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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...

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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...

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Technological change and the environmental imperative : challenges to the copper industry

Brundenius, Claes (contributor) - 2003

case of copper smelting in China / Bo Göransson -- From nationalization to re-privatization of the Peruvian copper industry …

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Handbook on innovation, society and the environment

Díaz López, Fernando J. (ed.); Mazzanti, Massimiliano (ed.) - 2023

"Through careful investigation into the role of eco-innovation as a catalysing factor in the societal transition towards sustainability, this Handbook proposes more appropriate measures of innovation as a driver of change. It examines innovation from various perspectives, including labour,...

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Privatization and market development : global movements in public policy ideas

Hodge, Graeme A. (contributor) - 2006

This accessible book aims to inform readers interested in assessing privatization and market development concepts on a … international team of contributors, the book traces how privatization concepts have grown in application, and how they have spread … global regulation of markets / George Gilligan -- Conclusions : spreading the privatization family business / Graeme Hodge …

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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...

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Water management in the 21st century : the allocation imperative

Lee, Terence R. - 1999

The challenge to manage the allocation of water efficiently and equably will become a dominant theme of the new millennium. At a time when the cost of obtaining fresh water is rising throughout the globe, Terence Lee analyses the means for establishing and operating effective water markets. He...

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Technology, globalization and poverty

James, Jeffrey - 2002

pt. 1. Conceptualizing the influence of information technology on globalization -- pt. 2. Pro-poor modes of technical integration into the global economy -- pt. 3. Technology policy in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Handbook of innovation systems and developing countries : building domestic capabilities in a global setting

Lundvall, Bengt-Åke (contributor) - 2009

This Handbook is the first attempt to adapt the IS approach to developing countries from a theoretical and empirical viewpoint. The Handbook brings eminent scholars in economics, innovation and development studies together with promising young researchers to review the literature and push...

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Bridging the global digital divide

James, Jeffrey - 2003

Employing a rigorous analytical framework, the author bases his analysis on the concept of international technological dualism. He argues that one possible solution to the problem is the availability of affordable technologies, such as low-cost computers, which are specifically designed for the...

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