This study analyses recent changes in collective bargaining institutions and their implications for employer strategies in the French and German telecommunications industries, drawing on case studies and survey data from call centre workplaces. Findings demonstrate that differences in both...

This article aims to question the conditions of academic spin-offs companies emerging from the French public research. We attempt to assess to what extent the creation of high tech companies in connection with academic research depends on three following factors: institutional effect associated...

This article compares the clustering-process bifurcation of two bio-parks, the first one localized in Kobe in Japan, the second one in Evry in France. It attempts to explore, in an empirical way, the contributions and the limits of a study based on information related to the role of...

The analysis of women labour supply in France and Japan is conducted over the period 1992-2007 from comparable employment surveys. Labour supply of Japanese women is more dependent on the spouse?s employment and income situation than those of French women although this dependency tends to weaken...

In spite of many handicaps due to its "structural" crisis in the nineties (1993-2003), the Japanese capitalism continue to move towards its profound mutation. This text aims at describing some signs of its renewal, that is, emerging new actors and their new behaviours, new practices and new rule...

French hardware manufacturers were by and large incapable not only of translating technological advances into industrial products but even of understanding the new opportunities these advances offered. While true up to a point, this approach, focused on the failure of the so-called ''national...