In order to buffer a growing competition, carmakers have to be increasingly more efficient. Their favourite strategy to maintain their competitive position seems to be the innovation. However, the strategy results in an increasingly delegation of activities toward very specialized firm that...

The aim of this article is to demonstrate that the Classical economists? analysis can serve as a theoretical framework to explain the economic role of luxury. In the 18th century this school of thought was based on the political implications of trade and luxury, conceived as a kind of social...

Growth of international outsourcing, has been a dominant feature of the international economy. Recent theoretical developments have focused on firm behaviour and its consequences on trade structure, through the introduction of the modern theory of the firm. In a first section, we link this new...

Since Schumpeter, there has been a tradition in the history of the economic thought that has placed Say?s entrepreneur in a filiation Cantillon-Turgot. The aim of this article is to show that this filiation does not exist, even if certain themes such as risk, knowledge or organization of...