Analysis of Change Within and Between Firms embedded in their environment in the context of increasing interactions: understanding complexity of organizations

– The theory of firms and organizations is at the heart of the economic dynamics analysis because of increasing and evolving interactions within the concrete industrial organization, at intra and inter firm(s) levels. At first, we present (Sect. 2) the evolution of the theory of the firm and of organizations renewed by the complexity approaches, then (Sect. 3) we study the conditions of change within a single organization or a set of organizations before, finally (Sect. 4), putting into perspective authors’ contributions to this special issue.