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Organizational innovations and economic growth : organosis and growth of firms, sectors, and countries
Sanidas, Elias - 2005
Analysing the USA and Japan from the late 19th century to the present day, the book provides an accessible synthesis of …1. Introduction -- 2. Organizational innovations from the 1860s in the USA and Japan -- 3. The role of OIs in the … the USA and Japan -- 7. Empirical evidence on the links between industrial sectoral growth and the Lean Production System …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851066
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Long-run growth and short-run stabilization : essays in memory of Albert Ando
Ando, Albert (contributor);  … - 2006
system and private savings in Italy -- Do the elderly dissave in Japan? -- On robust monetary policy -- The euro and the … account -- Land prices and business fixed investment in Japan -- Rationality, behavior and switching idiosyncracies in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851839
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Limits to free trade : non-tariff barriers in the European Union, Japan and United States
Hanson, David - 2010
This book explores the growing list of non-tariff trade barriers raised by the US, EU and Japan and assesses the … -- 7. Background to trade policy in Japan -- 8. Issues concerning Japanese trade practices -- 9. A comparative perspective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851990
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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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Investing in the United States : is the US ready for FDI from China?
Sauvant, Karl P. (contributor) - 2009
Kantor -- 7. Is the US ready for FDI from China? : lessons from Japan's experience in the 1980s / Curtis J. Milhaupt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852080
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Climate and trade policy : bottom-up approaches towards global agreement
Carraro, Carlo (ed.); Egenhofer, Christian (ed.) - 2007
Bottom-up approaches towards a global climate agreement : an overview -- Carlo Carraro, Christian Egenhofer and Noriko Fujiwara -- Regional and subglobal climate blocs : a cost-benefit analysis of bottom-up climate regimes / Barbara Buchner and Carlo Carraro -- Do regional integration approaches...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420021
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The economics of health care in Asia-Pacific countries
Hu, Teh-wei (ed.); Hsieh, Chee-Ruey (ed.) - 2002
reform and health policy in Asia-Pacific countries such as China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the US - nations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474098
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Entrepreneurial competition and industrial location : investigating the structural patterns and intangible sources of competitive performance
Peneder, Michael - 2001
implications are tested in a comparative study of competitive performance in the EU, Japan and the USA. Typical mechanisms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473757
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Technological change and the environmental imperative : challenges to the copper industry
Brundenius, Claes (contributor) - 2003
Technological Change and the Environmental Imperative considers the extent of the success of polluting industries in becoming cost-efficient whilst acquiring less polluting technologies, in the face of fierce competition. The authors also discuss what has been the impact of privatisation on this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850878
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Transatlantic regulatory cooperation : the shifting roles of the EU, the US and California
Vogel, David (contributor); Swinnen, Johan F. M. (contributor) - 2011
This well-documented book analyzes the possibilities and constraints of regulatory cooperation between the EU and the US (particularly California) with a specific focus on environmental protection, food safety and agriculture, biosafety and biodiversity
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850566