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Institutions, Innovation and Growth
Touffut, Jean-Philippe (contributor) - Edward Elgar
The first book in this important new series, under the general editorship of Nobel Laureate Robert Solow, Institutions, Innovation and Growth assembles a stellar cast of international contributors. Leading economists join the debate on innovation and economic growth, focussing on a broad...
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Health Policy and High-Tech Industrial Development
Tommaso, Marco R. Di (contributor);  … - Edward Elgar
By weaving together the fields of health economics, industrial organisation and industrial development, this book … describes the benefits of promoting a country’s health industry as a way of stimulating its high-technology industrial capacity …. The authors illustrate that the development of a country’s health industry not only improves the country’s health status …
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International Handbook on Industrial Policy
Bianchi, Patrizio (contributor);  … - Edward Elgar
This timely and much-needed Handbook reconsiders an old topic from a fresh perspective, raising a number of new, interesting and worthwhile issues in the wake of ten years of globalization. This comprehensive analysis illustrates that old-style industrial policies whereby the government directly...
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Public Utilities
McNabb, David E. - Edward Elgar
An introduction to the current issues and challenges facing managers and administrators in the investor and publicly owned utility industry, this engaging volume addresses management concerns in three sectors of the utility industry: electric power, natural gas, and water and wastewater systems....
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New Frontiers in the Economics of Innovation and New Technology
Antonelli, Cristiano (contributor);  … - Edward Elgar
This outstanding collection provides a fitting tribute to the diversity and depth of Paul David’s contributions. The papers included range from simulation models of the evolution of market structure in the presence of innovation, through historical investigations of knowledge networks and...
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Management Buy-outs and Venture Capital
Wright, Mike (contributor); Robbie, Ken (contributor) - Edward Elgar
This book presents up-to-date evidence on the issues facing financiers and intermediaries involved in venture capital and management buy-outs. It provides a comprehensive review of existing literature and an analysis of international trends in market development as well as a global comparison of...
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Entrepreneurship and the Firm
Foss, Nicolai J. (contributor); Klein, Peter G. (contributor) - Edward Elgar
While characteristically ‘Austrian’ themes such as entrepreneurship, economic calculation, tacit knowledge and the temporal structure of capital are clearly relevant to the business firm, Austrian economists have said relatively little about management, organization, and strategy. This...
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The International Handbook of Competition
Neumann, Manfred (contributor); Weigand, Jürgen (contributor) - Edward Elgar
This indispensable Handbook examines both economic and legal aspects of competition policy and industrial organization. It provides a scholarly review of the state of the art regarding economic theory, empirical evidence and standards of legal evaluation. The book aims primarily at furthering...
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The Trust Process in Organizations
Nooteboom, Bart (contributor); Six, Frédérique (contributor) - Edward Elgar
notion of ‘framing’: the interpretive context in which actions are perceived and evaluated. A conceptual framework is then …
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Market Failure or Success
Cowen, Tyler (contributor); Crampton, Eric (contributor) - Edward Elgar
Recent years have seen the development of new theories of market failure based on asymmetric information and network effects. According to the new paradigm, we can expect substantial failure in the markets for labor, credit, insurance, software, new technologies and even used cars, to give but a...
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