The rise of modern corporations has been accompanied by an expansion of salaried executives who have replaced owner-managers. With this expansion, the new class of managers/executives came to regard themselves as stewards of large and complex corporations, and not principally or exclusively as...

Our study assesses a quantification of foreign relocations for 1993, 1997 and 2003 through a database of 15,000 establishments of firms above 20 employees. This allows to count recognized facts of foreign relocations. We state that: Foreign relocations are an unusual phenomenon (not even 0.15%...

L'objectif spécifique de l'étude Damier est double. Le premier est de préciser la mesure quantitative des délocalisations (y compris les relocalisations) à partir de données individuelles d'entreprises. La seule étude de ce genre existante [Chanteau 2009] peut servir de base à ce travail...

Since 1993, threats of industrial delocalizations hang over French debates in economic policy. This paper tries to prove that this constraint has been indeed overstated because delocalizations were not well-defined ? often confused with some other empirical events (FDI, international...

On what conditions can ?fair trade? contribute to reducing economic inequalities ? Our study addresses this issue by specifying the type of rules related to ?fair trade? since the mid-19th century to work out the ?right? price within a market economy. Our research results in specifying three...

Cette contribution s'inscrit dans le champ de l'étude des dynamiques territoriales dans le contexte de la mondialisation. Elle étudie plus particulièrement deux questions : comment les acteurs d'un territoire national sont-ils impactés par la mondialisation, et ce territoire demeure-t-il un...