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...

Starting from an approach that mobilizes a plural definition of proximity - institutional, organizational and geographical - in the aim of endogenizing the space in economic analysis, this article seeks to understand the dynamics of local economic spaces through a re-reading of the concept of...

[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...