This work seeks to recall recent space logics of three industrial models (within the meaning of R. Boyer and M. Freyssenet): pharmacy, automotive and aeronautics. Using the Economics of Proximities approach, we sustain that the “viable profitability” of the firms depends on their faculty to...

A recent literature has described, on an empirical level, the way in which local industries are organised into ?clusters??, inserted within global industrial and commercial networks. These studies have shown that geographical proximity by itself is not a sufficient condition for co-ordination...

In this paper it is analyzed the organizations’ sustainability which are committed to the exploitation’ activities of tule Thypha spp at the Zapotlán’s Lagoon and its socioeconomic and environmental impact in the municipalities of Gómez Farías and Zapotlán el Grande. The initial...

RESUMENEste artículo busca mostrar, a travésde una revisión bibliográfica analítica,la pertinencia de la hipótesis queplantea la multilocalización como unade las mejores estrategias empresarialespara competir globalmente,específicamente, cuando las empresastienen ventajas competitivas y...

L'approche que nous adoptons dans cet article s'inscrit dans une perspective de definition des modes de developpement local et envisage les dynamiques de construction de ressources qui generent les avantages des territoires.

The objective of this article is to investigate the dynamics of relocations at the micro-economic level. By proposing a grid of “dynamics of proximities”, we focus on the coordination issues which seem to be missing from most of analyses carried about relocations. We apply our framework to...

We document and then develop a model explaining and relating changes in firms’ organization and in urban structure. Sharing of business services by headquarters and of sector-specific intermediates by production plants within a city reduces costs, while congestion increases with city size. A...

In the recent years, the qualitative evolution of relocations (from low cost offshoring to more technological intensive relocations) became a new concern in the political debate. Focusing these new trends, the aim of this paper is to better understand relocations from the firms’ point of view...

The gaps in the export performance between Italian industry and its main competitors have (re)focused attention on the concept of "bazaar economy". In the specific case of Italy, the hypothesis of an economic model such as that of the bazaar economy would translate into significant impacts in...

During the past decade of declining FDI barriers, small domestic firms disproportionately contracted while large multinational firms experienced a substantial growth in Japan’s manufacturing sector. This paper quantitatively assesses the impact of FDI globalization on intra-industry...