The recent financial crisis and the subsequent economic downturn are undoubtedly the most important global events affecting modern economic systems since the Great Depression of 1930s. Up to now ideas from strategic management theories on why and how some firms have handled the global crisis...

Although the role of universities in the knowledge society is increasingly significant, there remains a severe lack of systematic quantitative evidence at the micro-level, with virtually all policy discussion based on country level statistics or case studies. This book redresses the balance by...