Corporate governance tends to understand the relations between the partners of the firm, in particular the manager and the shareholders. With the financialisation of economies, the nature of economic relations has strongly evolved. Under the influence of the contractual theories, shareholding...

This paper presents a model of autonomous territorial system of production and an empirical application to the Swiss area of « Espace Mittelland ». The first part defines the concept of autonomy as a dynamic organizational process based on sequences of relations. An autonomous territorial...

Classification JEL : 0180, 0300, Rl10.

Using an approach which takes space and time into account brings an original explanation to numerous contemporary questions. Researches on Territorial innovation models (TIMs - MOULAERT and SEKIA, 2003) had and still have considerable impact on innovation studies in a broad range of fields...

The recent Global financial crisis has marked an unprecedented separation between finance and real economy. This paper deals with the question of today’s transition within finance geography. It focuses on the transition process of the Swiss financial system after 2008 from institutional and...

Territorial Innovation Models (TIMs) such as innovative milieus, industrial districts, regional innovation systems, etc. have developed since the mid-eighties in a context mostly driven by the crisis of the industrial regions. From that theoretical heritage, a new questioning based on...

Based on an institutional and territorial approach, this article questions the linkages between financial and real economy. The current crisis is seen as the result of an autonomy process of finance towards the real economy, which can be understood as the implementation of a specific geography...