The concept of path dependence is being used in highly deterministic ways in neo-institutionalist analysis, so that studies using this framework have dif.culty in accounting for, or predicting, change. However, the original Polya urn model from which pathdependence theory draws predicts that...

The field report ooks at the economic developments and regional industrial growth with the discovery of oil. It also discusses the different implications on regional political relations as a result of the quantity and geographical territories in which the oil was found. More specifically, the...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Key Abbreviations Used -- 1 Exploiting Agility for Advantage -- 2 What is Organisational Agility? -- 3 Prudent Opportunism -- 4 Leading Agile Enterprises -- Bibliography for Part I -- 5 Introduction to Part II: Using the EAfA Process to Exploit Agility for...

Frontmatter -- Advance praise for Making a Difference -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the author -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Giving back is the best way forward -- Chapter 2 Good for me and good for you -- Chapter 3 Making a difference starts with a new perspective -- Chapter 4 Stop...

Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Contents -- 1. Man as an Element of the Economic Mechanism of the Information Society in Modern Social and Economic Theories and Concepts -- 2. Digitalized Reality as a Concept of Modern Economic Knowledge -- 3. Spiritual Bare of Digital Calving of Anthroposphere...

Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Contents -- 1 Antinomy of Self-Sufficiency and Openness of the Russian Economy -- 2 Archaization of Socio-Economic Relations as a Challenge to National Modernization -- 3 Perspectives of the Development of Ethnoeconomics: Inequality, Integration and Socio-Economic...