ISBN : 9782897997991
Year of publication : 2025
Nombre de pages : 340
Langue : Anglais#French</trp-gettext#!trpEnglish#
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In this report dedicated to SMEs in the French-speaking world, the Observatoire de la Francophonie économique (OFÉ) explores the opportunities for these businesses to access global markets and reap the benefits of international trade. The report identifies the challenges and obstacles to be overcome, and makes recommendations that could have a positive and lasting impact on the deployment of French-speaking SMEs on the international stage. By combining the views of economists, managers, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, lawyers, businessmen and women, and economic and socio-cultural players, the authors envisage new possibilities that will facilitate the transformation of the structure of SMEs in the French-speaking world, and project them unashamedly into new markets.
Without claiming to be exhaustive, and taking advantage of the enrichment offered by multi-disciplinarity and the diversity of fields covered by studies on SMEs, the members of the scientific committee have focused on seven main themes for this study: understanding the French-speaking SME ecosystem; public policy in SME internationalization efforts; financing and private investment in a globalized context; inclusion and professional insertion through entrepreneurship; sustainable development and corporate social responsibility; e-commerce and artificial intelligence; access to international markets and integration into value chains.Désiré AVOM, Dean, Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Yaoundé II (Cameroon)
Hervé AGBODJAN PRINCE is a full professor in the Faculty of Law at the Université de Montréal, and Director of the Observatoire de la Francophonie économique (OFÉ) since January 2023. A specialist in international economic law, Professor Prince holds a doctorate in law from Université Laval (Quebec, Canada) and a doctorate in public law from Université de Bordeaux in France. Formerly Director of the Centre de droit des affaires et du commerce international (CDACI), Professor AGBODJAN PRINCE is now a regular researcher at the Centre, where he heads the research axis devoted to international economic relations and law. He is a research associate at Université Laval's Centre d'études en droit économique (CEDE), and at the Centre Jean Monnet in Montreal. He has been a visiting professor at Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech, Morocco, and at Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas in France. He was director of the Observatoire de l'intégration économique between 2014 and 2022.
