Industry and industrial studies Books
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd EUROPEAN INDUSTRIES: Structure, Conduct and
Book SynopsisThis important book presents an authoritative, up-to-date examination of a number of major industries in Europe. It offers valuable insights into the nature of industrial activity in Europe, as well as providing comprehensive introductions to a series of key industries, such as defence, construction, tourism and biotechnology. Under the guidance of editor Peter Johnson, a team of specialist contributors presents authoritative case study material on aspects of industrial structure, behaviour and performance in Europe. The primary, secondary and tertiary sectors are all represented as are industries, with special characteristics such as those with a long history of public sector ownership. The selection of industries is designed to show the variety of ways in which the European 'dimension' is reflected in industrial activities and awareness. In addition, the book analyses the development, operation and effectiveness of EC policy and the way that policy interacts with the policies of individual countries.European Industries will rapidly become established as an important source of reference which will be of value to students, researchers and all those concerned with the economic future of an integrated Europe.Trade Review'This book is to be recommended as a valuable reference source; the self-contained chapters provide well-written and informative introductions to the industries covered and the authors also give helpful guidance to further reading.' -- Eleanor J. Morgan, The Economic Journal '. . . this book is a timely follow-up to Peter Johnson's earlier studies on the structure of industries in the UK.'– Richard Stead, Service Industries JournalTable of ContentsEnergy; agriculture; steel; biotechnology; motor vehicles; the defence industries; construction; air transport; tourism; financial services.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd INDUSTRIAL CONCENTRATION AND ECONOMIC INEQUALITY:
Book SynopsisHow far can efficiency be pursued without sacrificing equity? Do fiscal changes designed to improve incentives necessarily lead to greater inequality of incomes? Does the profitability of ‘big business’ really reflect economies of scale and scope or is it also a reflection of market power? In addressing these and other key questions, a group of internationally acclaimed economists demonstrates why issues of concentration and inequality in economic life are moving to the top of the political agenda in the 1990s. Drawing upon the pioneering work of Peter Hart, this volume reflects the range of his influence from theoretical examinations of measures of industrial concentration and income inequality, to detailed empirical explorations of changes in concentration over time. The volume includes essays on, among other issues, the Hart measure of income mobility, income distribution in Eastern Europe, the UK state pension scheme, trends in the concentration of UK manufacturing in the 1980s, the EC Merger Control Regulation, corporate research and development strategies and corporate technological specialization in international industries.Industrial Concentration and Economic Inequality will be particularly relevant for government policy makers, social analysts and economists concerned with income distribution and industrial policy.Trade Review’This is a collection of thoughtful, though fairly technical, articles connected by the research interests of Peter Hart.’ -- Linda Hesselman, The Business EconomistTable of ContentsPart 1 Income inequality: on the Hart measure of income mobility, Anthony F. Shorrocks; the distribution of income in Eastern Europe, A.B. Atkinson and John Micklewright; wage rate mobility and measurement errors - an application to Swedish panel data, N. Anders Klevmarken; higher education - grants, taxation and lifetime inequality, John Creedy and Patrick Francois; will younger cohorts obtain a worse deal from the UK state pension scheme?, Richard Disney and Edward Whitehouse. Part 2 Industrial concentration: are industrial economists still interested in concentration?, Michael Waterson; trends in concentration in UK manufacturing, Michael Utton; merger appraisal under the EC merger control regulation, Eleanor J. Morgan; corporate research and development strategies - the influence of firm, industry and country factors on the decentralization of research and development, Mark Casson and Satwinder Singh; corporate technological specialization in international industries, John Cantwell.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Handbook of Industrial Innovation
Book SynopsisIndustrial innovation is essential for national and corporate competitiveness. Understanding the nature, determinants and consequences of innovation is a key task of managers, public policymakers and all students of industry and business. This major new reference book brings together specially commissioned contributions by many leading world experts on a wide range of issues concerning innovation. The first section provides an introduction to the significance and process of industrial innovation, and to the contexts or 'systems' within which it occurs. A series of sectoral and industrial studies is followed by assessments of the key issues affecting innovation. Another section examines one of the main constraints on successful innovation: the strategic management of technology in both products and processes. As well as the benefits of innovation, the problems and challenges of the processes, management and outcomes of innovation are raised throughout the book. Select bibliographies chosen by international experts are included to ensure that this comprehensive reference tool is an indispensable guide for students, scholars, innovators and policymakers.Trade Review'I highly recommend this volume to academic scholars and policy makers in both industry and government. It contains a wealth of valuable material on industrial innovation presented authoritatively and concisely.'Table of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: The Nature, Sources and Outcomes of Industrial Innovation Part II: Sectoral and Industrial Studies of Innovation Part III: Key Issues Affecting Innovation Part IV: The Strategic Management of Innovation Part V: Future Challenges of Innovation in a Global Perspective Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE IN EUROPE: A
Book SynopsisIn Economic and Industrial Performance in Europe, a distinguished group of scholars compares the fortunes of different European nations in the period of economic restructuring, uncertainty, and generally slower economic growth that followed the oil crisis of the 1970s. Using meaningful quantitative data, the authors address the deterioration and divergence of economic performance across Europe since 1973. They look at attempts to improve domestic competitiveness, labour market deregulation, the impact of research and development on economic success, comparative analysis of state expenditure and debt, the military economy and the social consequences of industrialism and industrial restructuring. This volume seeks to show how the post-war boom has unravelled and how this process has impacted upon different European economies.Economic and Industrial Performance in Europe will be welcomed by students, researchers and policy makers seeking comprehensive, meaningful information on why some national economies have been better placed than others to shoulder the burden of the more intense, global competitive pressures that have become part of the post-1973 world economy.Trade Review’This useful book of papers examines the deterioration and divergence of economic performance across European countries since 1973. . .’ -- Aslib Book GuideTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction (P. McVeigh) 2. Europe in Figures: National Income and Employment (J. Michie) 3. Industry: Performance and Policies (M.C. Sawyer) 4. Labour Markets: Diversity in Restructuring (P. Nolan and D. Harvie) 5. Science and Technology, R & D and Innovation (D. Archibugi and J. Michie) 6. State Expenditure and Economic Performance (D. Coates and M. Wiggen) 7. The Military Economy in Europe (P. Dunne) 8. The Social Consequences of Industrialism (M. Rudd) Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd THE THEORY OF THE FIRM
Book SynopsisThe theory of the firm is one of the most exciting fields of current economic research. Transaction cost theory, agency theory, contract theory and competency-based theories have all made important contributions. Both the classic and key contemporary papers are included hence The Theory of the Firm gathers together in one volume the major key thinking within the literature.The main topics covered are the scope and boundaries of the firm, international organization and information costs, vertical integration, growth competence and flexibility, the employment relation, inter-firm collaboration and networking. A substantial analytical introduction by Mark Casson provides a state-of-the-art review of current thinking in the area.Trade Review'The theory of the firm is the subject of a particularly large body of literature in economics. To select a balanced volume, therefore, is very challenging. The publisher of this book managed to find an able editor for this volume in the person of Mark Casson, who brings to bear a deep understanding of the literature. In addition to selecting a set of readings that gives the reader a complete overview of the development and current state into thematic sections that provide an excellent perspective, even for the established researcher in this field. . . . Scholars in both economics and management will find this collection a valuable resource.' -- Ram Mudambi, Transnational CorporationsTable of Contents36 articles, dating from 1923 to 1995 Contents: Introduction Part I: The Nature of the Firm Part II: Organization and Hierarchy Part III: Vertical Integration Part IV: Competence, Flexibility and Growth Part V: Inter-Firm Cooperation and Networking Part VI: Historical Perspectives Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Monopoly and Competition Policy
Book SynopsisThis two-volume set brings together for the first time a collection of seminal writings dealing with the development of competition policy in Europe, the United States and Japan. It begins by reproducing the writings of leading philosophers and scholars on the rationale and desirability of competition in market economies. These interpretations range in time of origin from ancient Greece through to Adam Smith and James Madison to very recent contributions in the competition policy debate. Having established relevant philosophical foundations, the compendium presents analyses by leading British, American, German and Japanese scholars on the interpretation and administration of laws concerning price-fixing and other restrictive agreements, market dominance and monopolization, predatory practices and mergers.Trade Review'The collection will no doubt prove a valuable source for students and researchers interested in the history and development of monopoly and competition policy.' -- Morten Hviid, International Journal of Industrial Organization'. . . this book serves a valuable purpose by bringing so much of the conventional literature into one location.'– Michael Perelman, RRPETable of ContentsCONTENTS VOLUME 1 PART 1 THE GOALS OF COMPETITION POLICY A SEMINAL VIEWS 1. ‘The Case of Monopolies’, (1907) 2. Adam Smith, ‘An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations’ 3. James Madison (1961), ‘The Federalist No. 10’ 4. Arthur T. Hadley (1887), ‘Private Monopolies and Public Rights’ 5. Richard T. Ely (1887), ‘The Future of Corporations’ 6. Alfred Marshall (1890), ‘Some Aspects of Competition: Presidential Address Delivered to the Economic Science and Statistics Section of the British Association, at Leeds, 1890’ 7. John Bates Clark (1900), ‘Trusts’ 8. Henry C. Simons (1936), ‘The Requisites of Free Competition’ B EXCESSIVE COMPETITION CONCERNS 9. Robert Liefmann (1915), ‘Monopoly or Competition as the Basis of a Government Trust Policy’ 10. Eliot Jones (1920), ‘Is Competition in Industry Ruinous’ 11. Kojiro Niino (1962), ‘The Logic of Excessive Competition - With Reference to the Japanese Inter-firm Competition’ 12. Ryutaro Komiya (1990), ‘The Japanese Economy: Trade, Industry and Government’ C THE GOALS DEBATE REDUX 13. Robert H. Bork (1966), ‘Legislative Intent and the Policy of the Sherman Act’ 14. Robert H. Lande (1989), ‘Chicago’s False Foundation: Wealth Transfers (Not Just Efficiency) Should Guide Antitrust’ 15. Richard A. Posner (1975), ‘The Social Costs of Monopoly and Regulation’ 16. William S .Comanor and Robert H. Smiley (1975), ‘Monopoly and the Distribution of Wealth’ 17. James C. Miller III, Thomas F. Walton, William E. Kovacic and Jeremy A. Rabkin (1984), ‘Industrial Policy: Reindustrialization Through Competition or Coordinated Action?’ PART 2 POLICY TOWARD RESTRICTIVE AGREEMENTS 18. (1926), ‘Against the Corn Dealers’ 19. Dr Kurt Bloch (1932), ‘On German Cartels’ 20. Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker (1980), ‘Competition Policy and Antitrust: Some Comparative Observations’ 21. David B. Audretsch (1989), ‘Legalized Cartels in West Germany’ 22. Klaus Stegemann (1977), ‘The Exemption of Specialization Agreements: As Proposed for Stage II Amendments to the Combines Investigation Act’ 23. James P. Cairns (1964), ‘Benefits from Restrictive Agreements: The British Experience’ 24. R. W. Shaw and S. A. Shaw (1983), ‘Excess Capacity and Rationalisation in the West European Synthetic Fibres Industry’ 25. Merton J. Peck, Richard C. Levin and Akira Goto (1988), ‘Picking Losers: Public Policy Toward Declining Industries in Japan’ 26. William H. Nicholls (1949), ‘The Tobacco Case of 1946’ 27. Jesse W. Markham (1951), ‘The Nature and Significance of Price Leadership’ 28. Peter Asch and Joseph J. Seneca (1975), ‘Characteristics of Collusive Firms’ VOLUME 2 PART 1 MONOPOLIZATION AND ABUSIVE PRACTICES A DOMINANT ENTERPRISES IN THE UNITED STATES 1. Charles J. Bullock (1901), ‘Trust Literature: A Survey and A Criticism’ 2. F. M. Scherer (1987), ‘Antitrust, Efficiency and Progress’ 3. George W. Stocking and Willard F. Mueller (1955), ‘The Cellophane Case and the New Competition’ 4. Oliver E. Williamson (1972), ‘Dominant Firms and the Monopoly Problem: Market Failure Considerations’ B INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES 5. Erich Kaufer (1980), ‘The Control of the Abuse of Market Power by Market-Dominant Firms Under the German Law Against Restraints of Competition’ 6. Eleanor M. Fox (1986), ‘Monopolization and Dominance in the United States and the European Community: Efficiency, Opportunity and Fairness’ 7. Richard E. Caves (1974), ‘International Trade, International Investment and Imperfect Markets’ C PREDATORY PRACTICES 8. L. G. Telser (1966), ‘Cutthroat Competition and the Long Purse’ 9. B. S. Yamey (1972), ‘Predatory Price Cutting: Notes and Comments’ 10. Malcolm R. Burns (1986), ‘Predatory Pricing and the Acquisition Cost of Competitors’ 11. Oliver E. Williamson (1977), ‘Predatory Pricing: A Strategic and Welfare Analysis’ 12. William J. Baumol (1979), ‘Quasi-Permanence of Price Reductions: A Policy for Prevention Pricing’ PART 2 MERGER POLICY 13. George J. Stigler (1950), ‘Monopoly and Oligopoly by Merger’ 14. George Bittlingmayer (1985), ‘Did Antitrust Policy Cause the Great Merger Wave?’ 15. Shaw Livermore (1935), ‘The Success of Industrial Mergers’ 16. Jürgen Müller (1976), ‘The Impact of Mergers on Concentration: A Study of Eleven West German Industries’ 17. David M.Barton and Roger Sherman (1984), ‘The Price and Profit Effects of Horizontal Merger: A Case Study’ 18. Henry G. Manne (1965), ‘Mergers and the Market for Corporate Control’ 19. Richard E. Caves (1989), ‘Mergers, Takeovers and Economic Efficiency: Foresight vs Hindsight’ 20. Oliver E. Williamson (1968), ‘Economies as an Antitrust Defense: The Welfare Tradeoffs’ 21. Alexis Jacquemin (1990), ‘Horizontal Concentration and European Merger Policy’ 22. William M.Landes and Richard A.Posner (1981), ‘Market Power in Antitrust Cases’ 23. George J. Stigler and Robert A. Sherwin (1985), ‘The Extent of the Market’ 24. U.S .Department of Justice Merger Guidelines (June 14, 1984) PART 3 THE ADMINISTRATION OF COMPETITION POLICY 25. William Breit and Kenneth G. Elzinga (1974), ‘Antitrust Enforcement and Economic Efficiency: The Uneasy Case for Treble Damages’ 26. F. M. Scherer (1990), ‘Sunlight and Sunset at the Federal Trade Commission’
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Women in Business
