Article pp.135-138 du Vol.38 n°222 (2012)

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9 Contributors to this issue

13 Building “sustainable tourism” core competencies in destinations Corinne Van der Yeught

This paper presents the results of a longitudinal study carried out on three tourism destinations. They are all located on Mediterranean sites and they follow sustainable development programmes. The study is based on the theoretical framework of the resource and competence movement and on the stakeholder theory. It proposes to identify the determining factors likely to generate core competencies originating from sustainable tourism activities and shared within each destination regarded as a whole.

35 CAC 40’s environmental practices: a focus on visionary firms Christine Angelini, Evelyne Lombardo, Isabelle Pignatel

We studied the environmental practices of CAC40 firms and, more precisely, we analyzed the way they use management processes and products/services practices. This analysis was conducted using 2009 annual reports. In the end, we identified three groups of firms: the “conformists”, the “committed”, and the

“visionaries”. We focused on the last group and presented the profiles of Danone, LVMH, Michelin, Société Générale and Lafarge.

55 IAS/IFRS: Assessment and prospect

Gaëlle Lenormand, Benjamin Poulard, Lionel Touchais

With the last financial crisis, IFRS have been strongly criticized. So, it is important to go back to the fair value concept and to question the real improvement of financial information published with international standards.

Afterwards, the paper analyses the IFRS-SME which could be the next accounting challenge.

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File: Business ecosystems

Guest Editors: Frédéric Fréry, Anne Gratacap, Thierry Isckia

69 Business ecosystems: beyond the metaphor Frédéric Fréry, Anne Gratacap, Thierry Isckia

77 Strategic participative forecasting and business ecosystems development Claudya Parize-Suffrin

This research determines how Forecasting Participative Studies (FPS) encourage the development of business ecosystems. We will focus on governance, implementation terms and layout of a business ecosystem. A case study of co-action of chemical industry leader BASF with partner companies illustrates the research. We will present the theoretical foundations of the business ecosystem concept, and then review BASF approach to FPS. The case study helps understanding management, organizational and strategic implications of the development of business ecosystems.

89 The development of ecosystemic capabilities. The case of the emergent business ecosystem of mobile contactless services

Thomas Loilier, Magali Malherbe

The aim of this article is to understand how a business ecosystem can develop skills at the beginning of its life cycle. Our analysis is focused on the interorganizational level. We consider that the creation of the ecosystemic skills is the result of the ecosystem actor’s co-opetition. The case study based on the NFC technology highlights the key role played by the ecosystemic skills during the beginning of this business ecosystem. This study shows that there are three types of results about the types of skills, the role of the experimentation projects and the way of the skills are monitored.

107 When the leader’s domination contributes to the decline of a business ecosystem. Analysis of Symbian and Nokia’s role

Valérie Fautrero, Gaël Gueguen

Symbian is an operating system for mobile phones. Being the result of the collaboration of several phone manufacturers sharing a common standard, Symbian can be seen as a business ecosystem. The analysis of its evolution in the years 2000 shows a strengthening of the domination of its leader Nokia and a withdrawal of other co-opetitors involved. This article, based on the analysis of both quantitative and qualitative materials, aims at identifying the stages of Symbia’s life cycle in order to relate them to the leader’s strategy and to the other members’ implication.

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123 Birth and evolution of a business ecosystem: between schedule and opportunism

Sylvie Mira-Bonnardel, Isabelle Géniaux, Patrick Serrafero

The approach in terms of business ecosystem allows a new way of questioning strategic management in companies, especially the strategies for innovation. By observing the construction of a specific business ecosystem, this article reports strategic postures taken by the leading actor of the ecosystem to build and perpetuate on a decade a relational portfolio contributing to a strategy of successful innovation.

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139 Instruction for Authors

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