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...

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...

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...

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 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...

The article analyses recent approaches on entry and post-entry performance by new firms, with particular focus on its applicability to small manufacturing firms recently borned in Argentina. The analysis is based on a sample of small firms created in the period 1990-2000 in three intermediate...

We study post entry performance of manufactuirng firms in 3 municipalities of Buenos Aires province, borned between 1990 and 1999. The aim of the paper is to identify main factors explaining firm growth. The focus is directed to endogenous determinants of firm performance, individual or local as...

Este artículo trata sobre la naturaleza de las crisis económicas en la Argentina. La opinión usual las vincula con la escasez de divisas. En este ensayo se polemiza con esta tesis. El punto de partida del análisis es la teoría del imperialismo. A principios del siglo xx, la economía...

In explaining economic phenomena, economic analysis concentrates on selected influences and fixes the host of other factors under a ceteris paribus clause. This view, which goes back to Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), is developed in the first part of the book. Aggregation is viewed as a particular...