This work discusses creative industries from the perspectives of economics, management, psychology, law, geography, and policy. It combines views on how creativity is turned into economic, business and social value, as well as contemporary trends, digital technologies and creative industries in...

The Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries is a reference text that brings together many of the world's leading scholars in the application of creativity in economics, business and management, law, policy studies, organization studies and psychology. While creative industries research has become...

This paper studies the sectoral and geographical dimensions of the response of bank lending to sectoral growth. We use several bank-level datasets provided by the Deutsche Bundesbank for the 1996-2002 period. Our results show that bank heterogeneity affects how lending responds to domestic...

We analyze the performance of firms in the German business-related services sector. A quarterly business survey provides the panel data base of our study. Firm performance is measured by the survey respondents? ordinal indication of their changes in total sales. We use a firstorder Markov chain...

Entwicklungspartner für innovative Fahrzeuge, Spezialist mit unverwechselbarem Produktions-Know-how oder austauschbarer Teilfertiger - welche dieser prognostizierten Entwicklungsoptionen trifft die aktuelle Situation der Zulieferindustrie am ehesten? Die Realität lässt sich wie so häufig...