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During the last decade, international trade has witnessed a dramatic transition from a field dominated by theory to one … dominated by empirics linked to theory. In this volume, Professor Bernhofen has selected an impressive range of critical papers …, Edward E. Leamer and Leo Sveikauskas (1987), 'Multicountry, Multifactor Tests of the Factor Abundance Theory', American …
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Paul Vlaar contends that strategic alliances and other forms of cooperation, such as buyer-supplier relationships, joint ventures and offshoring initiatives, increasingly stand at the basis of competitive advantage. Although contracts and trust play a crucial role in such relationships, prior...
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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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-firm and inter-institutional collaboration: the theory of transaction costs and contracts, evolutionary theory, and the …
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This original book presents a new basis for environmental policymaking: environmental networks. This framework graphically simplifies the analysis of environmental problems and emphasizes the spatial nature of economic activity and pollution dispersion. The book first discusses the foundations...
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This impressive new book uniquely focuses on the phenomenon of media clusters and is designed to inform policy makers, scholars, and media practitioners about the underlying challenges of media firm agglomerations, their potential, and their effects
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This comprehensive book covers relevant issues on how media companies are currently embracing innovation, the levels at which they are doing so, and how innovation can help media companies to meet their development needs in the future. The primary focus of this study is the relationship between...
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Knowledge Policy illustrates how the production of knowledge has become central to economic life, and that competitiveness in the 21st century market place is characterized by the ability to translate scientific and technological knowledge into innovation. Does this therefore render cultural and...
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1. Strategic alliances and culture in a globalizing world / Rajesh Kumar and T.K Das -- 2. Why do international alliances fail? : some insights from culture and human social biology / Gert Jan Hofstede -- 3. Creating a supportive culture for corporate entrepreneurship : balancing creativity and...
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This book offers an important contribution to the contemporary debate on the role of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in economic development in an increasingly globalizing, knowledge-intensive and alliance-based world economy
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