This paper addresses the problem of the role of technology for the firm's organization. In particular, it aims at showing how the role of production in investigating the existence, boundaries, organization and dynamics of the firm can be better understood through a two-fold multidisciplinary...

This paper aims at exploring the nature and the determinants of the dynamic capabilities of the firm: a notion which, while increasingly more fashionable, remains still conceptually diffuse. Through a critical review of the massive and heterogeneous literature which refers, either explicitly or...

L?objectif de cet article est d?étudier, sur la période 1980 à 1992, les effets qu?ont eu les spillovers des connaissances technologiques, à différents niveaux territoriaux (local, national et international), sur la dynamique de la productivité du travail dans les industries...

[eng] The aim of this paper is to provide, following an approach recently developed by Glaeser et al. (1992), an empirical investigation on the role of extemalities in industrial agglomeration and long-run development. By means of a very large dataset containing information at level of Italian...