The SMS blackwell handbook of organizational capabilities

emergence, developement, and change

How do the resources and capabilities of organizations emerge and develop over time? This handbook brings together scholars of strategic management, economics, history, organizational theory, international business, and technology management in order to address this question. Many of the contributions present new theoretical or empirical ...

Innovation and knowledge creation in an open economy

canadian industry and international implications

This study of innovation - its intensity, the sources used for knowledge creation, and its impacts - is based on a comprehensive survey of innovation of Canadian manufacturing firms. Attention is paid to the different actors in the system, who both compete with and complement one another ...

Influencia del modelo de gestión y de la política tarifaria en la competitividad de los puertos

Este libro pretende continuar con el proceso de conocimiento de los mecanismos que rigen en los puertos españoles, analizando tanto los factores relevantes de competencia entre ellos como las relaciones entre los modelos de titularidad, gestión y las políticas tarifarias. Para ello se identifican los ...

Spectrum auctions and competition in telecommunications

In 2000 and 2001, several European countries carried out auctions for third generation technologies or universal mobile telephone services (UMTS) communication licenses. These "spectrum auctions" inaugurated yet another era in an industry that has already been transformed by a combination of staggering technological innovation and ...

Rethinking rights and regulations

institutional responses to new communications technologies

The contributors to this volume examine issues raised by the intersection of new communications technologies and public policy in this post-boom, post- bust era. Originally presented at the 30th Research Conference on Communication, Information, and Internet Policy (TPRC 2002)-- traditionally a showcase for the best ...

Software ecosystem

understanding an indispensable technology and industry

Software has gone from obscurity to indispensability in less than fifty years. Although other industries have followed a similar trajectory, software and its supporting industry are different. In this book the authors explain, from a variety of perspectives, how software and the software industry are ...

Antitrust between EC Law and national Law = Antitrust fra Diritto nazionale e Diritto comunitario

V Conference = V Convegno

Fondos, flujos y tiempos

un análisis microeconómico de los procesos productivos

El libro presenta una visión alternativa de la producción que permite abordar los problemas microeconómicos, tanto los teóricos como los de gestión, desde unas nuevas bases más sólidas y empíricamente asentadas INDICE I. Introducción II. La disección de los procesos productivos II.1. Aspectos básicos ...

Médias et sociétés

édition, presse, cinéma, radio, télévision, Internet, CD, DVD

Nés au milieu du XIXe siècle, les journaux quotidiens inaugurent une ère nouvelle pour l'information et la démocratie : pour la première fois dans l'histoire, des nouvelles d'actualité, considérables ou dérisoires, ordinaires ou spectaculaires, sont propagées selon une technique industrielle. Après la Seconde ...

Competition policy in Europe

The modern industrial states desperately need more competition in order to generate growth and employment. Although the European Union pushed the member states to open several sectors to competition, there is much left to be done. At the same time powerful interest groups try to ...

The european commsission's jurisdiction to scrutinise mergers

Jurisdiction to scrutinise mergers. Second edition

Since the EC Merger Regulation was adopted in 1989, merger control has become established as an important part of EC competition law so that today all major businesses and law firms are aware of the Commission s extensive powers in this field. Right from the ...

Telecomunicaciones, infraestructuras y libre competencia

En este libro sobre Telecomunicaciones, infraestructuras y libre competencia dispone el lector un estudio sobre el nuevo reto que plantea al jurista, el impacto de las telecomunicaciones y las nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación en las sociedades capitalistas avanzadas. Aquí encontrará también una variada y ...

Antitrust developments in Europe 2002

Antitrust laws and proceedings in Europe, both at the Community and national levels, shape the European and international business landscape profoundly. It is therefore essential that business leaders and legal practitioners remain informed of the most important antitrust law developments and their effect on the ...

Computers and the environment

understanding and managing their impacts

Personal computers have made life convenient in many ways, but what about their impacts on the environment due to production, use and disposal? Manufacturing computers requires prodigious quantities of fossil fuels, toxic chemicals and water. Rapid improvements in performance mean we often buy a new ...

Acceptability of transport pricing strategies

Several studies and research projects all over the world have considered transport pricing strategies as promising attempts to solve the urgent traffic problems in urban areas. However, empirical results have shown that public and political acceptability of such strategies is low. Until now, acceptance research ...

The monopolistic competition revolution in retrospect

In 1977 a seminal paper was published by Avinash Dixit and Joseph Stiglitz that revolutionized the modeling of imperfectly competitive markets. It launched what might be called the second monopolistic competition revolution which has been far more successful than the first one, initiated by Edward ...

The emergence of entrepreneurship policy

governance, start-ups, and growth in the U.S. knowledge economy

This volume seeks to catalyze the emergence of a new field of policy studies: entrepreneurship policy. Practical experience and academic research both point to the central role of entrepreneurs in the process of economic growth and to the importance of public policy in creating the ...

Technological systems and intersectoral innovation flows

The authors of this notable book examine long-run technological change and the complex set of interrelated phenomena which can be grouped under the heading of #innovative processes#. They refer to a broad notion of the technological system and propose an original methodology to ensure consistent ...

The limits of convergence

globalization and organizational change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain

This work challenges the notion that globalization encourages economic convergence and cultural homogenization across national borders. A systematic comparison of organizational change in Argentina, South Korea and Spain since 1950 finds that global competition forces countries to exploit their distinctive strengths, resulting in unique development ...

Competitive transformation of the postal and delivery sector

Edited by Michel A.Crew, and Paul R.Kleindorfer Competitive Transformation of the Postal and Delivery Sector is an indispensable source of information and analysis on the current state of the postal and delivery sector. It offers current insights of leading researchers and practitioners into ...