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The RCSR project adopts a renewed point of view on the upheavals and crises of civil liability, considering it as a phenomenon of socialisation of risks. Its aim is to propose a rationalization of compensation mechanisms that will reduce procedural costs in compensating victims and increase the effe

Shortcomings in the management of banking risks undermine the well-being of society and its citizens, limiting opportunities for development. This project proposes to use an interdisciplinary approach to study the causes and the economic and financial consequences of banking crises in the 1930s in F

This comparative research project handles new forms of individual and collective works’ organizations generated by the development of negotiated capitalization’ mechanisms in France and in Germany. It seeks to shed new light on a widespread social phenomenon yet little studied in France. In the fram

The injunction to integrate the issue of diversity in the medias is due to a building process with numerous aspects corresponding to strategic and ideological choices emanating from NGOs, supra national authorities (UNESCO, the Council of Europe), regulation agencies (CSA) or media companies. Those

After the WWII, the public funding of Open Science, a dedicated non-market social institution, was mostly justified by market failures due to the non-appropriability of fundamental research. Its contribution to the economy was most often only conceptualized as a “knowledge spillover”. The understand

The growth of social inequalities is a major source of concern for most Western countries. While all citizens agree on this, there are different views on the attitudes that governments should have towards it. How do citizens perceive these inequalities? Should all inequalities be considered unfair?

This study will focus on the government of identification documents in sub-Saharan Africa from post-war moments to the current era. Many of the crises in contemporary Africa are intimately connected to legal and political tensions over identity, citizenship and belonging. Yet, identification documen

Key technologies are disrupting work, and projections, of varying degrees of concern (Frey and Osborne, 2013; OECD, 2016, 2018...), all mention an ongoing and future transformation of competences. The challenges are significant for economic, political and educational actors. Therefore, research is

The research program COOP-in-and-out is centred on firms organized into Scop (co-operative and participative society) and Scic (co-operative society of collective interest). They are firms characterised by employee participation. Contrary to what happens in conventional firms, workers are also membe

The research is dedicated to the legal recognition of close caregivers in French-Swiss comparative law. It is part of the theme No. 1 (“attitudes toward social risk and innovation”) of the challenge No. 8 (“innovative, inclusive and adaptative societies”) of the ANR’s Plan 2015. The aging population

The aim of the project is to characterize the open design paradigm and to develop a comprehensive organizational model embedded into an open design platform that can support design process efficiency of open design projects. This organizational model shall consider: • the organizational

The proposed project deals with the managerial actions associated to the design of intellectual property (IP). From the one side, IP is seen as a source of competitive advantage, as a strategic element that can ensure revenue flows or demonstrate the organizational entity‘s innovative capacity. From

The world surrounding us has become increasingly technological. Nowadays, the influence of automation is perceived in each aspect of everyday life and not only in the world of industry. Automation certainly makes some aspects of life easier, faster and safer. Nonetheless, empirical data suggests tha