During the last years more and more discussions came up about the contribution of technology-oriented and technology-intensive industries for employment and economic development. One reason for some of the contradictory evaluations of technology-intensive industries can be attributed to...

In contrast to the usual approach taken in the literature, in which an Industry Life Cycle (ILC) is reproduced by aggregate functions, the model of this paper generates a self-organizing ILC. A general evolutionary agent-based simulation model is developed that can be adapted for specific...

Die deutsche Wirtschaftsstruktur mit ihrem relativ hohen Industriegewicht und der damit einhergehenden Weltmarktorientierung stehen derzeit in der Kritik. Auf Basis von Wachstumsbeiträgen und der Input-Output-Rechnung lässt sich zeigen, wie die Wertschöpfung ausgewählter industrieller...

This paper discusses the development of shop floor industrial relations and industrial restructuring in France in the 1980s. It argues that French companies appeared to have found a way out of their Fordist spiral, into a form of flexible mass production, but that they managed to do so only...