Book SynopsisWomen in Business is an extensive collection of significant papers which explore the work of women in a wide range of businesses. The selection encompasses path-breaking articles covering all aspects of women's work in The Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia.Key Features:-Women in Business documents and evaluates the business activities of women from around the world who have contributed to the building of business institutions, industries and economies from the 11th to the late 20th centuriesThese volumes assemble for the first time an international collection of English-speaking articles from scholars in economics, psychology, literature, anthropology, history, management and industrial organization, that prepare a ground work for a gendered history of businessThe volumes suggest the basic tools and the knowledge necessary to bring women into business and bring business people and institutions back into societyWomen in Business will be particularly welcomed by business people, women in business, policy professionals and scholars and graduate students.Trade Review'Editor Mary A. Yeager's introduction to the articles offer useful bibliographies on the history and historiography of women in business. The essays are rich in interesting observations.' -- Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen, Scandinavian Economic History ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Volume I: Acknowledgements • Introduction Part I: Imagining the Woman in Business and Imaging the Firm 1. Mary A. Yeager, ‘Will There Ever Be A Feminist Business History?’ 2. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1992), ‘What is a Firm? A Historical Perspective’ 3. Lillian M. Gilbreth (1928), ‘Why Women Succeed in Business’ Part II: Women, Property and the Law A. Women as the Object of Property: Inequality under the Law 4. Rowland Berthoff (1989), ‘Conventional Mentality: Free Blacks, Women, and Business Corporations as Unequal Persons, 1820-70’ 5. Reva Siegel (1994), ‘Home as Work: The First Woman’s Rights Claims concerning Wives’ Household Labor, 1850-1880’ B. Property Owners and Investors 6. Wakita Haruko (1984), ‘Marriage and Property in Premodern Japan from the Perspective of Women’s History’ 7. Anita Göransson (1993), ‘Gender and Property Rights: Capital, Kin, and Owner Influence in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Sweden’ 8. Loren Schweninger (1990), ‘Property Owning Free African-American Women in the South, 1800-1870’ Part III: In the Family Way: Family Business, Family Firms, and Company Culture 9. John Tutino (1983), ‘Power, Class, and Family: Men and Women in the Mexican Elite, 1750-1810’ 10. Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall (1987), ‘“The Hidden Investment”: Women and the Enterprise’ 11. Charles Dellheim (1987), ‘The Creation of a Company Culture: Cadbury’s, 1861–1931’ 12. Paula Petrik (1986), ‘The House that Parcheesi Built: Selchow & Righter Company’ Part IV: The Business of Invention and Innovation: Women and Technological Change 13. Deborah Merritt (1991), ‘Hypatia in the Patent Office: Women Inventors and the Law, 1865-1900’ 14. Vern L. Bullough (1979), ‘Female Physiology, Technology and Women’s Liberation’ 15. Susan Martin (1984), ‘Gender and Innovation: Farming, Cooking and Palm Processing in the Ngwa Region, South-Eastern Nigeria, 1900-1930’ Name Index Volume II: Part I: The Business of Farming: Farm Owners, Managers, and Workers 1. Deborah Valenze (1991), ‘The Art of Women and The Business of Men: Women’s Work and the Dairy Industry, c. 1740-1840’ 2. Anne B.W. Effland, Denise M. Rogers and Valerie Grim (1993), ‘Women as Agricultural Landowners: What Do We Know About Them?’ 3. Kathleen Staudt (1978), ‘Agricultural Productivity Gaps: A Case Study of Male Preference in Government Policy Implementation’ Part II: She Merchants, Market Women and Traders All 4. Sidney W. Mintz (1971), ‘Men, Women, and Trade’ 5. W. Thwaites (1984), ‘Women in the Market Place: Oxfordshire c. 1690-180’ 6. Sylvia Van Kirk (1984), ‘The Role of Native Women in the Fur Trade Society of Western Canada, 1670-1830’ 7. Jean P. Jordan (1977), ‘Women Merchants in Colonial New York’ 8. Merry Wiesner Wood (1981), ‘Paltry Peddlers or Essential Merchants? Women in the Distributive Trades in Early Modern Nuremberg’ 9. Linda J. Seligman (1989), ‘To Be In Between: The Cholas as Market Women’ Part III: Inservice for Others and Ourselves: Women in Service and Manufacturing Industries A. The ‘Good’ Businesses: Printing, Publishing, Banking, Finance, Insurance, Wholesale and Retail – and Philanthropy 10. Elsa Barkley Brown (1989), ‘Womanist Consciousness: Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of Saint Luke’ 11. Wendy Gamber (1992), ‘A Precarious Independence: Milliners and Dressmakers in Boston, 1860-1890’ 12. Angel Kwolek-Folland (1991), ‘Gender, Self, and Work in the Life Insurance Industry, 1880-1930’ 13. Lucy Eldersveld Murphy (1991), ‘Business Ladies: Midwestern Women and Enterprise, 1850-80’ B. “Hers” and “His”: Artisans and Manufacturers 14. Jean H. Quataert (1985), ‘The Shaping of Women’s Work in Manufacturing: Guilds, Households, and the State in Central Europe, 1648-1870’ 15. James B. Collins (1989), ‘The Economic Role of Women in Seventeenth-Century France’ 16. Kathy Peiss (1990), ‘Making Faces: The Cosmetics Industry and the Cultural Construction of Gender, 1890-1930’ 17. Margaret Walsh (1979), ‘The Democratization of Fashion: The Emergence of the Women’s Dress Pattern Industry’ C. “Evil Businesses”: Prostitution 18. Lucie Cheng Hirata (1979), ‘Chinese Immigrant Women in Nineteenth-Century California’ 19. Benedict B.B. Naanen (1991), ‘“Itinerant Gold Mines”: Prostitution in the Cross River Basin of Nigeria, 1930-1950’ Name Index Volume III: Part I: Male Managers and Female Workers in the Firm A. Work, Business and Industrialization 1. Maxine Berg (1993), ‘What Difference did Women’s Work Make to the Industrial Revolution?’ 2. Claudia Goldin (1986), ‘The Economic Status of Women in the Early Republic: Quantitative Evidence’ B. Managerial, Family and Worker Strategies 3. Elyce J. Rotella (1980), ‘Women’s Labor Force Participation and the Decline of the Family Economy in the United States’ 4. Kenneth Lipartito (1994), ‘When Women were Switches: Technology, Work, and Gender in the Telephone Industry, 1890-1920’ 5. Joy Parr (1987), ‘The Skilled Emigrant and Her Kin: Gender, Culture, and Labour Recruitment’ 6. Richard Roberts (1984), ‘Women’s Work and Women’s Property: Household Social Relations in the Maraka Textile Industry of the Nineteenth Century’ 7. Ruth Milkman (1982), ‘Redefining ‘Women’s Work’: The Sexual Division of Labor in the Auto Industry During World War II’ 8. Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn (1995), ‘The Gender Earnings Gap: Some International Evidence’ C. Working the Law 9. Vicki Schultz (1990), ‘Telling Stories About Women and Work: Judicial Interpretations of Sex Segregation in the Workplace in Title VII Cases Raising the Lack of Interest Argument’ Part II: Market Makers and Managers of Consumption: Female Desire and Demand in The Making of Consumption Culture 10. Wesley C. Mitchell (1912), ‘The Backward Art of Spending Money’ 11. Susan Porter Benson (1981), ‘The Cinderella of Occupations: Managing the Work of Department Store Saleswomen, 1900-1940’ 12. Judith G. Coffin (1994), ‘Credit, Consumption, and Images of Women’s Desires: Selling the Sewing Machine in Late Nineteenth-Century France’ Part III: The Organization Woman 13. Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1975), ‘Women and the Structure of Organizations: Explorations in Theory and Behavior’ 14. Margery Davies (1974), ‘Woman’s Place is at the Typewriter: The Feminization of the Clerical Labor Force’ Part IV: Making the Managerial Woman A. Scientific Managers in the Home and Firm 15. Guy Alchon (1989), ‘Lillian Gilbreth and the Science of Management, 1900-1920’ 16. Mary Nolan (1990), ‘“Housework Made Easy”: The Taylorized Housewife in Weimar Germany’s Rationalized Economy’ 17. Carolyn Goldstein (1997), ‘Part of the Package: Home Economists in the Consumer Products Industries, 1920-1940’ B. The Managerial Rut and Feminine Mystique 18. Sara Alpern (1993), ‘In the Beginning: A History of Women in Management’ 19. Felice N. Schwartz (1989), ‘Management Women and the New Facts of Life’ 20. Nancy J. Adler (1994), ‘Competitive Frontiers: Women Managing Across Borders’ 21. Judy B. Rosener (1990), ‘Ways Women Lead’ Part V: Making the Businesswoman a Feminist 22. Karen Ward (1989), ‘From Executive to Feminist: The Business Women’s Legislative Council of Los Angeles, 1927-1932’ 23. Robert Goffee and Richard Scase (1983), ‘Business Ownership and Women’s Subordination: A Preliminary Study of Female Proprietors’ 24. Suzanne Gordon (1983), ‘The New Corporate Feminism’ Name Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd THE ECONOMICS OF LOCATION
Book SynopsisThe Economics of Location traces developments in location theory, the economics of space and value and spatial microeconomics from its early beginnings in the work of von Thunen to the most recent applications in modern industrial organization and international trade.Trade Review'These edited volumes will prove important additions to teaching libraries at those institutions where backruns of material are scant; offer a convenient access point to those moving into the field; and, for the specialist, they offer important reference material.' -- Kenneth Button, The Economic JournalTable of ContentsTHE ECONOMICS OF LOCATION I CONTENTS PART I LEAST COST LOCATION THEORY 1. Mark Blaug (1979), ‘The German Hegemony of Location Theory: A Puzzle in the History of Economic Thought’ 2. Benjamin H. Stevens (1967), ‘Location Theory and Programming Models: The von Thünen Case’ 3. Paul A. Samuelson (1983), ‘Thünen at Two Hundred’ 4. François Louveaux, Jacques-François Thisse and Hubert Bequin (1982), ‘Location Theory and Transportation Costs’ 5. Morris Altman (1986), ‘Resource Endowments and Location Theory in Economic History:: A Case Study of Quebec and Ontario at the Turn of the Twentieth Century’ 6. Jeffrey P. Osleeb and Robert G. Cromley (1978), ‘The Location of Plants of the Uniform Delivered Price Manufacturer: A Case Study of Coca-Cola Ltd.’ 7. Hisao Nashioka (1962), ‘A Reconsideration of the Economic Location Theory - A Note On Characteristics of the Location Theory’ 8. Donald W. Jones and John R. Krummel (1987), ‘The Location Theory of the Plantation’ 9. Jan Nowak and Hanna Romanowska (1985), ‘Locational Patterns of the Food-Processing Industry in Poland’ PART II LOCATIONAL INTERDEPENDENCE AND MARKET AREAS 10. A. P. Lerner and H. W. Singer (1967), ‘Some Notes on Duopoly and Spatial Competition’ 11. Frank A. Fetter (1924), ‘The Economic Law of Market Areas’ 12. Morris A. Copeland (1940), ‘Competing Products and Monopolistic Competition’ 13. James V. Pinto (1977), ‘Launhardt and Location Theory: Rediscovery of a Neglected Book’ 14. Melvin L. Greenhut (1952), ‘Integrating the Leading Theories of Plant Location’ 15. R. P. Oakey and S. Y. Cooper (1989), ‘High Technology Industry, Agglomeration and the Potential for Peripherally Sited Small Firms’ 16. Brian J. L. Berry and William L. Garrison (1958), ‘A Note on Central Place Theory and the Range of a Good’ 17. W. Arthur Lewis (1945), ‘Competition in Retail Trade’ 18. Melvin L. Greenhut (1952), ‘The Size and Shape of the Market Area of a Firm’ 19. August Lösch (1938), ‘The Nature of Economic Regions’ 20. John M. Hartwick (1973), ‘Lösch’s Theorem on Hexagonal Market Areas’ 21. Toshiharu Ishikawa and Masao Toda (1990), ‘Spatial Configurations, Competition and Welfare’ 22. A. de Palma, V. Ginsburgh, Y.Y. Papageorgiou and J.-F. Thisse (1985), ‘The Principle of Minimum Differentiation Holds under Sufficient Heterogeneity’ 23. Ali al-Nowaihi and George Norman (1992), ‘Spatial Competition by Quantity-Setting Firms: A Comparison of Simultaneous and Two-Stage Quantity-Location Games’ 24. Melvin L. Greenhut (1955), ‘A General Theory of Plant Location’ 25. Jacques-François Thisse (1987), ‘Location Theory, Regional Science, and Economics’ 26. Gardiner Ackley (1942), ‘Spatial Competition in a Discontinuous Market’ 27. Walter Isard (1949), ‘The General Theory of Location and Space-Economy’ 28. Chao-Cheng Mai and Hong Hwang (1992), ‘Production-Location Decision and Free Entry Oligopoly’ 29. Edward C. Prescott and Michael Visscher (1977), ‘Sequential Location Among Firms with Foresight’ 30. C. d’Aspremont, J. Jaskold Gabszewicz and J.-F. Thisse (1979), ‘On Hotelling’s “Stability in Competition”’ 31. Yeung-Nan Shieh (1990), ‘FOB Mill Pricing and Plant Location When Demand is Linear but Non-Uniform’ 32. Michael Webber and S.P.H. Foot (1988), ‘Profitability and Accumulation’ 33. Phillip J. Lederer (1994), ‘Competitive Delivered Pricing and Production’ 34. Martin J. Beckmann (1976), ‘Spatial Price Policies Revisited’ 35. Phillip J. Lederer and Arthur P. Hurter (1986), ‘Competition of Firms: Discriminatory Pricing and Location’ 36. Melvin L. Greenhut (1957), ‘Games, Capitalism and General Location Theory’ THE ECONOMICS OF LOCATION II CONTENTS PART I SPATIAL PRICING: FOB AND DISCRIMINATORY 1. Martin J. Beckmann and Charles A. Ingene (1978), ‘The Profit Equivalence of Mill and Uniform Pricing Policies’ 2. A. de Palma, M. Labbé and J. -F. Thisse (1986), ‘On the Existence of Price Equilibria Under Mill and Uniform Delivered Price Policies’ 3. Edgar M.J. Hoover Jr. (1936-37), ‘Spatial Discrimination’ 4. John G. Greenhut and M.L. Greenhut (1975), ‘Spatial Price Discrimination, Competition and Locational Effects’ 5. George Normal (1981), ‘Spatial Competition and Spatial Price Discrimination’ 6. Dennis R. Capozza and Robert Van Order (1978), ‘A Generalized Model of Spatial Competition’ 7. George Normal (1981), ‘Uniform Pricing as an Optimal Spatial Pricing Policy’ 8. Louis Phlips (1988), ‘Price Discrimination: A Survey of the Theory’ 9. Fred S. Inaba and Nancy E. Wallace (1989), ‘Spatial Price Competition and the Demand for Freight Transportation’ 10. David D. Haddock (1982), ‘Basing-Point Pricing: Competitive vs. Collusive Theories’ 11. Stephen H. Karlson (1990), ‘Competition and Cement Basing Points: F.O.B. Destination, Delivered from Where?’ 12. H. Ohta (1980), ‘Spatial Competition, Concentration and Welfare’ 13. Bruce L. Benson (1984), ‘Spatial Price Theory and an Efficient Congestion Toll Established by the Free Market’ 14. John J. Greenhut and M. L. Greenhut (1977), ‘Nonlinearity of Delivered Price Schedules and Predatory Pricing’ PART II SPATIAL PRICE THEORY 15. Paul A. Samuelson (1957), ‘Intertemporal Price Equilibrium: A Prologue to the Theory of Speculation’ 16. M.L. Greenhut (1978), ‘Impacts of Distance on Microeconomic Theory’ 17. Louis Phlips (1980), ‘Intertemporal Price Discrimination and Sticky Prices’ 18. Dennis R. Capozza and Robert Van Order (1987), ‘Spatial Competition’ 19. John G. Greenhut (1977), ‘On the Economic Advantages of Spatially Discriminatory Prices Compared with F.O.B. Prices’ 20. H. Ohta (1981), ‘The Price Effects of Spatial Competition’ 21. William L. Holahan (1975), ‘The Welfare Effects of Spatial Price Discrimination’ 22. Benjamin Hobbs (1986), ‘Mill Pricing Versus Spatial Price Discrimination Under Bertrand and Cournot Spatial Competition’ 23. Kenneth G. Elzinga and Thomas F. Hogarty (1973), ‘The Problem of Geographic Market Delineation in Antimerger Suits’ 24. Bruce L. Benson (1980), ‘Spatial Competition: Implications for Market Area Delineation in Antimerger Cases’ 25. Timothy Gronberg and Jack Meyer (1981), ‘Competitive Equilibria in Uniform Delivered Pricing Models’ 26. James W. Friedman (1971), ‘A Non-cooperative Equilibrium for Supergames’ 27. Jonathan Hamilton, Jacques-François Thisse and Anita Weskamp (1989), ‘Spatial Discrimination: Bertrand vs. Cournot in a Model of Location Choice’ 28. Jacques-François Thisse and Xavier Vives (1988), ‘On the Strategic Choice of Spatial Price Policy’ THE ECONOMICS OF LOCATION III CONTENTS PART I THE NEW ECONOMICS 1. Stephen Enke (1942), ‘Space and Value’ 2. Richard Schmalensee (1972), ‘A Note on Monopolistic Competition and Excess Capacity’ 3. Harold Demsetz (1959), ‘The Nature of Equilibrium in Monopolistic Competition’ 4. H. Ohta (1977), ‘On the Excess Capacity Controversy’ 5. Dennis R. Capozza and Robert Van Order (1980), ‘Unique Equilibria, Pure Profits, and Efficiency in Location Models’ 6. J.M.A. Gee (1976), ‘A Model of Location ad Industrial Efficiency with Free Entry’ 7. B. Curtis Eaton and Richard G. Lipsey (1977), ‘The Introduction of Space into the Neoclassical Model of Value Theory’ 8. William J. Baumol (1982), ‘Contestable Markets: An Uprising in the Theory of Industry Structure’ 9. William G. Shephard (1984), ‘“Contestability” vs. Competition’ 10. David Ulph (1983), ‘Rational Conjectures in the Theory of Oligopoly’ 11. M.L. Greenhut and W.J. Lane (1989), ‘A Theory of Oligopolistic Competition’ 12. Michael Waterson (1982), ‘Vertical Integration, Variable Proportions and Oligopoly’ 13. H. Ohta (1976), ‘On Efficiency of Production Under Conditions of Imperfect Competition’ 14. M.L. Greenhut and H. Ohta (1979), ‘Vertical Integration of Successive Oliogopolists’ PART II SPATIAL FRAMEWORK ANALOGUES 15. François Perroux (1950), ‘Economic Space: Theory and Applications’ 16. Edward H. Chamberlin (1953), ‘The Product as an Economic Variable’ 17. D. Neven (1986), ‘“Address” Models of Differentiation’ 18. William Novshek (1980), ‘Equilibrium in Simple Spatial (or Differentiated Product) Models’ 19. Avinar Dixit and Joseph E. Stiglitz (1977), ‘Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity’ 20. George Norman (1989), ‘Monopolistic Competition: Some Extensions from Spatial Competition’ 21. Louis Phlips and Jacques-François Thisse (1982), ‘Spatial Competition and the Theory of Differentiated Markets: An Introduction’ 22. Richard K. Anderson, Donald House and Michael B. Ormiston (1981), ‘A Theory of Physician Behavior With Supplier-Induced Demand’ 23. M.L. Greenhut, C.S. Hung, G. Norman and C.W. Smithson (1985), ‘An Anomaly in the Service Industry: The Effect of Entry on Fees’ 24. Michael L. Walden (1990), ‘Testing Implications of Spatial Economics Models: Some Evidence from Food Retailing’ 25. John J. Greenhut and Melvin L. Greenhut (1992), ‘Alternative Uses of Spatial Microeconomics’ 26. A. S. De Vany and T. R. Saving (1977), ‘Product Quality, Uncertainty, and Regulation: The Trucking Industry’ PART III THE LAND MARKET, INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND MULTINATIONALS 27. Harry W. Richardson (1977), ‘A Generalization of Residential Location Theory’ 28. J.H. Love (1989), ‘External Takeover and Regional Economic Development: A Survey and Critique’ 29. Patsy Healey and Susan M. Barrett (1990), ‘Structure and Agency in Land and Property Development Processes: Some Ideas for Research’ 30. M.L. Greenhut (1967), ‘Interregional Programming and the Demand Factor of Location’ 31. Robert B. Ekelund Jr. and Donald L. Hooks (1972), ‘Joint Demand, Discriminating Two-Part Tariffs and Location Theory: An Early American Contribution’ 32. James A. Brander (1981), ‘Intra-Industry Trade in Identical Commodities’ 33. Thomas Horst (1971), ‘The Theory of the Multinational Firm: Optimal Behavior under Different Tariff and Tax Rates’ 34. Peter J. Buckley and Mark Casson (1981), ‘The Optimal Timing of a Foreign Direct Investment’ 35. Ignatius J. Horstmann and James R Markusen (1987), ‘Strategic Investments and the Development of Multinationals’ 36. Alasdair Smith (1987), ‘Strategic Investment, Multinational Corporations and Trade Policy’ 37. S. I. Abumere (1978), ‘Multinationals, Location Theory and Regional Development: Case Study of Bendel State of Nigeria’ 38. M.L. Greenhut, H. Ohta and Joel Sailor (1985), ‘Reverse Dumping: A Form of Spatial Price Discrimination’ 39. Paul Krugman (1991), ‘Increasing Returns and Economic Geography’
