Virginie Xhauflair

University of Liège | ulg · Department of Management

Investors with standard monetary preferences will give a fund manager incentives to increase firm profits, which can be achieved through a share in profits via carried interest. When investors have social preferences, it is not clear which incentives the manager should receive. We explore this puzzle by applying an agency theory perspective to impa...

A l’instar de l’action entrepreneuriale, la carrière de comédien est empreinte d’incertitude. Cet article examine comment les comédiens cristallisent leurs réseaux socioprofessionnels pour réduire cette incertitude. L’analyse du parcours de quatre comédiens entrepreneurs révèle trois modulations de cristallisation – cristallisations et décristallis...

How can new players seeking to serve nonstandard worker categories (such as project-based workers) establish themselves into labour markets that are highly institutionalized? This paper explores the case of SMart, a Belgian community-based labour market intermediary that successfully developed solutions to better represent the interests of project-...

L’art est-il susceptible d’apporter un nouveau type de connaissance sur les restructurations d’entreprises ? C’est autour de cette question que s’est construit le projet de recherche européen qui est à la base de cet article. Nous rendons compte ici des premiers résultats de ce programme de recherche qui a réuni chercheurs, artistes et acteurs des...

Can art propose a new understanding of corporate restructuring? To identify and describe the sort of knowledge produced through art, a European research program brought together researchers, artists and persons involved in restructuring companies. The initial findings are presented herein. In line with Becker's (2007) suggestion to see artworks as...

L’art est-il susceptible d’apporter un nouveau type de connaissance sur les restructurations d’entreprises ? C’est autour de cette question que s’est construit le projet de recherche européen qui est à la base de cet article. Nous rendons compte ici des premiers résultats de ce programme de recherche qui a réuni chercheurs, artistes et acteurs des...

Meta-organizations emerging at the local level in order to meet new social needs arise from collective action processes. The actors supporting these innovative dynamics face the challenge of getting away from their routines and of expressing their agency in institutional contexts favoring isomorphism. Our case study of the creation process of an em...

This paper presents a figure of a third-party supporting actors when trying to find sustainable and long-term compromises inside inter-organisational partnerships. On the basis of the transversal analysis of two contrasted case studies of pilot projects – of which one has led to the creation of a new employment regulation scheme, and one has not go...

How Can the Future be Forged after Two Centuries of Steel Industry? How can the actors of a region affected by large-scale restructuring invent new forms of cooperation, while at the same time avoiding the reproduction of behavioral routines that have been inherited from the past, and do not fit the present situation? On the basis of in-depth analy...

An employers' alliance (EA) is a group of employers who team up to hire and share workers. It is presented as 'flexicurity in action', in other words, as a tool allowing employers and workers to find new win-win compromises at the company level. Even when motivated by the best of intentions and with all pre-conditions fulfilled, implementing such a...

Résumé A partir d’une démarche expérimentale et participative, cet article propose un ensemble de variables permettant de qualifier le caractère plus ou moins soutenable des pratiques émergentes de gouvernance interorganisationnelle. Ces variables constituent également des leviers d’action permettant la conclusion de nouveaux compromis sociaux équi...

Le secteur de la construction est emblématique des évolutions en cours dans le reste de l’économie. Les entrepreneurs doivent constamment intégrer les changements techniques et l’augmentation de la productivité. De plus ils se trouvent face à une pénurie de compétences et à une incertitude à propos du carnet de commande. Ils sont amenés à exiger to...

Interactions Between the Social Economy Sector and Corporate Social Responsibility: Illustration by Means of the Fair Trade System Research in corporate social responsibility analyzes the voluntary measures undertaken by corporations in order to meet social and environmental imperatives, beyond the objective of economic profitability, and to improv...

Quatrième partie de l’Essentiel "Eléments pour une rencontre de la Sociologie et de l’Economie" qui fait suite à la Grande Leçon "La sociologie peut-elle aider à comprendre l'économie ? - L’Etat social actif".Les auteurs vous proposent de rencontrer François Pichault et Virginie Xhauflair, respectivement sociologue et anthropologue, pour clarifier...