This research assesses the success of collaboration agreements through changes in competitive strength rather than the longevity of the transactions or the formality and visible structure of the agreements. To establish competitive strength, as development and renewal of capabilities, the...

Until about 13,000 years ago all humans obtained their food through hunting and gathering, but thereafter people in some parts of the world began a transition to agriculture. Recent data strongly implicate climate change as the driving force behind the agricultural transition in southwest Asia....

L’histoire des banques en tant que « firmes » reste encore lacunaire pour les décennies antérieures aux travaux des spécialistes d’économie industrielle au sein des départements de gestion ou de sciences économiques, qui portent sur le dernier tiers du XXe siècle. Pourtant une «...

L’imposition des bénéfices exceptionnels liés à la Grande guerre est introduite par la loi du 1er Juillet 1916. Née de la guerre, cette loi est d’abord l’objet d’un consensus relatif. Elle marque le début de la modernisation du système fiscal français. Le contexte de la guerre...

My assignment for this conference is to explore the relevance of "institutional competition" as a deliberate strategy in improving the competitiveness of economies. The historical record gives us a very mixed response with respect to the success of economies in deliberately altering the...

The research topic is analysing financial statements of Suez Channel Company from the construction beginning to the end (1859-1869)

Bahía Blanca has been posed as the main Southern city of the country (both in population and economic terms) by various works in the field of economic geography. In particular, it has been emphasized its leading manufacturing sector (historically oriented to exports) and its role as center of...

Through a detailed examination, using business archives, of the impact of the First World War on cost calculation practices in British firms, this paper examines, and finds wanting, the claim of Loft (1986, 1990) that cost accounting came into the light in Britain during the First World War.

This brief article tells of the emergence and development of a service for speedy, on-line distribution of recent additions to the broad literatures on economics and related areas called NEP: New Economics Papers. This service is part of a wider project called RePEc. RePEc is a digital library...

Technological innovation in general and information technology (IT) applications in particular, have had a major effect in banking and finance. Following Garbade and Silber (1978), this research reviews the effects on banking organisations with reference to front office or external changes as...