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.
Mergers and Acquisitions in Asia: A Global Perspective
1st Edition
By Roger Y.W. Tang, Ali M. Metwalli
May 10, 2013
This book examines recent trends towards mergers and acquisitions in Japan, Greater China and Southeast Asia from 1990 to 2004. Comparisons are made among regions and between countries of particular regions. The economic profiles and investment climates of key countries are discussed and ...
Going Multinational: The Korean Experience of Direct Investment
1st Edition
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By Frédérique Sachwald
May 03, 2013
At the beginning of the 1990s, Korean firms embarked on an impressive wave of direct investment abroad. This dramatic multinationalization was considered as yet another sign of Korea's remarkable economic performance, especially as a high proportion of the foreign ventures were located in advanced ...
Evolution and Design of Institutions
1st Edition
By Christian Schubert, Georg Von Wangenheim
November 14, 2012
This book comprises nine papers approaching designed institutions and their interplay with spontaneous institutions from various angles. While the evolution of spontaneous institutions is quite well understood in economic thinking, the development of consciously designed institutions has been ...
Evolutionary Economic Geography: Location of production and the European Union
1st Edition
By Miroslav Jovanovic
September 18, 2012
The purpose of this book is to provide a guided tour through the theoretical foundations of spatial locations of firms and industries in an evolutionary economic framework. It addresses the issues of how a location of business in geographical space is selected and where economic activity may (re)...
Location and Competition
1st Edition
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By Harry Garretsen, Steven Brakman
September 10, 2012
The 'new economic geography' is one of the most significant developments to have occurred in economics in recent years. The new insights gained from this approach have been successfully applied to issues such as globalization, international integration and policy competition. Contributed to and ...
The Changing Economic Geography of Globalization
1st Edition
By Giovanna Vertova
June 28, 2012
The process of globalization has had profound, often destabilizing, effects on space, at all levels (i.e. local, regional, national, international). This revealing book analyzes, both theoretically and empirically, the effects of globalization over space. It considers, through a dialogue among ...
Multinational Corporations and European Regional Systems of Innovation
1st Edition
By John Cantwell, Simona Iammarino
April 30, 2012
In globalising economies, particularly those going through a process of economic integration such as those economies within the EU, regions forge an increasing number of linkages with other locations within and across national borders. This is largely carried out by the technological efforts of ...
Creativity, Innovation and the Cultural Economy
1st Edition
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By Andy C. Pratt, Paul Jeffcutt
August 16, 2011
This collection brings together international experts from different continents to examine creativity and innovation in the cultural economy. In doing so, the collection provides a unique contemporary resource for researchers and advanced students. As a whole, the collection addresses creativity ...
Coopetition Strategy: Theory, experiments and cases
1st Edition
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By Giovanni B. Dagnino, Elena Rocco
August 15, 2011
This innovative book portrays the state-of-the-art of coopetition strategy regarded as a compelling mindset to exploit entirely the potential of actors’ interdependencies (firms, governments, suppliers, customers, scientists and partners) in today’s global scenarios. It provides the rudiments for ...
Risk Appraisal and Venture Capital in High Technology New Ventures
1st Edition
By Gavin C. Reid, Julia A. Smith
September 10, 2010
This book is a 'crossover' treatment of quantitative and qualitative risk analysis within the setting of new high technology ventures in the UK. Reid and Smith have based their research on extensive fieldwork in patent-intensive, high-technology firms. This has included face-to-face interviews with...
Changes in Regional Firm Founding Activities: A Theoretical Explanation and Empirical Evidence
1st Edition
By Dirk Fornahl
December 08, 2009
Part of the highly successful Studies in Global Competition series and written by an author based at the Max Planck Institute in Germany – one of the world’s leading centres of evolutionary economics, this book looks at the medium to long term development of firm founding activity. Developing a ...
Competing for Knowledge: Creating, Connecting, and Growing
1st Edition
By Robert A Huggins, Hiro Izushi
November 24, 2009
Focusing on the dynamics of the knowledge economy, this volume provides an overview of the knowledge creation capabilities of economies, an examination of their growth performance and a detailed analysis of how the creation and connection of knowledge is becoming the key means of growing ...