Teoría de la empresa de negocios

Desde finales del siglo XIX, la sociología Norteamericana ha tenido un gran desarrollo. Han existido dos corrientes de la sociología americana, la conservativa o conservadora de Summer a Parsons y la radical de Veblen a Mills, especialmente en lo relativo al conocimiento de la propia ...

Microeconomics of banking

Over the last thirty years, a new paradigm in banking theory has overturned economists' traditional vision of the banking sector. The asymmetric information model, extremely powerful in many areas of economic theory, has proven useful in banking theory both for explaining the role of banks ...

The economics of banking

"The Economics of Banking" describes and explains trends and operations in banking within an accessible microeconomic framework. It incorporates theory with the practical aspects of banking so as to set banking within the economics paradigm. A primary section on trends within banking leads on to ...

La actividad emprendedora

empresas y empresarios en España, 1997-2006

Esta obra es el resultado del Segundo Informe sobre la actividad emprendedora en España promovido por la Fundación Rafael del Pino. Los autores enfatizan en las características y determinantes de dicha actividad emprendedora y explotan, por primera vez, la creatividad -schumpeteriana- de los nuevos empresarios ...

Production economics

integrateing the microeconomic and engineering perspectives

A production economist focuses on assessment, and will use an aggregate description of technology to answer such questions as: How does the firm compare to its competitors? Has the firm improved its production capabilities? A production engineer focuses on optimizing resources, and will use a ...

The Megacorp and Oligopoly

micro foundations of macro dynamics

This book provides both an explanation of the inflation which has bedeviled economic policy in the West since the end of World War II and a micro-economic theory to purge Keynesian models of the Walrasian strain derived from Marshall's Principles. By focusing on what ...

Nuevas estrategias de gestión en la economía de innovación

En este libro se muestra la evolución histórica de la gestión de la innovación, sus fundamentos teóricos más relevantes, el impacto que ésta ha generado sobre el comercio internacional y en la definición de estrategias empresariales. Mientras que la ciencia se ha dado a la ...

The economics of benchmarking

measuring performance for competitive advantage

"ten Raa" presents the techniques and theory of this popular business tool to explain how performance indices and rankings are developed and used to improve efficiency, productivity and profitability. The book presents a lucid exposition of a popular business tool. It is accessible to readers ...

Handbook of industrial organization. Volume 3

Cuadernos de economía y dirección de la empresa, Nº32, año 2007

Cambio tecnológico e innovación en las empresas

Cambio Tecnológico e Innovación en las Empresas es una primera aproximación a los valores y al conocimiento más destacado en este ámbito. Su contenido se conforma en cinco partes. La primera se interesa en mostrar los elementos conceptuales más notables en los que se sustenta ...

Influencia del género en los recursos y resultados de las pequeñas empresas

INDICE:Introducción a la perspectiva de género. Perspectivas teóricas base de la investigación. Propuesta del módulo e hipótesis. Metodología. Resultados.

The Firm as an entity

implications for economics, accounting and the Law

The book enhances current economic understanding of the firm as an institution and an organization, looking beyond the narrow boundaries of neoclassical economics to an interdisciplinary approach based on accounting and law as well as economics itself. It represents a first synthesis of the authors ...

Economía, mercados y conducta

Esta obra pretende introducir al lector en el conocimiento de los principales conceptos económicos mediante una metodología basada principalmente en la interactividad y en el aprendizaje progresivo de los conceptos a partir de la implantación de algunos laberintos de acción; es decir, de técnicas que ...

Managing network resources

alliances, affiliations, and others relational assets

Today's firms are increasingly embedded in networks of alliances and other ties that influence their behavior and performance. In this, his first book on the subject, Ranjay Gulati examines the 'network resources' that arise from these ties, how successful firms manage these, and how ...

Handbook of procurement

How can organizations ensure that they can get best value for money in their procurement decisions? How can they stimulate innovations from their dedicated suppliers? With contributions from leading academics and professionals, this handbook offers expert guidance on the fundamental aspects of successful procurement design ...

Aggregation, efficiency, and measurement

Economists have long studied the efficiency of firms, industries, and entire economies. This volume brings together leading scholars to make connections between efficiency and a number of diverse areas of current interest to economists, including an examination of the efficiency of tax systems across generations ...

The economics of small firms

an introduction

Student-friendly in style and international in scope and relevance, this book provides an accessible introduction to the economics of small business for those with little knowledge of economics. Economics, alongside other disciplines and interacting with them, has some important insights to offer and it is ...

Information economics

This new text book by Urs Birchler and Monika Butler is an introduction to the study of how information affects economic relations. The authors provide a narrative treatment of the more formal concepts of Information Economics, using easy to understand and lively illustrations from film ...

Economics, strategy and the firm

What is a firm? Why do some firms succeed while other firms fail? How do firms behave in competitive markets? Why do governments regulate firm behaviour, and how do they do it? Paul Cashian's Economics, Strategy and the Firm brings together microeconomic theory, transaction ...