Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; G.Dosi & F.Malerba - PART 1: LEARNING, CORPORATE ORGANIZATION AND STRATEGIES - Learning and Schumpeterian Dynamics; D.Levinthal - Technological Regimes and Firm Behaviour; F.Malerba & L.Orsenigo - Incentives Routines and Self Command; S.Postrel & R.Rumelt - From Individual Biases to Organizational Errors; D.Lovallo - Structure, Competence and Learning in an Adaptive Model of the Firm; L.Marengo - Managing Core Competences for Corporate Renewal; I.Doz - Technological Innovation and Firm Inertia; P.Schoemaker & L.Marais - Strategies of Competence Accumulation; K.MacCrimmon - PART 2: ORGANIZATION AND STRATEGIES IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE - Corporate Strategy, Structure and Control Methods in the United States During the 20th Century; A.Chandler - National Organizing Principles and the Erstwhile Dominance of the American Multinational Corporation; B.Kogut - Two Distorting Mirrors for British Manufacturing Performance: International and Sectoral Comparisons; L.Hannah - Business Management in Japan: A Comparative Historical Study; K.Nakagawa - The French Case; L.Leboyer - The Impact of Preindustrial Heritage; B.Dornseifer & J.Kocka - Size and Strategy of Italian Industrial Enterprises: Empirical Evidence and Some Conjectures; Giannetti et al - PART 3: THE INSTITUTIONAL EMBEDDEDNESS OF CORPORATE BEHAVIOURS: NATIONAL SYSTEMS OF PRODUCTION AND INNOVATION - National Innovation Systems; R.Nelson - Institutions and Economic Development in the Advanced Countries; J.Zysman - Index