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd PRIVATIZATION IN EASTERN EUROPE: A Critical
Book SynopsisThe task of turning the state-owned assets of the Eastern European countries over to private ownership is one of the most challenging of our time, both intellectually and in practical terms. Ivan Major's in-depth critique of the plans and programmes of the East European governments addresses the core issues of privatization from the perspective of both potential winners and losers. After discussing the analytical framework, he offers an assessment of the legacy of the command economy and includes individual country studies of Czechoslovakia, the former GDR, Hungary, Poland and the former Soviet Union. The following chapters look at the theoretical, political and economic underpinning as well as assessments of the initial results of East European privatizations. Dr Major argues that the whole network of political regulation must be dismantled if an efficient market economy is to emerge. Privatization in Eastern Europe offers a critical analysis of the movement towards privatization in Eastern Europe as well as an authoritative assessment of the existing literature. This book will be welcomed by scholars and policymakers as an important source of analysis, argument and information.Trade Review'This short book should be read by all students of economic transition in eastern Europe. As a lucid and concise survey of the issues involved in the ongoing process of privatization in the region, it serves as an excellent introduction for students and a useful reference book for co-researchers.' -- Ian Kearns, International Affairs'This is a major contribution to our understanding of privatization in Eastern Europe. Dr Major provides a comprehensive analysis of the programme and problems of privatization in the whole area. It is a well-structured and lucidly written book which presents a convincing analysis.' -- Anders Aslund, Director of the Stockholm Institute of East European Economics, Sweden'I found this exhaustive and thoughtful book extremely interesting. I not only benefited from reading it; I also enjoyed doing so.' -- Milton Friedman, Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institute on War, Revolution and Peace, and Nobel Laureate in Economics 1976'. . . Major's book. . . . a broad, analytical framework for considering the whole problem of privatization.' -- John Bristow, The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics'. . . an interesting study by an East European scholar which provides a distinct analysis of problems of privatization in Eastern Europe. . . . the book provides useful insights into the area of Eastern European privatization.' -- Gulshan Sachdeva, Comparative Economic Studies'. . . Ivan Major's book is a highly interesting and valuable piece of writing.' -- T. Mellar, Acta OeconomicaTable of ContentsPart 1 Introduction - analytical framework. Part 2 The legacy of the command economy: state ownership, "Politburo Ownership" or "Nomenklatura Ownership"?; economic reforms and ownership; political regulation in a command economy and its consequences for privatization; what is to be privatized in Eastern Europe? - Czechoslovakia, the former GDR, Hungary, Poland, the former Soviet Union. Part 3 Starting conditions and issues in the economic transformation. Part 4 The reasons for privatization: reasons for privatization in the western literature; additional reasons for privatization in the east. Part 5 Plans and realities of privatization in eastern Europe: the initial framework of the governments' plans for privatization; plans for privatization. Part 6 Issues on privatization and restructuring: from "Nomenklatura Ownership" to private ownership via state ownership?; the privatization controversy - why privatize?; the pace and methods of privatization; privatization by free distribution - the case of the largest enterprises.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd An International Directory of Business Historians
Book SynopsisThis unique directory presents - for the first time - comprehensive, up-to-date information on over 700 business historians from 27 countries. Compiled from material provided by the business historians themselves, An International Directory of Business Historians contains entries giving pertinent biographical data and a select bibliography together with a description of the business historian's main area of work. The main listing in the book is alphabetic by business historian's surname, and the information is fully indexed by country and subject specialization, so that searching, particularly on subject specialization, is made easy.This important book is an essential resource for all those with an interest in business history whether as teachers, researchers, consultants, analysts or planners for institutions of higher education, business or government.Trade Review'This volume undoubtedly fills a need. At the simplest level it satisfies the idle curiosity of the business historian as to his colleagues' ages, qualifications, and important publications. At a less facetious level, it provides an indication of the world wide health of the discipline, with around 750 entries from about 30 countries, with North America, Japanese and European entries predominating. . . . It will be a useful reference work.' -- John Amstrong, Business History'. . . this work should be purchased by major business collections and by those specialized information centers with relevant client interests.'– Nigel Tappin, American Reference Books AnnualTable of ContentsFields of expertise; industry fields; business dimensions; scope; period; teaching; consultancy.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Cost–Benefit Analysis and the Environment
Book SynopsisThis lucid, up-to-date book takes a fresh look at the application of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to environmental problems ranging from wildlife protection to global warming. Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Environment is structured into two parts. Part one provides a critical up-to-date account of the theory and practice of CBA as applied to the environment. Part two focuses on a number of specific case studies, in particular ozone damage to agricultural crops, wilderness land use, recreation and nitrate pollution. The application of CBA to the greenhouse effect is used to illustrate the limitations of the method. The book summarizes the major problems CBA faces in environmental application. This book will be highly relevant for the growing number of undergraduate and post-graduate courses in environmental economics and management, as well as being of interest both to academics researching in these areas, and to other professionals concerned with project appraisal and the environment.Trade Review'. . . a rewarding reference and an invaluable teaching text, and one which should capture students' imaginations and interests in environmental economics.'
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS
Book SynopsisAlthough what has come to be known as transaction cost economics has its origins in the 1930s, it was not until the 1970s that transaction cost economics as a systematic and identifiable field of study began. Since then, numerous theoretical developments and empirical applications have expanded and enriched the field. Recognition of its contributions to our understanding of organizations and institutions includes two Nobel laureates, Ronald Coase in 1991 and Oliver Williamson in 2009. This is an important selection of key articles on transaction cost economics by distinguished scholars including Ronald Coase, Herbert Simon, Kenneth Arrow and Richard A. Posner. This research review addresses key areas such as private ordering and credibility, contracts and organization, internal organization, vertical integration and contracting.Trade Review‘The individual items included are all worthy, and the brief introductons provided to each volume are useful guides. The collection is clearly worthwhile as a place to send students to begin, or as a handy reference source.’ -- Malcom Rutherford, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical EconomicsTable of ContentsVolume I PART ONE: CLASSICS 1. R.H. Coase (1972), ‘Industrial Organization: A Proposal for Research.’ 2. Kenneth J. Arrow (1974), ‘Organization and Information.’ 3. Herbert A. Simon (1962), ‘The Architecture of Complexity.’ PART II: RUDIMENTS 4. Armen A. Alchian and Harold Demsetz (1972), ‘Production, Information Costs, and Economic Organization.’ 5. Benjamin Klein, Robert G. Crawford and Armen A. Alchian (1978), ‘Vertical Integration, Appropriable Rents, and the Competitive Contracting Process.’ 6. Oliver E. Williamson (1979), ‘Transaction-Cost Economics: The Governance of Contractual Relations.’ 7. Oliver E. Williamson (1991), ‘Comparative Economic Organization:The Analysis of Discrete Structural Alternatives.’ 8. David J. Teece (1982), ‘Towards an Economic Theory of the Multiproduct Firm.’ PART III: PRIVATE ORDERING AND CREDIBILITY 9. Benjamin Klein and Keith B. Leffler (1981), ‘The Role of Market Forces in Assuring Contractual Performance.’ 10. Oliver E. Williamson (1983), ‘Credible Commitments: Using Hostages to Support Exchange.’ 11. Avner Greif (1993), ‘Contract Enforceability and Economic Institutions in Early Trade: The Maghribi Traders' Coalition.’ 12. Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast (1989), ‘Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England.’ PART IV: CONTRACTS AND ORGANIZATION 13. Sanford J. Grossman and Oliver D. Hart (1986), ‘The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration.’ 14. Oliver Hart and John Moore (1990), ‘Property Righs and the Nature of the Firm.’ 15. Michael H. Riordan (1990), ‘What is Vertical Integration.’ 16. Jean Tirle (1988), ‘The Theory of the Firm.’ PART V: INTERNAL ORGANIZATION 17. Oliver E. Williamson (1985), ‘The Limits of the Firms: Incentive and Bureaucratic Features.’ 18. Paul Milgrom and John Roberts (1990), ‘Bargaining Costs, Influence Costs, and the Organization of Economic Activity.’ 19. David M. Kreps (1990), ‘Corporate Culture and Economic Theory.’ 20. Bengt Holmstrom and Paul Milgrom (1991), ‘Multitask Principal–Agent Analyses: Incentive Contracts, Asset Ownership, and Job Design.’ 21. Masahiko Aoki (1990), ‘Toward an Economi Model of the Japanese Firm.’ PART VI: PROSPECTS AND RETROSPECTIVE 22. Eirik G. Furubotn and Rudolf Richter (1991), ‘The New Institutional Economics: An Assessment.’ 23. Ronald H. Coase (1991), ‘The Institutional Structure of Production.’ 24. Richard A. Posner (1993), ‘The New Institutional Economics Meets Law and Economics.’ 25. Ronald H. Coase (1993), ‘Coase on Posner on Coase.’ 26. Oliver E. Williamson (1993), ’Transaction Cost Economics Meets Posnerian Law and Economics.’ Volume II PART I: VERTICAL INTEGRATION 1. Benjamin Klein (1988), ‘Vertical Integration as Organizational Ownership.’ 2. Paul L. Joskow (1985), ‘Vertical Integration and Long-term Contracts: The Case of Coal-burning Electric Generating Plants.’ 3. Kirk Monteverde and David J. Teece (1982), ‘Supplier Switching Costs and Vertical Integration in the Automobile Industry.’ 4. Scott E. Masten (1984), ‘The Organization of Production: Evidence from the Aerospace Industry.’ 5. Erin Anderson and David C. Schmittlein (1984), ‘Integration of the Sales Force: An Empirical Examination.’ 6. George John and Barton A. Weitz (1988), ‘Forward Integration into Distribution: An Empirical Test of Transaction Cost Analysis.’ 7. Scott E. Masten, James W. Meehan Jr. and Edward A. Synder (1991), ‘The Costs of Organization.’ PART II: CONTRACTING 8. Thomas M. Palay (1984), ‘Comparative Institutional Economics: The Governance of Rail Freight Contracting.’ 9. Victor P. Goldberg and John R. Erickson (1987), ‘Quantity and Price Adjustment in Long-Term Contracts: A Case Study of Petroleum Coke.’ 10. Paul L. Joskow (1987), ‘Contract Duration and Relationship-Specific Investments: Empirical Evidence from Coal Markets.’ 11. J. Harold Mulherin (1986), ‘Complexity in Long-term Contracts: An Analysis of Natural Gas Contractual Provisions.’ 12. Scott. E. Masten and Keith J. Crocker (1985), ‘Efficient Adaptation in Long-Term Contracts: Take-or-Pay Provisions for Natural Gas.’ 13. Keith B. Leffler and Randal R. Rucker (1991), ‘Transactions Costs and the Efficient Organization of Production: A Study of Timber-Harvesting Contracts.’ 14. Keith J. Crocker and Scott E. Masten (1991), ‘Pretia ex Machina? Prices and Process in Long-Term Contracts.’ PART III: REGULATION AND POSITIVE POLITICAL ECONOMY 15. Oliver E. Williamson (1976), ‘Franchise Bidding for Natural Monopolies – In General and with Respect to CATV.’ 16. Victor P. Goldberg (1976), ‘Regulation and Administered Contracts.’ 17. George L. Priest (1993), ‘The Origins of Utility Regulation and the “Theories of Regulation” Debate.‘ 18. Brian Levy and PabloT. Spiller (1994), ‘The Institutional Foundations of Regulatory Commitment: A Comparative Analysis of Telecommunications Regulation.’ 19. Barry R. Weingast and William J. Marshall (1988), ‘The Industrial Organization of Congress; or, Why Legislatures, Like Firms, Are Not Organized as Markets.’ 20. Rafael Gely and Pable T. Spiller (1990), ‘A Rational Choice Theory of Supreme Court Statutory Decisions with Applications to the State Farm and Grove City Cases.’ PART IV: ANTITRUST 21. Oliver E. Williamson (1979), ‘Assessing Vertical Market Restrictions: Antitrust Ramifications of the Transaction Cost Approach.’ 22. Roy W. Kenney and Benjamin Klein (1983), ‘The Economics of Block Booking.’ 23. Scott E. Masten and Edward A. Snyder (1993), ‘United States versus United Shoe Machinery Corporation:
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Mortons Media Group Dockland, Smokestacks and Slums
Book Synopsis
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Management, Labour and Industrial Politics in
Book SynopsisThis major new book offers a comparative survey of management, labour and productivity politics in twentieth century Europe. The authors detailed assessments of industrial and political campaigns to raise productivity growth in Britain, Germany and Sweden during this century. Ranging from explorations of the high politics of the nation state and the impact of the Marshall plan on the European countries, to careful assessments of the productivity struggles which took place in the coal mining and metal working industries of modern Europe, each of these essays provides a rich context for understanding the rise and fall of the social democratic project in the reconstruction of Western Europe. The contributors critically assess claims that workers' participation in economic decision-making was a natural feature of modern production, while also emphasising the significance of economic reforms which were enacted in the post-war years.Management, Labour and Industrial Politics in Modern Europe offers a deeper understanding of the performance of the European economies and the politics of reconstruction by combining an analysis of state initiatives with an examination of the strategies pursued by management and labour in the key sectors of European industry in these decades.Trade Review'. . . despite the difficulties involved in making conference collections coherent, the editors have assembled a number of highly provocative essays which deserve to be read.' -- Dave Lyddon, Labour History Review'This is a well edited and interesting collection of essays.'– Chris Wrigley, The Economic History Review
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd FAMILY BUSINESS
Book SynopsisFamily businesses, have been instrumental in the industrialization of most countries and remain an important dimension of modern economies world wide. Yet analyses of international differences in Western micro- and macroeconomic performance, since the late nineteenth century, have usually been focused upon the rise and capabilities of the American-style business corporation. In this context, while family business has not been without its champions, these firms were often dismissed as inferior alternatives to managerial capitalism and the source of economic decline. As a result they have received, until comparatively recently, less attention than they deserve. This collection of essays which spans more than forty years of scholarship on family business is not confined to the discussion of Western firms. Instead contributions cover their role, capabilities and performance on four continents and include the work of leading institutional and development economists and sociologist as well as business and economic historians.Trade Review'. . . the collection is an excellent introduction to the issues and literature on the history of the family firm.' -- David J. Jeremy, Business HistoryTable of ContentsPart 1 The family firm debate - conservatism and decline or alternative strategy? Part 2 Family and firm - theory, concepts and culture. Part 3 Training and organization of work. Part 4 Diversification. Part 5 Co-operative behaviour and groups.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Marx, Veblen, and Contemporary Institutional
