L'économie industrielle, telle qu'en elle-même. À la recherche de l'objet perdu ?

This paper is about what is considered to be the failure of industrial economics. Industrial economists have generally been unwilling or unable to build a clear understanding of the logics and dynamics of industrial systems. As Industrial economists have attached much more importance to rather static, partial problems, their contributions to the way complex systems are evolving over time have remained rather poor. Industrial Economics is, whatever the reasons, very far from having succeeded in satisfying some basic epistemological requirements up to a satisfactory level and thus in building some comprehensive understanding of the way the industrial system function and perform. If you look at industrial economics as it has developed over the years and more so in recent years, you don?t find any explicit acknowledgment or analytical integration of the major, inescapable fact that the world or the realities which are the subject matter of industrial economics have dramatically changed. While things have very fundamentally changed, this doesn?t seem to have affected the way we raise the issues and solve the problems in industrial economics.