Résumé
Territorial Governance (GT) has become a challenge for the implementation of public policies and the need for territorial development actors. This paper presents an analytical framework of territorial governance built as part of a multidisciplinary research project focused on the topic of organizational innovations in governance arrangements has presented. The methodological proposition comes first building a common operational definition of the research team and then the translation guide analysis. Propose a guide is not an easy exercise if you want to take into account the specificities of local situations. In fact, devices and instruments are contextual and plural governance, product objectives and past dynamics. They can arise from a strategy of exploitation or exploration. We illustrate the operational capacity of the methodology relying on fieldwork carried out in three contrasting situations of governance in the region of Languedoc-Roussillon.