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We develop a model to study the impact of corporate governance on firm investment decisions and industry competition … investment strategy and we study how different governance structures shape technical progress and the degree of competition over … characterized by heterogeneous governance structures generate the well-documented inverted-U shaped relation between competition and …
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of technological competition between a dominant design and a set of alternative green technologies. The incremental …
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-organisational configurations of these factories confirm that this wave of technological innovation is far from leading to total automation or the …
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address the relation between cost-related and technological competition in a sample of fifteen OECD countries. Results suggest …
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This paper shows how idiosyncratic resources can be the basis of sustained profitability and persistent heterogeneity under competitive conditions: Generic inputs purchased in the market become idiosyncratic resources by investments in customization. Analytically, we show how heterogeneous firms...
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This position paper outlines the characteristics of the trends at stake in affecting the twin transition in the European automotive industry, and the political economy of the actors behind such transition. We first describe the automation and digitalization processes in the automotive sector and...
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We provide a survey of the main mechanisms of market selection used in economics. We gather them in three theoretical paradigms (rational equilibrium, Simonesque and evolutionary), that we try to reconcile in terms of underlying laws of selection. We show that the three paradigms have been...
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firms constantly searching for technological improvements. Both innovation and imitation processes are modeled and …
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This paper empirically investigates how the inter-sectoral knowledge flows affect the international competitiveness of industries, once controlling for both cost and other technological factors. Using patent data on 14 manufacturing industries in 16 OECD countries over the period 1995-2009, we...
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This paper reconstructs Revealed Comparative Advantages (RCA) and Economic Complexity Indices (ECI) for a large number of countries in the second half of the 19th century, by using data from the catalogues of five universal exhibitions held in Paris in 1855, 1867, 1878, 1889, and 1900. This...
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