Edited by David B. Audretsch, Distinguished Professor, Indiana University, USA, and Professor, the aspire! Center for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Social Competence, University of Klagenfurt, Austria and the late Steven Klepper, formerly Professor of Economics and Social Science, Carnegie Mellon University, US

• Contents:Volume I: Acknowledgements • IntroductionPart I The Product Life Cycle and Industry Evolution1. Dennis C. Mueller and John E. Tilton (1969), ‘Research and Development Costs as a Barrier to Entry’2. Boyan Jovanovic and Glenn M. MacDonald (1994), ‘The Life Cycle of a Competitive Industry’3. Steven Klepper (1996), ‘Entry, Exit, Growth, and Innovation over the Product Life Cycle’4. Steven Klepper and Kenneth L. Simons (1997), ‘Technological Extinctions of Industrial Firms: An Inquiry into their Nature and Causes’Part II The Start-up of New Firms5. P.A. Geroski (1995), ‘What Do We Know about Entry?’6. David A. Garvin (1983), ‘Spin-Offs and the New Firm Formation Process’7. David B. Audretsch (1995), ‘New Firms’8. John C. Hause and Gunnar Du Rietz (1984), ‘Entry, Industry Growth, and the Micro-dynamics of Industry Supply’Part III Sources and Implications of Diversity9. Walter Y. Oi (1983), ‘Heterogeneous Firms and the Organization of Production’10. Glenn R. Carroll, Lyda S. Bigelow, Marc-David L. Seidel and Lucia B. Tsai (1996), ‘The Fates of De Novo and De Alio Producers in the American Automobile Industry 1885-1981’11. Wesley M. Cohen and Steven Klepper (1992), ‘The Anatomy of Industry R&D Intensity Distributions’Part IV The Size Distribution of Firms12. Herbert A. Simon and Charles P. Bonini (1958), ‘The Size Distribution of Business Firms’13. Edwin Mansfield (1962), ‘Entry, Gibrat’s Law, Innovation, and the Growth of Firms’14. Boyan Jovanovic (1982), ‘Selection and the Evolution of Industry’Part V Growth15. Bronwyn H. Hall (1987), ‘The Relationship between Firm Size and Firm Growth in the US Manufacturing Sector’16. Timothy Dunne, Mark J. Roberts and Larry Samuelson (1989), ‘The Growth and Failure of U.S. Manufacturing Plants’17. John Sutton (1997), ‘Gibrat’s Legacy’Name IndexVolume II:Part I Survival1. David B. Audretsch and Talat Mahmood (1995), ‘New Firm Survival: New Results Using a Hazard Function’2. José Mata and Pedro Portugal (1994), ‘Life Duration of New Firms’3. Thomas J. Holmes and James A. Schmitz, Jr. (1995), ‘On the Turnover of Business Firms and Business Managers’4. Mark Doms, Timothy Dunne and Mark J. Roberts (1995), ‘The Role of Technology Use in the Survival and Growth of Manufacturing Plants’Part II Learning and Adaptation5. A. Michael Spence (1981), ‘The Learning Curve and Competition’6. Marvin B. Lieberman (1989), ‘The Learning Curve, Technology Barriers to Entry, and Competitive Survival in the Chemical Processing Industries’7. John R. Baldwin and Mohammed Rafiquzzaman (1995), ‘Selection versus Evolutionary Adaptation: Learning and Post-Entry Performance’8. David B. Audretsch (1991), ‘New-Firm Survival and the Technological Regime’9. Ariel Pakes and Richard Ericson (1998), ‘Empirical Implications of Alternative Models of Firm Dynamics’Part III Productivity10. Martin Neil Baily, Charles Hulten and David Campbell (1992), ‘Productivity Dynamics in Manufacturing Plants’11. Lili Liu and James R. Tybout (1996), ‘Productivity Growth in Chile and Colombia: The Role of Entry, Exit, and Learning’12. Paul A. Geroski (1989), ‘Entry, Innovation and Productivity Growth’13. Frank R. Lichtenberg and Donald Siegel (1987), ‘Productivity and Changes in Ownership of Manufacturing Plants’Part IV Turbulence14. Dennis C. Mueller (1976), ‘Information, Mobility and Profit’15. M.E. Beesley and R.T. Hamilton (1984), ‘Small Firms’ Seedbed Role and the Concept of Turbulence’16. Val Eugene Lambson (1991), ‘Industry Evolution with Sunk Costs and Uncertain Market Conditions’17. Richard Ericson and Ariel Pakes (1995), ‘Markov-Perfect Industry Dynamics: A Framework for Empirical Work’18. Hugo A. Hopenhayn (1992), ‘Entry, Exit and Firm Dynamics in Long Run Equilibrium’Name IndexVolume III:Part I Persistence1. Richard J. Gilbert and David M.G. Newbery (1982), ‘Preemptive Patenting and the Persistence of Monopoly’2. Jennifer F. Reinganum (1983), ‘Uncertain Innovation and the Persistence of Monopoly’3. Richard J. Gilbert and David M.G. Newbery (1984), ‘Uncertain Innovation and the Persistence of Monopoly: Comment’4. Jennifer F. Reinganum (1984), ‘Uncertain Innovation and the Persistence of Monopoly: Reply’5. Richard J. Gilbert and David M.G. Newbery (1984), ‘Preemptive Patenting and the Persistence of Monopoly: Reply’6. Dennis C. Mueller (1986), ‘The Persistence of Profits above the Norm’ and ‘Profitability and Market Structure’7. Clayton M. Christensen and Richard S. Rosenbloom (1995), ‘Explaining the Attacker’s Advantage: Technological Paradigms, Organizational Dynamics, and the Value Network’Part II Evolution and Horizontal Market Structure8. Steven Klepper and Elizabeth Graddy (1990), ‘The Evolution of New Industries and the Determinants of Market Structure’9. Richard E. Caves (1998), ‘Industrial Organization and the New Findings on the Turnover and Mobility of Firms’10. John Sutton (1991), ‘From Theory to Measurement’ and ‘Econometric Evidence’11. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. with the assistance of Takashi Hikino (1990), ‘Scale, Scope, and Organizational Capabilities’12. John Sutton (1996), ‘Technology and Market Structure’Part III Regional Evolution13. Edward L. Glaeser, Hedi D. Kallal, José A. Scheinkman and Andrei Shleifer (1992), ‘Growth in Cities’14. Maryann P. Feldmann and David B. Audretsch (1999), ‘Innovation in Cities: Science-based Diversity, Specialization and Localized Competition’15. Glenn Ellison and Edward L. Glaeser (1997), ‘Geographic Concentration in U.S. Manufacturing Industries: A Dartboard Approach’Part IV International Competitiveness of Industries16. Robert E. Lucas, Jr. (1993), ‘Making a Miracle’17. B.-Y. Aw and A.R. Hwang (1995), ‘Productivity and the Export Market: A Firm-Level Analysis’Part VPublic Policy18. Wesley M. Cohen and Steven Klepper (1992), ‘The Tradeoff Between Firm Size and Diversity in the Pursuit of Technological Progress’19. Joseph E. Stiglitz (1996), ‘Some Lessons from the East Asian Miracle’20. Richard R. Nelson (1992), ‘National Innovation Systems: A Retrospective on a Study’Name Index

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