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Measuring and improving productivity in services : issues, strategies and challenges
Djellal, Faridah - 2008
The definition and measurement of productivity in services raises important conceptual, methodological and strategic problems. This book aims to provide a critical review of the main debates on productivity in the domain of services. The first part examines the theoretical consequences of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850594
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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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The growth of service industries : the paradox of exploding costs and persistent demand
Schettkat, Ronald (contributor); Raa, Thijs Ten (contributor) - 2001
Problems arise if budgets for services are held constant whilst prices rise. Education, cultural activities and health services are under constant budgetary pressure. The authors argue that the price of commodities is linked to demand and price increases would therefore seem to threaten the very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851326
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Trading services in the global economy
Cuadrado Roura, Juan R. (contributor);  … - 2002
Services in Economic Theory and Economic Practice: Some Conceptual Issues 4. A Comparative Approach. to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851453
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Finance, investment, and macroeconomics : the neoclassical and a post Keynesian solution
Gordon, Myron J. - 1994
In Finance, Investment and Macroeconomics, Myron J. Gordon advances a theory of finance and investment under … arrive at an alternative to the neoclassical theory of investment. Professor Gordon demonstrates that the extension of … neoclassical theory to deal with uncertainty and risk aversion is based upon a string of assumptions which are empirically false …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473927
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Handbook on the economic complexity of technological change
Antonelli, Cristiano (contributor) - 2011
This comprehensive and innovative Handbook applies the tools of the economics of complexity to analyse the causes and effects of technological and structural change. It grafts the intuitions of the economics of complexity into the tradition of analysis based upon the Schumpeterian and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850601
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851025
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Geography, structural change and economic development : theory and empirics
Tamberi, Massimo (contributor); Salvadori, Neri (contributor) - 2009
The authors in this book regard the process of economic expansion as a non-homogeneous and multifaceted phenomenon which has deeply affected human welfare, and cultural, social and political change. The book is a bridge between the theorists (Rosenstein-Rodan, Lewis, Myrdal, and Hirschmann) who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851875
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Consumption and growth : recovery and structural change in the US economy
Gualerzi, Davide - 2001
theory of effective demand. Taking Schumpeter's views on economic development as a starting point, the author proposes an … examines the role of demand with respect to the theory of structural change and the theory of consumption at both the micro and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474127
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Human capital, inter-firm mobility and organizational evolution
Pennings, Johannes M. - 2007
The authors of this fascinating and original work contend that by analysing the conduct of organization members, a great deal can be learnt about firm behaviour and about the cooperative and competitive forces that underlie industry evolution
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419988