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Public enterprise revisited : a closer look at the 1954-79 UK labour productivity record
Iordanoglou, Chrisafis H. - 2001
The book compares the 1954-79 labour productivity record of 5 expanding public sector industries to that of 24 expanding, capital intensive, mass-production industries in the British private sector. The author shows that the public sector industries' labour productivity growth was significantly...
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Catch-up and radical innovation in Chinese state-owned enterprises : exploring large infrastructure projects
Liu, Xielin; Wang, Xiao; Hu, Yimei - 2021
innovation systems in China -- 3. State Grid and user-driven innovation: the case of ultra-high voltage power transmission -- 4 …. TD-SCDMA, LTE-TDD, and China Mobile: catch-up and innovation in the Chinese telecommunications industry -- 5. China … demonstrate the innovation process of SOEs, the unique innovation model of China, as well as its advantages and disadvantages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487425
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China in the global economy
Lloyd, Peter John (contributor);  … - 2000
China in the Global Economy focuses on the theme of twin transitions occurring in the Chinese economy: the transition …. China's exporters face unprecedented competition in the world market and the flow of foreign direct investment has fallen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850738
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Reforming China's state-owned enterprises and banks
Chiu, Becky - 2006
effectively privatised all of their former state enterprises, China is still endeavouring to find a way to reinvent and re …-engineer its own state-owned economic establishments. The authors explore these reforms along with the problems of China's state … China's WTO commitments. Drawing on wide-ranging case studies of enterprise reform, Becky Chiu and Mervyn Lewis combine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851561
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Free to fail : creative destruction revisited
Mandele, Hugh C. van der - 2013
1. Introduction -- 2. Key concepts -- 3. The historic debate -- 4. Profit maximization is only part of the answer -- 5. Organizational mortality and its fruits -- 6. Causes of organizational failure -- 7. Uncontrollability -- 8. Empirical evidence -- 9. The soft constraint syndrome -- 10. When...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420127
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Research companion to the dysfunctional workplace : management challenges and symptoms
Langan-Fox, Janice (contributor);  … - 2007
A work exposing and exploring the phenomena of the dysfunctional workplace is long overdue. This fascinating book does just that, uncovering the subversiveness, counter-productive behaviour and unspoken 'issues' that managers struggle with on a daily basis
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419989
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Economic performance in the Americas : the role of the service sector in Brazil, Mexico and the USA
Mulder, Nanno - 2002
Economic Performance in the Americas compares the economic performances of Brazil, Mexico and the USA over the past half century. As with most other high and middle-income countries their economies are service-sector orientated and have been for several decades. This book encompasses all sectors...
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Productivity, innovation, and knowledge in services : new economic and socio-economic approaches
Gallouj, Fai͏̈z (contributor); Gadrey, J. (contributor) - 2002
Written by some of the most distinguished authors in the field, this book elucidates the critical and complex relationships between services, production and innovation. The authors discuss the limitations of current theories to explain service productivity and innovation, and call for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851223
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Growth, unemployment, and deindustrialization
Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2000
The sectoral composition of economies is fundamental to the understanding of growth, unemployment and the relative performance of nations. Henri de Groot models the relationship between these four factors from a single theoretical perspective in order to determine the foundations of the wealth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473896
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Aging and working in the new economy : changing career structures in small IT firms
McMullin, Julie Ann (contributor);  … - 2010
The case studies and analyses developed in this timely book provide insight into the structural features of small and medium-sized firms in the information technology sector, and the implications of these features for the careers of people who are employed by them
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850936