This paper focuses on the evolution of the telecommunications industry. Within the economic literature, different analytical assumptions are proposed, from a global sustainability of competition to the re-emergence of a stable oligopoly generated by a process of shakeout through mergers and...

Today, a growing literature develops on the idea that different types of rules and norms should govern differently entrepreneurial and public firms, depending on the industry in which they operate and the stage of development of the industry. This chapter contributes to this new literature by...

The purpose of this chapter is thus to understand the ups and downs of this industry, and especially to identify in Schumpeter's vision of capitalism what could be the determinants of such an evolution. In a nutshell, the paper will investigate to what extent the key notions of Schumpeter's...

This paper focuses on recent developments of business history on a specific theme : the boundaries of firms and industries. Connexions with industrial organisation, and especially with neo-institutionalism, have increasingly appeared in the literature. Connexions are generally developed...

L'objet de cet article est, sur la base du cas General Motors Fisher Body, de discuter de la pertinence historique des théories de la firme, et de proposer des pistes permettant de construire des théories pertinentes historiquement. Nous considérons l'ouverture de toutes les archives...

In this chapter, we focus on the emergence and growth of broadband in France. The issue is concerned with important questions in the domain of industrial dynamics. Broadband is of course related to the mature telecommunications industry, since one of the major competitor in this activity is the...

Is theoretical diversity beneficial to scientific progress? One could be tempted to answer immediately yes, since theoretical diversity means the elaboration of alternative assumptions, whose related results can be confronted, and further validated or refuted. Theoretical diversity is thus...

The paper explores this issue by reconciling two trends of literature that are generally disconnected - the industry life cycle (ILC) on the one hand and the governance of large and small firms on the other - to generate results on how the governance of the firm may look like over the industry...

Who profits in the info-coms industry in the broadband age, and how? This paper looks at this question, decomposing the industry in terms of five complementary activities: (1) equipment provision, (2) network operation, (3) Internet access and service provision, (4) navigation and security...

Nous tenterons, dans cet article, de clarifier les enjeux de l'intégration de l'information imparfaite dans les principales analyses de la firme: l'analyse des coûts de transaction (section 1), la théorie des contrats incomplets (section 2) et l'approche en termes de compétences dynamiques...