The paper aims at investigating how the organization and performances of a certain industry evolves once competition among firms is modelled as the intertwining of innovative search and organizational change. In order to take the full roster of participants into account, and to retain the inner...

Employment adjustments to automation vary across industries, regions, technologies, and time. Technological penetration of robots is related to higher employment within the industry in low-tech regions in the short run. Robots are negatively correlated to employment in knowledge-intensive...

Our empirical literature review shows that little is known about how firm performance changes with age, presumably because of the paucity of data on firm age. For Spanish manufacturing firms, we analyse the firm performance related to firm age between 1998 and 2006. We find evidence that firms...