The bimodal distribution of the specialization ratio for large non-financial corporations has been a remarkable statistical regularity for forty years (Reed and Sharpe, 1987). The aim of this paper is first to provide an overview on the reality of this phenomenon over the period 1992-2007 in...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Title -- Copyright -- Introduction -- 1 Overview of the Globalization of Trade in Industrial Goods: 1980-2004 -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Data -- 1.3. Structural indicators resulting from social networks analysis -- 1.4. Main results -- 1.5. Conclusion -- 2 The...

The bimodal distribution of the specialization ratio for large non-financial corporations has been a remarkable statistical regularity for forty years (Reed and Sharpe, 1987). The aim of this paper is first to provide an overview on the reality of this phenomenon over the period 1992-2007 in...

La distribution bimodale du ratio de spécialisation des grandes entreprises non financières a constitué une régularité statistique remarquable pendant une quarantaine d'années (Reed et Sharpe, 1987). L'objectif de cet article est, dans un premier temps, de faire un point sur la réalité...

L'objectif de cet article est de repérer les mouvements de recentrage et de diversification des entreprises non financières à la manière de Markides (1993, 1995) et de Whittington et al. (1999) entre 1992 et 2007 en Allemagne, France et Royaume-Uni. Par rapport à ces auteurs, nous proposons...

The aim of this paper is to identify the refocusing and diversification movements using the Markides (1993, 1995) and Whittington et al. (1999) methodology. Compared to these authors, a new "objective" method to assign firms to Rumelt's strategic categories is proposed and applied to...

This paper aims to study the structure of international trade. It establishes, through a simple formalization of exchange coefficients, that many theorems can be proved on a function of the macroscopic structure (the determinant of the matrix). This determinant is the cornerstone of indicators...