Books in the Routledge Studies in Global Competition series

Analyses the transformation of the University's role in society as an expanded on involving economic and social development as well as teaching and research.

Reviews of the literature on historical and theoretical developments of technology and economic growth including productivity measures, technical knowledge, technological spillovers and stock market reactions to technology investment.

This analysis of the impact of inward investment on the competitiveness of indigenous firms draws on evidence from the UK and Italian manufacturing sectors to show how the foreign presence may generate both virtuous and vicious circles of development according to the number of interrelated factors.

Inspired by modern physics, the author brings together an evolutionary methodology, along the way implicating quantum, graph, and percolation theory. This book provides an interdisciplinary approach to entrepreneurship.

Examines innovations and manoeuvres of geographically proximate business competitors in an attempt to provide reader with an understanding of the dynamics of competition. This is done largely through the use of case studies of manufacturers competing for shares in three industrial markets.

Why do companies seek to collaborate with one another in developing and applying knowledge and how do they organize this? This book takes a single knowledge-based perspective and demonstrates a detailed argument with the qualitative discussion of an actual "innovation network".

This book explores the regional dimension of Europe in terms of localised technological comparative advantages and the location of innovative activities by Multinational Corporations.

Markets previously unreachable for companies other than monopolies or other protected firms are now frequently open to new entrants. This book focuses on strategy in emerging markets, in particular establishments in liberalized European markets.

Although traditional manufacturing (textiles, clothing, footwear, furniture) has been in decline in developed countries, it still represents an important part of European employment due to its labour-intensive character. This book explains the differences observed in the impact of globalization.

Japan's high-speed Internet access services such as ADSL, CATV Internet and FTTH are considered the cheapest and fastest services drawing international attention. This book introduces the status of broadband services in Japan and their development in competition policy. It also discusses an econometric model to analyse access demand.

This book takes the approach that all local economic clusters have something in common. It does this by putting specific case studies into a wider perspective.

Focuses on the relationships between rules of decision-making and economic development, concentrating on the similarities and differences between old and modern modes of governance in both business and politics. This book shows how maritime trade spawned many organizational innovations in the past that still feature modern innovative enterprise.

Examines discourses of knowledge and innovation in post-industrial societies and knowledge-based organizations. This book investigates the value of knowledge and the question of innovation management in a commercial environment for a technology company. It reveals the ambiguities and challenges of innovation management.

Using comparisons between regions, this book examines various trends towards mergers and acquisitions in Japan, Greater China and Southeast Asia from 1990 to 2004.

Brings evolutionary economics to bear upon economic geography in a coordinated study of the European Union.

Explores the characteristics of the path dependent dynamics of localized technological change, demonstrating how the economics of complexity can inform our understanding of the economics of innovation and vice versa.

Presents a critical perspective on several issues surrounding the economics of the firms. Suitable for postgraduate students of economics, this book eschews standard approaches to the economics of the firm (including analysis of transaction costs) in favour of a more interdisciplinary outlook, with evolutionary economics taken into account.