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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Economía de la empresa agroalimentaria

Economics for business

competition, macro-stability and globalisation

Economics for business

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Economics of business policy

Entrepreneurship

the way ahead

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cuadernos de Economía y Dirección de la Empresa, Nº 17, año 2003

Monográfico Historia de la empresa

Tecnología e innovación en la empresa

En la década de los años noventa,el papel de la tecnología y la innovación en la competitividad empresarial alcanzó un reconocimiento generalizado,que vino acompañado de una doble preocupación:entender y profundizar el conocimiento de las características del proceso innovador y,en consecuencia,definir ...

The principal agent model

the economic theory of incentives

The economics of asymmetric inormation has been the most important new tool of economic analysis and has proved powerful in explaining many aspects of the functioning of the economy.