Aims and Scope
The mission of Perspectives in Industrial Economics is to stimulate research and reflection on market structures, corporate strategies, technological innovations, and the role of public policies in industrial organization. Covered topics include:
- Industrial organization and market structures: perfect competition, oligopolies, monopolies, barriers to entry, information asymmetries, and differentiation strategies.
- Corporate strategies and competitive behavior: pricing, vertical integration, diversification, strategic alliances, and coopetition.
- Innovation, R&D, and technologies: the role of research and development, economics of innovation, patents, technology transfer, clusters, and regional innovation systems.
- Regulation and industrial policies: competition policies, regulation of strategic sectors (energy, telecommunications, transport), national and international industrial policies.
- Globalization and global value chains: industry location, production process fragmentation, foreign direct investment, and international competitiveness.
- Digital economy and emerging industries: digital platforms, data economy, Industry 4.0, artificial intelligence, and digital transformation.
- Sustainable development and green industries: energy transition, low-carbon industry, circular economy, and integration of ESG criteria in industrial strategies.
- Work, employment, and industrial organization: impact of industrial transformations on employment, skills, and forms of work organization.
- Behavioral economics and industrial strategy: role of cognitive biases, social norms, and organizational culture in strategic decision-making.
- International comparisons: comparative studies of industrial structures in developed, emerging, and developing countries.
This thematic diversity makes the journal a privileged platform for publishing theoretical, empirical, quantitative, qualitative, and interdisciplinary research on industrial economics and its contemporary transformations.