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Operating Hours and Working Times
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 251

Operating Hours and Working Times

This book presents findings and results from the recent European Union Company survey of Operating hours, Working times and Employment (EUCOWE) in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. The EUCOWE-project is the first standardised company survey covering all sizes of firms and all sectors of the economy. It is the most comprehensive analysis yet published on Operating Hours, Capacity Utilisation, Working Times and Employment in the EU.

A Manager's Guide To Leadership
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

A Manager's Guide To Leadership

This accessible guide to leadership encourages the reader to proactively develop themselves, their colleagues and their organisation.

Change, Transformation and Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 448

Change, Transformation and Development

For as long as one can remember, the edifice of the neoclassical economic syn thesis has been under attack. Critiques have focused on the extreme unreality of the assumptions that underpin the Arrow-Debreu theorems of welfare economics. They have queried the excessive formalism of the edifice, and the lack of practical significance of many of the results.They have castigated the neoclassical synthesis for its internal incoherence (lacking an independent theory of capital, for example, one of the favorite topics of the Cambridge school), its lack of a dynamic element, its non-evolutionary character, its lack of any conception of "market process" and so the list could be continued (Blaug, 1997...

Work Patterns and Capital Utilisation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 422

Work Patterns and Capital Utilisation

Comprises essays which examine comparative international information concerning work patterns and capital utilization from the 1970s to 1993. Includes a discussion of methodological issues, a section containing country monographs and a case study section devoted to the European and Japanese automobile industry.

The Economic Valuation of Patents
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 393

The Economic Valuation of Patents

  • Categories: Law

This book fills an important gap in the literature and will be very useful both to students of intellectual property and practitioners confronted by the problem of valuing their patent portfolios. An excellent overview of an evolving and challenging area, it provides the necessary background to thinking about the problem of valuation and describes all the major methods in use, including the real options approach. Bronywn H. Hall, University of California, Berkeley, US In depth knowledge and scientific approach are used to improve patent valuation techniques. . . a dream book for both researchers and practitioners interested in identifying the value of creative minds. Bruno van Pottelsberghe,...

Intellectual Property Rights and the Financing of Technological Innovation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 302

Intellectual Property Rights and the Financing of Technological Innovation

  • Categories: Law

'A major contribution to the literature on the role of intellectual property rights (IPR) for the financing of innovation. The book is extensively researched and provides compelling insights for IPR managers, technology investors and policymakers trying to promote the efficiency of capital markets and national systems of innovation.' Knut Blind, Berlin University of Technology, Germany Following the transition of industrial nations to knowledge economies, the financing of technological innovation has become a central issue in public policy, corporate finance and business management. This detailed book examines the role of intellectual property rights in facilitating the financing of technolo...

Competitiveness in the Tourism Sector
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 141

Competitiveness in the Tourism Sector

International tourism is expected to be a major vehicle of economic development in industrializing countries in the 21st century, especially for Asia. To generate long-term growth, countries with tourism-based economies must develop strategies for employing their comparative advantages to achieve competitive advantages. However, competitiveness in the tourist industry is multi-dimensional and complex. This study evaluates the competitiveness of the Taiwanese tourism sector by a multi-dimensional framework. The theoretical model proposes that the competitiveness of tourist destinations should be composed of Ricardian comparative advantages (like the conditions of natural endowments and the degree of technological change); Porterian competitive advantages; tourism management, i.e., providing high quality education and job training, public goods, support services and reduced transaction costs to enhance comparative and competitive advantages; and environmental conditions.

Regulating Utilities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Regulating Utilities

Every year the Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School publish a volume of essays about Britain's system of utility regulation, with additional discussion of regulation in other countries. The book is a must for those interested in regulation, because it is an up-to-date review of the major issues in the field and includes the views of the sector regulators and the general competition authorities.

Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Software Technologies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Software Technologies

This book examines the effects of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), namely patents and copyrights, on innovation and technical change in information technologies. It provides new insights on the links between markets, technologies and legislation by applying a variety of empirical and analytical methods. The book also explores the success of the Open Source movement to establish an alternative regime for IPRs by illuminating the rationale behind it and illustrating how Open Source can strategically be used by firms.