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The Changing Boundaries of the Firm
This book offers a distinctive analysis of the relations and interplay between the internal activities of firms, their changing boundaries, and increasing reliance on networks and alliances with other firms. The contributors offer a blend of theoretical and empirical studies; they are based on a set of related perspectives in modern economics, including transaction cost economics, competence and resource-based theories of the firm, evolutionary economics and the theories of foreign direct investments and the multinational enterprise. The unifying concern shared by the different studies is the need to model firm behaviour and inter firm cooperative activities in terms of knowledge growth and competence building rather than merely in terms of cost-reduction; they emphasize learning processes and dynamic efficiency rather than efficient allocation of given resources.
Corruption and Reform
Despite recent corporate scandals, the United States is among the world’s least corrupt nations. But in the nineteenth century, the degree of fraud and corruption in America approached that of today’s most corrupt developing nations, as municipal governments and robber barons alike found new ways to steal from taxpayers and swindle investors. In Corruption and Reform, contributors explore this shadowy period of United States history in search of better methods to fight corruption worldwide today. Contributors to this volume address the measurement and consequences of fraud and corruption and the forces that ultimately led to their decline within the United States. They show that various ...
The Elusive Transformation
Eugene Skolnikoff treats the roles of science and technology across the entire range of relations among nations, including security and economic issues, environmental questions, international economic competitiveness, the spread of weapons technology, the demise of communism, the new content of dependency relations, and the demanding new problems of national and international governance. He shows how the structure and operation of the scientific and technological enterprises have interacted with international affairs to lead to the dramatic evolution of world politics experienced in this century, particularly after World War II.
Privileged Goods
What are the obstacles in the way of effectively solving the environmental crises of our time? What can we do to overcome them? These may be two of the most important questions heading into the 21st century. Organized human societies have the ability to completely change the world. While we have excelled at building, destroying and rebuilding, we h
A Research Annual
Contains refereed articles on constrasting relational conceptions of the individual in economics. This book also covers the development of Adam Smith's style of lecturing; a comparison of problems encountered in the historian's work as editor, based upon editing Harrod's papers and Haberler's "Prosperity and Depression".
Back to the Future
Over the last half century, the fire of American innovation has grown dim. There have been no lunar bases, no cures for cancer, and no energy too cheap to meter. Not only have we failed to achieve these futuristic visions, but we are struggling with more fundamental challenges. Transportation speeds stagnated, energy consumption peaked, life expectancy plateaued, construction takes longer and costs more, educational systems are failing, and healthcare costs are skyrocketing. Where did our bright future go and how do we get back to it? The answer to those two questions are found in the three pillars of American society: the government, private business, and individuals. Government regulations have crippled progress and stifled innovation. Private companies have grown more bureaucratic, prioritizing short term financial gains to longer term progress. American individuals have relinquished values like discipline, merit, and a strong work ethic. By rebuilding these three pillars, this book charts a course to reignite American innovation and take us back to the future we are capable of.
Global Political Economy
This book is the eagerly awaited successor to Robert Gilpin's 1987 The Political Economy of International Relations, the classic statement of the field of international political economy that continues to command the attention of students, researchers, and policymakers. The world economy and political system have changed dramatically since the 1987 book was published. The end of the Cold War has unleashed new economic and political forces, and new regionalisms have emerged. Computing power is increasingly an impetus to the world economy, and technological developments have changed and are changing almost every aspect of contemporary economic affairs. Gilpin's Global Political Economy conside...
Work, Learning and Sustainable Development
This book is the first that provides a comprehensive overview of the way countries, education systems and institutions have responded to the call for an integration of learning for work, citizenship and sustainability at the Second International Conference on Technical and Vocational Education which was held in Seoul in 1999. Discussions on the central theme of the Seoul Conference - lifelong learning and training for all, a bridge to the future – led to the conclusion that a new paradigm of both development and Technical and Vocational Education (TVET) was needed. This book showcases the wide range of international initiatives that have sought to put such exhortations into practice. It in...
Investor Politics
Represents an attempt to sketch out, across a host of policy topics, a realistic strategy for shrinking the welfare state. This book looks backward to human history and even to prehistory to examine the origins of capital formation.
