[eng] A study of a 413 French firms sample shows the larger the size of the firms, the higher the frequency and volume of their international production and at the same time the higher the volume of their exportations. All foreign direct investment explanations consider the size of the firms as...

[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...