The purpose of this paper is to study the place of eco-innovation in industrial firms' current strategy and to understand how they achieve this change in their technological trajectory. This is mainly based on the interviews conducted between 2009 and 2011 within eight corporations settled in...

The book begins with a penetrating analysis of the main features of today's capitalism and in particular the conflict between shareholders and managers. It moves on to focus on the consequences of globalization in the decision-making processes of large corporations and represents an important...

The genesis and diffusion of innovation depends upon the density of the cognitive and market relationships among individuals, organisations and institutions at both the micro- and macro-economic level. By addressing the nature of these relationships, which include cooperation, competition and...

"Apart from poverty and conflict, the consequences of technological advances, of the globalization of socio-technical transitions, and of the uniformity of the world economy, are questions to which the economic analysis of development must find answers. With scientific and technical knowledge...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Title -- Copyright -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1: Theories and Policies of Economic Development -- 1.1. The era of economic interventionism -- 1.2. The era of liberalism -- 1.3. The era of "good governance" -- 1.4. The system of "global governance" under scrutiny...