[eng] A study of a 413 French firms sample shows the larger the size of the firms, the higher the frequency and volume of their international production and at the same time the higher the volume of their exportations. All foreign direct investment explanations consider the size of the firms as...

[fre] L'importance et la nature de l'investissement direct international rendent de plus en plus difficile l'analyse des spécialisations industrielles à partir des seules spécialisations internationales à l'échange, et autorisent une nouvelle approche. En effet au sein des groupes...

This paper is focused on the local development problematic, not analyzed according to an endogenous view but, on the contrary, according to a territory conception opened to its institutional and economic environment (nationally, international). Such a conception involves thinking and clearing...

The paper compares the research agendas of two different approaches of a meso-analysis which could combine industrial and spatial dynamics: the economics of proximity approach on one side, the regulation theory on the other side. Their specificities and divergences are identified in the first...

Clusters and Globalisation brings together scholars with different perspectives and theoretical groundings, and from different disciplines, to consider conceptual arguments and case study material. In doing so the volume identifies key characteristics and requirements of the forms of cluster...

How can organisations and territories contribute to maintain a high level of innovation while at the same time adapting to a turbulent environment? We give an answer to this question by mobilizing the concept of resilience. In order to do this, we develop a conception of resilience based on two...

The economic literature dealing with the relationship between different levels of public authorities, uses a design of the institutional innovation traditionally limited to the capacity of the agents to improve incomplete contracts in case of their failure. Thus, it pains to account for the...

This article examines the relations between industrial groups and territory (defined as the overlapping of geographical and organizational positioning). It tries to isolate the key factors which determine the way in which industrial groups use territory in business activities--in particular, the...