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Innovation in public sector services : entrepreneurship, creativity and management
Windrum, Paul (contributor); Koch, Per M. (contributor) - 2008
This groundbreaking book provides new key insights and opens up an important research agenda. The book develops a new taxonomy of the different types of innovation found in public sector services, and investigates the key features and drivers of public sector entrepreneurship. The book contains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852048
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Innovation and entrepreneurship : successful start-ups and businesses in emerging economies
Welter, Friederike (contributor); Aidis, Ruta (contributor) - 2008
Little is known about innovative and successful enterprises in the countries that, until 1990, were part of the Soviet Union. Most previous research has extensively covered barriers to entrepreneurship and innovation that exist in these countries, some of which undoubtedly represent a hostile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851082
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The economics of regulating road transport
Verhoef, Erik T. - 1996
The regulation of road transport externalities - environmental pollution, noise annoyance, accidents and congestion - is one of the most important issues in contemporary transport policies. The Economics of Regulating Road Transport explores welfare economic evaluations - in terms of efficiency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473953
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The economics of standards : theory, evidence, policy
Blind, Knut - 2004
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the important topic of standards, which remains a vastly under-researched field of empirical inquiry. It presents a variety of interesting empirical analyses which reveal the driving forces and the economic impacts of standardization both in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474038
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Recent advances in neo-Schumpeterian economics : essays in honour of Horst Hanusch
Pyka, Andreas (contributor); Hanusch, Horst (contributor) - 2009
comprehensive economic theory encompassing industry, the public sector and financial markets …
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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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The economics of outsourcing
Willcocks, Leslie P. - 2014
Kathleen M. Eisenhardt (1989), 'Agency Theory: An Assessment and Review', Academy of Management Review, 14 (1), January … in Outsourcing to China: Estimating the Property-Rights Theory of the Firm', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120 (2), May … (1996), 'Bad for Practice: A Critique of the Transaction Cost Theory', Academy of Management Review, 21 (1), January, 13 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852192
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Banking reforms in South-East Europe
Šević, Željko (ed.) - 2002
transitional countries of South-Eastern Europe - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473879
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Public sector shock : the impact of policy retrenchment in Europe
Vaughan-Whitehead, Daniel (contributor) - 2013
1. Public sector shock in Europe : between structural reforms and quantitative adjustment / Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead -- 2. Public sector adjustment and the threat to gender equality / Jill Rubery -- 3. Early application of fiscal austerity measures in the Baltic states / Jaan Masso and Kerly...
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Long-run growth, social institutions and living standards
Opocher, Arrigo (contributor); Salvadori, Neri (contributor) - 2009
Luzzati -- 15. Participatory planning of economic development : the co-evolution of economic theory and policy / Martina …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851033