The book covers both the analysis of the major producer of civil aircraft (EADS/Airbus) located in the region and its relation with the cluster of enterprises within those regions. It studies the organization of production, the creation of knowledge within the industry, the concentration and...

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...

[eng] Y. Dupuy - The forms of integration of firms within a group some methological considerations. The group of entreprises as a category is now being currently used in industrial economics. The significance and properties of the group can be specified on the basis of refined approaches and...

Industry is still a key-sector for the economical development of our country but it must challenge new environmental requirements. It is the main purpose of the public innovation policies. The regional and local actors are very often short of methodological frames to comprehend those evolutions...

Chemical activities are confronted with the necessity of their transformation to match the new social and environmental requirements. This paper aims to show that Employment patterns are key elements of such a transformation, by their material characteristics as well by their institutional ones....

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...

[eng] Owing to their importance and the technologies they use, owing to their strategies of external growth, the groups have played a determining part upon local industrial organizations. The settlement of a method of alternative local development aiming at re-structuring and consolidating...