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The article reports that the SSE companies experiences a renewal of their social solidarity practices and their production models. Topics include considered that the covid-19 crisis has thus generated a major surge of solidarity, leading to a sharp increase in the number of voluntary workers and above all, a great involvement of civil society from the "solidarity brigades".

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The article examines that there are two reasons to celebrate Frank Knight as the centenary of his great work Risk, Uncertainty and Profit and the general feeling that uncertainty is now at the center of company concerns. Topics include considered that there is at least a good reason to celebrate it in Entreprise & Société (ENSO) because Knight's book offers one of the first economic theories of the firm and that this theory is directly associated with a theory of the functioning of companies.

The article examines that Frank Knight's reference work, Risk, Uncertainty and Profit often quoted, less often read, is "an attempt to establish more precisely the essential principles of conventional economic doctrine and to show their implications more clearly than has been done. Its object is refinement, not reconstruction". Topics include reports that the bearer of an analysis of the nature, role and function of the company that breaks with this conventional doctrine will continue.

The article reports that flexible working times are spreading across Europe (European Commission, 2018). Topics include considered that contrary to France where the term "flexibility of working time" is understood more as flexibility at the "service" of the company, in Europe and in Anglo-Saxon literature, the term "working time flexibility" includes both systems serving the individual.

The article examines two business model "Innocentive.com" and "Challenge.gov" which focuses on issues related to innovation, and presents characteristics to both common and different, whether the sponsor is private or public. Topics include the impact of rise digital economy on internet; use if platforms by companies for research and development, and innovation services; and the role of the same in making contribution to economic development through major technological issues.

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