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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
endogenous growth theory, economic growth and unemployment, labour market economics and industrial organization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473896
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850812
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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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Corporate governance, the firm and investor capitalism : legal-political and economic views
Styhre, Alexander - 2016
-agent relations, and free market advocacy -- Part II: rethinking the firm -- 3. The agency theory model of the firm and its …: neoclassical economic theory and ideology. … economic boom, and after 1980 in the era of free market advocacy. Covering the theory of the firm from the New Deal era until …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419829
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Cyberfactories : how news agencies produce news
Czarniawska-Joerges, Barbara - 2011
Have you ever wondered how organizations decide which news is important? This insightful book portrays in detail everyday work in three news agencies: Swedish TT, Italian ANSA and the worldwide Reuters. This unique study is about organizing rather than journalism, revealing two accelerating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851557
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Blockchain + antitrust : the decentralization formula
Schrepel, Thibault - 2021
-- Part 2 best frenemies? -- 6. The theory of the firm -- 7. The theory of granularity -- 8. Collusion on blockchain -- 9 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012704219
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A research agenda for workplace stress and wellbeing
Kelloway, E. Kevin (ed.); Cooper, Cary (ed.) - 2021
Contents: Part I: Setting the scene -- 1. Introduction to a research agenda for workplace stress and wellbeing / E. Kevin Kelloway and Cary L. Cooper -- 2. Workplace stress and wellbeing: Pathways for future research advances / James Campbell Quick -- 3. The cost of stress to uk employers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012665638
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Handbook of research on creativity and innovation
Zhou, Jing (ed.); Rouse, Elizabeth (ed.) - 2021
qualitative methods to generate divergence in creativity theory / Elizabeth D. Rouse and Michael G. Pratt -- Index. …
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