Opposing heterogeneous agents, imposing choices, and making divergent interests compatible, are all political prerequisites for agent coordination. Although these political prerequisites are not entirely ignored in proximity literature, such literature does tend to insist, for the most part, on...

This article presents an empirical and theoretical analysis of environmental innovations in an evolutionary framework. Such an evolutionary analysis enables us to develop a dynamic analysis of environmental innovations emphasizing their multidimensional character and their evolution along...

The paper proposes an original institutionalist framework to analyze the dynamics of sectors (or industries), their emergence, their evolution and their possible disappearance. The meso-economic analysis concerns the way by which are institutionalized, within every industry, the relationships [...

Cet article théorique cherche à réhabiliter le rôle de la transgression des règles dans l'organisation. Critiquant la condamnation systématique de tout phénomène transgressif par les sciences de gestion, nous cherchons à montrer qu'une partie du phénomène ne doit pas être compris...

Cet article propose de comparer deux lectures d’économie du droit portant sur un même objet empirique, l’épargne salariée états-unienne, mais menées respectivement dans le cadre de la Law & Economics néoclassique et dans le cadre de la Théorie de la régulation. Ces deux approches...

The concept of need plays an essential role in defining legitimate health inequalities. The debate on equity in healthcare policy has so far evolved independently of the philosophical discussions of need. This article draws on moral and political philosophy in order to develop a conception of...

The paper aims to develop a methodology of an institutionalist approach of industrial dynamics. Part 1 defines the framework for such an institutionalist approach in the continuity the J.R. Commons’ method. Part 2 elaborates the basis of the project of an institutionalist industrial dynamics...

The financial form of capital organisation, the economic structure of production activities, the employment relationship are strongly linked, even interdependent. One of these terms might as well dominate the other ones. Any Regulation mode may be characterised with a particular combination of...

The paper focuses on the prospects interaction economics opens in the economic geography field. The first part is devoted to the conditions in which interaction economics emerges and develops. The second one focuses on the main concepts and models. In the third one, we show through a recent...

The aim of this paper is to transpose the A.O. Hirschman's exit/voice model into the analysis of vertical relationships. We stress the analogy between Albert Hirschman point of departure and the vertical relationship problem. The firms deal with many problems that occur during their relation :...