Authors:Angelo Corallo, Giuseppina Passiante, Andrea Prencip
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Keywords: ecosystem, business, digital
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-07-30
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 1847200435
ISBN-13: 9781847200433

By bringing together elements of a radical new approach to the firm based on the biological metaphor of the ecosystem, this book breaches the limits of existing theories. It attempts to show precisely how modern businesses compete and cooperate within their market and technological environment. Equally, it demonstrates how firms actually shape this environment through their deliberate actions and investments. This new paradigm, labeled the ’digital business ecosystem’, also allows us to understand how new digital technologies feed into the environment and shape the ways in which fi

Author: Jason Draho
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Keywords: public, companies, decision, ipo
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2006-02
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 184542638X
ISBN-13: 9781845426385

‘Jason Draho’s The IPO Decision is a clear, well organized, and especially well researched book on the IPO environment, process, and stock price results.’ – Roger G. Ibbotson, Yale University and Chairman, Ibbotson Associates, Inc., US ‘Even more important in the post-Internet bubble world, The IPO Decision by Jason Draho provides a critical, in-depth and practical perspective on the crucial terms and factors that influence the IPO process. From the company that plans to go public (or its professional advisor) to the buy side or sell side investment banker – the book provides a

Authors:John H. Dunning, Sarianna M. Lundan,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Keywords: economy, global, enterprises, multinational
Number of Pages: 920
Published: 2008-07-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1847201229
ISBN-13: 9781847201225

This thoroughly updated and revised edition of a widely acclaimed, classic text will be required reading for academics, policy makers and advanced students of international business worldwide. Employing a distinctive and unified framework, this book draws together research across a range of academic fields to offer a synthesis of the determinants of MNE activity, and its effects on the economic and social well-being of developed and developing countries. Unique to the new edition is its focus on the institutional underpinnings of the resources and capabilities of MNEs, and the role of MNE acti

Author: Jason Potts
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Keywords: new, evolutionary, horizons, economics, behaviour, institutional, competence, microeconomics, complexity, adaptive
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-12
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1840648953
ISBN-13: 9781840648959

This volume proposes evolutionary microeconomics as a synthesis of the collective schools of heterodox economic thought with complex systems theory and graph theory. The text charts a research programme for evolutionary economics that encompasses various theories.

Author: Jon Sundbo
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Keywords: innovation, horizons, economics, new, technology, entrepreneurs, theory, strategy
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 1999-01
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 1858988322
ISBN-13: 9781858988320

This important book presents for the first time a coherent analysis of the development of innovation theory from the nineteenth century to the present day. It examines the emergence of different theories of innovation in different periods, and how they compete for dominance today. Specifically, it looks at three paradigms within innovation theory - entrepreneurship, the rise of technology, and strategic behavior. The book begins by discussing what innovation is and how innovation processes are to be understood within the historical perspective of long wave theory. Jon Sundbo then investi

Authors:Jacob B. Polak, Arnold Heertje,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Keywords: transport, economics, policy, series, management, international, analytical, perspective
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2001-12
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1840648163
ISBN-13: 9781840648164

This text opens with an in-depth examination and overview of the nature of transport economics. The contributors examine the way governments may act on the provision and use of infrastructure and on transport markets.

Authors:Philippe Laredo, Philippe Mustar,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Keywords: new, innovation, horizons, analysis, economics, comparative, economy, policies, global, research, international
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2003-06
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1843763397
ISBN-13: 9781843763390

This book, now available in paperback, analyzes the evolution of research and innovation policies in the world’s leading countries. The last decade has witnessed a radical transformation of the landscape shaped after World War II, as described in the seminal collection edited by Richard Nelson in the early 1990s. Even though national systems have inherited different institutional arrangements and trajectories, analyses show three major converging trends in their public policies. There has been a retraction from support to large firms and programs and a shift toward small to medium enterprise