Corporate governance has been in the recent years one of the most debated issues in conventional economic approaches. Agency theory combined with financial indicators has particularly contributed to the development of shareholder value as a key concept in companies' governance both at a...

The innovative broadband Internet industry is characterised by inertia phenomena in terms of technology choice, as well as selection of Internet service providers (ISPs). Within the set of firms providing the Internet, very often in Europe the incumbent operator has the lion's share of...

[fre] La notion de processus de concurrence connaît un regain d'intérêt important dans les travaux récents d'économie industrielle. Ces approches montrent que la coopération entre les firmes, ou même l'intégration, peuvent être compatibles avec la concurrence à condition d'en retenir...

[eng] Innovation and Long Term Evolution of Industries This article presents the new developments in industry life cycle analysis, compared to the basic model of Gort and Klepper [1982]. In a context where industry life cycle models are back at the centre stage of the economic literature, the...

L'analyse économique offre deux visions distinctes de la notion de concurrence, que l'on peut faire correspondre plus largement à deux écoles d'appréhension des phénomènes économiques. Dans l'analyse traditionnelle, tout d'abord, la concurrence est définie et étudiée comme un état du...

This unique Handbook explores both the economics of the firm and the theory of the firm, two areas which are traditionally treated separately in the literature. On the one hand, the former refers to the structure, organization and boundaries of the firm, while the latter is devoted to the...

In recent years, applied studies have shown widespread, profound and increasing heterogeneity across firms in terms of their strategy, organization arrangement and performance. This book investigates the diversity of business firms, offering a picture of the different organizational settings...