[eng] Electronics are a worlwide market led by multinational corporations. Their strategies are determined by the specificities of their home markets.. US groups have built their international growth through foreign direct investment. Japanese Corporations have given preference to exports....

[fre] L'article s'attache en premier lieu à préciser la spécificité de l'industrie du traitement de l'information à l'égard du concept de grappe technologique. Le cas d'Olivetti, examiné ensuite, depuis son redressement spectaculaire à partir de 1978, présente-t-il pour l'industrie...

[eng] The present article examines the emergence of new forms of oligopolistic market competition in the context of a globalized world economy. It proposes that this process be analyzed in terms of two broad categories : traditional oligopolies in which individual firms use size and stocks of...