Author : John T. Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 25,41 MB
Release : 1993-06-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521430151
Exploring hypotheses about purposive diversification and ensuing economic performance, this study offers insights into the debate about cooperation versus competition among firms.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 2019-07-11
Category :
ISBN : 9264429514
This edition analyses how trade can contribute to economic diversification and empowerment, with a focus on eliminating extreme poverty, particularly through the effective participation of women and youth. It shows how aid for trade can contribute to that objective by addressing supply-side capacity and trade-related infrastructure constraints, including for micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises notably in rural areas.
Author : John Cantwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 20,44 MB
Release : 2004-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134450494
And conclusionsFurther bibliography; Index.
Author : A. Ghobadian
Publisher : Springer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 20,46 MB
Release : 2003-12-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0230523137
Terms such as the 'new competitive landscape', 'hypercompetition' and 'inherent instability and change' have been used over the past decade to describe the changing global competitive environment. A plethora of strategic and operational measures have been used to enable firms to gain sustainable competitive advantage, with varying degrees of success. Yet we remain in largely uncharted territory with strategic preparation for the future becoming a critical activity. Strategy and Performance provides academics, practitioners and students with a highly focused approach to competing in the global marketplace.
Author : Derek L. Bosworth
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 45,46 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780719067747
This book focuses on our understanding of the management of enterprise, and explores the strategies that can be adopted to improve enterprise performance. It considers the importance of the quality of management in providing leadership and being willing to take risks. It also debates the effectiveness of adopting high performance management practices such as human resource management and market promotional activities. In focusing on management best practice and its link with performance under conditions of risk and uncertainty, the study addresses two key questions: what is the current evidence about the factors that make some enterprises perform better than others? and what are the lessons for company and public policy? This comprehensive study will appeal to students and researchers of economics and economic management.
Author : Brian S Silverman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 25,6 MB
Release : 2002-06-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134487592
This impressive book sees the author applying and extending the resource based view of the firm to explain and predict the strategy of corporate diversification. Technological Resources and the Logic of Corporate Diversification is an original and authoritative book that will be extremely useful to academics and students in such disciplines as business economics, corporate strategy and international business.
Author : Matthias Dehmer
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 38,56 MB
Release : 2019-02-25
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1351250833
Entrepreneurial Complexity: Methods and Applications deals with theoretical and practical results of Entrepreneurial Sciences and Management (ESM), emphasising qualitative and quantitative methods. ESM has been a modern and exciting research field in which methods from various disciplines have been applied. However, the existing body of literature lacks the proper use of mathematical and formal models; individuals who perform research in this broad interdisciplinary area have been trained differently. In particular, they are not used to solving business-oriented problems mathematically. This book utilises formal techniques in ESM as an advantage for developing theories and models which are falsifiable. Features Discusses methods for defining and measuring complexity in entrepreneurial sciences Summarises new technologies and innovation-based techniques in entrepreneurial sciences Outlines new formal methods and complexity-models for entrepreneurship To date no book has been dedicated exclusively to use formal models in Entrepreneurial Sciences and Management
Author : William G. Shepherd
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 46,36 MB
Release : 2003-09-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1478610204
The study of industrial organization extends to the core of some of the most important questions of economics: Who controls markets and profits from them? Does competition or monopoly result in a more beneficial economy? How can the economic playing field become fairer or more biased in either direction? Throughout the fields history, various clashing schools of thought have attempted to sort through these complex issues, examining both abstract theory and real-life cases. The Fifth Edition of this widely used, highly regarded text includes coverage of dramatic changes in the field. Shepherd and Shepherd provide broad, balanced coverage of topics without showing preference to any single point of view, encouraging readers to think independently. This emphasis on independent judgment is evident throughout the book, with discussion of structure placed before performance to assist the reader in thinking about causation. Topics are organized for maximum flexibility, with distinct chapters covering case studies, antitrust and regulation policy, and capital markets.
Author : Joel Baum
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 11,33 MB
Release : 2001-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0762307218
A conspicuous feature of the modern economy is the multitude of multiunit systems that operate in several markets - an organizational form that arguably rivals the "M-form" as the 20th century's most successful. Research traditions studying multiunit systems include the multimarket perspective, which has used commitment and mutual forbearance theory, and the multiunit perspective, which has used learning and knowledge transfer theory. These perspectives are interdisciplinary, but to date there has been little direct interaction among them. This text aims to bring these areas together, discussing such things as: examining how variation in firm capabilities affects the co-ordination of branches and thus their forbearance or transfer of routines; bridging theories of market conduct and internal behaviour to explore how knowledge about markets and competitor behaviour is transferred among organizational units; making a theory of contingent multiunit or single-unit competitive advantage that can account for the coexistence of these organizational forms in many markets; and examining the effects of firm contacts in alliances or technological fields on their competitive behaviours.
Author : Herbert Giersch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3642722105
The 1997 Symposium of the Egon-Sohmen-Foundation, which gave rise to this book, took place in the United States, on the East Coast between New Y C)rk and New Haven, more precisely in Stamford (Conn.). The original choice had been a place close to Yale University, where Egon Sohmen taught economics from 1958 to 1960, subsequent to his period at MIT. But the hotel in New Haven was closed down by a new owner-to pass through a process of creative destruction. Change of ownership-on a large scale and as a transition from public to private hands-had been the topic of the preceding Egon Sohmen-Symposium (in Budapest in 1996) published under the head ing: Privatization at the End of the Century (Springer-Verlag, 1997). Yet mere change of ownership, some of us at the Foundation felt in subsequent months, was too narrow a focus to properly deal with the movement under consideration: a transition of ownership together with a general move towards a competitive market system charac terized by global openness, uncertainty, decentralized risk-bearing, and the increasing importance of information and innovation.
