Business Competition Books

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1. Knowledge Economy and the City: Spaces of knowledge

   By Ali Madanipour

   Many consider knowledge economy to be a follow up to industrial economy. The capitalist industrial economy reshaped cities and regions in several major waves of development and redevelopment, producing its own space, which differed radically from its predecessor agrarian and mercantile economies....

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-55895-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. New Models of Regional Innovation: Transversality

   By Philip Cooke

   Leading up to the financial crisis of 2008 and onwards, the shortcomings of traditional models of regional economic and environmental development had become increasingly evident. Rooted in the idea that ‘policy’ is an encumbrance to free markets, the stress on supply-side smoothing measures such as...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-60375-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Strategic Analysis: Processes and Tools

   By Andrea Beretta Zanoni

   In the last few years, competition has become increasingly more complex, variable and dynamic, as can be seen in phenomena like globalization and technological acceleration. To cope with the dynamism and uncertainty of competition, enterprises need capabilities that enable them to respond to...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-88063-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. The Economics of Structural Change in Knowledge

   By Francesco Quatraro

   The economic systems of advanced capitalistic societies have been undergoing profound transformations brought about by the transition towards the so-called knowledge-based economy. Building upon Schumpeterian and Kuznetsian legacies, this new book argues that a focus on both the structural change...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-56543-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Epistemic Economics and Organization: Forms of rationality and governance for a discovery oriented economy

   By Anna Grandori

   Although the modern economy and society is ‘knowledge intensive’, Anna Grandori argues that the dominant economic, organizational and behavioural models neglect to a large extent the problem of valid knowledge construction and effective knowledge governance. This book revisits the reasons for this...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-57565-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Business, Non-State Regulation and Development

   Edited by Ananya Reed, Darryl Reed, Peter Utting

   The emergence of an increasingly global economy has involved changes in production, improvements in technology, and the liberalization of international trade and finance. Critics of neoliberalism are concerned that in the new economic environment, many firms do not act responsibly, failing to play...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-59311-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Capitalist Diversity and Diversity within Capitalism

   Edited by Geoffrey Wood, Christel Lane

   The 2008- economic crisis underscored the impact not only of embedded ways of doing things, but also that the present condition is the product of a long period of experimentation and bounded diversity; it is understanding the nature of both that forms a central concern of this book. This book...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-58344-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Innovation and Economic Crisis: Lessons and Prospects from the Economic Downturn

   By Daniele Archibugi, Andrea Filippetti

   This book looks at the effects of the economic crisis on the innovation behaviours of firms and asks whether the crisis is a typical manifestation of the inherent instability of the capitalism system due to the very nature of technological change....

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-60228-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Institutional Economics and National Competitiveness

   Edited by Young Back Choi

   This book offers a strong contribution to the growing field of institutional economics, going beyond the question of "why institutions matter" and examines the ways in which different types of institutions are conducive to the enhancement of competitiveness and economic development. The first...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-60026-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. The Communications Industries in the Era of Convergence

    By Catherine E. A. Mulligan

    Since 2005, the communications industries have entered a new era – where converged technologies combining mobile, fixed and Internet technologies together are part of an end-user’s everyday experience. This has created a dynamic, rapidly changing market place for the companies that are working...

    March 2011 | 978-0-415-58484-5 | Hardback (Routledge)