Book SynopsisThis book uses an institutional-evolutionary approach to analyse economic problems associated with developments in capitalism during the second half of the twentieth century. It argues that economics should centre on institutions - the durable fabric of the economy over time.Drawing on the foundations of Marxist and institutional political economy, the book traces the lineages of institutional themes, as well as considering feminist, post-Keynesian, holistic economics and Schumpeterian perspectives. The nature of institutions in the growth and instability of capitalism is then explored with reference to social structures of accumulation. Particular reference is given to the world economy, the family, the Keynesian welfare state and neo-liberalism, Fordism, the flexible mode of accumulation, and financial regulation and deregulation. The author concludes, using institutional-evolutionary themes of political economy, that the evolution of modern capitalism is likely to be unstable as we move into the next century.Trade Review'Phillip O'Hara's intention in this well-written and referenced book is to provide a new synthesis between neo-institutionalist followers of Veblen and adherents of the neo-Marxist approach to political economy . . . Beyond those interested in its primary objective, this book is also likely to find a readership among people who wish to get a solid introduction to economics beyond the literature and questions that are of current interest to the mainstream of the profession . . . This book is a clear and accessible survey of a remarkable range of literatures . . . the book represents a useful survey of several important non-mainstream approaches to political economy.'Table of ContentsContents: Foreword: William M. Dugger and James Ronald Stanfield 1. Introduction Part A: The Foundations: Marx and Veblen 2. Marx’s Capital and the Institutional Reproduction of Capitalism 3. Veblen’s ‘Critique’ of Marx’s Philosophical Preconceptions of Political Economy 4. Veblen’s Analysis of Social Wealth, Industry–Business, and Crises of Capitalism Part B: Contemporary Institutional–Evolutionary Political Economy 5. Neo-Marxian and Neoinstitutional Political Economy: Holism, Evolution, and Contradiction 6. Capital, the Wealth of Nations, and Inequality in the Contemporary World 7. A New Measure of Macroeconomic Performance and Institutional Change Part C: Social Structures of Accumulation and Socioeconomic Crises of Modern Capitalism: 1940–2000s 8. Long Waves of Economic Growth and Development, and the Metamorphosis of Institutions 9. Fordism, Accumulation, and Institutional Contradictions 10. The World Economy and US Hegemony 11. Household Labor, the Family, and Macroeconomic Instability in the United States 12. The Keynesian Welfare State: Emergence, Contradictions, and Evolution 13. Financial Instability, Uncertainty, and Endogenous Credit in the United States 14. A New Social Structure of Accumulation or the Emerging Global Crises of Capitalism? 15. Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Economic Impact of New Firms in
Book SynopsisThe Economic Impact of New Firms in Post-Socialist Countries analyses the emergence and contribution of new entrepreneurs in the transforming economies of Eastern Europe.Small firms and new enterprises are widely assumed to play an important role in the process of economic development and transformation. The contributors to this volume investigate how far small and newly founded enterprises have compensated for losses in employment and contributed to economic recovery in Eastern Europe. With analysis based on new empirical data, this extensive volume covers the situation in Russia, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania and Slovenia as well as East Germany. Issues covered include attempts to stimulate entrepreneurship, guidelines for successful bottom-up transformation and the prospects for new and small firms in Eastern Europe.The Economic Impact of New Firms in Post-Socialist Countries will be welcomed for its detailed, empirically-founded discussion of entrepreneurship, micro-level studies of transition, small business economics and comparative economic systems.Trade Review'Summing up, this book is a great collection of reflections on transition in Eastern Europe. It leads to a number of conclusions and recommendations for economic policy.' -- Ryszard Lawniczak, Economic SystemsTable of ContentsContents: Foreword 1. Introduction: The Scope for Bottom-up Transformation in Post-socialist Countries (H. Brezinski, M. Fritsch) 2. The Role of Entrepreneurship in Economic Systems: Developed Market and Post-socialist Economies (P.D. Reynolds) 3. A Dynamic Evolutionary Perspective on Transformation (M. Keren) 4. Entrepreneurship in Eastern Europe: A Critical View (S. Arzeni) 5. Small Businesses in Russia (A. Chepurenko and A.V. Vilensky) 6. The Development of Science Parks and New Technology-Based Firms in Russia (S. Batstone and P. Westhead) 7. Big Problems of Small Businesses in Estonia (K. Haav) 8. Private Economy in an Etatist Environment: The Case of Romania (G. Hunya) 9. The Small Private Firms in Bulgaria and the Impact of the Economic Reform on their Growth and Future (T. Houbenova-Delissivkova and P. Puchev) 10. The Nature and Performance of Small Firms in Bulgaria (D.C. Jones) 11. Small Firms in South East Europe: The Importance of Initial Conditions (W. Bartlett, P. Hoggett) 12. Poland and the Czech Republic: Privatization from Above versus Privatization from Below or Mass Privatization versus Generic Private Enterprise Building (K.J. Ners) 13. The Entrepreneurial Sector and its Role in Industrial Transformation in East Germany and Poland (H.-P. Brunner) 14. Small Entrepreneurs in the Society of Employees (R. Ruzicka) 15. How to Become an Entrepreneur in East Germany: Conditions, Steps and Effects of the Constitution of New Entrepreneurs (M. Thomas) 16. Businesses Founded in East Germany: Economic Activity and Capital Investment (T. Hinz and R. Ziegler) 17. The Bottom-up Strategy to Transformation: Summary and Policy Conclusions (H. Brezinski, M. Fritsch)
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Economics Against the Grain Volume One:
Book SynopsisThis is the first of a two volume collection of the late Julian Simon's important and radical contributions to a wide variety of economic problems. Often considered as controversial and unorthodox, these essays challenge conventional approaches. The book begins with introductory chapters in which the author discusses his background and experiences as a controversial scholar. Divided into six parts, the first part considers some basic concepts on issues such as welfare, natural resources, causality and product differentiation. The second part contains essays on managerial economics as well as general microeconomics including monopoly, duopoly and oligopoly. Advertising is discussed in the third part and industrial organization in the fourth. Part five focuses on policies for exchange and auction considering, among other issues, airline overbooking, and the final section features articles on macroeconomics.This collection of controversial essays will be welcomed by academics and students interested in unorthodox approaches to various economic theories and concepts.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Philosophical Analyses of Basic Conceptual Issues Part II: Managerial Economics and General Microeconomics Part III: Microeconomics – Advertising Part IV: Industrial Organization Part V: Policy Schemes Based on Exchange and Auction Part VI: Macroeconomics Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Technology and Industrial Progress: The
Book SynopsisWhat has dictated the rate and direction of technological change? How central has it been to industrial progress? How has it related to other determinants of economic growth and development?In Technology and Industrial Progress, Nick von Tunzelmann examines theoretical views on the nature and contribution of technology, and the empirical evidence from the major industrializing countries from the eighteenth century to the present day. The experiences of countries regarded in their time as the leaders of industrialization - Britain in the eighteenth century, the United States in the nineteenth century and Japan in the twentieth century - are critically compared by the author. The following chapters study the transfer of each of these patterns of technology and growth to later industrializers, such as continental Europe, the Soviet Union, and today's newly industrializing countries. Adopting approaches drawn from evolutionary economics, Dr von Tunzelmann links micro-level phenomena relating to individual firms and technologies to macro-level outcomes as reflected in economic growth and development.This long-awaited book is exceptional both in the range of countries surveyed and the breadth of topics analysed, encompassing changes in production processes, products and marketing, management and finance.Trade Review'Nick von Tunzelmann has written an ambitious and challenging book, spanning economics, economic history, the history of ideas and technology per se. It should be recommended reading for economic historians, economists and anyone interested in the dynamics of technical change.' -- Peter Holmes, University of Sussex, UK'The book's organization allows it to be read as a whole or treated as a resource to guide students studying a particular topic. Undergraduate, graduate, professional .' -- M. Perelman, Choice'Von Tunzelmann has written a great book, impressive in both scope and depth. Often the reader is overwhelmed by the wealth of detail, at times by the profoundness of insight.' -- Paul Diederen, The Economic Journal'This is an impressive book, and an unusual one too. This is not only because of its length (more than five hundred pages), nor the large number of books and articles cited in the text (between seven and eight hundred). What really makes this book exceptional is its broad coverage and the way it is written.' -- J. Fagerberg, Journal of Evolutionary Economics'Technology and Industrial Progress deserves to be widely read and should be of great interest to many business historians.' -- N.F.R. Crafts, Business History'These essays are a useful guide to the strengths and limitations of radical debate in the 1990s.' -- Joseph Melling, Business History'This book represents economic history at its best-theoretically informed but sceptical, unburdened by jargon or abstruse mathematics, alive to historical contingency, and comparative on a grand scale. Lucidly written, well referenced, and cogently organized into subsectioned chapters, its author's premises made explicit and terms clearly defined, it merits inclusion as a standard text on all advanced courses in comparative industrialization.' -- Christine MacLeod, Journal of Economic History'The book makes good use of the most recent and classical theories of innovation to provide a framework to understand the industrial and technological change which has been going on since the eighteenth century.' -- Cristiano Antonelli, The Manchester SchoolTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Classical Theories of Economic Growth and Structure 3. Modern Analyses of Growth and Structural Change 4. Britain in the Industrial Revolution 5. European Industrialization, Late 18th to Early 20th Centuries 6. Industrialization in the USA, 1870–1930 7. Industrialization in the West, 1930s to the 1970s 8. Western Industrialization, 1970s to the 1990s 9. Industrialization in the USSR 10. Industrialization in Japan 11. The Newly Industrializing Countries 12. Conclusions
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Evolutionary Economics and Path Dependence
Book SynopsisEvolutionary Economics and Path Dependence presents important new theoretical and empirical work on economic change, learning processes, institutional change, choice and path dependency.The theoretical section includes discussion of the microfoundations of path dependency, path dependency in industrial networks, path dependence and the theory of the firm, lock-in effects in relation to professional organizations, the notion of bricolage in relation to path dependency and new and neo-institutional perspectives on the theory of the firm. The empirical part focuses on institutional change in the communications and transport sectors of the economy. More specifically it shows how path dependency occurs and develops through various types of lock-in effects within institutions.This book will be essential reading for academics and students of economics and economic history wishing to keep up-to-date with research at the frontier of this exciting field.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction L. Magnusson and J. Ottosson 2. Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change in Economic Governance: Interaction, Interpretation and Bricolage J.L. Campbell 3. Theory of the Firm Revisited: New and Neo-institutional Perspectives J. Groenewegen and J. Vromen 4. Path-dependence of Knowledge: Implications for the Theory of the Firm B. Nooteboom 5. Strategic Lock-in as a Human Issue: The Role of Professional Orientation M. Dietrich 6. The Microfoundations of Path-dependency S. Rizzello 7. Paths in Time and Space – Path-Dependence in Industrial Networks H. Hakansson and A. Lundgren 8. The Making of National Telephone Networks in Scandinavia. The State and the Emergence of National Regulatory Patterns 1880–1920 L. Andersson-Skog 9. Institutions as Determinants of Institutional Change – Case Studies in the Field of EEC Transport Policy J. Bergdahl and J.L. Östlund 10. Institutional Change and European Air Transport, 1910–1985 P.J. Lyth 11. Path Dependence and Institutional Evolution – The Case of the Nationalisation of Private Railroads in Interwar Sweden J. Ottosson References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd TECHNOLOGICAL COLLABORATION: The Dynamics of
Book SynopsisThis major new book provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary analysis of the nature and significance of collaboration between firms and other actors involved in industrial innovation.The motivations and mechanisms for technological collaboration, the fields in which it is likely to occur, and the consequences of collaboration for the parties involved and the economy as a whole are all addressed by a distinguished group of scholars drawn from economics, sociology, management theory and political economy. Areas and issues covered include growth theory and the theory of the firm, managerial objectives across different cultures, interfirm technological linkages, networks and innovation, strategic collaboration, collaborative agreements, state intervention, strategic alliances and informal networks.Technological Collaboration emphasizes the importance of interfirm collaboration and the establishment of networks in innovation and economic growth. The issues and themes raised in this volume will be of interest to scholars from a variety of different perspectives, interested in technical change, innovation and industrial organization.Trade Review'I would recommend the book to those interested in the links between innovation and industrial networks. I am sure that a number of the contributions would be interesting to many readers of Management Learning; at least those not deterred by the word "technological" in the title.' -- Ossie Jones, Management Learning'It is a timely book dealing with the important issues and complexity associated with collaborations and the resulting network formation. The book will provide important insights to the students and researchers of industrial economics, innovation management, and organization studies.' -- N. Mrinalini, Journal of Scientific and Industrial ResearchTable of ContentsTechnological collaboration and networks of alliances in the innovation process, Rod Coombs, Albert Richards, Paolo Saviotti and Vivien Welsh; technological agreements and the networks and economic theory - interfaces and issues in the areas of growth theory and the theory of the firm, Francois Chesnais; managerial objectives and technological collaboration - the role of national variations in cultures and structures, Andrew Tylecote; learning, trust and interfirm technological linkages - some theoretical associations, Mark Dodgson; networks, tacit knowledge and innovation, Jacqueline Senker and Wendy Faulkner; strategic technological collaboration in Canadian industry - towards a theory of flexible or collective innovation, Jorge Niosi; the simultaneous shaping of organization and technology within co-operative agreements, Vincent Mangematin; the techno-economic network - a socio-economic approach to state intervention in innovation, Phillippe Laredo and Phillippe Mustar; understanding "strategic alliances" - the limits of transaction cost economics, Mo Yamin; dynamics of co-operation and industrial research and development - first insights into the Black Box II, Francois Leveque, C. Bonazzi and C. Quental; informal networks in thr origination of successful innovations, Fred Steward and Steve Conway.
