While numerous research works on Corporate Governance have been undertaken during the last fifteen years only very few attention has been devoted to the study of the way that contemporary economic and technological dynamics have affected governance issues, especially when innovation activities...

In order to explain why innovation activities are increasingly structuring through networking and agglomeration dynamics, numerous empirical and theoretical works in various disciplines (economics, geography, sociology, management) have stressed the crucial role of spatial proximity. Following...

Despite the late awareness and rather still limited commitments of public and private actors towards a better protection of the environment and a more sustainable development, we have observed in recent years the emergence and a progressive development of various environmental friendly new...

The economic analysis of the links between institutions and development is crucial with regard to the socio-economic and human challenges linked to the health situation and the conditions of the access to health services in developing countries. This paper tries to put emphasis on the major role...

Pour de nombreux secteurs d'activites marques par des changements technologiques rapides et profonds, par un renouvellement radical des connaissances et des competences et par une ouverture rapide et globale des marches se pose le probleme de la pertinence des dispositifs legislatifs,...

The aim of this article is to attempt to give an account of the diversity of the contemporary configurations of inter-firm relations as they can be observed in many industries, and to stress the structuring role of cooperative arrangements within these configurations. The paper is divided in...

This paper sketches a co-evolutionary model of the change dynamics characterizing industries submitted to radical transformation of their technological-institutional-economic structures. These structural changes take place within a rather long-term dynamics of innovation whose trajectory and...