International Business Environment

International Business Environment

International Business Environment

Abstract

The paper examines the interlinked development of social process and spatial pattern in the analysis of the changing patterns of output and paid work in France. A major hypothesis is that specific phases of capital accumulation are associated with the use and output of specific forms of spatial differentiation, and that latest changes in the location of paid work in France are attached with the transition from one stage of capitalist development to another. Thus the changing spatial pattern of agricultural paid work is seen as part of the decay of petty product output and the integration of family farming into a new capitalist agriculture. Similarly, spatial change in manufacturing paid work is also a constituent of industrial restructuring, and the associated development of new infrastructural and labor requirements. The French state is one component of these processes and the article concludes with a case study of the relationships between capital accumulation and regional policy. 

 

 

Introduction

The French Republic is one of the most advanced countries in the world and is a leader in the European Union (EU). France borders Spain in the south and Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy on the north and east. The homeland has coastline on both the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. France claims a 200-nautical-mile Exclusive Economic Zone only on the Atlantic Ocean. The Pyrenees and Alps supply a physiographic frame for the extensive plains and revolving hills that mark the French landscape. The presence of the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf Stream provides a tempering result on the climate of France. Rainfall occurs mainly throughout the winter months and the summers are warm and drier.

Historically, France was directed by a series of absolutist and despotic monarchs. The first of these was Charlemagne, crested in 800, and leader of an domain expanding all through modern-day Europe. The monarchical system completed in the 1870s and was replaced by a series of republics, which continues into the 21st century. Of greatest significance to present financial development in France was a series of events throughout the presidency of Charles de Gaulle, considered by many persons in France as the greatest leader in their history.

One of the major points in the Evian Accords enacted in the 1950s was the termination of colonialism and French imperialism. De Gaulle was also instrumental in conveying about the self-reliance of Algeria, a longtime colony of France. In addition, De Gaulle was instrumental in redirecting the French economy toward the development of manufacturing and industrial sectors.

France's rapprochement with Germany soon after the end of World War II also paved the way for future financial development not only in France but also all through Europe. The Treaty of Paris in 1951 created the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) for the sharing of coal and steel resources in France and Germany. Other European countries also became part of the ECSC because of its success and the prospect of farther financial integration inside the ...