[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...

[fre] L'importance et la nature de l'investissement direct international rendent de plus en plus difficile l'analyse des spécialisations industrielles à partir des seules spécialisations internationales à l'échange, et autorisent une nouvelle approche. En effet au sein des groupes...

The economic literature dealing with the relationship between different levels of public authorities, uses a design of the institutional innovation traditionally limited to the capacity of the agents to improve incomplete contracts in case of their failure. Thus, it pains to account for the...

This article examines the relations between industrial groups and territory (defined as the overlapping of geographical and organizational positioning). It tries to isolate the key factors which determine the way in which industrial groups use territory in business activities--in particular, the...

This paper is focused on the local development problematic, not analyzed according to an endogenous view but, on the contrary, according to a territory conception opened to its institutional and economic environment (nationally, international). Such a conception involves thinking and clearing...

[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...