The paper analyzes the effects of the properties of firms' knowledge base on the survival likelihood of firms. Drawing upon the analysis of the patterns of co-occurrence of technological classes in patent applications, we derive the coherence, variety and cognitive distance indexes, accounting...

L'objectif de ce papier est de proposer une analyse de ces interactions. Notre démarche sera de comprendre comment fonctionne et évolue le consortium, ce qui nécessitera l'adoption d'un cadre d'analyse proche des faits. Nous montrerons que dans la pratique les consortia sont l'expression à...

Ce papier cherche à confronter deux interprétations des relations entre industrie et commerce : l'une en termes d'incitation et de coûts de transaction, l'autre en termes de coordination des activités productives. Cette confrontation est réalisée sur deux exemples concrets et très...

What is the telecommunications industry? How does it relate to other activities in areas such as computing, software, semiconductors, the internet and electronic commerce, and the media? Where are its boundaries? What products and services should be included within it? What are its major...

The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, the paper provides a synthesis of the potentialities and limits of the dominant economic literature on vertical contractual relations which essentially focuses on the impact of vertical specialization and vertical integration on competition and...

The major attempt of the special issue following this introduction is to give an overview of what we know today about industrial dynamics, what are the main outcomes and challenges that come to the surface in this new field. The special issue will thus be aimed at characterizing advances in...

The process by which knowledge is created, accumulated and eventually destroyed appears crucial to many industrial dynamics patterns, since it shapes the profile of evolution of industries by favouring the entry of new companies, the co-existence of incumbents and new entrants and, eventually,...

This chapter aims at providing an original review of the main theoretical approaches to technological knowledge, both implicit and explicit, and of their empirical counterparts in the field of economics of innovation. While there are in the literature interesting contributions aiming at...

This paper aims to revisit the link between corporate governance, value, and firm performance by focusing on convergence, understood as the way that non-US firms are adopting US best practice in terms of corporate governance, and the implications of this adoption. We examine theoretical...

Les journées de l'Association française de science économique (Afse) se sont tenues à Sophia Antipolis les 25 et 26 juin 2009. L'objectif de ces journées, organisées par le Groupe de recherche en droit, économie et gestion (Gredeg(1)) en collaboration avec l'Observatoire français des...