1. The15 years of GERPISA international network Initial ambition, results, organization and approach What have we learned? Freyssenet Michel CNRS Paris GERPISA 15th GERPISA International Colloquium Paris, 20-22 june 2007

2. Why now an attempt of GERPISA approach assessment? Fifteen years ! Change and sault of generation of members Before the launch of the fifth international research programme 1. Our initial ambition 2. The collective driving of a gerpisian programme 3. The methodological developments of our works Freyssenet M., Dia presentation :The15 years of GERPISA international network. Initial ambition, results, organization and approach. What have we learned?, Proceedings of the 15th international colloquium of GERPISA « What have we learned about the dynamics of automobile firms and systems over the past 15 years ? », Paris, 20-22 june, 2007. Éditions numériques, freyssenet.com, 2007, 192 Ko, ISSN 7116-0941.

3. 1. Our initial ambition Understand the failure of many enterprises in several industrial sectors after the monetary and petroleum chocks of the seventies The absolute necessity of an interdisciplinarian cooperation The insufficiency of the traditional means (academic colloquium, surveys, etc…) The provocation of the new productive model convergence thesis specially of the lean production An ambition: to propose collectively alternative analysis Freyssenet M., Dia presentation :The15 years of GERPISA international network. Initial ambition, results, organization and approach. What have we learned?, Proceedings of the 15th international colloquium of GERPISA « What have we learned about the dynamics of automobile firms and systems over the past 15 years ? », Paris, 20-22 june, 2007. Éditions numériques, freyssenet.com, 2007, 192 Ko, ISSN 7116-0941.

4. Four international research programmes 1. Emergence of new industrial models, 1993-1996 2. The automobile industry between globalization and regionalization 1997-1999 3. Coordination of the knowledge and the competence in the regional motor systems, 2000-2003 4. Diversity of capitalism and variety of productive models 2005-2007 Freyssenet M., Dia presentation :The15 years of GERPISA international network. Initial ambition, results, organization and approach. What have we learned?, Proceedings of the 15th international colloquium of GERPISA « What have we learned about the dynamics of automobile firms and systems over the past 15 years ? », Paris, 20-22 june, 2007. Éditions numériques, freyssenet.com, 2007, 192 Ko, ISSN 7116-0941.

5. 2. The driving of a gerpisian programme or How very different researchers can work together 1st phase Choice of a common research question: criteria 2d phase Conceptual clarification and construction of ad hoc workpackages 3d phase Parallel works of international research teams and publications Two minimal methodological requirements 4th phase Elaboration of a new analysis schema Freyssenet M., Dia presentation :The15 years of GERPISA international network. Initial ambition, results, organization and approach. What have we learned?, Proceedings of the 15th international colloquium of GERPISA « What have we learned about the dynamics of automobile firms and systems over the past 15 years ? », Paris, 20-22 june, 2007. Éditions numériques, freyssenet.com, 2007, 192 Ko, ISSN 7116-0941.

6. 3. The methodological developments of our works 3.1. Extensions of the two initial methodological requirements Meticulous description of the practices and apparatuses Research of the sense of the practices and apparatuses The problems at their origin The social stake The conditions of possibility creating the problems of the practices and apparatuses To illustrate: the case of the productive models Freyssenet M., Dia presentation :The15 years of GERPISA international network. Initial ambition, results, organization and approach. What have we learned?, Proceedings of the 15th international colloquium of GERPISA « What have we learned about the dynamics of automobile firms and systems over the past 15 years ? », Paris, 20-22 june, 2007. Éditions numériques, freyssenet.com, 2007, 192 Ko, ISSN 7116-0941.

7. 3.2. The social stake (in the productive models case) The social stake of the firms profitability Sources of profit Strategies of profit Where is the social and political construction of the markets? 3. The methodological developments of our works Freyssenet M., Dia presentation :The15 years of GERPISA international network. Initial ambition, results, organization and approach. What have we learned?, Proceedings of the 15th international colloquium of GERPISA « What have we learned about the dynamics of automobile firms and systems over the past 15 years ? », Paris, 20-22 june, 2007. Éditions numériques, freyssenet.com, 2007, 192 Ko, ISSN 7116-0941.

