is obtained which is then used to examine the specific role of occasional jobs during a spell of unemployment and, in this context, the influence of the received unemployment benefits on the duration of this spell. This paper is a continuation of previous analyses of unemployment in France, based on long-term data from the unemployed register held by ANPE (National Employment Bureau). The present analysis conducted using additional information about unemployment benefits received by the unemployed from UNEDIC (Unemployment Benefits Office).","PeriodicalId":352454,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Economic and Social Systems","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129154775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neural Network And Segmented Labour Market","authors":"P. Gaubert, M. Cottrell","doi":"10.1051/EJESS:1999101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/EJESS:1999101","url":null,"abstract":"In France, for administrative reasons, unemployed workers may actually be involved in occasional work while remaining identified as unemployed (and receiving the corresponding benefit). This is due to the fact that the unemployed are deemed to be seeking full-time jobs and non-fixed term contracts of employment. This situation may be analysed as evidence of a special type of secondary segment of the labour market in a context of massive unemployment. The authors consider the effects of this situation both on the duration of unemployment and its recurrence may be usefully investigated.","PeriodicalId":352454,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Economic and Social Systems","volume":"281 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122945093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Living conditions: Classification of households using the Kohonen algorithm","authors":"Sophie Ponthieux, M. Cottrell","doi":"10.1051/EJESS:2001116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/EJESS:2001116","url":null,"abstract":"In the analysis of poverty and social exclusion, indicators of living conditions are some interesting non-monetary complements to the usual measurements in terms of current or annual income. Living conditions depend in fact on longer term factors than income, and provide further information on households' actual resources that allow to compare more accurately between living standards. But in counterpart, a difficulty comes from the qualitative nature of the information, and the large number of dimensions and items that may be taken into account; in other words, living conditions are difficult to “measure”. A consequence is that very often, the information is either used only partly, or reduced into a global score of (bad) living conditions, that results from counting “negative” items, and the qualitative dimension is lost. In this paper, we propose to use the Kohonen algorithm first to describe how the elements of living conditions are combined, and secondly to classify households according to their living conditions. The main interest of a classification is to make appear not only quantitative differences in the “levels” of living conditions, but also qualitative differences within similar “levels”.","PeriodicalId":352454,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Economic and Social Systems","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116305639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Buying behavior study with basket analysis: pre-clustering with a Kohonen map","authors":"Pierre Desmet","doi":"10.1051/EJESS:2001113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/EJESS:2001113","url":null,"abstract":"From the products bought, by basket analysis we seek to infer interest, values and choice criteria and predict purchase probabilities for other products. This statistical approach relies on the existence of a few general under-lying clusters which enables the prediction of general and specific buying behavior. Compared to traditional clustering methods, a Kohonen map, a neural network, allows the projection and clustering of data for which the proximity presents a meaning or interest. Beyond the interest of these neural networks for graphic representation, this article suggests different ways of articulating general and product-specific typologies which are illustrated on a real database of buyers' behavior in a book club. The results clearly show a significant improvement with regards to the results obtained with current models using either RFM segmentation or logistic regression.","PeriodicalId":352454,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Economic and Social Systems","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134474843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Relative performance of the statistical learning network: An application of the price-quality relationship in the automobile","authors":"Pierre Desmet","doi":"10.1051/EJESS:2000109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/EJESS:2000109","url":null,"abstract":"The design and topology of a neural network is still an important and difficult task. To solve the problems of topology posed by the introduction of connexionism, new approaches are proposed, and especially a combination of induction rules with a statistical estimation of the neuron coefficients for each layer. This research aims to compare an algorithm of this SLN approach with traditional methods (regression and classical BP neural networks) using the gradient method. Methods are put into application to determine the price-quality relationship of a complex product, the automobile, according to the hedonic price model. This application of the price-quality relationship to the English automobile market leads to the conclusion that the claimed superiority of this approach is unsubstantiated since, compared to the BP neural networks and even linear regression, the performance of the GMDH method is inferior.","PeriodicalId":352454,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Economic and Social Systems","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125777951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Methods for studying innovation processes: Towards a complementarity between organizational and cognitive perspectives","authors":"V. Chanal","doi":"10.1051/EJESS:1999102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/EJESS:1999102","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes two methods designed to study and diagnose innovation processes. The first one adopts a systems perspective and focuses on information flows and decision-making during a project, whereas the second one privileges a cognitive approach and is aimed at highlighting actors' representations of innovation processes and new products. A comparison of the research results obtained in different industrial firms using these two methods introduces a discussion of the complementarity of both perspectives. These obser- vations lead to an assessment of the collective learning mechanisms initiated during the field studies.","PeriodicalId":352454,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Economic and Social Systems","volume":"33 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114030931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}