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...

Corporate governance and the governance of knowledge were for a long time distinct fields of analysis. Reasons for this incompatibility are linked to the restricted vision of corporate governance supported by shareholder value which essentially refers to information rather than knowledge. In...

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...

This paper intends to relate more closely corporate governance, industry dynamics and firms performance. In that perspective, it focuses on the impact of applying the normative, best practice model of corporate governance on industry dynamics and related stock market performances. At a...

This book that follows this introduction is dedicated to the analysis of the process of competition. Considering competition as a process implies at first that competition is intrinsically a dynamic and complex phenomenon. In the real world, competition is taken to mean that range of actions...

Corporate governance is certainly one of the most prolific fields of research today. Even if the origins of this domain trace back to the early 1930s, the recent decades have been marked by an explosion in the number of contributions in academic journals. This effervescence in the academic world...

La notion de concurrence peut être étudiée, dans la littérature économique, selon deux conceptions analytiques différentes qui dépendent, plus généralement, de deux méthodes d'appréhension des phénomènes économiques. La concurrence peut tout d'abord être envisagée comme un état...