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.
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of nine countries of differing sizes and at varying stages of economic development, that have at one stage or another repealed...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 ...
Territory, specialization and globalization in European Manufacturing
1st Edition
By Helena Marques, Francisco Puig
March 31, 2015
Although traditional manufacturing (textiles, clothing, footwear, furniture, etc) has been in decline in developed countries, it still represents an important part of European employment due to its labour-intensive character. Moreover, its geographical concentration particularly exposes certain ...
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 ...
Knowledge, Innovation and Internationalisation: Essays in Honour of Cesare Imbriani
1st Edition
Edited
By Piergiuseppe Morone
February 27, 2015
As firms increasingly rely on knowledge as a key factor for innovation, the ability to innovate is increasingly perceived as a key asset for being competitive in international markets. This new volume argues that innovation, knowledge and internationalisation should be viewed as tightly related ...
Universities, Cities and Regions: Loci for Knowledge and Innovation Creation
1st Edition
Edited
By Roberta Capello, Agnieszka Olechnicka, Grzegorz Gorzelak
February 27, 2015
Regions and cities are the natural loci where knowledge is created, and where it can be easily turned into a commercial product. Regions are territories where, under certain socio-economic conditions, a strong sense of belonging and mutual trust develops the ability to transform information and ...
Entry and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms
1st Edition
By Marco Vivarelli
February 05, 2015
Entry and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms focuses on newborn firms, analyzing the determinants of entry, survival and post-entry performance. Written by a world leading expert on industrial dynamics, whose previous book The Employment Impact of Innovation was very popular, this book ...
Climates of Global Competition
1st Edition
By Maria Bengtsson
December 22, 2014
Climates of Competition studies the innovations and manoeuvres of geographically proximate competitors to further understand the nature and dynamics of competition.Through case-studies of manufacturers competing for shares in three industrial markets - agricultural machinery, processing equipment ...
Global Competition and the Labour Market
1st Edition
By Nigel Driffield
December 01, 2014
This study combines an industry level and a firm level analysis on the wage and employment effects of multinational companies. This has not been attempted in any previous work. In view of the results, important questions are raised regarding how global changes in the structure of production may ...
Multinational Enterprises and Technological Spillovers
1st Edition
By Tommaso Perez
December 01, 2014
An analysis of the impact of inward investment on the competitiveness of indigenous firms, Multinational Enterprises and Technological Spillovers draws on evidence from the UK and Italian manufacturing sectors to show how foreign presence may generate both virtuous and vicious circles of ...