£118.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Economic Approaches to Innovation
Book SynopsisEconomic modelling of innovation demands a great deal from economists since it requires them to analyse the new and unknown. This volume brings together contributions from a distinguished group of scholars who review a wide range of different theoretical and empirical economic approaches to this important topic.Beginning with a survey of recent economic analysis on the role of innovation in driving growth, this volume features papers on the mainstream approaches to the welfare economics of innovation, the pitfalls and delays involved in bringing major inventions to market and the public subsidy of research. Later chapters examine pricing strategies for new products, models of productivity growth, knowledge spillovers across national boundaries and the effect of innovation on income distribution.While recognising the many non-economic factors needed to explain innovation, Economic Approaches to Innovation demonstrates that economic analysis has much to offer in its modelling of key concepts such as uncertainty, private information, incentives and public goods.Trade Review'. . . a valuable set of papers which will interest both neoclassical and neo-Schumpeterian economists.'Table of ContentsContents: Economic Approaches to Innovation: An Introduction 1. Innovation and Endogenous Growth: The New Theory and Evidence 2. Mainstream Analyses of Innovation: Neoclassical and New Industrial Economics 3. On the Uncertain Returns to Inventive Activity 4. Do Spillovers Undermine the Incentive to Innovate? 5. New Product Pricing: The Marketing of Innovations 6. Evolutionary Economics and Research and Development 7. Tariffs and Productivity when Technology is Embodied in Capital Equipment 8. International Knowledge Spillovers: A Cross-Country Study 9. Skill Biased Technological Change and the Structure of Employment Index
£113.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics
Book SynopsisA unique and comprehensive source of information, the International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics is the only international publication providing economists, planners, policy makers and business people with worldwide statistics on current performance and trends in the manufacturing sector.This is the first issue of the annual publication which succeeds the UNIDO's Handbook of Industrial Statistics and, at the same time, replaces the United Nation's Industrial Statistics Yearbook, volume I (General Industrial Statistics). Covering more than 120 countries/areas, the new version contains data which is internationally comparable and much more detailed than that supplied in previous publications. Information has been collected directly from national statistical sources and supplemented with estimates by UNIDO.The Yearbook is designed to facilitate international comparisons relating to manufacturing activity and industrial performance. It provides data which can be used to analyse patterns of growth, structural change and industrial performance in individual industries. Data on employment trends, wages and other key indicators are also presented. Finally, the detailed information presented here enables the user to study different aspects of industry which was not possible using the aggregate data previously available.Trade Review'This annual publication seems to be the only international publication providing worldwide statistics on current performance and trends in the manufacturing sector. In terms of comprehensiveness, accuracy, and cross-country comparisons this volume is unparalleled . . . If you are looking for an authoritative source for comparative international statistics on industrial information, this is it.' -- Andrea Meyer, Business Information Alert Acclaim for the 1995 edition:'This is a unique and massive effort by UNIDO providing comparative statistics on current performance and trends in the manufacturing sector worldwide. . . . There is no doubt that the volume is a most important source book for economists, planners and policy makers.' -- Pradosh Nath, Journal of Science and Industrial Research'UNIDO has done well to bridge gaps in information noticed so far in industrial statistics worldwide and its companionship and usefulness will be realised by all users of this documentation in governmental, industrial and academic circles, as a must on every working desk. Its reliability is fully backed up by authoritative analysis. The Yearbook has been beautifully published and moderately priced. A highly commendable Yearbook of 1995 industrial statistics.' -- Rajinder Kunmar, Marketing and Management NewsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Summary Tables Section 1.1: The Manufacturing Sector Section 1.2: The Manufacturing Branches Part II: Country Tables
£224.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Industrial Research and Innovation in Business
Book SynopsisIn this new path-breaking volume, David Edgerton brings to the forefront research on the role of business and its influence on industrial research and innovation. It is commonplace to acknowledge the role of science and technology, and research and innovation specifically, in transforming the twentieth century world. Other studies, however, focuses on scientific and engineering research in general, or technological systems and paradigms, or on government-funded initiatives. Industrial Research and Innovation in Business concentrates on business and its contribution to innovation and its role in producing and using new technologies.Trade Review’It will be useful to those who already know something about the topic and want to expand their knowledge.’ -- Kenneth Lipartito, University of Houston, USTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Theoretical Perspectives Part II: From Coal Tar Dyes to IG Farbenindustrie Part III: The Research Laboratory and the US Corporate Economy Part IV: International and Comparative Studies Part V: The Not-So-Peculiar British Case Part IV: The Case of Japanese Industrial Research Index
£290.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Industry and Society in Europe: Stability and
Book SynopsisIndustry and Society in Europe examines changes in industrial organization in Britain, Germany and France from the perspectives of economic sociology and political economy. This important new textbook presents a systematic, comparative analysis of recent processes of industrial and social change in these societies and assesses the contribution each country will make to the emerging European social and economic entity. Written in an accessible, jargon-free style, the book covers a wide range of highly topical themes, including the finance-industry nexus, corporate restructuring, the impact of globalization, the role of small and medium-sized firms, state - industry relations and new developments in work organization and industrial relations. Introducing a sociological perspective to the study of business and economic life, Christel Lane critically engages with some of the main theories in the field including flexible specialization, regulation theory and the new institutionalism in sociology.Trade Review'This book makes an excellent contribution to the growing body of institutional theory in contemporary organizational analysis which is continuing to exert such a powerful intellectual influence within the field.'Table of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Theories of Industrial Organization and Change 2. Industrial Development in Historical Perspective 3. The Relations Between Financial and Industrial Capital 4. The Restructuring of Large Firms: Towards neo- or Post-Fordism? 5. Internationalization or Globalization of Large Firms? 6. The Small Business Sector: Source of Economic Generation or Victim of Economic Transformation 7. The Transformation of Industrial Relations 8. Changing Patterns of Production Organization: Towards Neo-or Post-Fordism? 9. Industrial Change and the State: Dis-Engagement of Re-Engagement? Conclusion
£34.15
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The State and the Arts: An Analysis of Key
Book SynopsisAt a time when state assistance to the arts sector has come under considerable scrutiny both in Europe and the United States, this book comprehensively examines the evolution of, and rationale for, state involvement with the so-called 'high' arts on both continents. This book offers an overview of the key economic issues arising in relation to the state and the arts in these regions, with a detailed analysis of the European and American models of state assistance to the high arts sector.John O'Hagan examines in detail the various channels - regulation, taxation and direct expenditure - through which the state interacts with the arts and compares and contrasts the experiences of America and Europe. Regulatory measures considered include the guarantee of artistic freedom, copyright, resale royalties for artists, and trade restrictions. He also considers taxation measures to support the arts, including deductions for charitable contributions to the arts, property tax exemption, and relief on artists' income. The discussion on direct expenditure covers state ownership of institutions, revenue funding and matching grants as well as new avenues of expenditure such as community arts/arts centres, and new revenue sources for this expenditure, such as lottery funding. Finally the book covers the non-profit making arts sector, and examines why it, and not the commercial sector, receives private and state funding.The State and the Arts will be indispensable for students and academics of public and social policy, cultural economics and public management. It will also be of considerable interest to policymakers and key players in the arts sector.Trade Review'O'Hagan has taken on a difficult task indeed in trying to sort through the evidence on the state and the arts. He has opened the door to numerous potential research papers, and made clear the need for much more work to be done in the area of data classification and collection. He has also done the valuable task of pulling together previous research from a variety of sources, many of which will not be familiar to economists. I will be consulting this book often.'Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction Part I: Policy Rationale: Why the State gets Involved 2. Non-Private Benefits 3. Information Failures and Distributional Issues Part II: Policy Implementation: How the State gets Involved 4. Regulation 5. Taxation 6. Direct Expenditures Part III: Sectoral Policy Issues: Effects of State Involvement 7. Art Museums 8. Performing Arts Institutions Index
£104.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Conflict and Change in the Russian Industrial
Book SynopsisConflict and Change in the Russian Industrial Enterprise focuses on the new kinds of conflict that arise in the transition to a market economy. Following an editorial introduction, two chapters develop theories from new empirical research into patterns of conflict and forms of trade unionism in Russian enterprises in the transition period. These are followed by a detailed case study of the development of an independent trade union in one large industrial enterprise, and a chapter which explores changes in the status hierarchy of the industrial enterprise. Two chapters then address the much-neglected issue of gender differentiation in the work place and both chapters question the supposed passivity of Russian women workers. The two final chapters address the issue of conflict and change in the external relations of enterprises through case studies of the process of bankruptcy and of conflict between insiders and outsiders.Table of ContentsConflict and change in the Russian industrial enterprise (Simon Clarke); social contradictions and conflicts in state enterprises in the transition period (Vladimir Ilyin); Russian trade unions and the management apparatus in the transition period (Vladimir Ilyin); the trade union "solidarity" - a case study (Irina Tartakovkskaya); the changing status of workers in the enterprise (Irina Kozina and Vadim Borisov); gender differation and industrial relations (Galina Monousova); gender stereotyping and the gender division of labour in Russia (Elain Bowers); the regional elite in the epoch of bankruptcy (Pavel Romanov); privatization and restructuring of enterprises: under "insider" or "outsider control"? (Veronika Kabalina)
£111.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Russian Enterprise in Transition: Case
Book SynopsisThe Russian Enterprise in Transition provides a unique insight into the realities of the restructuring of Russian industrial enterprises in the transition period from the boardroom to the shop floor.An introductory chapter by Simon Clarke, which gives an overview of the industrial enterprise in transition, is followed by four in-depth case study reports of enterprises, covering the period since the beginning of the radical reform. Each report looks at the changing strategy of management at various levels in response to the challenge of transition, at the response of the shop floor and to the more subtle changes in values and social relations within the enterprise over the period of reform. Together the reports cover five enterprises which provide a cross-section of different types of former state enterprises. Two of the enterprises covered were among the pioneers of privatization, two were flagships of the military-industrial sector which had to respond to the collapse of the traditional markets, and the fifth was a passenger transport enterprise which remains in state control. The Russian Enterprise in Transition is the fourth volume in the series Management and Industry in Russia, reporting directly on the results of a unique programme of case study and ethnographic research into the restructuring of social relations in Russian industrial production. Together these case study reports provide a unique insight into industrial life in Russia and are an essential component to the previous volumes in the series, which have focused on substantive thematic analysis.Trade Review'The present reviewer strongly believes that all the four volumes in this series should constitute the must reading list of the planners and policymakers in the countries concerned about transition of public enterprises.' -- Pradosh Nath, Journal of Scientific and Industrial ResearchTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Enterprise in the Era of Transition (S. Clarke) 2. Plastmass: Pioneer of Privatisation (E. Varshavskaya, I. Donova) 3. Lenkon: Capitalism and Scientology (V. Kabalina, G. Monousova, V. Vedeneeva) 4. Two Military-Industrial Giants (Samara Research Group) 5. On the Buses: Management Dynamics in a Passenger Transport Enterprise (V. Ilyin, M. Ilyina) Index
£137.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Industrial Ecology: Towards Closing the Materials
Book SynopsisIndustrial Ecology is perhaps the first serious attempt to go beyond general statements regarding the desirability of 'clean technology' and to assess realistically and quantitatively the range of practicable possibilities for reducing materials extraction, consumption and waste.This major new book examines strategic options for reducing wastes and pollution and increasing the productivity of materials. Using an industrial ecology perspective, the authors analyse thirteen generic cases of material, beginning with four families of metals (aluminium, chromium, copper and zinc), several families of chemicals (phosphates and fluorine; suphur-based, nitrogen-based and chlorine-based), silicon and several different types of waste. Opportunities for creating 'industrial ecosystems' by deliberate design are discussed as well as the use of low-value by-products as feed stocks for useful products. In addition to surveying the technological possibilities, the authors also consider the public interest, institutional barriers and the range of possible alternatives that might be applicable. Environmental scientists, economists, practitioners and policy makers will welcome Industrial Ecology's integrated approach and the emphasis which it places on resource productivity, materials cycle optimization and waste minimization.Trade Review'True to form, Ayres and Ayre's Industrial Ecology is a significant addition to the field, full of new and provocative ideas. While most works on industrial ecology can manage only a handful of case studies, the list of chapters in itself shows that this is a tour de force.'Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Materials Perspective 2. Resource Perspective 3. Alumina, Aluminum and Gallium 4. Copper, Cobalt, Silver and Arsenic 5. Chromium Sources, Uses and Losses 6. Zinc and Cadmium 7. Sulfur and Sulfuric Acid 8. Phosphorus, Fluorine and Gypsum 9. Nitrogen-Based Chemicals 10. The Chlor-Alkali Sector 11. Electronic Grade Silicon (EGS) for Semiconductors 12. Post-Consumer Packaging Wastes 13. Scrap Tires 14. Coal Ash: Sources and Possible Uses 15. On Industrial Ecosystems 16. Summary and Conclusions References Indexes
£130.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Economics of Productivity
