In recent years, many countries have engaged in decentralisation/regionalisation policies of their administrative and political structures as well as their economic and social actions. This evolution tends to redefine the space and the modes of interaction among the institutions in charge of...

[eng] Environmental standards and the technologies that allow complying with them are taken in a more or less well co-ordinated coevolutionary process. This paper proposes a formalised approach of the choice of an industrial executive facing the possible emergence of new standards who has to...

[fre] Incertitudes et choix stratégiques Un essai de modélisation. . L'incertitude joue un rôle déterminant dans les décisions d'investissement ; cet aspect devient prépondérant lorsque l'engagement financier de la firme l'amène à prendre des risques, pouvant remettre en cause son...

[eng] If some satistical data exist which allow to know with accuracy the structure of fruit production in France (orchard acreage, geographic allocation, varietal distribution), the theorical tools often lack when we wish to use this information in the framework of economic analysis. . The...

Le processus d’innovation ne concerne plus seulement l’entrepreneur innovateur qui, à l’image de Bernard Palissy, brûlerait jusqu’à ses meubles pour atteindre son objectif. L’intermédiation des institutions financières et le développement de nouveaux instruments financiers ou...