Creative knowledge environments

the influences on creativity in research and innovation

Although there is an ever increasing demand for new technology and innovations in the economy and society in general, we currently know little about the conditions for stimulating creativity in relation to research and innovative activity. This book fills a significant gap in the literature ...

German industry and global enterprise

BASF: the history of a company

This book examines the way in which BASF functions, delving into its corporate governance, financial system, industrial relations, systems of qualification, and relation to other companies in the same sector and to the economy at large. The structure of BASF#s social system of production ...

Knowledge spillovers and knowledge management

This book reveals the key importance, in terms of international competitiveness, of firms# capability to adapt to, and develop, new technologies. At the same time, the authors argue that the sheer complexity of emerging technologies is such that the knowledge involved in their creation is ...

Individual strategy and social structure

an evolutionary theory of institutions

Neoclassical economics as-sumes that people are highly rational and can reason their way through even the most complex economic problems. In Individual Strategy and Social Structure, Peyton Young argues for a more realistic view in which people have a limited understanding of their environment, are ...

European integration and industrial relations

multi-level governance in the making

This book comprehensively analyzes the impact of continuing European integration on industrial relations institutions and outcomes. It organizes an immensely rich body of theoretical and empirical material to sustain its core argument that the governance of industrial relations is increasingly multi-level. Cross-national influences are shown ...

Competition, regulation and the new economy

In addition to being the principal medium for communication, education and entertainment the new economy is now a leading provider of goods and services through electronic channels. The new economy rides on the crest of new technological developments in computers, telecommunications and satellites creating new ...

International Handbook of Competition

This indispensable new Handbook examines both economic and legal aspects of competition policy and industrial organization. It provides a scholarly review of the state-of- the-art regarding economic theory, empirical evidence and standards of legal evaluation. The book aims primarily at furthering our understanding of the ...

Industrial districts

a new approach to industrial change

This remarkable book outlines the historical framework and the main concepts of the literature on industrial districts. It illustrates a new approach to the study of industrial development, based on well-known industrial districts analysis. Giacomo Becattini has written an authoritative volume which, starting with the ...

Beyond Kyoto

a new global climate certificate system: continuing Kyoto Commitments or a global'Cap and trade'scheme for a sustainable climate policy?

This balanced analysis presents news from the #climate-protection front#. On the down-side, neither the current 'Kyoto-Protocol' Climate Protection System with (legally binding) commitments by major countries to reduce or limit their greenhouse gas emissions nor various proposals for improving the commitment system are capable of ...

Regional economies as knowledge laboratories

Today, the study of regions is central to academic analysis and policy deliberation on how to respond to the rise of the knowledge economy. Regional Economies as Knowledge Laboratories illustrates how newer types of regional analysis # utilising scientometrics, knowledge services measures and university networks, and ...

Globalization and the location of firms

This authoritative collection reprints the key articles in the field of locational clustering, and the relationship between local clusters and the activities of multinational firms. It covers both the principal theoretical and statistical explanations of the clustering of firms in common locations, and includes a ...

The Oxford handbook of innovation

This handbook looks to provide academics and students with a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the phenomenon of innovation. Innovation spans a number of fields within the social sciences and humanities: Management, Economics, Geography, Sociology, Policy Studies, Psychology, and History. Consequently, the rapidly increasing body ...

European Industrial Relations Annual Review 2001/2002

Published each year, this review identifies key events in European industrial relations, political economy and social policy during the preceeding year and invites leading academic commentators from across the EU to assess their significance. Identifies the significant trends and developments in the relationship between employers ...

Information technology policy

an international history

Information Technology has become a key factor in industry and society in the postwar world and continues to evolve, re- shaping the local and global economy and reorienting comparative and competitive advantages. The production of IT has itself changed and shifted through a number of ...

Handbook of enterpreneurial dynamics

the process of business creation

Entrepreneurial activity provides profound positive benefits across an important set of measures of social and economic well-being, much of it concentrated in new economic sectors such as information technology. Yet, even though entrepreneurship has been shown to provide many benefits, it is surprising that there ...

Diet for a dead planet

how the food industry is killing us

Mad Cow disease, bird flu epidemics, tainted meat scandals, and Mercury-laced fish - we are evidently surrounded by unsafe food. In this riveting and timely investigation, award-winning journalist Christopher D. Cook takes us beyond Fast Food Nation to explain why our entire food system - from farm ...

The economics of information technology

an introduction

The Economics of Information Technology is a concise and accessible review of some of the important economic factors affecting information technology industries. These industries are characterized by high fixed costs and low marginal costs of production, large switching costs for users, and strong network effects ...

Las privatizaciones y la desnacionalización de América Latina

En este libro se analizan las políticas neoliberales impulsadas por las instituciones financieras internacionales y aplicadas por los distintos gobiernos desde los años noventa hasta el 2002. Se estudian de manera crítica los postulados teóricos que han dejado a la Argentina y a la mayoría ...

Hauts débits

L'industria italiana

numeri, peculiarità, politiche della nostra economia industriale