Transforming enterprise

the economic and social implications of information technology

Innovators across all sectors of society are using information and communication technology to reshape economic and social activity. Even after the boom -- and despite the bust -- the process of structural change continues across organizational boundaries. Transforming Enterprise considers the implications of this change from a ...

Technological economy

In this major new collection, leading experts explore the multidisciplinary connections between technology and economy, drawing on new convergences between economic sociology and science and technology studies. Through theoretical and empirical studies, the authors investigate: * economics and economic knowledges as technologies * the economies as socio-technical ...

Rethinking regional innovation and change

path dependency or regional breakthrough

Beyond path dependency and competitive convergence: Institutional transfer from a discourse-analytical perspective.- Tacit knowledge, path dependency and local trajectories of growth.- Regional transformation and regional disequilibrium: New knowledge economies and their discontents.- Switching ties, recombining teams: Avoiding lock-in through project organization?- Knowledge- intensive services as ...

E-Merging media

communication and the media economy of the future

After the very successful ECC-Book on "E-conomy" this new report of the European Communication Council (ECC) analyzes from various perspectives the profound societal and economical change of the media economy, initiated by digitalization and networking. Against the background of the current media history, it highlights ...

Los servicios avanzados a las empresas

dinámicas de localización, patrones de 'externalización' y efectos sobre el desarrollo regional

Uno de los rasgos que caracteriza a las modernas economías es el rápido desarrollo de los servicios avanzados a las empresas.Las actividades vinculadas a la consultoría, la informática, la ingeniería o los recursos humanos, entre otras, se han convertido en un elemento clave para ...

Creative industries

Bringing together seminal essays written across traditional and new media, industry sectors, and national contexts, Creative Industries chronicles the way mass culture is produced, packaged and circulated in a technology-enabled and globalized world. The volume samples the subjects that have come to define the creative ...

Industrial economics and organization

a european persepctive

Industrial Economics and Organisation: A European Perspective presents an authoritative account of both traditional and current theories in industrial economics. This new edition aims to capitalise on the key strengths of the first edition while bringing this edition up to date. It has done so ...

Indicator Systems for Sustainable Innovation

In the recent past, environmental innovations have led to a considerable reduction of many pollutants; however, further innovation is required to tackle remaining pollution sources. This work analyses the significance and the effects of framework conditions on innovation activities that contribute to the realisation of ...

Innovating strategy process

Innovating Strategy Process presents a series of reflective essays by established and emerging scholars on the subject of innovation, considering it both as an outcome of strategy and as a process in itself. The book has something to offer to a wide range of readers ...

Estrategia e innovación de la PYME industrial en España

La complejidad y dinamismo del entorno empresarial hace necesario un profundo conocimiento de las organizaciones y de cuáles son las variables o factores que pueden considerarse claves para su éxito competitivo. Cómo conseguir posicionarse de forma competitiva en un determinado mercado y qué hacer para ...

Industrial clusters and inter-firm networks

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of spatial industrial clusters and inter-firm networks. Given the prevailing political belief that clusters can be a major vehicle for economic development and growth, it is important to have a sound understanding of clusters and how they emerge, grow ...

Spillovers and innovations

space, environment, and the economy

Innovation processes and related spillovers are of eminent importance in a modern economy. How do they relate to spatial structures and environmental factors? The papers analyse innovation processes and spillovers in the economy from various angles, focussing mainly on regional and environmental aspects. Among others ...

The evolution of the US airline industry

theory, strategy and policy

The Evolution of the US Airline Industry discusses the evolution of the hub-and-spoke network system and the associated price discrimination strategy, as the post-deregulation dominant business model of the major incumbent airlines and its breakdown in the early 2000s. It highlights the role that aircraft ...

Health policy and high-tech industrial development

Many countries and regions are actively promoting high technology industries as a means of stimulating the economy. The authors point out that these efforts are not only encouraging economic development, but they also reduce an economy#s vulnerability to the negative consequences of world trade ...

Technology, knowledge and the firm

implications for strategy and industrial change

There is a long-standing tradition of research that highlights the importance of differences in the organizational and technological capabilities of firms and their effect on economic performance. This book expands on this theme by exploring the role of knowledge and innovation in firm strategy and ...

Japanese multinationals in Europe

a comparison of the automobile and pharmaceutical industries

This book explores the regional strategy and management of Japanese MNEs in Europe. Ken-ichi Ando investigates, using case studies of the auto and pharmaceutical industries, how these companies can, and do, overcome the inherent difficulties and opportunities of trading in Europe, including the problems posed ...

Diccionario terminológico de la industria automotriz y del transporte = Dictionary of automotive industry and transport terminology

Industrial transformation

environmental policy innovation in the United States and Europe

The United States and European countries are experimenting with a new generation of policy approaches for combating environmental degradation. Industrial Transformation evaluates the effectiveness of twelve innovative voluntary, collaborative, and information-based programs, focusing particularly on the effectiveness of these programs in bringing about industrial transformation ...

Innovation policy in a knowledge-based economy

theory and practice

The main underlining conviction, throughout the book, is the importance of dynamical and systemic approaches to innovation policies. The first part of the book provides the theoretical background for the subsequent more empirical contributions. In the second part, a series of three papers analyse each ...

Europe's advantage

banks and small firms in Britain, France, Germany, and Italy since 1918

Since the mid-1970s, the 'rediscovery' of small firms and of the important role they have played in the economies of continental Europe have occupied a substantial part of the literature on the sources of economic competitiveness. In Britain, the relationship between banks and industry has ...