Measuring market power

This is the first book completely dedicated to the measurement and definition of market power across a broad array of industries. It will provide economists and lawyers an insight into how anti-trust economists actually go about measuring market power in a given industry. A useful ...

Economics of accounting

Vol. I: Information in markets

The economics of transaction costs

theory, methods and applications

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 ...

Corporate finance, governance and business cycles

Theory and international comparisons

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 ...

Entrepreneurism

a philosophy and a sensible alternative for the market economy

Contrary to traditional belief, entrepreneurism is not just about making money, nor is it merely about starting up a venture or owning a small business - it is a way of life, applicable to all human economic activities. Living on a planet with finite resources, humanity ...

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 ...

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 ...

Growth, industrial organisation and economic generalities

This compedium of essays brings together some of William Baumol's most distinguished and acclaimed papers with some that are more rare, including a discussion of the growth and innovation mechanism that accounts for the unprecedented growth performance of the market economies. Amongst many other ...

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 ...

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 ...

The economics of business strategy

This authoritative collection of the most important published articles on the economic basis of business strategy includes articles that illustrate the origins of familiar concepts in business strategy - the experience curve, the portfolio matrix, and the "five forces". It also presents the foundations of the ...

A general theory of entrepreneurship

the individual-opportunity nexus

In this volume, Scott Shane extends the analysis of entrepreneurship by offering an overarching conceptual framework that explains the different parts of the entrepreneurial process - the opportunities, the people who pursue them, the skills and strategies used to organize and exploit opportunities, and the environmental ...

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 ...

Entrepreneurship and community economic developement

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 ...

Modern concepts of the theory of the firm

managing enterprises of the new economy

Edited by G.Fandel, U.Backes-Gellner, M.Schlüter, and J.E.Staufenbiel The authors analyse the New Economy from a scientific point of view. The success and the failure of enterprises of the new economy form a challenge to the modern business management and to ...

L'économie de l'entreprise

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 ...