This contributed volume studies and explains the effect that agglomeration exerts on a firm’s innovation and performance. It presents new cases as well as new topics within the agglomeration phenomenon, exploring also their role under the Great Recession. Beyond the analysis of regions or...

By Leif Edvinsson Professor of Intellectual Capital University of Lund Lund, Sweden In a marketplace, characterized by the growing importance of intangibles and knowledge, as we have not only in Europe today, it has become more and more evident how important knowledge management and Intellectual...

Theoretische Grundlagen zur Wahrnehmung und Wirkung akustischer Reize -- Markenrecht: Die Hörmarke -- Best-Practice-Beispiele (u.a. Audi Corporate Sound, BMW Sound Logo, Intel Sound Logo, Deutsche Telekom Sound Logo, Klangwelt von Nokia).

Die Sicherung einer ökologisch und sozial nachhaltigen Energieversorgung für die Volkswirtschaften Europas sowie die damit verbundenen Herausforderungen – dieses für Politik, Wirtschaft und Verwaltung gleichermaßen relevante Thema beschäftigt nationale Regierungen, die Institutionen der...

Insurance today is a global economic colossus and a fixture in the developed countries of the world. Dependant upon a considerable dose of moral exhortation and enlightened appeal, the insurance industry has become a pervasive agent of social and economic control through its delineation of...

A Europe Made of Money is a new history of the making of the European Monetary System (EMS), based on extensive archive research. Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol highlights two long-term processes in the monetary and economic negotiations in the decade leading up to the founding of the EMS in 1979. The...

Main description: In the global economy, linguistic diversity influences economic and political development as well as public policies in positive and negative ways. It leads to financial costs, communication barriers, divisions in national unity, and, in some extreme cases, conflicts and...

Main description: Commercial banks are among the oldest and most familiar financial institutions. When they work well, we hardly notice; when they do not, we rail against them. What are the historical forces that have shaped the modern banking system? In Unsettled Account, Richard Grossman takes...

Twentieth-century Europe was an intense laboratory of capitalist experimentation. Confronted with economic booms and crises, technological revolutions, and economic globalization, Western Europe's governments constantly explored alternative ways of managing domestic economic systems and...