Routledge Studies in Global Competition
About the Book Series
This series presents high quality research monographs and collections written from a variety of perspectives and at different levels of analysis. The study of global competition is increasingly at the centre of an academic crossroads at which different research programmes and levels of investigation are now meeting, bringing together researchers working in areas such as international business, technological change, geographical and locational analysis and European integration.
Embedded Entrepreneurship: The Institutional Dynamics of Innovation
1st Edition
By Alexander Ebner
December 31, 2025
In this book, Alexander Ebner reconstructs the theory of entrepreneurship from an institutionalist perspective. It provides a fresh account of current theorising on entrepreneurship, specifically addressing Schumpeterian thought as well as Neo-Austrian, Neo-Schumpeterian and evolutionary approaches...
The Evolving Firm in the Evolving Context: Coordinating Competences
1st Edition
By Päivi Oinas
December 31, 2025
This volume offers a broad social scientific view of 'the firm'. Regarded as an agent of change in society, the firm is as fully conditioned by the environment in which it operates. This requires that actors participating in the evolution of firms are involved in an ongoing coordination process. ...
The Economics of Structural Change in Knowledge
1st Edition
By Francesco Quatraro
December 08, 2016
This book provides an elaboration upon the concept of knowledge from an economic viewpoint. However this is not a book on economics of knowledge, at least not in the conventional sense. Most of the existing books on the matter have focused on the treatment of knowledge in terms of properties of ...
Technological Innovations, Multinational Corporations and the New International Competitiveness: The Case of Intermediate Countries
1st Edition
Edited
By Jos Molero
August 26, 2016
The aim of this book is to contribute to a better understanding of those intermediate countries with specific reference to two relevant international areas; those countries of southern Europe whose dynamic is very much influenced by the phases of European construction, and in countries of Latin ...
Social Networks, Innovation and the Knowledge Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Isabel Salavisa, Margarida Fontes
August 03, 2016
In this book, the authors illustrate how social networks can play a very significant role in the technological catch up process in moderate innovative countries. Using an innovative approach to the study of entrepreneurship in knowledge-intensive sectors, the book analyses the role of ...
The Communications Industries in the Era of Convergence
1st Edition
By Catherine E.A. Mulligan
June 17, 2016
This book provides a unique view of the evolution of these industries, drawing out how technology and economic forces have worked together to create platforms around which different companies interact. Through identifying the key aspects of this evolution over the past decades, the author is able ...
Japanese Firms in Europe: A Global Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Frédérique Sachwald
April 27, 2016
In this study, the contributors examine the evolution of Japanese direct investment in Europe and explore its determinants. They illustrate how, as multinationals, Japanese firms adapt to local conditions and try to take advantage of a global organisation. In this respect, three areas in particular...
Technological Change and Economic Performance
1st Edition
By Albert N. Link, Donald Siegel
December 07, 2015
This useful new book reviews the literature on technology and economic growth covering historical and theoretical developments such as: *new models for measuring productivity*sources of technical knowledge and technological spillovers*stock market reactions to investment in technologySuch a ...
Evolution of Competition Laws and their Enforcement: A Political Economy Perspective
1st Edition
By Pradeep Mehta
August 19, 2015
This edited volume identifies the various country specific factors that warrant changes in the design and implementation of competition laws. The book covers case studies of nine countries of differing sizes and at varying stages of economic development, that have at one stage or another repealed...
Knowledge and Innovation in Regional Industry: An Entrepreneurial Coalition
1st Edition
By Roel Rutten
May 21, 2015
This superb new book develops a knowledge-based theory of innovation, marrying three streams of literature: innovation, inter-firm collaboration and networks, and learning regions. This book will interest all those working in economic geography and the economics of innovation....
The Economics of Creativity: Ideas, Firms and Markets
1st Edition
Edited
By Thierry Burger-Helmchen
May 21, 2015
Understanding the economic implication of creative individuals and firms is at the heart of the new economy and of related fields such as the economics of knowledge, the economics of science and innovation management. This book brings together a panel of theoretical and empirical contributions ...
Epistemic Economics and Organization: Forms of Rationality and Governance for a Wiser Economy
1st Edition
By Anna Grandori
February 27, 2015
This book proposes a new approach to economics, management and organization that should help in making economic organization ‘wise’, ‘innovative’ and ‘robust’ in an uncertain and risky world. Although the modern economy and society is ‘knowledge intensive’, Anna Grandori argues that the dominant ...