Much of the literature on the changing face of US manufacturing acknowledges that successful governance of decentralized production is vital to its future but questions whether in practice firms will engage in the collaborative relationships envisaged by optimistic theorists of a "new production...

The discipline of economics has treated technological standards creation as an outcome of network externalities and decisions on the demand side. They pay little attention to the supply side, where firms make strategic choices as to which standard to support. These choices can ignite a contest...

[eng] Abstract One of the most common explanations given for the economic decline of the United Kingdom after 1945 is the failure of British entrepreneurs to adopt mass methods of production and management. The example of the British metal-works industry does not confirm this model. The...