[eng] Within a few years, the concept of proximity has emerged and has been given a central, linking role in a new range of contributions led at the frontier between industrial economics and spatial economics. The interest raised by the concept may however be overcome by its polysemous aspect....

Overseas production is frequently seen as a force inducing the decentralization of R&D. A complementary explanation can be provided if we admit that the acquisition of knowledge is one of the key factors behind the internationalization of R&D. Multinational firms which adopt such a...

A quelques exceptions près, la théorie économique ne s’est pas emparée de la question de la conflictualité. Une hypothèse peut être formulée quant aux motifs de cette omission qui caractérise structurellement l’analyse économique : à la différence d’autres concepts centraux...

This article aims to present the research conducted in recent years by a multidisciplinary team on the questions of land-use conflict, and to reveal the methodology of survey and data collection, as well as the structure of the resulting database. We first define the scope of our study by...

The article offers an empirically-based analysis of conflicts over public utility infrastructures in the Paris region. It sheds some light on public decision-making process and on the role conflicts play in the process of land availability. Area tends to be lessened due to economic development...

The land use conflicts occasioned by the creation or the extension of public transport networks or structures raise the question of the equality of the citizens vis-à-vis these works of public interest. In this paper, we try to understand if and how the two main fields of the public decision,...

The article focuses on the contributions of John R. Commons and Max Weber to the understanding of legal foundations of the economy. We argue that Weber and Commons theorization of law provides a fruitful starting point for an economic sociology of law.

Le but de cet article est d'apporter une contribution originale à l'évaluation du droit du travail. Il repose sur un cadre théorique commun à des juristes et des économistes qui permet d'évaluer le droit du travail de manière dynamique, du point de vue de son application. Il considère le...

Recent literature argues that legal traditions of nations, i.e. their belonging tothe world of common law or civil law, are not neutral in terms of economicor institutional performance, especially with regard to key opportunities indeveloping countries out of poverty.We present the results of an...