This paper analyses the creative class geography in France, in 2006. This geography is seen here through the lens of Explanatory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA). This method brings originality to the question of creative people geography in addition to the spatial context, France, where this...

Agricultural cooperatives represent nearly 75% of all farmers in France. They have become major actors in the development of rural spaces. Over the past 30 years, French cooperatives have steadily modified their organizational structures in response to changes in the economic environment,...

The French agricultural cooperatives develop as cooperative groups while maintaining a high density of partnerships. The objective of this article is to better understand the determinants that motivate cooperative groups to build capitalistic alliances them. Alliances are identified from an...

Agricultural co-operatives, the main actors of French agriculture, have undergone some drastic transformations since the 1990?s with the development of « private » subsidiaries and partnerships. These raw changes show that co-operatives need to increase production by investing in the...

The processes of localization/delocalization of activities attest that space is important in firm’s strategies. Merger and acquisition contributes too modify the spatial organization of firms. This paper aims at analyzing the spatial organization at the level of groups of firms. The conceptual...