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This article investigates the mechanisms which enable reaching a compromise during a companion modeling process. The study is based on the application of companion modeling during the implementation of the meager fishery development plan in Mauritania. The elaboration of fishery development plans is embedded in Mauritanian regulations and imposes consulting local stakeholders before enacting new management rules. The companion modeling process consisted in a set of workshops aiming at building a shared vision of the meager industry and its resources. State agents were involved in this process as well as professionals (wholesalers, ship owners and fishermen) and scientific experts. Several interview campaigns were undertaken to analyze the elaboration of compromises, and workshops were observed and analyzed. Based on the assumption that participatory simulation workshops are key moments, our results show that the mechanisms that favor reaching a compromise during a companion modeling process are : social learning, unveiling, modification of the way actors interact and actors' categorization. This article also investigates the benefits of articulating the elaboration of a usual fishery development plan with a companion modeling process. The latter allows building dialog arena between all stakeholders of the fishing sector. By doing so, it ensures the quality of the deliberation process and favors the acceptance of the plan.
Keywords: modélisation d'accompagnement, concertation, compromis, gestion des pêches, Mauritanie, companion modeling, stakeholders' participation, compromise, fishery management, Mauritania
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Contrary to most accounts of Canadian workers' responses to the Great Depression of the 1930s, this article portrays the majority of Hamilton workers as neither severely distressed nor especially prone to dissent. Much of the relative absence of dissent can be attributed to workers' powerlessness in very poor market conditions, but workers' quiescence should not be seen simply as a temporary, class-conscious strategy. Rather, many, perhaps most, workers either regarded dissent as illegitimate to begin with, or/and lowered their aspirations for secure and self-controlled work in the prevailing labour market and other conditions. In other words, they became psychically "alienated". These findings have important implications for most theorizing on these issues, which implicitly employs a "frustration-aggression" model; for popular conceptions of workers as highly class-conscious and epically heroic; and for organizing workers during most economic crises.
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SummaryProfessional group political-economic or "guild" power cannot be understood, in either its rise or its fall, without a comparative and historical perspective. The relations among state, capitalist sectors, and the learned professions have evolved in ways that have led to decreased guild power for individual-service professions or sectors of professions and possibly a rise of some which directly serve advanced capitalism. After presenting a series of analytical dimensions, the article inspects the complex relations among state bodies, political parties, sectors of capitalism, and the professions of medicine, law and engineering. Case studies illustrate the role of the state in each of four nations : the U.S., Great Britain, Italy, and France. Similarities and differences in the fate of each profession are then considered comparatively across all these nations. Implications for existing theories of profesionnal power are considered in the conclusion.
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In this paper, we present the principal components of an economic scenario generator (ESG), both for the theoretical design and for practical implementation. The choice of these components should be linked to the ultimate vocation of the economic scenario generator, which can be either a tool for pricing financial products or a tool for projection and risk management. We then develop a study on some performance measure indicators of the ESG as an input for the decision-making process, namely the indicators of stability and bias absence. Finally, a numerical application illustrates the main ideas of the paper.
Keywords: Générateur de scénarios économiques, arbre de scénarios, stabilité, absence de biais, Economic scenario generator, scenario tree, stability, bias absence
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The goal of this article is to throw into relief the pertinence of the nexus ofcontracts theory in Quebec and Canadian Corporate Law. In the first part, wewill introduce the theory and its influence on the way of looking the role of thelegislation governing corporations. In the second part, we will use that theoreticalframe in order to discuss of the nature of the duty of officers to act in due care andvigilance in the context of both Quebec and Canadian Corporate Law.
Keywords: Législation sur les sociétés par actions, théorie du réseau de contrat, administrateurs, devoir de prudence, Corporate Law, nexus of contracts theory, officers, duty of care