The paper presents the main results and conclusion of the European project ESEMK (FP6, Priority 7) discussing the variety of capitalism within the European Union (2004-08). In Part 1 is abstracted the methodological framework, articulating the macro levels (diversity of socio-economic models or...

This paper provides a critical review of the ‘state of the art’ of institutional analysis applied essentially by social-ecological economists in the environmental domain. It highlights both areas of strength and issues where there is still room for improvement in analytical terms, by...

The financial form of capital organisation, the economic structure of production activities, the employment relationship are strongly linked, even interdependent. One of these terms might as well dominate the other ones. Any Regulation mode may be characterised with a particular combination of...

The paper focuses on the prospects interaction economics opens in the economic geography field. The first part is devoted to the conditions in which interaction economics emerges and develops. The second one focuses on the main concepts and models. In the third one, we show through a recent...

The aim of this paper is to transpose the A.O. Hirschman's exit/voice model into the analysis of vertical relationships. We stress the analogy between Albert Hirschman point of departure and the vertical relationship problem. The firms deal with many problems that occur during their relation :...

The paper presents an artificial financial market designed to analyse market dynamics from the behaviour of investors. The model especially allows highlighting the role of a particular kind of institution in the orientation of market dynamics. The information – delivered by financial...

This paper discusses the economic referentials which underlie public intervention. First part presents our institutional approach. This one goes away from works based on rules as constraints or contracts between individualities. Our approach is based on rules as relations between actors which...

The labor relations seem to be from now on considered as an dominant institutional form while fordism was the specific regulation mode, historically located. The Thesis supported in this paper argues a different position: the labor relations are always a central institutional form, whatever the...

The aim of this article lies in the categorization of modes of regulation, of coordinated actions. We mobilize a constructivist and complex epistemo-methodology and place our approach within the economy of conventions. A regulation is perceived as a combination of cities which organizes a world,...

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...