This essay suggest a theoretical framework for studying the accumulation process in an historical perspective. This framework comprises the expansion routes effectively or potentially open to big firm growth, available channels for funding investment expenditures and the barriers to corporate...

This article analyses the evolution of foreign capital weigh in 500 biggest companies based on Big Firms Survey carried by official statistical bureau, INDEC. Next other episodes of expansion and contraction of foreign capital are accounted for. Based on that facts, we propose a conceptual...

Topics that this article analyses constitute an intersection between technological change and industrial dynamics literature. Analysis is centered around the relationship between the shapes of technical knowledge accumulation in a given industry and the probability that innovation could be the...

This article reviews conceptual frameworks that relate different intersectoral dynamics (entry and survival modes) with the nature of innovative process. The edge of arguments (that could be considered as pieces of evolutionary theory) is based on the analysis of factors determining advantages...

This paper provides a case study of entry processes in a particular regional environment. The focus is based on the role of local economic structure and its evolution as main factors inducing and constraining individual decisions of new firm formation. The data emerges from a medium size city of...

The ‘90s signaled a new phase in the restructuring process of the argentine economy initiated in the mid ‘70s. A broad range of deep changes in the structural conditions in which firms and institutions operate were introduced. This process have had clear impacts on the viability and/or...