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 ...

Enfoques económicos para el análisis de las organizaciones

Este libro presenta una introducción a los enfoques económicos para el análisis de las organizaciones más importantes en la actualidad. Los autores hacen un importante esfuerzo para sintetizar, sistematizar y dar coherencia a las distintas teorías y enfoques dentro de la economía de las organizaciones ...

Introducción a la economía de la información

Cuando un individuo, o una organización, dispone de más o mejor información que sus interlocutores intentarán aprovechar su ventaja informativa para obtener beneficios. La Economía de la Información estudia las consecuencias de la existencia de asimetría de información entre diversos agentes económicos. Esta teoría ha ...

La complejidad y la economía de la empresa

¿Qué tienen en común un hormiguero, la ciudad de Madrid, el WorldWideWeb, el sistema inmunológico, un bosque tropical, la economía, la Bolsa, y las empresas? La respuesta es que todos estos elementos son sistemas complejos dinámicos. La siguiente pregunta sería si existen unas normas o ...

The economics of retailing and distribution

This book provides a uniform and coherent approach to the analysis of distribution systems in general and retail systems in particular. It develops the fundamentals of retail demand and supply, and demonstrates how the provision of distribution services is a principal determinant of economic outcomes ...

The network economy

strategy, structure and management

With an ever increasing number of relationships between different companies, overseeing a portfolio of strategic alliances has become one of the most challenging tasks for managers. Indeed, the network, rather than the individual firm, has become the most relevant and effective form of organization in ...

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 ...

Microfinance

evolution, achievement and challenges

This compilation comprises 14 articles on the major developments in microfinance in recent years. Some show how certain aspects of the field have changed quite dramatically, others cover issues which have continued throughout the period to preoccupy practitioners and policy makers, and others raise critical ...

Fundamentals of power system economics

The introduction of competition into the electricity supply industry has fundamentally changed the way it works. In light of these changes this book provides a clear and comprehensive explanation of the basic principles underpinning the design and operation of modern competitive electricity markets. Assuming no ...

The economics of sport

An international perspective

This text, by three distinguished authors, applies the theories and techniques of economic analysis to sport and topics related to the business of sport. It builds on a basis of introductory microeconomics and continues the discussion, generally at an intermediate standard. The text has an ...

Regulation in the States

The book is describing technological developments as well as urban futures in the information age where the development of ICT sets the pace and options. Despite this dynamic development, the book describes how stabile daily travelling still is and highlights the achievable impacts and acceptability ...

Droit public de la régulation économique

La mondialisation des flux économiques et l'irruption de la concurence dans le fonctionnement des services publics mettent profondément en cause les relations entre l'Etat et le marché. Depuis une dizaine d'années, le droit public économique est particulièrement le théâtre de ces évolutions ...

Efficient monopolies

the limits of competition in the European property insurance market

This book presents startling evidence that state monopolies can produce better outcomes than the free market. It provides an empirical comparison of the property insurance market in five European countries: Britain, Spain, France, Switzerland, and Germany. The market and cost structures of insurers in each ...

The challenges of privatization

an international analysis

This book provides the first systematic empirical analysis of privatization processes worldwide to explain how and why governments privatize, and whether privatization has proved successful or not. Privatization is shown to be a difficult process, shaped by political preferences and budgetary constraints, often pursued in ...

Manufacturing culture

the institutional geography of industrial practice

Why are firms in some regions or nations so successful at adopting particular new production technologies and work practices, while those in other places are not? What role do culturally defined characteristics, traits, and attitudes play in determining the degree of success in this process ...

Energy security

managing risk in a dynamic legal and regulatory environment

This volume examines energy security in a privatized, liberalized, and increasingly global energy market, in which the concept of sustainability has developed together with a higher awareness of environmental issues, but where the potential for supply disruptions, price fluctuation, and threats to infrastructure safety must ...

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 ...

Empirical industrial organization

This two volume collection presents the most important recent articles on empirical issues in industrial organization, related primirily to analysis of imperfect competition.

Global governance of drug and pharmaceutical industries

transatlantic, trilateral and multilateral policy cooperation for drug safety

The recultion of drug safety and the governance of globalization in the pharmaceutical industry present growing challenges for govermments, the viotechnology sector and civil society. Currently, regulation and policy is driven by the interests of industrialized nations. However recent conflicts over patents, generics, and emerging ...