Because of the accelerated life cycle in technology and correspondingly rapid technological
saturation in markets, firms are not only accelerating the rate of technological innovation but …

We investigate the development of economic structures of Western European countries over
the last three decades using employment data. We test for structural convergence on the …

In this paper, we review the literature on declining business dynamism and its implications in
the United States and propose a unifying theory to analyze the symptoms and the potential …

We explore the dynamic relationship among business entry, productivity dispersion, and
productivity growth in order to develop an indirect indicator for recent innovation in an …

We measured industry convergence both as a supply-driven (technology) process and as a
demand-driven (market) process, and we analyzed backbone networks of convergence to …

Asystematic understanding of industry dynamics is critical to strategy research because
individual firm performance dynamics both reflect and affect change at the industry level …

Notwithstanding the growing body of evidence documenting the persistent differences in the
dynamism of economies, our understanding of their drivers is still rather limited. This paper …

Despite the enthusiasm for technology convergence seen over the last decade in society
and the broad consensus on its considerable impact, there is neither any substantive …

This study examines the convergence club in industrialisation by using an algorithm
developed by Phillips and Sul. We used 183 countries for the period between 2000 and …

Existing studies of convergence across jurisdictions of a nation have focused on developed
economies. A key assumption underlying regional convergence is geographical factor …