Book SynopsisThe Economics of Productivity provides an anthology of many of the leading papers on productivity analysis. Part 1 of the collection portrays the development of production functions and growth accounting, including classic papers by Robert Solow, Dale Jorgenson, Edward Denison, and Angus Maddison. Part 2 covers topics on the economics of research and development and technological spillovers, featuring works by Zvi Griliches and Edwin Mansfield. Part 3 is devoted to evolutionary and Schumpeterian models of technological change, including articles by Richard Nelson and Sydney Winter. Studies by Moses Abramovitz and William Baumol, both published in 1986, document a convergence in labour productivity among industrialized economies, and Part 4 includes several seminal papers on this topic. Part 5 treats another important development in productivity analysis - endogenous growth theory, in which production itself creates the conditions of further technical change. The input-output framework provides another powerful system for the measurement of productivity growth, and articles on this topic are presented in Part 6. A dramatic slowdown in the rate of productivity growth occurred in the early 1970s and this development spawned a large literature on the subject of productivity, which is highlighted in the last part of the volume.Trade Review'The book is valuable to those interested in productivity as well as economic growth. The publisher has done a great service by collecting these papers in a book form.' -- A.M. Nalla Gounden, Journal of Educational Planning and Administration '. . . the collection is valuable as a single source for a number of classic papers on the subject.'– Paul Stoneman, The Economic JournalTable of ContentsContents: Volume I: Introduction Part I: Production Functions and Growth Accounting Part II: R&D and Technological Spillovers Part III: Evolutionary, Schumpeterian and Technology Gap Models Index • Volume II: Part I: Productivity Convergence Part II: Endogenous Growth Theory Part III: Multi-Sectoral Approaches Part IV: The Productivity Slowdown Index
£540.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Handbook of Industrial Innovation
Book SynopsisIndustrial innovation is essential for national and corporate competitiveness. Understanding the nature, determinants and consequences of innovation is a key task of managers, public policymakers and all students of industry and business. This major new reference book brings together specially commissioned contributions by many leading world experts on a wide range of issues concerning innovation. The first section provides an introduction to the significance and process of industrial innovation, and to the contexts or 'systems' within which it occurs. A series of sectoral and industrial studies is followed by assessments of the key issues affecting innovation. Another section examines one of the main constraints on successful innovation: the strategic management of technology in both products and processes. As well as the benefits of innovation, the problems and challenges of the processes, management and outcomes of innovation are raised throughout the book. Select bibliographies chosen by international experts are included to ensure that this comprehensive reference tool is an indispensable guide for students, scholars, innovators and policymakers.Trade Review'I highly recommend this volume to academic scholars and policy makers in both industry and government. It contains a wealth of valuable material on industrial innovation presented authoritatively and concisely.'Table of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: The Nature, Sources and Outcomes of Industrial Innovation Part II: Sectoral and Industrial Studies of Innovation Part III: Key Issues Affecting Innovation Part IV: The Strategic Management of Innovation Part V: Future Challenges of Innovation in a Global Perspective Index
£50.30
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Trust and Economic Learning
Book SynopsisThe 1990s have witnessed a vast growth of research on the topics of trust and learning. This can be explained by the profound technological and organizational changes that have made both inter-and intra-firm trust indispensable for sustaining the forms of learning that underlie successful competitive performance.Trust and Economic Learning brings together innovative research by an internationally recognized group of scholars from Europe and the United States. The distinction between trust and a variety of related concepts, including reputation, implicit contracts and confidence is examined. The links between learning and trust are then explored using a number of original empirical contributions and theoretical approaches including an adaptation of game theory, Marengo's computational model of organizational learning and the 'step by step' rule developed by Lazaric and Lorenz. In addition, Bayesian learning models are compared with evolutionary approaches based on tools of artificial intelligence to evaluate the preconditions for establishing trust. This unique volume will be a highly useful companion to traditional graduate-level texts in industrial organization. It constitutes a valuable source of knowledge for practitioners and policymakers alike. It will also be of interest to scholars interested in evolutionary and institutional economics, technology and innovation and international business.Trade Review'This book is a welcome addition to two growing literatures in economics: on "trust" and "learning". . . . The book is well produced and well edited by Lazaric and Lorenz who provide a useful introduction and overview in their chapter on "The learning dynamics of trust, reputation and confidence".' -- Jonathan Michie, The Economic JournalTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Notions of Trust in Economic Cooperation 1. The Information Requirements of Trust in Supplier Relations 2. Self-Interest, Trust and Institutions 3. Trust in Inter-Firm Relations 4. Trust and Collective Action in Financial Markets Part II: Collective Learning Dynamics 5. The Formation of Beliefs on Financial Markets 6. The Ambivalent Role of Imitation in Decentralised Collective Learning 7. Cooperation and Trust in Spatially Clustered Firms 8. The Economics of Knowledge Openness 9. Technological Evolution, Self-Organisation and Knowledge Part III: Trust and Organisational Learning 10. Trust and Organisational Learning During Inter-Firm Cooperation 11. Knowledge Distribution and Coordination in Organisations 12. Trust and Organisational Learning 13. Organisational Trust, Learning and Implicit Commitments
£115.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics
Book SynopsisA unique and comprehensive source of information, the International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics is the only international publication providing economists, planners, policymakers and business people with worldwide statistics on current performance and trends in the manufacturing sector.Covering more than 120 countries/areas, the 1996 edition of the Yearbook contains data which are internationally comparable and much more detailed in industrial classification than those supplied in previous publications. This is the second issue of the annual publication which succeeds the UNIDO's Handbook of Industrial Statistics and, at the same time, replaces the United Nation's Industrial Statistics Yearbook, volume I (General Industrial Statistics). Information has been collected directly from national statistical sources and supplemented with estimates by UNIDO.The Yearbook is designed to facilitate international comparisons relating to manufacturing activity and industrial performance. It provides data which can be used to analyse patterns of growth, structural change and industrial performance in individual industries. Data on employment trends, wages and other key indicators are also presented. Finally, the detailed information presented here enables the user to study different aspects of industry which was not possible using the aggregate data previously available.Trade Review'This annual publication seems to be the only international publication providing worldwide statistics on current performance and trends in the manufacturing sector. In terms of comprehensiveness, accuracy, and cross-country comparisons this volume is unparalleled . . . If you are looking for an authoritative source for comparative international statistics on industrial information, this is it.'Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Summary Tables Section 1.1 The Manufacturing Sector Section 1.2 The Manufacturing Branches Part II: Country Tables
£224.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Empirical Corporate Finance
Book SynopsisThis four-volume collection contains a comprehensive selection of over 70 modern papers in empirical corporate finance. Empirical Corporate Finance also features a new introduction by the editor which explains the basis for the selection of the articles and relates the empirical findings they report to recent developments in corporate financial theory.The volumes are arranged by subject matter, reflecting the broad stages in the life-cycle of the firm, starting with venture capital and initial public offerings, and then moving on to events that characterize corporate maturity: dividend policy, investment policy, corporate governance issues, and financing strategy. The volumes conclude with sections on takeovers and bankruptcy.A major feature of the collection is its attention to the relation between corporate financial policy and the legal and economic framework within which the corporation operates; thus evidence is provided for the importance of asset resale markets as well as product markets for the capital structure decision; the legal framework is shown to be related to financing policies in different countries; and the existence of financial institutions such as banks and leasing companies is shown to have important consequences for financial policy. A pervasive theme of the volumes is the importance of informational asymmetries and agency relationships for understanding phenomena in corporate finance.Empirical Corporate Finance will serve as a reference for professionals and MBA students who are concerned with the evidence on important issues such as initial public offerings, dividend policy, capital structure. The volumes will also serve, both as an introduction to the techniques of investigation in empirical corporate finance, and to the major substantive findings in the field for doctoral students; finally, they will be an invaluable source of reference to the most important work that has been done in each of the major areas of research.Trade Review'. . . this collection makes a timely contribution to the literature on the "new" corporate finance. An additional plus of the four volumes is that they are introduced by an excellent and exhaustive introduction by Brennan, setting the scene and summarising the main conclusions of the papers. . . the collection . . . will be extremely useful not only to finance specialists, but also to any other economist with an interest in financial economics.'Table of ContentsContents Volume I Acknowledgements Foreword Richard Roll Introduction Michael J. Brennan PART I METHODOLOGY 1. Eugene F. Fama, Lawrence Fisher, Michael Jensen and Richard Roll (1969), ‘The Adjustment of Stock Prices to New Information’ 2. Stephen J. Brown and Jerold B. Warner (1980), ‘Measuring Security Price Performance’ 3. N.R. Prabhala (1997), ‘Conditional Methods in Event Studies and an Equilibrium Justification for Standard Event-Study Procedures’ 4. John D. Lyon, Brad M. Barber and Chih-Ling Tsai (1999), ‘Improved Methods for Tests of Long-Run Abnormal Stock Returns’ PART II VENTURE CAPITAL AND INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS 5. Bernard S. Black and Ronald J. Gilson (1998), ‘Venture Capital and the Structure of Capital Markets: Banks versus Stock Markets’ 6. William A Sahlman (1990), ‘The Structure and Governance of Venture-Capital Organizations’ 7. Joshua Lerner (1994), ‘Venture Capitalists and the Decision to go Public’ 8. Roni Michaely and Wayne H. Shaw (1994), ‘The Pricing of Initial Public Offerings: Tests of Adverse-Selection and Signaling Theories’ 9. Francis Koh and Terry Walter (1989), ‘A Direct Test of Rock’s Model of the Pricing of Unseasoned Issues’ 10. Kathleen Weiss Hanley and William J. Wilheim, Jr. (1995), ‘Evidence on the Strategic Allocation of Unseasoned Issues’ 11. Raghuran Rajan and Henri Servaes (1997), ‘Analyst Following of Initial Public Offerings’ 12. Alon Brav and Paul A. Gompers (1997), ‘Myth or Reality? The Long-Run Underperformance of Initial Public Offerings: Evidence from Venture and Nonventure Capital-Backed Companies’ PART III DIVIDEND POLICY AND EQUITY MANAGEMENT: SECONDARY OFFERINGS, SPLITS AND SHARE REPURCHASES 13. Roni Michaely, Richard H. Thaler and Kent L. Womack (1995), ‘Price Reactions to Dividend Initiations and Omissions: Overreaction or Drift?’ 14. Pyung Sig Yoon and Laura T. Starks (1995), ‘Signaling, Investment Opportunities, and Dividend Announcements’ 15. Theo Vermaelen (1984), ‘Repurchase Tender Offers, Signaling, and Managerial Incentives’ 16. David Ikenberry, Josef Lakonishok and Theo Vermaelen (1995), ‘Market Underreaction to Open Market Share Repurchases’ 17. Laurie Simon Bagwell (1992), ‘Dutch Auction Repurchases: An Analysis of Shareholder Heterogeneity’ 18. Michael J. Brennan and Patricia J. Hughes (1991), ‘Stock Prices and the Supply of Information’ Name Index Volume II Acknowledgements An introduction by the editor to all four volumes appears in volume I PART I CORPORATE INVESTMENT POLICY 1. John J. McConnell and Chris J. Muscarella (1985), ‘Corporate Capital Expenditure Decisions and the Market Value of the Firm’ 2. Steven N. Kaplan and Richard S. Ruback (1995), ‘The Valuation of Cash Flow Forecasts: An Empirical Analysis’ 3. Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French (1997), ‘Industry Costs of Equity’ 4. Philip G. Berger, Eli Ofek and Itzhak Swary (1996), ‘Investor Valuation of the Abandonment Option’ 5. Owen Lamont (1997), ‘Cash Flow and Investment: Evidence from Internal Capital Markets’ 6. Olivier Jean Blanchard, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer (1994), ‘What do Firms do with Cash Windfalls?’ PART II ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND CONTROL 7. Randall Morck, Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny (1989), ‘Alternative Mechanisms for Corporate Control’ 8. Luigi Zingales (1995), ‘What Determines the Value of Corporate Votes?’ 9. Wayne H. Mikkelson and M. Megan Partch (1997), ‘The Decline of Takeovers and Disciplinary Managerial Turnover’ 10. Jennifer E. Bethel, Julia Porter Liebeskind and Tim Opler (1998), ‘Block Share Purchases and Corporate Performance’ 11. Benjamin C. Esty (1997), ‘Organizational Form and Risk Taking in the Savings and Loan Industry’ 12. James A. Brickley and Frederick H. Dark (1987), ‘The Choice of Organizational Form: The Case of Franchising’ PART III AGENCY, INCENTIVES, AND OWNERSHIP 13. Charles J. Hadlock and Gerald B. Lumer (1997), ‘Compensation, Turnover, and Top Management Incentives: Historical Evidence’ 14. Brian J. Hall and Jeffrey B. Liebman (1998), ‘Are CEOs Really Paid Like Bureaucrats?’ 15. Rajesh K. Aggarwal and Andrew A. Samwick (1999), ‘The Other Side of the Trade-Off: The Impact of Risk on Executive Compensation’ 16. Charles P. Himmelberg, R. Glenn Hubbard and Darius Palia (1999), ‘Understanding the Determinants of Managerial Ownership and the Link between Ownership and Performance’ 17. David J. Denis, Diane K. Denis and Atulya Sarin (1997), ‘Agency Problems, Equity Ownership, and Corporate Diversification’ Name Index Volume III Acknowledgements An introduction by the editor to all four volumes appears in volume I PART I CORPORATE FINANCIAL POLICY A The Role of the Legal Framework 1. Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny (1997), ‘Legal Determinants of External Finance’ B The Role of Taxation and Security 2. John R. Graham (1996), ‘Debt and the Marginal Tax Rate’ 3. John R. Graham, Michael L. Lemmon and James S. Schallheim (1998), ‘Debt, Leases, Taxes, and the Endogeneity of Corporate Tax Status’ 4. Michael J. Alderson and Brian L. Betker (1995), ‘Liquidation Costs and Capital Structure’ 5. Mark Hoven Stohs and David C. Mauer (1996), ‘The Determinants of Corporate Debt Maturity Structure’ C The Role Of Private Incentives And Agency 6. Philip G. Berger, Eli Ofek and David L. Yermack (1997), ‘Managerial Entrenchment and Capital Structure Decisions’ D Debt as Precommitment 7. Assem Safieddine and Sheridan Titman (1999), ‘Leverage and Corporate Performance: Evidence from Unsuccessful Takeovers’ E Consequences for Valuation, Product Markets and Firm Survival 8. John J. McConnell and Henri Servaes (1995), ‘Equity Ownership and the Two Faces of Debt’ 9. Judith A. Chevalier (1995), ‘Capital Structure and Product Market Competition: Empirical Evidence from the Supermarket Industry’ 10. Dan Kovenock and Gordon M. Phillips (1997), ‘Capital Structure and Product Market Behavior: An Examination of Plant Exit and Investment Decisions’ 11. Luigi Zingales (1998), ‘Survival of the Fittest or the Fattest? Exit and Financing in the Trucking Industry’ PART II CAPITAL MARKET FINANCING: TIMING AND SOURCE OF FUNDS 12. Kooyul Jung, Yeong-Cheol Kim and René M. Stulz (1996), ‘Timing, Investment Opportunities, Managerial Discretion, and the Security Issue Decision’ 13. Tim Loughran and Jay R. Ritter (1995), ‘The New Issues Puzzle’ 14. Tim Loughran and Jay R. Ritter (1997), ‘The Operating Performance of Firms Conducting Seasoned Equity Offerings’ 15. Joel F. Houston and Michael D. Ryngaert (1997), ‘Equity Issuance and Adverse Selection: A Direct Test Using Conditional Stock Offers’ 16. Larry Lang, Annette Poulsen and René Stulz (1995), ‘Asset Sales, Firm Performance, and the Agency Costs of Managerial Discretion’ PART III THE ROLE OF INTERMEDIATED FINANCE 17. Takeo Hoshi, Anil Kashyap and David Scharfstein (1991), ‘Corporate Structure, Liquidity, and Investment: Evidence from Japanese Industrial Groups’ 18. Mitchell A. Petersen and Raghuram G. Rajan (1994), ‘The Benefits of Lending Relationships: Evidence from Small Business Data’ 19. Mark Carey, Mitch Post and Steven A. Sharpe (1998), ‘Does Corporate Lending by Banks and Finance Companies Differ? Evidence on Specialization in Private Debt Contracting’ 20. Mitchell A. Petersen and Raghuram G. Rajan (1997), ‘Trade Credit: Theories and Evidence’ 21. Steven A. Sharpe and Hien H. Nguyen (1995), ‘Capital Market Imperfections and the Incentive to Lease’ Name Index Volume IV Acknowledgements An introduction by the editor to all four volumes appears in volume I PART I RISK MANAGEMENT 1. Peter Tufano (1996), ‘Who Manages Risk? An Empirical Examination of Risk Management Practices in the Gold Mining Industry’ 2. Catherine Schrand and Haluk Unal (1998), ‘Hedging and Coordinated Risk Management: Evidence from Thrift Conversions’ 3. Mitchell A. Petersen (1994), ‘Cash Flow Variability and Firm’s Pension Choice: A Role for Operating Leverage’ PART II CORPORATE ACQUISITIONS AND DIVESTITURES [241 pp] 4. Randall Morck, Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny (1990), ‘Do Managerial Objectives Drive Bad Acquisitions?’ 5. Mark L. Mitchell and Kenneth Lehn (1990), ‘Do Bad Bidders Become Good Targets?’ 6. Steven N. Kaplan and Michael S. Weisbach (1992), ‘The Success of Acquisitions: Evidence from Divestitures’ 7. Larry H.P. Lang and René M. Stulz (1994), ‘Tobin’s q, Corporate Diversification, and Firm Performance’ 8. Michael Bradley, Anand Desai and E. Han Kim (1988), ‘Synergistic Gains from Corporate Acquisition and their Division between the Stockholders of Target and Acquiring Firms’ 9. Arthur Warga and Ivo Welch (1993), ‘Bondholder Losses in Leveraged Buyouts’ 10. Richard A. Ippolito and William H. James (1992), ‘LBOs, Reversions and Implicit Contracts’ 11. Sudha Krishnaswami and Venkat Subramaniam (1999), ‘Information Asymmetry, Valuation, and the Corporate Spin-off Decision’ PART III BANKRUPTCY, RE-ORGANIZATION AND LIQUIDATION 12. Todd C. Pulvino (1998), ‘Do Asset Fire Sales Exist? An Empirical Investigation of Commercial Aircraft Transactions’ 13. Julian R. Franks and Walter N. Torous (1994), ‘A Comparison of Financial Recontracting in Distressed Exchanges and Chapter 11 Reorganizations’ 14. Paul Asquith, Robert Gertner and David Scharfstein (1994), ‘Anatomy of Financial Distress: An Examination of Junk-Bond Issuers’ 15. Stuart C. Gilson (1990), ‘Bankruptcy, Boards, Banks, and Blockholders: Evidence on Changes in Corporate Ownership and Control When Firms Default’ 16. Hamid Mehran, George E. Nogler and Kenneth B. Schwartz (1998), ‘CEO Incentive Plans and Corporate Liquidation Policy’ Name Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Industrial Organization
