Our paper aims to analyze the relationship between asymmetric alliance instability forms and motives on the one hand, and secondly to estimate the effects of the alliance configuration (external environment, relationships between parents and performance) on how to change the allocation of...

This paper aims to present international partnerships issues in the Mediterranean agribusinesses through a survey of twenty operators located in five countries (France, Lebanon, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco) and involved in four food chains (cereals, milk, poultry, oilseeds). The survey was...

Our paper aims to discuss the relevance of the Uppsala model of firms' internationalization in the current context of globalization. After analyzing the "stages" construction of the U model, we present an overview of main results of empirical studies testing U model hypothesis'. Thus, the...

La firme multinationale (FMN) a donné lieu à de nombreux travaux du fait de la complexitéde cet objet de recherche. Nous avons choisi pour rendre compte de cette complexité d’adopter une approche inter-organisationnelle pour appréhender les relations filiales - maison-mère. Nous...

La firme multinationale (FMN) et les relations intra-organisationnelles entre les filiales et la maison-mère ont donné lieu à de nombreux travaux du fait de la complexité de cet objet de recherche. Une des spécificités des FMN réside dans le fait qu’elles sont soumises à un problème...

This paper proposes a new way for analysing the international trade of intermediaries good. We consider the case of automobile parts with the objective to cross analytic tools from international economics and industrial dynamics. Within the Economy of proximity framework, we propose a method for...

The English version of this article can be found at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2405242 French Abstract: Aux États-Unis, les compétitions universitaires, c’est-à-dire les compétitions sportives entre des équipes composées uniquement d’étudiants représentant leurs universités...

This article reviews the carmaker-driven industrial restructurings that positioned First Tier Suppliers (henceforth FTS) at the heart of the world’s automobile system. It also draws necessarily temporary conclusions about their performance. The article is organised into three main sections....

Forming alliances with other actors of the health care system is currently one of the prevailing elements of the French Public Hospitals' (FPH) strategy. This article aims at constructing and testing a model that explains the emergence of these alliances. We establish two major paths explaining...