What is the telecommunications industry? How does it relate to other activities in areas such as computing, software, semiconductors, the internet and electronic commerce, and the media? Where are its boundaries? What products and services should be included within it? What are its major...

This paper intends to relate more closely corporate governance, industry dynamics and firms performance. In that perspective, it focuses on the impact of applying the normative, best practice model of corporate governance on industry dynamics and related stock market performances. At a...

This book that follows this introduction is dedicated to the analysis of the process of competition. Considering competition as a process implies at first that competition is intrinsically a dynamic and complex phenomenon. In the real world, competition is taken to mean that range of actions...

Corporate governance is certainly one of the most prolific fields of research today. Even if the origins of this domain trace back to the early 1930s, the recent decades have been marked by an explosion in the number of contributions in academic journals. This effervescence in the academic world...

La notion de concurrence peut être étudiée, dans la littérature économique, selon deux conceptions analytiques différentes qui dépendent, plus généralement, de deux méthodes d'appréhension des phénomènes économiques. La concurrence peut tout d'abord être envisagée comme un état...

Dans le cadre des développements récents sur le processus de concurrence, nous cherchons à identifier les arguments économiques qui justifient la coopération inter-entreprises dans une situation d'innovation. Par une étude de cas de jurisprudence de la Commission Européenne, nous montrons...

The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, the paper provides a synthesis of the potentialities and limits of the dominant economic literature on vertical contractual relations which essentially focuses on the impact of vertical specialization and vertical integration on competition and...

Cet article présente les développements récents des modèles de cycle de vie de l'industrie, en soulignant notamment les avancées réalisées par rapport au modèle de base de Gort et Klepper (1982). Compte tenu du regain d'intérêt actuel pour ce type de littérature, l'objet de cet...

The major attempt of the special issue following this introduction is to give an overview of what we know today about industrial dynamics, what are the main outcomes and challenges that come to the surface in this new field. The special issue will thus be aimed at characterizing advances in...

The theme of industry life cycle (ILC) is today one of the central fields of research in industrial dynamics. ILC shows that industries behave like biological organisms, and proceed through different phases of development, from emergence to decline. Although this approach constitutes one of the...