The business of media

corporate media and the public interest

"The Business of Media" provides the critical analysis of the rapidly changing media industry that students need in order to get behind the headlines and understand our increasingly media-saturated society. This Second Edition includes updated data and examples, while incorporating some of the most recent ...

The future of global oil production

facts, figures, trends and projections, by region

As the demand for oil and natural gas continues to increase, accurate forecasting of future production capabilities becomes increasingly important - and remains disturbingly out of reach. Though oil reserve data are published in such industry publications as "Oil & Gas Journal" and "World Oil", these data ...

Organización productiva en la industria española del automóvil

se justifica el estudio de Lean Manufacturing en la industria del automóvil atendiendo a su importancia en la economía española y a su carácter pionero en la adopción de nuevas tecnologías organizativas de la producción. La incidencia de la industria del motor se plasma tanto ...

FAB

the coming revolution on your desktop-from personal computers to personal fabrication

Imagine a world in which your own personalized electronic products could be made by you, in your own home. Sound like Science Fiction? Well it might not be as futuristic as you think...According to the acclaimed techno-prognosticator Neil Gershenfeld, the next big thing is ...

Energía y poder

la lucha por el control de la electricidad en el mundo

Estudio polémico de los procesos de privatización y desregulación de la industria eléctrica en Estados Unidos, el Reino Unido y Australia. La autora busca explicar cómo convencieron los grupos de interés a los gobiernos y diseñadores de políticas públicas de que la privatización era algo ...

La rentabilidad de la inversión en I+D+I

INDICE: Introducción. Las actividades de innovación en el sector privado: una comparación entre las empresas españolas y empresas de otros países europeos. La rentabilidad de las actividades I+D+I. Comportamiento innovador y resultados de una muestra de empresas industriales españolas durante el período 1990-2001 ...

Managing dynamic networks

Collaboration of organizations reshapes traditional managerial practices, and creates new inter- organizational contexts for strategy, coordination and control, information and knowledge management. Heralded as organizational forms of the future, networks are at the same time fragile and precarious organizational arrangements, which regularly fail. In order ...

El futuro del ocio en el hogar

Fabricación de conservas y actividad pesquera

un análisis económico

Cars, carriers of regionalism?

This highly topical book brings together some of the world's leading specialists on the global car industry who discuss the ins and outs of the faster lane of regionalism at a time that the world is reassessing the ins and outs of globalization. It ...

The process of internationalization

strategic, cultural and policy perspectives

How cartels endure and how they fail

studies of industrial collusion

#This book is about one of the most elusive problems in industrial organization # why some collusive agreements flourish while others fail. It brings together, in one place, much of the best recent work in the literature on this topic. I think the book will become ...

Innovation,entrepreneurship and culture

the interaction between technology,progress and economic growth

Any technological advance, innovation or economic growth created by an organization is dependent on how that organization's culture and environment fosters or inhibits these developments. This process is further complicated by the global nature of economic activity and differences in national cultures due to ...

Multinational firms' location and the new economic geography

The choice of location for the production plants of multinational firms is an important issue, not least because this decision is accompanied by so many fears brought into public debate. This book analyses how foreign direct investors choose their locations, whilst exploring the forces which ...

Building high-tech clusters

Silicon Valley and beyond

National economic growth is fueled by the development of high technology clusters such as Silicon Valley. The contributors examine the founding of ten clusters that have been successful at an early stage of growth in information technology. Their key finding is that the economics of ...

The economics of standards

theory,evidence, policy

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the important topic of standards, which remains a vastly under-researched field of empirical inquiry. It presents a variety of interesting empirical analyses which reveal the driving forces and the economic impacts of standardization both in the manufacturing and ...

Restructuring strategy

new networks and industry challenges

New industries are emerging; others are disrupted; old barriers are crumbling, while new ones are rising. This book seeks to better understand the challenges facing industries, networks, businesses and management during periods of industry structuring and restructuring. Comprising a series of contributions from experts in ...

Silicon Valley North

a high-tech cluster of innovation and entrepreneurship

The Silicon phenomenon was, is, and will be an extremely important phenomenon in the accelerated technological, scientific, and economic development of countries and regions. Silicon Valley North (SVN) is the high tech capital of Canada, the nation?s most developed and dynamic technology sector, which ...

Rating management's effectiveness

with case studies in telecommunications

This book explains why and how management's effectiveness makes the difference between success and failure, in any organization. Based on extensive research in the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland, the author outlines how to be effective, what happens in cases of ineffectiveness ...

The network society

a cross-cultural perspective

Manuel Castells # one of the world#s pre-eminent social scientists # has drawn together a stellar group of contributors to explore the patterns and dynamics of the network society in its cultural and institutional diversity. The book analyzes the technological, cultural and institutional transformation of societies ...