Book SynopsisOliver Williamson is one of the most important industrial economists of our time. He has made a major contribution to economic scholarship and remains at the forefront of research into transaction costs and the theory of the firm. In this volume he has provided a very careful selection of what he considers to be the most important articles and papers in industrial organization. Featuring 23 articles, dating from 1937 to 1987, this collection includes papers by Kenneth J. Arrow, Ronald H. Coase, Franco Modigliani, Michael Rothschild, Herbert A. Simon, George J. Stigler and Joseph Stiglitz.The first part presents classic articles which supplied the foundations upon which the field of industrial economics was built. The second and third parts present papers on the new economics of organization and a revitalized theory of strategic behaviour and competition. Professor Williamson submits that a new science of organisation is taking shape to which industrial economics has been both a principle contributor and beneficiary. Now available in paperback, this important volume will be indispensable to all teachers, researchers and students concerned with modern industrial economics and the theory of the firm.Table of ContentsCONTENTS INTRODUCTION PART I: Antecedents R. Coase (1937), ‘The Nature of the Firm’ A. Alchian (1950), ‘Uncertainty, Evolution and Economic Theory’ L. McKenzie (1951), ‘Ideal Output and the Interdependence of Firms’ F. Modigliani (1958), ‘New Developments on the Oligopoly Front’ G. Stigler (1964), ‘A Theory of Oligopoly’ K. Arrow (1963), ‘Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care’ H. Simon (1962), ‘The Architecture of Complexity’ PART II: The New Economics of Organization M. Rothschild and J. Stiglitz (1976), ‘Equilibrium in Competitive Insurance Markets: An Essay on the Economics of Imperfect Information’ B. Holmstrom (1982), ‘Moral Hazard in Teams’ J. Tirole (1986), ‘Hierarchies and Bureaucracies: On the Role of Collusion in Organizations’ G. Akerlof (1983), ‘Loyalty Filters’ O. Williamson (1979), ‘Transaction-cost Economics: The Governance of Contractural Relations’ S. Grossman and O. Hart (1986), ‘The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and lateral Integration’ P. Joskow (1985), ‘Vertical Integration and Long-term Contracts: The Case of Coal-burning Electric Generating Plants’ B. Klein and K. Leffler (1981), ‘The Role of Market Forces in Assuring Contractural Performance’ PART III: Strategic Behaviour and Competition H. Demsetz (1974), ‘Two Systems if Belief about Monopoly’ A. Dixit (1980), ‘The Role of Investment in Entry-deterrence’ P. Aghion and P. Bolton (1987), ‘Contracts as a Barrier to Entry’ P. Milgrom and J. Roberts (1980), ‘Limit Pricing and Entry Under Incomplete Information: An Equilibrium Analysis’ D. Kreps and R. Wilson (1982), ‘Reputation and Imperfect Information’ D. Fudenberg and J. Tirole (1984), ‘The Fat-Cat Effect, The Puppy-Dog Ploy and the Lean and Hungry Look’ W. Baumol, J. Panzar and R. Willig (1986), ‘On the Theory of Perfectly-contestable Markets’ S. Salop (1979), ‘Monoplistic Competition with Outside Goods’
£39.85
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Environmental Policy and Technical Change: A
Book SynopsisEnvironmental Policy and Technical Change assesses the impact of environmental policy on technical change in cleaner technology. It focuses in particular on the possibility of inducing radical change in technology - a topic that is likely to move to the centre of the policy debate as people discover that incremental changes are not enough to achieve environmental sustainability.This innovative book sheds new light on the relationship between clean technology and environmental policy. It adopts an approach which combines a balance of both theoretical models of innovation and diffusion with empirical case studies. Dr Kemp examines policies such as subsidies, tradeable quotas, pollution taxes and emission standards in how they affect technical choices. Suggestions are offered on how environmental policies may be (re)designed towards the efficient conservation of environmental qualities by encouraging innovation in environmental benign technology.This important book will be essential reading for both researchers and environmental economists concerned with environmental policy and technical innovation.Trade Review'This book is worth reading (and understanding) for economists, politicians and students who are interested in learning about economics and the way it tries to contribute solutions to environmental conflicts. I found this a splendid approach for dealing with complex systems, which crosses scientific barriers and should make some of that science understandable to decision-makers.'Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Part I: Theoretical Models of Innovation and Diffusion 2. A Critical Survey of Innovation Models in Pollution Control 3. New Models of Innovation in Pollution Control 4. An Interpretative Survey of Technological Diffusion Models 5. The Diffusion of Environmentally Beneficial Technological Innovations Part II: Empirical Studies of Environmentally Beneficial Technologies 6. The Diffusion of Biological Waste-Water Treatment Plants in the Dutch Food and Beverage Industry 7. The Diffusion of Thermal Home Insulation in the Netherlands 8. Case Studies of Cleaner Technologies 9. Technology Effects of Past Environmental Policies: An Overview Part III: The Problem of Technological Regime Shifts 10. Continuity and Change in Technological Regimes 11. Understanding Technological Regime Shifts 12. The Transition from Hydrocarbons 13. Conclusions References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Economics of Structural Change
Book SynopsisStructural change analysis has been a distinctive feature of economics since its formative period. This authoritative three-volume collection presents a comprehensive selection of the key contributions to the topic.The Economics of Structural Change shows the central role that compositional dynamics plays in the analysis of fluctuations, development, employment and economy-environment interactions. Volume I covers concepts and theories in the economics of structural change; Volume II includes specific contributions to structural theories of growth, cycles and technological change; Volume III focuses on specific areas in the empirics of structural change analysis.This important three-volume set will be indispensable to researchers and practitioners alike.Trade Review'These volumes constitute a remarkably comprehensive collection of seminal articles on structural change, including historical works such as Adam Smith on the division of labor and Karl Marx on reproduction schemes and modern pieces by Leontief, Sraffa, Pasinetti, Goodwin, Baumol, Arrow, Aghion and Howitt.' -- Edward Wolff, New York University, USTable of ContentsContents: Volume I: Economic Structure and Change: Concepts and Theories Acknowledgements Introduction Harald Hagemann, Michael Landesmann and Roberto Scazzieri PART I PHASES OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: CLASSICAL APPROACHES 1. A.R.J. Turgot ([1766]1973), ‘Reflections on the Formation and the Distribution of Wealth’ 2. James Steuart ([1767]/1966), ‘Introduction’ 3. Adam Smith ([1776]/1976), ‘Of the Natural Progress of Opulence’ 4. François Quesnay ([1758]/1972) in the ‘Third Edition’ 5. Karl Marx ([1885]/1956), ‘III: Schematic Presentation of Accumulation’ and ‘Supplementary Remarks’ 6. Eugen v. Böhm-Bawerk ([1891]/1930), ‘The Theory of the Formation of Capital’ 7. John Bates Clark (1899), ‘Capital and Capital-Goods Contrasted’ PART II DYNAMIC FACTORS, GROWTH AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE 8. Adam Smith ([1763]/1978), ‘Division of Labour’ 9. John Rae (1834), ‘Of the Principle of the Division of Labor’ 10. T.R. Malthus (1820), excerpt from ‘On the Immediate Causes of the Progress of Wealth’ 11. David Ricardo ([1817]/1951), ‘On Rent’ 12. Erik Dahmen (1955), ‘Technology, Innovation and International Industrial Transformation’ 13. John Hicks (1973), ‘The Mainspring of Economic Growth’ PART III THE ANALYTICAL REPRESENTATION OF ECONOMIC STRUCTURE 14. Wassily Leontief (1928), ‘The Economy as a Circular Flow’ 15. Ragnar Nurkse (1935), ‘The Schematic Representation of the Structure of Production’ 16. J. v. Neumann (1937), ‘A Model of General Economic Equilibrium’ 17. Piero Sraffa (1960), ‘On "Sub-Systems"’ 18. Luigi L. Pasinetti (1973), ‘The Notion of Vertical Integration in Economic Analysis’ 19. John Hicks (1973), ‘The Process and its Profiles’ 20. Salvatore Baldone (1996), ‘Vertical Integration, the Temporal Structure of Production Processes and Transition Between Techniques’ 21. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1971), ‘The Analytical Representation of Process and the Economics of Production’ 22. Herbert A. Simon and Albert Ando (1961), ‘Aggregation of Variables in Dynamic Systems’ 23. Camilo Dagum (1969), ‘Structural Permanence’ 24. R.M. Goodwin (1976), ‘Use of Normalized General Coordinates in Linear Value and Distribution Theory’ 25. Michael A. Landesmann and Roberto Scazzieri (1990), ‘Specification of Structure and Economic Dynamics’ Name Index Volume II: Growth, Cycles and Technological Change: Structural Approaches Acknowledgements An introduction by the editors to all three volumes appears in Volume I PART I STRUCTURAL THEORIES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH 1. Adolph Lowe (1955), ‘Structural Analysis of Real Capital Formation’ 2. John Hicks (1985), ‘Structural Disequilibrium-Traverse’ and ‘Traverse Again: The Austrian Method’ 3. Luigi L. Pasinetti (1993), ‘Structural Dynamics’ 4. Harald Hagemann (1990), ‘The Structural Theory of Economic Growth’ 5. Alberto Quadrio-Curzio (1986), ‘Technological Scarcity: An Essay on Production and Structural Change’ 6. William J. Baumol (1967), ‘Macroeconomics of Unbalanced Growth: The Anatomy of Urban Crisis’ PART II STRUCTURAL THEORIES OF ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS 7. Dennis Holme Robertson (1915), ‘Temptations to Over-Investment’ and ‘Aggravations of Depression’ 8. A. Spiethoff ([1933]/1937), ‘Overproduction’ 9. Albert Aftalion (1927), ‘The Theory of Economic Cycles Based on the Capitalistic Technique of Production’ 10. Franco Nardini (1990), ‘Cycle-trend Dynamics in a Fixwage Neo-Austrian Model of Traverse’ 11. Mario Amendola and Jean-Luc Gaffard (1998), ‘Change’ 12. Ragnar Frisch (1933), ‘Propagation Problems and Impulse Problems in Dynamic Economics’ 13. Eugen Slutzky (1937), ‘The Summation of Random Causes as the Source of Cyclic Processes’ 14. Joseph Schumpeter (1928), ‘The Instability of Capitalism’ 15. Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt (1992), ‘A Model of Growth Through Creative Destruction’ 16. Gerald Silverberg and Doris Lehnert (1993), ‘Long Waves and "Evolutionary Chaos" in a Simple Schumpeterian Model of Embodied Technical Change’ PART III TECHNICAL PROGRESS AND ECONOMIC CHANGE 17. Nicholas Kaldor ([1961]/1963), ‘Capital Accumulation and Economic Growth’ 18. Kenneth J. Arrow (1962), ‘The Economic Implications of Learning by Doing’ 19. W.E.G. Salter ([1960]/1969), ‘A Model of the Delay in the Utilisation of New Techniques of Production’ and ‘Factor Prices and the Adjustment Process’ 20. Christopher Bliss (1968), ‘On Putty-Clay’ 21. Paul A. David (1985), ‘Clio and the Economics of QWERTY’ 22. W. Brian Arthur (1989), ‘Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns, and Lock-in by Historical Events’ 23. Giovanni Dosi (1982), ‘Technological Paradigms and Technological Trajectories: A Suggested Interpretation of the Determinants and Directions of Technical Change’ 24. Edward Ames and Nathan Rosenberg (1964), ‘The Progressive Division and Specialization of Industries’ 25. Xiaokai Yang and Jeff Borland (1991), ‘A Microeconomic Mechanism for Economic Growth’ 26. Danny T. Quah (1997), ‘Increasingly Weightless Economies’ Name Index Volume III: Economic Developments: Patterns and Empirics Acknowledgements An introduction by the editors to all three volumes appears in Volume I PART I DECOMPOSING ECONOMIC GROWTH: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES 1. W.G. Hoffmann ([1931]/1958), ‘The Pattern of Industrial Growth’ 2. Allan G.B. Fisher (1939), ‘Production, Primary, Secondary and Tertiary’ 3. Simon Kuznets (1971), ‘Summary and Interrelations’ 4. Ingvar Svennilson (1954), ‘The Process of Economic Growth’ 5. Nathan Rosenberg (1963), ‘Capital Goods, Technology, and Economic Growth’ 6. Moses Abramovitz (1986), ‘Catching Up, Forging Ahead, and Falling Behind’ 7. Bart Verspagen (1995), ‘Convergence in the Global Economy. A Broad Historical Viewpoint’ 8. Danny T. Quah (1996), ‘Empirics for Economic Growth and Convergence’ PART II PATTERNS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 9. P.N. Rosenstein-Rodan (1943), ‘Problems of Industrialisation of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe’ 10. Paul Streeten (1959), ‘Unbalanced Growth’ 11. Shigeru Ishikawa (1967), ‘Initial Conditions’ 12. Hollis B. Chenery and Lance Taylor (1968), ‘Development Patterns: Among Countries and Over Time’ 13. Sukhamoy Chakravarty (1980), ‘Relevance of Growth Models to Development Planning’ 14. Kevin M. Murphy, Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny (1989), ‘Industrialization and the Big Push’ 15. Chin-Lih Wang, Juh-Luh Sun and Tein-Chen Chou (1992), ‘Sources of Economic Growth and Structural Change: A Revised Approach’ 16. Kiminori Matsuyama (1992), ‘Agricultural Productivity, Comparative Advantage, and Economic Growth’ PART III EMPLOYMENT AND TECHNOLOGY 17. Hans P. Neisser (1942), ‘"Permanent" Technological Unemployment: "Demand for Commodities Is Not Demand for Labor"’ 18. Wassily Leontief and Faye Duchin (1986), ‘The Future Impact of Automation on Employment’ 19. David M. Lilien (1982), ‘Sectoral Shifts and Cyclical Unemployment’ 20. Eileen Appelbaum and Ronald Schettkat (1995), ‘Employment and Productivity in Industrialized Economies’ PART IV ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE 21. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1986), ‘The Entropy Law and the Economic Process in Retrospect’ 22. Charles Perrings (1987), ‘Closed Physical Systems: A Model’ 23. Robert Ayres (1991), ‘Evolutionary Economics and Environmental Imperatives’ 24. Robert Costanza and Herman E. Daly (1992), ‘Natural Capital and Sustainable Development’ PART V INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC CHANGE 25. Irma Adelman and Cynthia Taft Morris (1967), ‘The Long-Run Analysis’ 26. Adam Przeworski and Fernando Limongi (1993), ‘Political Regimes and Economic Growth’ 27. Albert O. Hirschman (1994), ‘The On-and-Off Connection Between Political and Economic Progress’ 28. Mancur Olson (1993), ‘Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development’ 29. Douglass C. North (1984), ‘Transaction Costs, Institutions, and Economic History’ 30. Paul A. David (1994), ‘Why Are Institutions the "Carriers of History"?: Path Dependence and the Evolution of Conventions, Organizations and Institutions’ PART VI TESTING FOR STRUCTURAL CHANGE 31. T.C. Koopmans and O. Reiersøl (1950), ‘The Identification of Structural Characteristics’ 32. R.L. Brown, J. Durbin and J.M. Evans (1975), ‘Techniques for Testing the Constancy of Regression Relationships over Time’ 33. Dale J. Poirier (1991), ‘The Econometrics of Structural Change: A Retrospective View’ 34. Jushan Bai and Pierre Perron (1998), ‘Estimating and Testing Linear Models with Multiple Structural Changes’ 35. David F. Hendry (2000), ‘On Detectable and Non-detectable Structural Change’ Name Index
