THE ADAPTABILITY OF THE FRENCH ARMAMENTS INDUSTRY IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
研究了法国军备工业在全球化背景下如何通过适应性调整，维持国家与国防企业之间的紧密关系，并分析了军事技术项目对法国技术政策和制造业的贡献。
Abstract The transformations of the French arms industry have to be put in the context of the dramatic changes in the geopolitical and economic environment, or globalization. This paper documents the role of military-related technological programs in French technology policy, and their contribution to the technological performance of defense contractors and manufacturing industry generally. It employs the concept of a French Meso-system of Armaments (FMSA) to describe the set of committed governmental organizations and industrial companies, which are bound up with each other through market and non-market relationships. The paper traces the main transformations of the FMSA that aim at preserving, through adaptation, the intertwined relationships between the state and defense companies over the past decades and in particular in the decade following the collapse of the communist system.