East Asian economic regionalism

Something new is happening across East Asia. A region notable for its lack of internal economic links is discussing regional cooperation on trade, investment, and exchange rates. Because of negotiations elsewhere around the globe on regional trade#such as those that led to the consolidation ...

Conflict and cooperation

institutional and behavioral economics

Allan Schmid#s innovative text, Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics, investigates "the rules of the game," how institutions--both formal and informal--affect these rules, and how these rules are changed to serve competing interests. This text addresses both formal and informal institutions and the ...

Microeconomics

Written in an informal colloquial style, this student-friendly principles of microeconomics textbook does not sacrifice intellectual depth in its quest for accessibility. The author's primary concern is to instill "economic sensibility" in the student. Colander emphasizes the intellectual and historical context to which the ...

Managerial economics

analysis, problems, cases

Managerial Economics, Seventh Edition teaches readers how to use economic analysis to resolve problems and make effective decisions in the complex world of business. The clear and accurate presentation of economic theory, and outstanding end-of-chapter cases combine to make the best presentation of managerial economics ...

Cuestiones tipo test de microeconomía intermedia

Este manual aborda los temas más releantes de un curso de microeconomía intermedia a través de la aplicación de los conceptos teóricos en cuestiones "tipo test",junto con su resolución. Todas las cuestiones presentan además de la solución correcta,el porqué de esa solución de ...

Microeconomic theory

basic principles and extensions

Nicholson's Microeconomic Theory: Basic Principles and Extensions, 9th edition is a tried-and-true, well-known and respected market-leading text. Applauded for providing the most clear and accurate presentation of advanced microeconomic concepts, it offers an ideal level of mathematical rigor for upper level undergraduate students and ...

Ejercicios de microeconomía y conducta

Obra de Ejercicios dirigida al mercado de Microeconomía Intermedia. Será el libro de problemas para el libro de Robert Frank de Microeconomía y Conducta. Está basado en la Teoría del Caso, con aplicaciones sociales y de comportamiento como variables fundamentales. La resolución de los mismos ...

Microeconomics in context

Microeconomics in Context provides a thorough introduction to the principles of microeconomics, updated and broadened to reflect the economic realities of the 21st century. The text builds upon the strengths of standard, neoclassical economics, but takes into account environmental, institutional, political, psychological, ethical, and social ...

Architectures of knowledge

firms, capabilities, and communities

Architectures of Knowledge seeks to demonstrate that a recognition of the importance of the role of knowledge in ecnomics may lead to a new conception of the firm and public policy. To construct an alternative theorisation of knowledge formation and knowledge governance in firms, the ...

The modern firm

organizational design performance and growth

The Modern Firm develops powerful conceptual frameworks for analyzing the interrelations between organizational design features, competitive strategy and the business environment. Written in a non-technical language, the book is nevertheless based on rigorous modeling and draws on numerous examples from the eighteenth century fur trading ...

Economics in real time

a theoretical reconstruction

This book offers a new model for contemporary economic behavior that accounts for changes since neoclassical and Marxian microeconomics were formulated over a century ago. By incorporating real time into the analysis of sales and purchases, the phenomena of product innovation, advertising and distribution, the ...

Getting bigger by growing smaller

a new growth model for corporate America

Large, mature companies always become trapped at some point in the declining stages of what has become known as the corporate life cycle. Historically this barrier to continued growth has been, and is still, as unavoidable as death and taxes. In Getting Bigger by Growing ...

Essays on microeconomics and industrial organisation

Essays on Microeconomics and Industrial Organisation aim to serve as a source and work of reference and consultation for the field of Microeconomics in general and of Industrial Organisation in particular. Traditionally, Microeconomics is essentially taught as theory and hardly ever an estimation of a ...

Localised learning and cluster capabilities

organisation of knowledge and constitution of regional competitive adventage

Based upon a novel synthesis of theorecal fields, spanning from organisational economics, economic sociology and old institutionalism to the resoruce-based and knowledge-based approaches to the firm, localised learning and cluster capabilities offers a systematic and critical evaluation of the cluster thesis. The book's exposition ...

The economics of knowledge

A practical, step-by-step reference guide for improving your customer service through the nine rules of great service. Customer service is about much more than just serving customers. But what exactly is good customer service, and how do you go about delivering it? Designed to help ...

The economics of business strategy

This new textbook examines how industry environment and business strategies determine company performance. It provides an introduction to the economics of business strategy, introducing key concepts drawn from microeconomics, industrial organisation, business economics, business environment, organisation studies and strategic management. The book is written for ...

Business economics and managerial decision making

Written primarily for students taking courses in managerial economics in Britain and Europe, The Business Economics and Managerial Decision Making analyses the growth and development of privately owned firms and also the decisions made by firms operating in both private and public sector enterprises. Coverage ...

Estudios de economía y empresa, Nº 1/2004

Contenido: -Presentación (J.M.Martín Bueno) -Sensibilidad hacia la evidencia y el efecto inmediatez en la formación del juicio profesional de auditores y analistas bancarios: el modelo de reevisión de creencias (A.Guiral Contreras) -El argumento histórico de la duplicidad legislativa civil y mercantil en ...

Beyond the boundaries of the firm

integrating theories of the firm and theories of markets

This volume examines the concepts of markets and firms in contemporary economic theory and challenges the notion that markets and firms are neatly separable, polar approaches to economic oranising. The papers in the volume explore a number of ways in which firms may be seenas ...

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 ...