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 ...

Formación y cultura empresarial en la empresa española

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 ...

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 ...