Transition economies, such as the countries in Southeast Europe, face an expeditious institutional transition from a centrally planned to a market economy. The state withdraws from its monitoring function, which results in institutional voids that affect the economy in general and small and...

Recent economic transformations in the world economy are progressing in two divergent directions – international production fragmentation and industrial agglomeration. Based on extensive data analysis and using models of interdependencies between key economies, this book analyses innovation...

Regional Innovation and Cluster Policies in the New and Old Economy -- The Hungarian ICT Sector - A Comparative CEE Perspective with Special Emphasis on Structural Change -- Industrial Clusters: Concepts and Empirical Evidence from East-Central Europe -- Regional Clustering Tendencies of the...

This book provides a balanced, empirically-based view of the 'Digital Economy,' and explores its regional and geographical import in areas where the Digital Economy meets more traditional patterns. More than just an interpretive analysis, this book utilizes empirical evidence in its assessment...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Technology Standards and Competition in the Mobile Industry by Kirti Gupta -- Chapter 3. Standard Setting Organizations and Competition Laws: Lessons and Suggestions from the United States by Donald E. Knebel -- Chapter 4. FRAND Commitments and Royalties for...

This book challenges the widely-held belief that popular narratives about business are invariably critical. It develops a more nuanced analytic model of private sector narrative and applies it to 63 recent narrative texts (movies, histories, biographies) produced in the US dealing with three...

This book examines and critiques classical approaches to strategic analysis, whilst exploring alternative methods which utilise ecosystem and platform concepts, as well as chaos and complexity theories. The innovative study provides a critique of the neoclassical Newtonian school of strategy,...

This book examines the relationship between information society and information communication technology (ICT) markets, while evaluating the ICT impact on Albanian society and its economy. It offers insights on the country’s information society development and compares it to other nations. The...

Obwohl Cloud Computing noch am Beginn seiner Verbreitung steht, prophezeien Marktstudien ein außerordentliches Wachstum. Da Cloud Computing ein Substitut zum herkömmlichen Outsourcing darstellt, wird mit Auswirkungen auf den Markt für traditionelle IT-Dienstleistungen gerechnet. Raimund...

Part 1: Critical Factors for Successful Global IT Service Organizations -- Part 2: Industrial Reformation -- Part 3: Tools for Immediate Optimization and Greater Efficiency -- Part 4: Structural Changes -- Part 5: Innovation Ecosystem -- Part 6: A Route for Industrial IT Production.