This paper aims at exploring the nature and the determinants of the dynamic capabilities of the firm: a notion which, while increasingly more fashionable, remains still conceptually diffuse. Through a critical review of the massive and heterogeneous literature which refers, either explicitly or...

The aim of this paper is to study the automobile industry of the most important European countries (France, Germany, Great Britain and Italy) from a sectoral, system perspective. The main relationships within and between the building blocks constituting the automobile technological system are...

The paper aims at investigating how the organization of a certain industry evolves once the competition among its firms, producing a 'com-plex' (i.e. non-modular) product, is modeled as the intertwining of innovative search and organizational change. In order to take the full roster of...