The paper analyses Ford and GM\'s globalisation strategies. He discusses the convergence regarding the integration of European and North-American activities, as well as in the changing economical and geographical firms\' boundaries. This paper is part of the GERPISA research programme...

[eng] A current theory about the autoindustry mutation claims that it will bring about the end of "Fordism". This paper attempts to assess wether the Ford M C's recent strategies preserve the essential feature of Fordism or alter the model's nature. From the exemple of a french subsdiary plant,...

The analysis of economic and financial results of Ford of Europe since the creation of this coordination structure in 1967 allows us to distinguish two periods. In a first time, until the end of the eighties, Ford took a strong advantage from the successful integration of its European...

The paper aims to question the pertinence and the grounds of technological policies at infra national level. The research combines the contribution of knowledge economics to approaches dealing with the location of activities. The first part of the paper looks through the argumentation accounting...

<italic>Starting from the way evolutionism apprehends environmental innovations, the present paper tries to characterize their environmental trajectory by focusing on the innovative behavior of Bordeaux area vine growers. On the basis of the results of a questionnaire interviewing these actors, the...</italic>

-->that the projects studied are in fact guided by a complex and variable structure of goals, in which environmental objectives are not always a priority. Our analysis shows that actors combine environmental and techno-economic objectives in some specific compromises.

This work seeks to recall recent space logics of three industrial models (within the meaning of R. Boyer and M. Freyssenet): pharmacy, automotive and aeronautics. Using the Economics of Proximities approach, we sustain that the “viable profitability” of the firms depends on their faculty to...

The widespread assumption that mergers are the best way for cooperatives to break free from their ?natural? territorial anchoring. (perceived to be a strong impediment to their global insertion) is questionable. Observation of the recent merging processes of wine-cooperatives shows a more subtle...