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Euro-Pacific investment and trade : strategies and structural interdependencies

Boyd, Gavin (ed.); Rugman, Alan M. (ed.) - 1997

This important book - written by leading scholars in international business - critically reviews the activities of European and Pacific international firms. Transformations of markets and national economic systems associated with the activities of these corporations are posing many issues of...

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Investment, capital market imperfections, and uncertainty : theory and empirical results

Lensink, Robert; Bo, Hong; Sterken, Elmer - 2001

This book presents an up-to-date overview of the theory as well as the empirics of the relationship between investment …, the authors discuss both traditional investment models with uncertainty and the more modern option based models. They … present an overview of empirical results of the modelling of investment under uncertainty. In these examples, the effects of …

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Global money, capital restructuring, and the changing patterns of labour

Bellofiore, Riccardo (ed.) - 1999

The last two decades have seen a reshaping of the international economy together with a radical weakening in the conditions of the working class. New productive techniques and methods in the organization of labour have been implemented on a world-wide scale partly as a consequence of the...

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The economics of intangible investment

Webster, Elizabeth - 1999

The amount of physical matter in the world is fixed and improvements to people's material circumstances are only created by their ability to reconfigure this matter. What distinguishes labour, and subsequently what allows for differing increments of value, are our capabilities, skills and...

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Entrepreneurship, investment, and spatial dynamics : lessons and implications for the enlarged EU

Nijkamp, Peter (ed.); Moomaw, Ronald L. (ed.); … - 2006

difficult. This book attempts to provide a deeper understanding of the interaction between investment, knowledge spillovers and … empirical evidence regarding the spatial dimension of investment, entrepreneurship and knowledge spillovers, and features both …-country investment. Innovative methodologies and unique new models are then used to provide lessons and policy implications for economic …

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Entrepreneurship, industrial location and economic growth

Arauzo-Carod, Josep Maria (ed.); … - 2007

This book examines the interrelations between entrepreneurship, industrial location and economic growth. Thus, it covers a wide range of topics, including: the economic impact of entrepreneurship; industry dynamics; growth and survival of firms; firm location and globalisation patterns; and...

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The economics of power, knowledge, and time

Javary, Michèle - 2002

This book examines the significance of technological, organisational and institutional change as crucial factors in the analysis of the turnover time of capital. It also studies the related set of theoretical questions that concern the relationship between power, knowledge and time, in the...

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Firms' investment and finance decisions : theory and empirical methodology

Butzen, Paul (ed.); Fuss, Catherine (ed.) - 2003

This book provides coherent theoretical and empirical analysis of firms' investment and financing decisions. It … results confirm theoretical precedents. Some firms are indeed financially constrained, for fixed investment as well as for R … firms to adopt a 'wait and see' strategy which eventually reduces investment, especially for irreversible investment …

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Sustainable and responsible investment in developing markets : a companion

Abor, Joshua Yindenaba (ed.) - 2023

"Covering pertinent areas of sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) this forward-looking book examines SRI in … investment strategies and philosophies that attempt to incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns into … investment decision-making. In turn it provides an in-depth review of a number of different motivations for SRI, including …

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Financial markets, money, and the real world

Davidson, Paul - 2002

economic models -- 4. Investment : liquid real capital versus liquid assets -- 5. Why liquidity preference? -- 6. Financial … markets, liquidity and fast exits -- 7. Planned investment, planned savings, liquidity and economic growth -- 8. Complicating …

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