Territorial Resources, Social Structures and the Behaviour of Actors/Ressources Territoriales, Structures Sociales Et Comportements des Acteurs (Report‪)‬

Abstract This text proposes an institutional analysis of what comprises territorial dynamics. We show that there cannot be territory without an interface between specific resources and actors. Thus, a territory is a social structure which moves under the effect of its own operation and endogenous and outside shocks. For this reason, the concept of actor requires to be revisited. Organisations such as the firm, institutional processes and the subjects should not be confused. This is why we have mobilised the methodological structuralism of Piaget, Nicolai's systems dynamics and traditional institutionalism in order to show that standards and conventions are concepts that cannot be side-stepped but that they are not sufficient in themselves to understand and represent dynamics of actor relationships.