Entrepreneurship and community economic developement

L'économie de l'entreprise

Entrepreneurial wage dynamics in the knowledge economy

This title challenges the conclusions that link entrepreneurship to lower employee compensation. This challenge is based on theories of entrepreneurship, which view the role of small firms as existing in a dynamic context rather than a static framework. The evolutionary theory of entrepreneurship views the ...

The economic dynamics of fuel cell technologies

Due to their environmental and efficiency characteristics fuel cells are promising technological solutions for many energy related applications (stationary power generation, vehicle propulsion, portable equipment). This book describes the economic dynamics of fuel cells by analyzing their diffusion perspectives as well as the strategic and ...

Managerial economics

theory and practice

Managerial economics is the application of economic theory and quantitative methods (mathematics and statistics) to the managerial decision-making process. This book will appeal to students with limited prior training in economics and quantitative methods. It assumes that students will have had mathematics training at least ...

Small and medium sized companies in Europe

environmental performance, competitiveness and management: international EU case studies

The environmental performance of SMEs (Small and Medium sized Enterprises) is an area of major policy concern. SMEs in Europe reports on factors influencing the environmental performance of SMEs across four European countries: the UK, Ireland, Germany and Italy. While there are a range of ...

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

Monográfico Historia de la empresa

Handbook of entrepreneurship research

an interdisciplinary survey and introduction

The purpose of the International Handbook of Entrepreneurship is to bring together leading scholars from each of these disciplines to provide an overview of what the issues are for entrepreneurship when viewed through the lens provided by the academic disciplines as well as a synthesis ...

Los desafíos de la competitividad

la innovación organizativa y tecnológica de la empresa española

Ed. Emilio Huerta Arribas. Conocer la naturaleza y extensión de los cambios tecnológicos y las innovaciones organizativas, describir las nuevas prácticas de gestión de los recursos humanos, analizar los factores asociados a su implantación y reconocer las estrategias que las empresas españolas utilizan para mejorar ...

Competitiveness strategy in developing countries

a manual for policy anaysis

This text seeks to generalize the lessons across developing country and enterprise cases, and sheds light on which trade and industrial strategies and instruments work best, and which do not work, in relation to manufacturing competitiveness. INDICE Part I Introduction, Concepts and Benchmarking: 1. Ganeshan ...

Genetic and cultural evolution of cooperation

Current thinking in evolutionary biology holds that competition among individuals is the key to understanding natural selection. When competition exists, it is obvious that conflict arises; the emergence of cooperation, however, is less straightforward and calls for in-depth analysis. Much research is now focused on ...

Análisis del entorno económico de la empresa

Las empresas, los consumidores, los inversores, los políticos y, en general, todos los ciudadanos deben tomar continuamente decisiones económicas que se ven afectadas, en mayor o menor medida, por el grado de dinamismo del entorno económico del país en el que desarrollan sus actividades. En ...

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.

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 ...

Productivity, inequality, and the digital economy

a transatlantic prespective

The widespread diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT) has had controversial, seemingly paradoxical consequences. ICT are viewed as driving growth and employment in the United States, while contributing to European unemployment and the so-called Eurosclerosis. At the same time, both the United States and ...

Competitive solutions

the strategist's toolkit

Table of Contents Preface xiii Preamble xiii Contents xvi What Is Strategy? xviii Acknowledgments xix Chapter 1. Introduction 1 Executive Summary-- Introduction 7 Chapter 2. Industry Analysis 9 The Five Six Forces 9 Entry 11 Buyer Bargaining Power 16 Supplier Bargaining Power 18 Substitute Products ...

La naturaleza de la empresa

orígenes, evolucion y desarrollo

Comps. Oliver E. Williamson, Sidney G. Winter

The economic structure of corporate Law

The authors argue that the rules and practices of corporate law mimic contractual provisions that parties involved in corporate enterprise would reach if they bargained about every contingency at zero cost and flawlessly enforced their agreements. But bargaining and enforcement are costly, and corporate law ...

Lecciones de teoría de la producción

En la exposición que aquí se presenta se hace uso del álgebra matricial, instrumento analítico cada vez más difundido entre los economistas y, para los lectores que no están familiarizados con éste, el autor incluye un apéndice matemático que explica las nociones de álgebra que ...