{"title":"Analysis of Change Within and Between Firms embedded in their environment in the context of increasing interactions: understanding complexity of organizations","authors":"Paul Bouvier‐Patron","doi":"10.1051/EJESS:2001106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/EJESS:2001106","url":null,"abstract":"– The theory of firms and organizations is at the heart of the economic dynamics analysis because of increasing and evolving interactions within the concrete industrial organization, at intra and inter firm(s) levels. At first, we present (Sect. 2) the evolution of the theory of the firm and of organizations renewed by the complexity approaches, then (Sect. 3) we study the conditions of change within a single organization or a set of organizations before, finally (Sect. 4), putting into perspective authors’ contributions to this special issue.","PeriodicalId":352454,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Economic and Social Systems","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121609643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The firm/territory relationships in the globalisation: towards a new rationale","authors":"Jean-Benoit Zimmermann","doi":"10.1051/EJESS:2001108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/EJESS:2001108","url":null,"abstract":"– The aim of this paper is the presentation of an approach of firms-territories relationships in terms of firms' nomadism and territorial anchorage of technological and industrial activities. Such an approach is founded on the necessity to overcome the “volatile” firm's level of analysis, in which firm's mobility is investigated from the sole point of view of the leaven location. On the contrary, it should be relevant to focus on the firm's dynamics through its connections with the whole set of territories and to conceive the firm-territory relation as a result of the dialectic confrontation of the respectively concerned firm and territory both dynamics, both trajectories. Hence we are led to characterise the localised industrial unit as placed at the crossroad of a triple link: with a firm (or a group), with an industry and with a territory. Such a threefold coupling relies on proximity's effects, alternately from organisational and geographical nature, whose conjunction generates territorial anchoring and leads to the notion of productive encounter, in the sense of a capacity to formulate and give solutions to productive issues, within the context of firm-territory relationship. In terms of formal models, research works are at the very first step. Nevertheless, an approach in terms of “small worlds” seems to present very fruitful perspectives. We develop the foundations of such an approach and expose how it can provide a good framework to explain territorial anchorage and, more widely, the strength of clusters. A concrete illustration is extensively developed about SGS-Thomson Microelectronics group with regard to its productive site in Rousset, in the French Bouches-du-Rhone district. Classification Codes: L23, L63, O18, R3, R58.","PeriodicalId":352454,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Economic and Social Systems","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123651497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Connaissance, finance et économie de guerre permanente. Une approche veblenienne","authors":"Eleonora Gentilucci, Alfonso Giuliani","doi":"10.3166/EJESS.24.137-152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3166/EJESS.24.137-152","url":null,"abstract":"The exploitation of knowledge is one of the dynamics that characterizes the capitalist economic system. Demonstrating this thesis through Veblen’s thought, we will provide a new key to understand the processes characterizing it, concerning the financialization of the economy and of the knowledge. The specific case of the military sector will be the basis of a parallelism between Veblen and Melman, from which arise two basic elements: the logic of power, closely linked to the dynamics of the financial activities of the economy and that, related, of waste.","PeriodicalId":352454,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Economic and Social Systems","volume":"259 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122938826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The productivity paradox and the diffusion of generic technologies","authors":"S. Paillard","doi":"10.1051/EJESS:2000118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/EJESS:2000118","url":null,"abstract":"– The productivity paradox poses the problem of the coexistence, since the seventies, of a slowing down of productivity gains and an acceleration of technical progress, in particular in the field of information technologies (IT). The existence of delays between the arrival of a new technology and the realisation of productivity gains constitutes one explanation of the paradox. In this article, we present a simulation model which illustrates the relations between the diffusion of a generic technology and the dynamics of the productivity gains at the macroeconomic level. In this model, the diffusion of a new generic technology is a process marked by positive feedback; any obstacle to the diffusion also hinders the pace of learning which, in turn, slows down the process of diffusion. A low rate of the diffusion of the knowledge among the sectors of the economy slows the diffusion down. In a similar way, the heterogeneity of the stock of capital and the problems of technological compatibility resulting from it make the full potential of the new technology more difficult to obtain.","PeriodicalId":352454,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Economic and Social Systems","volume":"430 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123051194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From procedural to complex rationality relations: Observed system and observing system","authors":"A. Isla","doi":"10.1051/EJESS:2000102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/EJESS:2000102","url":null,"abstract":"Procedural rationality and substantive rationality call for two different approaches in terms of methodology and epistemology. While in the first case, the question of interest is \"what is it made of?\" The appropriate methodology is analytic and the epistemology, positivist. In the second case, the question will be \"what does it make, and why?\" the methodology complex and the epistemology, constructivist. The object of study will be different in both cases. The choice of a methodology also reflects a different view of uncertainty. As a consequence, it is impossible to use simultaneously the two rationality concepts and to study the behavior of an economic agent. How can we then classify the economical theories according to either one of the rationality concept and reasoning approach (complex or analytic)? The Economics of Convention School, developed in France, offers a conceptual framework consistent with a complex approach. It still has to adhere to that complex approach in a more total way, by assuming the economist observer's projects and aims.","PeriodicalId":352454,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Economic and Social Systems","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130527121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A dyadic segmentation approach to business partnerships","authors":"J. Aurifeille, C. Medlin","doi":"10.1051/EJESS:2001112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/EJESS:2001112","url":null,"abstract":"In business science, the studied objects are often groups of partners rather than independent firms. Extending classical segmentation to these polyads raises conceptual problems, principally: defining what should be consid- ered as common or specific at the partners' and at the segment levels. The general approaches consist either in merging partners characteristics and performances into a single macro-object, thus loosing their specific contributions to each partner's performance, or in modelling partners' performance as if their models were inde- pendent. As a step to understanding, how partnership influences firms' perform- ance, the dyadic (i.e. two partners') case is studied. First, some theoretical issues concerning the degrees of individual and contributive interest in a dyadic popula- tion are discussed. Next, partnership's conceptualisation is based upon two models for each firm: a \"self-model\" that reflects how the firm's characteristics explain its own performance, and a \"contributive-model\" model that reflects how these characteristics influence the partner's performance. This allows definition of three relationship modes: merging, teaming and sharing. Subsequently, dyad segmenta- tion strategies are discussed according to their capacity to reflect the modes of part- nership and a dyadic clusterwise regression method, based on a genetic algorithm, is presented. Finally, the method is illustrated empirically using actual data of busi- ness partners in the software market.","PeriodicalId":352454,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Economic and Social Systems","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126078709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}