Dewatripont and Tirole (2024) defend the morality of markets on the ground of an irrelevance result: the social production of moral actions is independent from competitive pressure on markets. No matter how strong competitive pressure is, markets perform well in diffusing signals about moral...

Public service innovation, defined as the adoption of new technology and methods of service delivery, is at the heart of public management research. Scholars have long studied public and private sector innovation as distinctive phenomena, arguing that private sector innovation aims to increase...

Lévêque recounts twenty revealing tales of real-life rivalry between firms across diverse industries, including wine, skiing, opera, video games and cruise liners. These entertaining and insightful narratives are informed by recent advances in economics, factoring in the many forces driving...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Figures and Table -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- A note on the case studies -- Note -- 2 Globalization, digitization and disruptive uncertainty -- Global flows, barriers and expeditors -- Barriers and...

Competition is extending its reach, growing stronger everywhere. The evidence is there for all to see. Supermarket shelves sag under the weight of goods from all over the world. Neighbourhood stores must compete with online vendors who deliver to our doorstep. The choice of television channels...

Success is envisioned as beating the competition to generate a financially strong and profitable organization while building stakeholder satisfaction. "C" Leadership style is a new management theory derived from the research and science leading to the unification of conflicting traditional...