Market economy has become today the predominant economic system in the world. One of the tasks of the book is to define analytically the essential features of a market economy. The other purpose is to investigate the very working of a market economy which rests on firms defined as organizations...

After centuries of apparent immobility, the book industry is experiencing profound changes. With the development of ICT, e-commerce and e-book, it entered a phase of reorganization, underpinned by the emergence of new markets, new actors, new knowledge bases and technologies that have...

The specialization patterns of metropolitan areas are crucial in characterizing the effects of economic integration in Europe. This paper aims to provide and estimate an econometric model that explains both sectoral specialization and sectoral dissimilarity, measured with the GINI and the...

Local e-government in France : towards a typology. This paper is a contribution to the analysis of the development of e-administration in French municipalities. After a review of the literature, the paper exploits an original database and highlights important differences in the deployment of...

LONGHI C. (1999) Networks, collective learning and technology development in innovative high technology regions; the case of Sophia-Antipolis, Reg. Studies 33 , 333-342 . Sophia-Antipolis has developed in vacant space, in a region without industrial or university tradition. It is nevertheless...

In the defence industry the recent development of a 'market for technology', the creation of new European high-technology companies as well as transformations in government agencies have driven firms to reposition their technological and organizational skills. Our objective is to show that the...

[fre] Cet article analyse l'impact d'Internet sur l'organisation de l'industrie et la dynamique des marchés dans le tourisme. Il montre que si le e-tourisme ne représente toujours qu'un faible pourcentage de l'activité totale, c'est Internet qui sous-tend les logiques de réorganisations...

[eng] The aim of this paper is to study the relations between international trade and regional firms performances (represented here by industrial employment rate of growth) with sectorial competition models. Assuming that regional firms belong to oligopolistic industries and that their results...