8. 3.3. The contextual conditions (in the productive models case) How to find the more influential conditions? The indispensable conditions The automobile demand and the mobilizable workforce volume and structure The growth engine and the national income distribution Political choices at the origin The historical and social invention of economy 3. The methodological developments of our works Freyssenet M., Dia presentation :The15 years of GERPISA international network. Initial ambition, results, organization and approach. What have we learned?, Proceedings of the 15th international colloquium of GERPISA « What have we learned about the dynamics of automobile firms and systems over the past 15 years ? », Paris, 20-22 june, 2007. Éditions numériques, freyssenet.com, 2007, 192 Ko, ISSN 7116-0941.

9. 3.3. The contextual conditions (in the productive models case) Typology of growth modes Compatibility of growth modes and profit strategies What is the part of the meso level? 3. The methodological developments of our works Freyssenet M., Dia presentation :The15 years of GERPISA international network. Initial ambition, results, organization and approach. What have we learned?, Proceedings of the 15th international colloquium of GERPISA « What have we learned about the dynamics of automobile firms and systems over the past 15 years ? », Paris, 20-22 june, 2007. Éditions numériques, freyssenet.com, 2007, 192 Ko, ISSN 7116-0941.

10. 3.4. The conditions of implementation (in the productive models case) How to find the conditions of the implementation of the profit strategies? Their requirements as far as product policy productive organization employment relationships Coherency and acceptability 3. The methodological developments of our works Freyssenet M., Dia presentation :The15 years of GERPISA international network. Initial ambition, results, organization and approach. What have we learned?, Proceedings of the 15th international colloquium of GERPISA « What have we learned about the dynamics of automobile firms and systems over the past 15 years ? », Paris, 20-22 june, 2007. Éditions numériques, freyssenet.com, 2007, 192 Ko, ISSN 7116-0941.

11. 3.5. The engendering of the possibles (in the productive models case) The reversal of the reasoning Several possible practices and apparatuses An indispensable clear distinction between strategy and model The extreme difficulty today to know and to choice a pertinent profit strategy and his coherent means of implementation The World that Changed the Machine 3. The methodological developments of our works Freyssenet M., Dia presentation :The15 years of GERPISA international network. Initial ambition, results, organization and approach. What have we learned?, Proceedings of the 15th international colloquium of GERPISA « What have we learned about the dynamics of automobile firms and systems over the past 15 years ? », Paris, 20-22 june, 2007. Éditions numériques, freyssenet.com, 2007, 192 Ko, ISSN 7116-0941.

12. 3.6. The social compromise in the depth of action and of institution (in the productive models case) From the conditions of acceptability to the notion of “government enterprise compromise” How many collective actors are concerned? How to determine the most important? Capital and labour under each profit source and profit strategy 3. The methodological developments of our works Freyssenet M., Dia presentation :The15 years of GERPISA international network. Initial ambition, results, organization and approach. What have we learned?, Proceedings of the 15th international colloquium of GERPISA « What have we learned about the dynamics of automobile firms and systems over the past 15 years ? », Paris, 20-22 june, 2007. Éditions numériques, freyssenet.com, 2007, 192 Ko, ISSN 7116-0941.

13. 3.7. The reasoning in diversity Three consequences 1. A new mean to anticipate The conditions of possibility 2. A new paradigm The limited and renewed diversity 3. A new way to construct typologies The social stake of each social nexus 3. The methodological developments of our works Freyssenet M., Dia presentation :The15 years of GERPISA international network. Initial ambition, results, organization and approach. What have we learned?, Proceedings of the 15th international colloquium of GERPISA « What have we learned about the dynamics of automobile firms and systems over the past 15 years ? », Paris, 20-22 june, 2007. Éditions numériques, freyssenet.com, 2007, 192 Ko, ISSN 7116-0941.

14. Our initial ambition Very diverse network members Two initial methodological requirements A substantive, historical and analytical approach New paradigm New way to construct typologies … and new horizons 4. Conclusion Freyssenet M., Dia presentation :The15 years of GERPISA international network. Initial ambition, results, organization and approach. What have we learned?, Proceedings of the 15th international colloquium of GERPISA « What have we learned about the dynamics of automobile firms and systems over the past 15 years ? », Paris, 20-22 june, 2007. Éditions numériques, freyssenet.com, 2007, 192 Ko, ISSN 7116-0941.

15. Other developments If you want…. http://freyssenet.com Freyssenet M., Dia presentation :The15 years of GERPISA international network. Initial ambition, results, organization and approach. What have we learned?, Proceedings of the 15th international colloquium of GERPISA « What have we learned about the dynamics of automobile firms and systems over the past 15 years ? », Paris, 20-22 june, 2007. Éditions numériques, freyssenet.com, 2007, 192 Ko, ISSN 7116-0941.