The innovation imperative : why innovate? -- The innovation portfolio : what to innovate -- The innovation voices : how to innovate -- The innovative mind : who innovates -- Price, cost, value -- Hidden costs, hidden benefits -- Tradeoffs : optimizing and eliminating them -- Cost functions :...

In a detailed study of 20 newly-privatized Russian enterprises, Igor Gurkov and Shlomo Maital ask two important questions concerning ownership and performance. First, who really controls the newly-privatized enterprises and who is generally thought to control them - are they the same? Second,...

This paper argues that political-economic trends referred to under the single heading of globalisation have distinct causes and manifestations in different countries. Institutional variables chosen by governments and their constituents play a dominant role in determining the character of those...