Chapter 7: Jack of all trades or master of one? The specialisation-flexibility trade-off

Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira and Ehud Zuscovitch
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Ehud Zuscovitch: BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, BGU - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Abstract: This book addresses the foundations of economic growth at the firm level, combining both theoretical and econometric contributions by established scholars. Challenging contributions revisit Marshall's view on the management of innovation, investigate the decision of firms to venture into entrepreneurship and clarify some misunderstanding about Schumpeter's ideas. The book goes on to shed light on the classical specialisation-flexibility trade-off and provides a vision on the role of the knowledge-based economy and firm networks in technology development. Firm survival and performance, price-cost margins and the determinants of research intensity are also investigated econometrically.

Date: 2010-05-28
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Published in Jean-Luc Gaffard; Evens Salies. Innovation, economic growth and the firm : theory and evidence of industrial dynamics, Edward Elgar, 264 p., 2010, Economics 2010 and before, 9781847208323. ⟨10.4337/9781781000632.00017⟩

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DOI: 10.4337/9781781000632.00017

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