A.F.M.E. promotes  distant management in  companies, professional organisations, public establishments and with anyone  interested in  researches and scientific studies....

"Virtual professional communities: a new lever of knowledge management" by Fadila KAOUANE and Imed BOUGHZALA  Institut TELECOM  Management Sud Paris, (France).

Nowadays, virtual communities (whatever of practice, of knowledge, of interest, of project…) in the professional environment, represent an important value for the companies. They constitute places of creation, transfer and sharing of information and knowledge. Many companies try to use these communities to develop new services or products, to support the emergence of innovations and to be competitive. The often informal character of these communities makes very difficult their identification and their management. Moreover, the development of these communities is closely related to that of the ICT, by there virtual side, which naturally raises the question of the adequacy of technological supports proposed, in particular collaborative tools with their needs and constraints in the work situations....

"Technology watch and competitive intelligence in SMEs: Model of appropriation the free tool"  by  Hassen HAMDI and  Athissingh RAMRAJSINGH,  CHERPA Research Department – IEP Aix-en-provence – Université Paul Cézanne Aix Marseille III –  (France).

This article presents an integration of the monitoring system in micro-nursery accompanied by Marseille Innovation, based on a survey of free tools of technology watch. Indeed, this work is an alternative to introduce the monitoring system in the SME with limited means. The needs informationnel aiming to identify the competitive environment for these businesses. The answer is based on free tools (metasearch, software for detecting changes in the Internet pages, etc.). An analytical framework has been developed for each stage of technology watch.....

« The Reaction of Tunisian Stock Market to ISO 9000 certification information » by  Senda WALI and Younes BOUJELBENE, University of Sfax, (Tunisia).

ISO 9000 certification has become an important factor for doing business in the global market. However, its contribution to a firm's value is still a controversial issue. This paper contributes to this debate by empirically investigating the impact of the first achieving ISO 9000 certification on the Tunisian stock market. The analysis is based on the event study methodology. Based on data for a sample of 15 manufacturing companies, the findings show a negative reaction four days before the event. A financial performance analysis covering a 5-year period centered on the year of the ISO 9000 certification was also carried out. The dimensions of financial performance are growth in ROA, in ROS and in Sales/Assets. The results suggest that the ISO 9000 certification have a powerful cost effect, decreasing the operating performance and the profitability in the year following the certification....

  " E-financial reporting of CAC 40  French compagnies : the  K.M. approch." by Samir AYOUB Laboratoire CREDO- ESSCA  (France).

The financial reporting by Internet or the e-financial reporting has become recently one of the must important mean of reporting of firms. Information became accessible in real-time as well by the institutional investors as by small shareholders. Even if the process of transmission of the financial information developed, it is not the case for its contents. Indeed, information on the intellectual capital of the company which is more and more requested by financial markets remains not enough reported by companies. This article presents the concept of Knowledge Management (KM), by underlining the interest of its adoption for the reporting of information on the intellectual capital and the quality of the e-financial reporting of the company. The results of a survey carried out near 14 French companies of the CAC 40 will be exposed. They will be preceded by a longitudinal study by the contents by Internet web sites of its companies between 2003 and 2006.