Coordination steaming from negative dimensions of geographical proximity is mostly viewed under the angle of conflicts. Nevertheless, land use conflicts ? and their counterpart in terms of dialogue ? are not the only means of action for co-localized agents. Strategies of relocation or...

After a long period of building, the microelectronics cluster in the Marseilles Metropolitan Area appears to have reached a critical size and investment dynamics capable to ensure its durability. In this paper we aim to enlighten such an assumption by analysing the nature of the process that led...

How to conciliate the territorialisation of institutions and an efficient institutional competition, when there is a problem of territories overlapping? ? The traditionally given answers, such as the institutional unicity and decentralization, may block the competition process, if these answers...

This article deals with conflicts related to the implementation of the policies of environment in the rural areas. It concerns two contrasted forms of environmental protection. The first one (Integral Forest Biological Reserve) is of sanctuarist type, therefore incompatible with human...

Currently, the concept of sustainable development is creating various controversies. One of them<np pagenum="280"/> is dividing the sustainable development and the attractiveness of territories. This paper makes an effort to show that the two concepts could be convergent or totally divergent. In this case, we...

At a time when the market economy has never been stronger, occupying new geographical zones and new spheres of activity, the idea of culture is undeniably an inescapable dimension in economy and territories. Present in the way products are manufactured, exchanged, consumed, as in the products...

The finance industry has created a functional and spatial separation between business investors and entrepreneurs, thereby laying the foundations of what is now referred to as corporate governance. This article presents a territorial understanding of corporate governance. It shows first that the...