special feature: Comparing evolutionary dynamics across different national settings: the case of the synthetic dye industry, 1857-1914

Johann Peter Murmann and Ernst Homburg ()
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Ernst Homburg: Department of History, University of Maastricht, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands

Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2001, vol. 11, issue 2, 177-205

Abstract: Current models of industry evolution suggest that development patterns should be the same across different levels of analysis. In comparing the evolution of the synthetic dye industry at the global level and in the five major producer countries before World War I (Britain, Germany, France, Switzerland and the United States), it is shown that patterns of industry evolution differed significantly across national contexts. Based on a quantitative and qualitative database of all firms and plants in the industry, the paper analyzes how German firms came to dominate the industry and identifies factors such as availabilities of crucial skills, economies of scale and scope, and positive feedback mechanisms between firms and national institutions that likely produced these national differences. The empirical analysis calls for formal models of evolution that incorporate differences in institutional environments.

Keywords: Comparative; industry; evolution; -; Institutional; analysis; -; Technological; innovation; -; Longitudinal; dataset; of; firms; and; plants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-04-19
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