The paper aims to develop a methodology of an institutionalist approach of industrial dynamics. Part 1 defines the framework for such an institutionalist approach in the continuity the J.R. Commons’ method. Part 2 elaborates the basis of the project of an institutionalist industrial dynamics...

The paper proposes an original institutionalist framework to analyze the dynamics of sectors (or industries), their emergence, their evolution and their possible disappearance. The meso-economic analysis concerns the way by which are institutionalized, within every industry, the relationships [...