The article analyses the new research in industrial economics. It presents the point of view of those who see industry structure as a natural and socially efficient adaptation to market conditions and contrasts it with the approach of those for whom strategic behaviour to control and transform...

[eng] Hi Tech sectors are characterized by high growth of demand and employment, higher than average productivity growth, a highly skilled labour form and a high level of non material investment. These sectors have also important spin-off effects on the other sectors. The relative weight of...

[eng] This paper first examines some of the main strategic responses which Community firms have provided, anticipating the post-1992 single market. Internally, corporate strategies tend to concentrate on main product lines. Externally, cooperative agreements, mergers and acquisitions play a...

[fre] Le but de cet article est de présenter une première synthèse des principaux critères de dés-industrialisation et des problématiques qui y correspondent, dans le contexte de la Communauté Européenne. Ce faisant, il est suggéré que les approches macro­économiques ont, en la...

[eng] which all measures of concentration and indexes of aggregate monopoly power derived from the Lerner index, should possess. On this theoretical basis, they have demonstrated that within the confines of varions oligopoly models (non-cooperative Cournot-Nash, price leadership, differentiated...

[eng] State and firm « filieres » . Alexis Jacquemin, Michel Rainelli. The concept of « filière » refers to the input-output relationships between industriel sectors. One aspect of industrial policy is to improve industrial structure by reinforcing the control of these relationships,...

The purpose of this note is to show that a firm operating in perfectly competitive markets but facing costs of adjustment to its sole variable input (labour) may well prefer to operate in a region of the production function in which the output elasticity of labour is greater than unity (i.e....