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.
Knowledge, Innovation and Internationalisation: Essays in Honour of Cesare Imbriani
1st Edition
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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
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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 ...
Innovation, Technology and Knowledge
1st Edition
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By Charlie Karlsson, Börje Johansson, Roger Stough
November 10, 2014
In the last four decades the developed economies have developed into veritable knowledge economies at the same time as more and more economies have entered the road to economic development. Typical for the developments during this time has been substantially increased investments in research and ...
European Union Direct Investment in China: Characteristics, Challenges and Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Maria Do Céu Esteves, Haiyan Zhang, Daniël Van den Bulcke
September 11, 2014
China's immersion in the world economy and trading system is a continued source of great interest throughout the globe.The book is divided into three parts, the first being an overview of the Chinese investment environment and the development of foreign direct investment (FDI) over the last twenty ...
Dynamic Capabilities Between Firm Organisation and Local Systems of Production
1st Edition
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By Riccardo Leoncini, Sandro Montresor
August 12, 2014
Changes in technology and demand require firms to learn how to continuously reshape unique and non-imitable resources and competences. A firm’s capacity to achieve this is captured by the concept of dynamic capabilities. This book offers an analysis of how firms manage to reconfigure their pool of ...
Economic Geography and the Unequal Development of Regions
1st Edition
By Jean-Claude Prager, Jacques-François Thisse
June 19, 2014
Behind the mystery of economic growth stands another mystery: why do some places fare better than others? Casual evidence shows that sizable differences exist at very different spatial scales (countries, regions and cities). This book aims to discuss the main economic reasons for the existence of ...
Localised Technological Change: Towards the Economics of Complexity
1st Edition
By Cristiano Antonelli
June 19, 2014
The extent to which firms can react creatively to rather than adjust passively against new techniques and practices is dependent on their command of technological knowledge and relative competence. This book explores the characteristics of the path dependent dynamics of localized technological ...
Public Policy for Regional Development
1st Edition
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By Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, François Vaillancourt
June 19, 2014
This book draws on the expertise of both North American and European specialists of regional economics, evaluating the impact of economic policy in certain regions and considering alternative policies to foster regional economic development and improve the employment and income of the residents of ...