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The economics of modern business enterprise

Ricketts, Martin (contributor) - 2008

Recommended readings (Machine generated): Frank H. Knight (1921), 'Enterprise and Profit', in Risk, Uncertainty and …, 127-44 -- Mark Casson (2000), 'An Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm', in Enterprise and Leadership: Studies on Firms …, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 337-60 …

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Corporate technological competence and the evolution of technological diversification

Fai, Felicia M. - 2003

Drawing upon evolutionary economics and resource-based approaches, the author utilises US patent data from 1930-1990 to examine the persistence of corporate technological competencies and their gradual erosion through diversifying incremental change. The book explores the changing nature of this...

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Foreign direct investment and corporate networking : a framework for spatial analysis of investment conditions

Morsink, Robert L. A. - 1998

This innovative book analyses the geographical patterns in foreign direct investment flows by combining elements from the theory of international production and the theory of economic geography. It develops a model for explaining why foreign direct investment is attracted to certain locations....

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Entrepreneurial competition and industrial location : investigating the structural patterns and intangible sources of competitive performance

Peneder, Michael - 2001

Entrepreneurial Competition and Industrial Location explores the notion of entrepreneurial competition from its theoretical foundations in early Austrian and contemporary evolutionary economics. Focusing on the structural development of the intangible factors of production such as labour skills,...

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Innovation in technology alliance networks

Lemmens, Charmianne E. A. V. - 2004

This book studies the dynamics of alliance group formation in technology-based networks. The author attempts to develop the concept of alliance blocks from a social network perspective, and explores the relationship between alliance block membership and innovative performance in a changing...

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Firms' investment and finance decisions : theory and empirical methodology

Butzen, Paul (ed.); Fuss, Catherine (ed.) - 2003

This book provides coherent theoretical and empirical analysis of firms' investment and financing decisions. It assesses the role of uncertainty, financial imperfections, corporate governance and taxation. Evidence is obtained using several unique and high quality microeconomic data-sets, which...

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Research companion to corruption in organizations

Cooper, Cary (contributor); Burke, Ronald J. (contributor) - 2009

Corruption in organizations is creating an increasing number of victims and causing huge costs. This timely book brings together international researchers who address the causes and consequences of corruption in organizations and the action needed to reduce levels of corruption worldwide

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Tax evasion and firm survival in competitive markets

Palda, K. Filip - 2001

Tax Evasion and Firm Survival in Competitive Markets illustrates how a firm with high production costs but which is easily able to evade taxes may displace from the market a company with low production costs but poor tax evasion capabilities. The difference in production costs between the...

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Handbook of research on global corporate citizenship

Scherer, Andreas Georg (contributor); … - 2008

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of current research and theory about why and how corporations should play a more active role in fulfilling their global citizenship obligations and responsibilities

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Temporary organizations : prevalence, logic and effectiveness

Cambré, Bart (contributor); Janowicz, Martyna (contributor) - 2009

This important and timely book provides a systematic treatment of temporary organizations--an increasingly prevalent organizational form in which organizations work together on a joint task--for example, a movie production, a rescue operation, development of a new product--for an ex ante limited...

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