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Financial liberalization and intervention : a new analysis of credit rationing
Basu, Santonu - 2002
1. General introduction -- 2. A critical review of the literature on credit rationing -- 3. The theory of credit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420113
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China in the global economy
Lloyd, Peter John (contributor);  … - 2000
China in the Global Economy focuses on the theme of twin transitions occurring in the Chinese economy: the transition from a centrally planned economic system to a market oriented one, and from an agrarian to a modern industrialised society. China's exporters face unprecedented competition in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850738
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851212
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Reforming China's state-owned enterprises and banks
Chiu, Becky - 2006
This book's starting point is that after two decades of experiments, during which other transition economies have effectively privatised all of their former state enterprises, China is still endeavouring to find a way to reinvent and re-engineer its own state-owned economic establishments. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851561
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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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Catch-up and radical innovation in Chinese state-owned enterprises : exploring large infrastructure projects
Liu, Xielin; Wang, Xiao; Hu, Yimei - 2021
Contents: Preface -- 1. State-owned enterprise, government, and the innovation ecosystem -- 2. Formation of the dual innovation systems in China -- 3. State Grid and user-driven innovation: the case of ultra-high voltage power transmission -- 4. TD-SCDMA, LTE-TDD, and China Mobile: catch-up and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487425
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Growth and economic development : essays in honour of A.P. Thirlwall
Thirlwall, A. P.; McCombie, J. S. L.; Arestis, Philip; … - 2006
demonstrates the considerable influence that his work on economic theory has had on his contemporaries, and the profession as a … / Mark Roberts -- Endogenous growth theory : a partial critique / Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer -- The nature of economic … growth and the neoclassical approach. : more questions than answers? / John McCombie -- On the core of macroeconomic theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850558
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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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Financing transportation networks
Levinson, David M. - 2002
explores the fundamental theoretical basis of highway finance, in particular the use of tolls, and supports that theory with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850597
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Contracts and trust in alliances : discovering, creating and appropriating value
Vlaar, Paul W. L. - 2008
Paul Vlaar contends that strategic alliances and other forms of cooperation, such as buyer-supplier relationships, joint ventures and offshoring initiatives, increasingly stand at the basis of competitive advantage. Although contracts and trust play a crucial role in such relationships, prior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850599