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Preliminary call for a one-day satellite conference on: Firms and Networks

Firms and networks of firms organised in industrial branches are obviously complex systems which have been studied in industrial economics, geographical economics, business, and management sciences. The complex system approaches, especially network formalisms, are well-adapted to the many questions that arise such as how firms emerge, what is the dynamics of their development,how industries are organised in firms networks, what are individual firms strategies in terms of connecting to other firms or competing on the market.
This one day session should attract specialists from different horizons, complex systems scientists as well as economists or management scientists.

Organisers of the satellite conference:

Guido Caldarelli and Gérard Weisbuch

Invited speakers:

Giovanni Dosi and Mauro Gallegatti.

Application:

We are looking for papers based on empirical studies and/or computational models results rather purely verbal theories or future research programs.
Please send us before june 15th either a preprint or a long abstract (4 pages) of the work you propose to present.
No specific fees are requested to attend this parallel session except the ICCS08 general fees. Please let us know wether you plan to attend with/out presenting a paper.

Authors will be notified by july 1rst about the results of the selection process.

Looking forward seeing you in Jerusalem.