A: Enterprise Groups -- Exploring the Role of Acquisition in the Performance of Firms: Is the "Firm" The Right Unit of Analysis? -- The Role of French and Foreign Enterprise Groups in the French Productive System Internationalization -- Enterprise Group: The French Methodology and Results -- Integration of Information in Enterprise Groups -- Myths and Realities about Employment and SMES in France: The Role of Enterprise Groups (1984-1992) -- B: International Comparison -- International Comparability and Quality of Statistics -- Sample Dependence: Theoretical Aspects and Illustrations -- The Role of Technology in Manufacturing Employment and Productivity Growth: A Cross Country Micro Data Analysis of Japan and the United States -- Quality Indicators for Statistical Surveys -- C: Efficiency, Productivity, Innovation and Other Factors -- Dynamic Labour Demand Model for Heterogeneous Panels -- Productivity and Specificity in Factor Inputs -- Is Maximal Efficiency Necessarily Optimal for Firms? A Panel Data Analysis of Firms Technical Efficiency within an Efficiency Wage Framework -- Productivity, Competition, Financial Pressure and Corporate Governance - Some Empirical Evidence -- Changing Nature of Japanese Firm?: Technology Adoption, Organizational Structure and Human Resource Strategy -- Parametric Estimation of Technical and Allocative Efficiencies and Productivity Changes: A Case Study -- Efficiency of the Italian Banking Sector via a Parametric Approach -- Analysis of Effects of Reconstructed Business Units on Employment and Productivity. Longitudinal Study Using Synthetic Units of Finnish Manufacturing -- Factors of Performance by Plant Generations. Some Findings from Finland -- Efficiency and Optimal Size Estimation with Panel Data: The Case of Business Service and Building Sector in Italy -- Information Content of Balance Sheets for Quantitative Analysis of Industrial Districts -- Efficiency and Localisation: The Case of Italian Districts -- Groups, SME, and Territories: A Statistical Typology of the Local Industrial Structures in France -- Econometric Issues in the Analysis of Linked Worker-Employer Surveys -- Dynamics of Italian Industrial Firms: Microeconomic Analysis of Performance and Labour Demand from 1989 to 1994 -- The Influence of Adjustment Costs on Labour Adjustment: An Analysis Using Panel Data for Manufacturing Establishments in Lower Saxony -- Companies and Local Units: The Employment Trends in France -- Rank, Stock, Order and Epidemic Effects in the Diffusion of New Technologies in Italian Manufacturing Industries -- Problems of Competitiveness Indicators -- Financing Constraints and Markups: Further Evidence Form Italian Firm Level Data -- Measuring the Duration of Italian Enterprises on the European Market (1997) -- Trend of the Tourist Flows in Italian Hotels: A Microeconomic Analysis During the Period 1990-95 -- Assessing Slacks through a Nested Radial Approach in an FDH Reference Technology -- Unobserved Revenues Estimation for Homogeneous Agricultural Firms: An Econometric Modelling Approach -- D: Task Force -- Issues in Following Enterprises through Time -- Authors List and Addresses.