[eng] Within a few years, the concept of proximity has emerged and has been given a central, linking role in a new range of contributions led at the frontier between industrial economics and spatial economics. The interest raised by the concept may however be overcome by its polysemous aspect....

Overseas production is frequently seen as a force inducing the decentralization of R&D. A complementary explanation can be provided if we admit that the acquisition of knowledge is one of the key factors behind the internationalization of R&D. Multinational firms which adopt such a...

[eng] The basic idea of the paper is that the empirical meaning of rules is far from being totally contained in their initial statement. The article concentrates on the economic scope of rules and regulations, and their implementation by players such as the State bureaucracy, regulatory...

 

Risk allocation in contracts : from the economics of incomplete contracts to the effective practices in administrative contracts Risk allocation in contracts is an important issue for both economics and law. It questions the theoretical, methodological, and empirical foundations of economic and...

Risks allocation in Government contract performance is a key issue for both economic analysis and legal doctrine. However one factor which restrains the dialogue between law and economics (in France at least) is that, while economics develops normative and pure theories of optimal risk...

Ce papier vise à contribuer à la réflexion sur la responsabilité sociale de l'entreprise en examinant l'apport d'un précurseur en la matière, l'économiste institutionnaliste américain JR. Commons. Celui-ci pose la question du rapport de l'entreprise à la société à partir d'une...