Specifically, the literature on national systems (e.g., Dosi 1999; Freeman1995; Murmann 2003), regional systems (e.g., Cooke 2001; Freeman 2002), and sectoral systems (e.g., Malerba 2004) has adopted a wholesale treatment of the similar entities as the studies tend to stress environment-level and collective determinants of systemic change.
Although the resulting co-world view was useful to articulate broad frames, it left a gap between a variety of differentiated firm-level initiatives and corresponding immediate and unique aspects of the environment.
With this framing, we are utterly limited in following how the decisions and activities of a firm go from being local individual (A) to collective global (B) and back.2