Prepared as part of a research project titled " The Importance of Clusters to Urban and Regional Prosperity in a Globalised Economy " , coordinated by L'institute ABSTRACT Since the 1980s, the emergence of clusters of firms and industrial districts has inspired a large amount of literature on the subject. Most of the research has focused on analysing how these agglomerations of firms embedded i...

Industrial delicensing, which began in 1985 in India marked a discrete break from a past of centrally planned industrial development. Similar liberalization episodes are taking place across the globe. We develop a simple Schumpeterian growth model to understand how firms respond to the entry threat imposed by liberalization. The model emphasizes that firm responses, even within the same industr...

This paper investigates whether market competition enhances firms’ incentives to hide profits. We develop a theoretical model of firms’ profit hiding behavior in competitive environments and derive several testable hypotheses. We then test the model using a database that covers more than 20,000 large-and-medium-sized industrial firms in China during the period 1995-2002. Our findings show that ...

The participation of firms in Free/Libre/Open Source (FLOSS) communities is growing and is increasingly debated amongst scholars. As [41] explained, FLOSS needs profit and we do not know successfull floss products without firms in their ecosystem, either being via the financial support of foundations (Eclipse, Linux) or the commercial offering of products or services based on specific FLOSS pro...

today, organizations that increasingly involved with dynamic environment and change must predict future changes in order to survive and succeed in a competitive world. the aim of this article was survey of the effect of innovation strategies on organizational entrepreneurship development with emphasis on organizational learning capacity in lorestan industrial estates. the research objective was...

Given the centrality of firms as actors of industrial development and dynamics, our first aim has been to model their production process in a flexible and operational way. Secondly, given the importance of interactions in understanding economic phenomena, the following aim has been to model this process in order to be able to embed firms in an interacting system, and understand their changes as...

Competitive isomorphism refers to the phenomenon of competing firms becoming similar as they mimic each other under common market forces. With the growing presence of firms as well as their consumers and suppliers on the Web, we discover a parallel phenomenon of online isomorphism wherein the web footprints of competing firms are found to overlap. We propose new online metrics based on the cont...

The GVC approach has stressed that inter-firm linkages within GVCs can play a crucial role in transferring technological knowledge and promoting innovation. However, the exact nature of these GVC inter-firms relationships, and their impact on the learning and innovative processes of firms involved in such GVCs in developing countries is still controversial and rather understudied. In this paper...

Self-similar models are largely used to describe the extinction’s rate of biological species. In this paper we analyse the extinction’s rate of firms in 8 OECD countries. Firms are classified by industrial sectors and sizes: we find that while a power law distribution with exponent close to 2 fits very well the extinction rate by sector, a Weibull distribution is more appropriate if one analyse...

The theoretical literature on industrial organization has been argued that firms hold excess capacity to deter entry. However, empirical analysis did not provide much support to this hypothesis. In this paper we show that the dominant firms may hold excess capacity not for entry deterrence but for getting higher benefit from other business strategy such as licensing. We show that co-existence o...