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...

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...

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...

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...

L'objet de cet ouvrage est d'analyser la concurrence comme un processus, c'est à dire comme un phénomène intrinsèquement dynamique et complexe. Dans son acception courante, la concurrence est l'ensemble des actions qui sont engagées dans le but de faire aboutir les objectifs d'une firme au...

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...