Where is the journal at and where it is going after thirty-five years of publication: a forward-looking vision
On the occasion of its 35th anniversary, the editors of the Revue internationale PME asked us, as its founders, to take stock of its career and its future. We return, on the one hand, to its role in the development of the discipline affecting this research theme, and on the other hand, to its foreseeable evolution in the coming years. This exercise allows us to stress once again the importance of such a theme not only because of the very large number of these enterprises in all economies, but because of their increasingly recognized impact on their development. In this article, we summarize the choices of themes chosen by researchers in the early years of the journal. Subsequently, we focus on the themes that were expanded in the following decade, marking in particular the specificity and complexity of the subject. To then make some projections on what is possibly coming in this world of SMEs. Finally, we stop at the scientific importance of French precisely for the enrichment of this science as for any other science.