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Record W2341521609

Lafarge: The Rise of a French Multinational (1833-2005)

2005· article· en· W2341521609 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Dominique Barjot

Bibliographic record

VenueRelations internationales · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHistorical and Environmental Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMultinational corporationCONQUESTWorld War IIEconomic historyGlobalizationFirst world warPolitical sciencePeriod (music)EconomyHistoryEconomicsAncient historyLawArt
DOInot available

Abstract

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Founded in 1833 by a noble family from Ardeche, the Lafarge Group constitutes today a good example of a global company. Like Saint-Gobain, Lafarge has become a major player in the building materials sector. Its history offers a good picture of the succession of the « three globalizations ». The first stage, between 1964 and 1945, was the period of internalization, begun essentially before World War One, then strengthened during the inter-war years, notably thanks to cartels. The second stage was the period of multinationalization, characterized, from 1947 to 1974, by strong growth, the transition to the managerial firm and the rise of Canadian activities. The third stage was globalization. It includes three aspects : progressive conquest of the European market, access to leadership in North America, and layout in Far Eastern countries, thanks to the successive take-over of General Portland, Coppee, Redland and Blue Circle.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.479
Threshold uncertainty score0.953

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0090.002
Scholarly communication0.0050.002
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0290.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.282
Teacher spread0.264 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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