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, Technology and Hypercompetition: Review and Synthesis
1st Edition
By Hans Werner Gottinger
January 30, 2009
In an increasingly technologically-led century the striking pattern emerging in firms’ innovative activities is their competition for a technological leadership position in situations best described as races. A 'race' is an interactive pattern characterized by firms constantly trying to get ahead ...
Competitiveness of New Industries: Institutional Framework and Learning in Information Technology in Japan, the U.S and Germany
1st Edition
Edited
By Cornelia Storz, Andreas Moerke
October 01, 2009
Many recent books on information and communication technologies concentrate on individual country experiences or neglect to analyze political factors in conjunction with entrepreneurial ones. This book, the result of an international research project, comprises a comprehensive comparison of three ...
MIT and the Rise of Entrepreneurial Science
1st Edition
By Henry Etzkowitz
January 03, 2007
MIT and the Rise of Entrepreneurial Science is a timely and authoritative book that analyses the transformation of the university's role in society as an expanded one involving economic and social development as well as teaching and research. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology invented the ...
Entrepreneurship: A New Perspective
1st Edition
By Thomas Grebel
April 06, 2006
The entrepreneur has been neglected over the years in formal economic theorizing. Previously there has been only eclectic theories such as human capital theory and network dynamics which discuss certain perspectives of entrepreneurial behaviour. This insightful book closes this gap in ...
Biotechnology in Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
By Gerhard Fuchs
April 03, 2003
The biotechnology industry is an extremely important sector in the developed world's economies. This book, with contributions from an international array of experts, explains why biotechnology companies in different countries concentrate in a small number of locations and what accounts for the ...
The Economics of Innovation, New Technologies and Structural Change
1st Edition
By Cristiano Antonelli
April 06, 2006
The ongoing process of revising and rethinking the foundations of economic theory leads to great complexities and contradictions at the heart of economics. ‘Economics of innovation’ provides a fertile challenge to standard economics, and one that can help it overcome its many criticisms. This ...
Technological Resources and the Logic of Corporate Diversification
1st Edition
By Brian S Silverman
June 13, 2002
This impressive book sees the author applying and extending the resource based view of the firm to explain and predict the strategy of corporate diversification.Technological Resources and the Logic of Corporate Diversification is an original and authoritative book that will be extremely useful to ...
Multinational Firms: The Global-Local Dilemma
1st Edition
Edited
By John Dunning, Jean-Louis Mucchielli
December 13, 2001
At the turn of the century, questions about multinational firms' strategies as regards the forces, on the one hand, of globalization and, on the other hand, of the regional and local dimensions are very much to the fore. What are the new constraints and the new theories to explain global-local ...
Multinational Firms and Impacts on Employment, Trade and Technology: New Perspectives for a New Century
1st Edition
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By Robert E. Lipsey, Jean-Louis Mucchielli
December 13, 2001
For decades governments, politicians, and trade unions have feared that firms investing abroad involved a loss of employment and a decline in wages for the home country, the implied assumption being that global production and consumption are somehow fixed. Similarly, research on multinational ...
The Source of Capital Goods Innovation: The Role of User Firms in Japan and Korea
1st Edition
By Kong Rae-Lee
March 23, 1998
The results of the empirical investigation of Japan and Korea show that the user firms in both countries, represented by car makers, have involved themselves in the technical and entrepreneurial entry into machine tools along with making active investments. As a consequence, they made a ...