This article present a marxist microeconomic approach of the evolution of the bargaining power of labour versus capital during the neoliberal period. More precisely, we suggest that the dislocation of the fordist firm and the internationalisation of productive chains have deeply weakened the...

El caso de Wal-Mart en México es, sin duda, el fenómeno más avanzado de un proceso más largo de internacionalización de las grandes cadenas internacionales de comercio durante los años noventa, en particular en muchas regiones de la periferia. Este proceso es de importancia mayor en...

In this contribution, we shall try to characterise the Russian growth model the way it appears to have emerged in the 2000s, which we believe useful to explain the country's macroeconomic successes at an earlier stage as well as the severe problems it has to face now. We shall begin by...

Cette contribution étudie au niveaux méso et macro les déterminants économiques et institutionnels du succès relatif des distributeurs internationaux à l'étranger à travers les trajectoires de Wal-Mart et Carrefour. Trois types d'éléments explicatifs sont mis en évidence: le moment et...

Since 2002 Russian metallurgical firms have been investing abroad. Taking advantage of the very positive economic climate in the sector, they settle in peripheral as well as in core countries of the world economy. Russia has upgraded from the 50th to the 24th rank between 1995 and 2004 as far as...

This paper examines the institutional and economic factors determining success and failure of global retailers abroad through the trajectories of Wal-Mart and Carrefour. Three kinds of explanations are considered : the time and modalities of entry and development, the factors that allow the...