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.
Innovation, Knowledge and Power in Organizations
1st Edition
By Theodora Asimakou
May 16, 2014
This book examines discourses of knowledge and innovation in post-industrial societies and knowledge-based organizations. The author investigates the value of knowledge and the question of innovation management in a fully commercial environment for a technology company. In contrast with most of ...
Governance and Innovation: A historical view
1st Edition
By Maria Brouwer
April 28, 2014
"This provocative book applies law and finance theory to a wide range of issues bearing on corporate governance and business history. Brouwer's analysis should hold particular interest for students and scholars interested in comparative governance." Joseph A. McCahery, Professor of Corporate ...
Internationalization, Technological Change and the Theory of the Firm
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicola De Liso, Riccardo Leoncini
February 14, 2014
This book focuses on three main areas, each of which is central to economic theorising: firms’ organisation and behaviour, technological change and the process of globalisation. Each subject can be analysed by using different methods, which range from purely theoretical abstractions to case studies...
Innovation and Economic Crisis: Lessons and Prospects from the Economic Downturn
1st Edition
By Daniele Archibugi, Andrea Filippetti
November 08, 2013
The recent financial and economic crisis has spurred a lot of interest among scholars and public audience. Strangely enough, the impact of the crisis on innovation has been largely underestimated. This books can be regarded as a complementary reading for those interested in the effect of the crisis...
Innovation in Complex Social Systems
1st Edition
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By Petra Ahrweiler
November 08, 2013
Innovation is the creation of new, technologically feasible, commercially realisable products and processes and, if things go right, it emerges from the ongoing interaction of innovative organisations such as universities, research institutes, firms, government agencies and venture capitalists. ...
Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship and Innovation Systems: Evidence from Europe
1st Edition
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By Franco Malerba
November 08, 2013
This book examines entrepreneurship from three interrelated perspectives. Firstly, it links entrepreneurship to innovation and to the generation, transformation and use of knowledge. Secondly, it inserts entrepreneurship in innovation systems of various types- national, sectoral and local. Thirdly,...
Targeting Regional Economic Development
1st Edition
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By Stephan J. Goetz, Steven Deller, Tom Harris
November 08, 2013
Targeting regional economic development (TRED) has a long and rich tradition among academic economists and in the world of economic development practitioners. This book builds on a series of workshops and papers organized by The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development (NERCRD) at the ...
Institutional Diversity and Innovation: Continuing and Emerging Patterns in Japan and China
1st Edition
By Cornelia Storz, Sebastian Schäfer
October 25, 2013
The concept of "innovation systems" has gained considerable attention from scholars and politicians alike. The concept promises not only to serve as a tool to explain sustained economic development, but also to provide policy-makers with scientifically grounded policy options to advance the growth ...
Strategy in Emerging Markets: Telecommunications Establishments in Europe
1st Edition
By Anders Pehrsson
October 23, 2013
Markets which have been previously out-of-reach for companies other than monopolies or other protected firms, are increasingly being opened up to new entrants. Greater competitive pressure implies that more sophisticated business strategies must be formulated by all companies cooperating in ...
The Emerging Industrial Structure of the Wider Europe
1st Edition
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By F. McGowan, S. Radosevic, Nick Von Tunzelman
October 23, 2013
The latest wave of European Union expansion has brought many central and Eastern European countries into the fold. Unlike previous enlargements however, the latest new members are also undergoing radical economic reform as they reintegrate into international economy.This book reviews the changing ...
Broadband Economics: Lessons from Japan
1st Edition
By Takanori Ida
September 03, 2013
Japan's high-speed Internet access services such as ADSL, CATV Internet and FTTH are considered the cheapest and fastest state-of-the-art services drawing international attention. In this book the author introduces the current status of broadband services in Japan and their recent development ...
Local Industrial Clusters: Existence, Emergence and Evolution
1st Edition
By Thomas Brenner
July 08, 2013
The key approach taken in this book is that all local economic clusters have something in common - specific case-studies are thus put into wider perspective in a masterly study that will be of keen interest to both economists and geographers....