L'automobile a conquis le monde. Instrument de liberté, pourvoyeur d'emplois et de croissance, objet souvent statutaire, l'automobile traverse une crise en Europe notamment. Son succès est désormais planétaire mais quel est son avenir ? Sera-t-elle demain aussi désirée qu'hier ? Pour...

Efficiency arguments explain why commercial intermediaries exist and will continue to be involved in the exchanges despite the spread of digital networks. Commercial intermediaries provide producers and consumers with a set of information, logistic, securization and insurance (and liquidity)...

Both the number and types of mobile applications have been seeing a significant increase in the last few years. Such an increase can lead to an overwhelming situation for researchers, users, and developers who are trying to understand them from many different viewpoints. One way to create a more...

We can assume that for several years, online business-to-business relations have played a key part in the way firms organise their business and their relational networks. The main issue has been the emergence of new intermediaries which reorganise business and management process throughout the...

The evolution of international alliances has raised the interest of literature on firm’s theory and in terms of the conception and its capacities. Thus, the firm’s evolution is viewed from the technological opportunities and its capacities perspective. In this context, the joint venture is...

Les effets des alliances entre firmes appartenant à des pays d'inégal développement suscitent un intérêt particulier non seulement lié au transfert matériel inhérent des alliances, mais aussi au développement de la capacité d'absorption technologique, et précisément l'analyse de...

In the early 1980’s, Bernard Lassudrie-Duchêne was one of the first authors to analyse theorically and empirically the international production process decomposition (or fragmentation). This phenomenon, which explains a large part of the intermediate goods international trade, has become one...