£830.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Technological Change and Organization
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the effects of organizational contexts on the process of technological innovation. It analyses the internal organization of the firm as well as external influences, and examines how these factors affect a firm's innovative potential. The organization of the firm, it is argued, is intrinsic to the innovation process itself.The authors consider new concepts of the theory of the firm, look at evolutionary economics and concepts of innovation within this school of thought, and analyse national and sectoral systems of innovation. They discuss firm-specific knowledge and organization, and its effects on innovative opportunities. In addition, they pay special attention to a firm's ability to innovate in relation to incentives, and the sources of technology available to them. From this they conclude that organizational factors are primary features of the process of technical change.Included in the discussion are examinations of: networks of collaborating firms in R&D activity 'technology foresight' and the direction of future innovative activity in industrial sectors the relationship between business units and corporate parents government and regulatory agencies the role of capital, and short termism in financial markets the relationship between suppliers and customers Technological Change and Organization will be of welcomed by those interested in technological change and innovation, institutional and evolutionary economics, as well as to microeconomists interested in the theory of the firm and industrial organization.Trade Review'This book has very nicely highlighted how the internal organization of a firm and its external influence are intrinsic to the innovative potential of the firms. The book, because of certain new insights on this important issue of innovative capabilities would be very useful to policy makers, industry, and researchers in the area of innovation and technological change.' -- N. Mrinalini, Journal of Scientific and Industrial ResearchTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Innovation, Capabilities and Knowledge 3. Research Procedures Induced by Non-market Variables 4. International Technology Development Structures in Multinational Firms 5. Management of Technology in Multiproduct Firms 6. Reorganizing for Knowledge Integration and Constituency 7. Rapid Technological Change and Shortening Business Horizons 8. ‘Upgrading’ National Systems of Innovation 9. Foresight for Research and Technology Policies 10. Cultural and Institutional Determinants of National Technological Advantage 11. Innovation, Diffusion and Political Control of Co-generation Technology in the UK Since privatization
£100.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Innovation, Organization and Economic Dynamics:
Book SynopsisGiovanni Dosi is recognized as one of the world's leading scholars in industrial economics and corporate change. This volume contains a selection of his most important work and provides an excellent overview of the contribution he has made to the economics of innovation and technical change.Key topics include: technological paradigms and innovation diffusion economic behaviour and learning organizational structures and behaviour in a changing environment< corporate finance and innovation industrial dynamics evolutionary theories in economics institutions, technical change and economic growth. The book will be welcomed by scholars and students of innovation, industrial organization, business and institutional and evolutionary economics.Trade Review'This essay collection, spanning almost 20 years from 1982 to 1999, is not only an impressive account of Dosi's academic achievements, but also "food for thought" for economists interested in a deeper understanding and possible modelling of growth processes in South Asia.'Table of ContentsContents: Innovation, Organization and Economic Dynamics: An Autobiographical Introduction Part I: Opportunities of Innovation, Search Procedures and Diffusion Part II: Economic Behaviours, Organizations and Innovation in Changing Environments Part III: Evolutionary Interpretations of Economic Change Part IV: Learning and Market Selection: Evolutionary Models of Economic Change Part V: Institutions and Economic Dynamics
£172.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd INNOVATION IN EAST ASIA: The Challenge to Japan
Book SynopsisInnovation in East Asia is the first book to show how 'latecomer' firms from Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore have caught up technologically with Japan and learned to innovate. Mike Hobday examines the technology acquisition strategies of these firms, their strengths and weaknesses, and the origin and extent of latecomer innovation in the region.A series of detailed case studies is used to show how individual companies developed and how large groups of firms formed industrial clusters from behind the technology frontier. Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore have emerged as dynamic and distinct forces for growth and innovation. Increasingly the competitive challenge to Japan comes from these countries rather than from Europe and America. The book extends conventional innovation theory to develop an analytical framework for understanding the strengths, weaknesses and future prospects of latecomer firms. The book will be welcomed by academics, policymakers, students, government bodies and companies concerned with the rise of East Asia. It will be of particular interest to countries facing the competitive challenge of East Asia (the US and Europe) as well as Japan and the individual countries of the Asian region.Trade Review'Hobday provides an extraordinary interesting blow-by-blow account of how East Asian firms developed their present formidable competencies in electronics technology. . . . he also provides a fascinatingly detailed account of a large number of East Asian companies that currently are quite sophisticated in electronics.'Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Foreword by Chris Freeman Part I: Introduction: East Asia’s Technological Development Part II: East Asian Regional Dynamics Part III: The Latecomer Firm Part IV: The Republic of Korea: Catching up in Large Corporations Part V: Taiwan: Small Firms Innovation Clusters Part VI: Singapore: A Test Case of Leapfrogging Part VII: Hong Kong: Laissez-faire Techological Development Part VIII: Conclusions and Implications Bibliography Index
£33.20
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics
Book SynopsisA unique and comprehensive source of information, the International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics is the only international publication providing economists, planners, policy makers and business people with worldwide statistics on current performance and trends in the manufacturing sector.This is the third issue of the annual publication which succeeds the UNIDO's Handbook of Industrial Statistics and, at the same time, replaces the United Nation's Industrial Statistics Yearbook, volume I (General Industrial Statistics). Covering more than 120 countries/areas, the 1997 edition of the Yearbook contains data which is internationally comparable and detailed in industrial classification. Information has been collected directly from national statistical sources and supplemented with estimates by UNIDO.The Yearbook is designed to facilitate international comparisons relating to manufacturing activity and industrial performance. It provides data which can be used to analyse patterns of growth, structural change and industrial performance in individual industries. Data on employment trends, wages and other key indicators are also presented. Finally, the detailed information presented here enables the user to study different aspects of individual manufacturing industries.Trade Review'This annual publication seems to be the only international publication providing worldwide statistics on current performance and trends in the manufacturing sector. In terms of comprehensiveness, accuracy, and cross-country comparisons this volume is unparalleled . . . If you are looking for an authoritative source for comparative international statistics on industrial information, this is it.'Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Appendices Part I: Summary Tables Section 1.1 The Manufacturing Sector Section 1.2 The Manufacturing Branches Part II: Country Tables
£237.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Emergence and Evolution of Markets
Book SynopsisThe Emergence and Evolution of Markets examines the development of markets based on empirical examples from Western economies and from the post-socialist economies of Eastern Europe. It provides an historical dimension to the present problems of transition.The Emergence and Evolution of Markets clearly demonstrates that liberalization, privatization and changes to formal institutions are not in themselves sufficient to create a successful market economy. In the first part, there is an analysis of general aspects of economic theory with regard to market evolution and an historical assessment of the development of markets. The authors then examine the experiences of some specific markets, including the telecommunications and stock markets to draw general conclusions. In part three they focus on the emerging market systems in post-socialist countries, particularly Kyrgyzstan and Bulgaria. In addition, the discussion offers an empirical analysis of the evolution of capital, currency and agricultural markets, emphasizing the importance of transaction costs and institutions in the development of these markets. This major book will prove invaluable to academics and policymakers interested in the areas of transition economics, political economy, and policy analysis.Trade Review'This book could profitably be read by more than economists or specialists on Hungary. It does not require a sophisticated technical knowledge, and it goes well beyond a country study. What Kornai makes clear is that post communist transition is a process of worldwide significance to be explored with the whole array of tools provided by the social sciences.' -- Marie Lavigne, Slavic Review'. . . the book can be recommended as a valuable attempt at rethinking transition economics. One may hope that further attempts in this direction will contribute to enriching economics itself.'– Philippe Fontaine, The Economic JournalTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Part I: General Aspects Part II: Evolution of Markets: Experiences and Prospects from the West Part III: From Hierarchies to Markets: The Post-Socialist Experience Index
£102.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd trade and innovation: Theory and Evidence
Book SynopsisDifferences in technology between countries and the effect of this on trade performance have important consequences for the growth and development of countries. This book analyses the role of innovation in influencing the trade performance of developed countries. It presents an up-to-date systematic empirical evaluation of the role of technology in a group of key industrialized economies and integrates differences in technology into the debate about European Union and country convergence in general.The book will be welcomed by scholars and students of industrial economics, the economics of technology change and international trade.Trade Review'It is a well-written contribution on an important and interesting issue that may be of interest to both scholars and a wider audience.'Table of ContentsPart one Technology and trade theory: the treatment of technology; measuring the impact of technology. Part two Technology and inter-country trade: trade and innovation in the European Union; the impact of innovation on bilateral OECD trade. Part three Technology and the international economic performance of firms: innovation and exports at the firm level.
£97.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd technological revolutions in europe: Historical
Book SynopsisThis major new book contains contributions by many of the leading historians of technology. The contributors argue that culture, institutions and learning either made the way for, or blocked technological and industrial transformation. Their essays include broad comparative frameworks between Europe and Asia, and Europe and America, and examine the specific experiences of Britain, France, Holland, Germany and Scandinavia. Themes addressed include cultures of invention and the learning economy, technological inertia and path dependence, patents and product innovation, and technology, institutions and boundaries.Trade Review'As with any edited collection, the question should be asked: is the sum greater than the separate parts? In this case, the answer is in the affirmative. Many of the chapters are usefully cross-referenced and there is substantial evidence of editorial guidance. There can be little doubt that the empirical material will grace many an undergraduate essay, whilst the more reflective chapters provide essential points of reference for more mature scholars.'Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Technology, Cultures and Political Economy Part II: Cultures of Invention Part III: Inventors and Products Part IV: Learning, Skills and Boundaries Part V: Law and Institutions Index
£121.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Eastern Europe and the World Economy: Challenges
Book SynopsisTwo of the most important economic processes at work in recent years are the globalization of the world economy and the economic transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. This book analyses the transition process from a comparative perspective and places these changes within the wider framework of globalization.It assesses the problems of transition faced by business and governments to better understand the direction in which future economic and political policy should move for improved growth. It evaluates the current stage of economic development in the transitional countries and discusses trends in the world economy since the early 1990s. Specifically, it addresses trends in global and regional development strategies, government policies, privatization, foreign investment and external balances. The authors then analyse the future prospects for economic and political relations between Eastern Europe and the European Union, the World Trade Organization and the international community as a whole. Some of the specific issues they focus on include US industrial competitiveness policy, economic nationalism, privatization in Eastern Europe, venture capital activities, the required economic conditions for Eastern European countries to join the European Union, regionalism and industrial policy for Eastern Europe, and lessons to be learned from the Japanese and Hong Kong transformations, as well as a comparative assessment of some political aspects of the economic strategies in Japan and Germany.Eastern Europe and the World Economy will be welcomed by scholars and students interested in the economics of transition, comparative economic systems, international economics and development economics, as well as by policymakers and government officials.Trade Review'The book makes a valuable contribution to the rather controversial issues of the mutual interweaving of transition and globalization. Although it covers a wide variety of topics it creates an integrated and coherent product . . . One can say that the book will not only assist scholars but also managers in their dealings with the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in their transformation into modern market economies integrated into the processes of globalization.' -- Matija Rojec, Journal of International Relations and Development '. . . the chapters are . . . interesting and well argued . . . some of the authors' suggestions are as relevant today as they were at the time of writing.'– Andras Koves, Slavic ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: The Developed Economies Part II: The East European Economies Part III: International Organizations and the Transitional Economies in Eastern Europe Part IV: Selected Aspects and Perspectives Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Technology and Industrial Progress: The
Book SynopsisWhat has dictated the rate and direction of technological change? How central has it been to industrial progress? How has it related to other determinants of economic growth and development?In Technology and Industrial Progress, Nick von Tunzelmann examines theoretical views on the nature and contribution of technology, and the empirical evidence from the major industrializing countries from the eighteenth century to the present day. The experiences of countries regarded in their time as the leaders of industrialization - Britain in the eighteenth century, the United States in the nineteenth century and Japan in the twentieth century - are critically compared by the author. The following chapters study the transfer of each of these patterns of technology and growth to later industrializers, such as continental Europe, the Soviet Union, and today's newly industrializing countries. Adopting approaches drawn from evolutionary economics, Dr von Tunzelmann links micro-level phenomena relating to individual firms and technologies to macro-level outcomes as reflected in economic growth and development.This long-awaited book is exceptional both in the range of countries surveyed and the breadth of topics analysed, encompassing changes in production processes, products and marketing, management and finance.Trade Review'Nick von Tunzelmann has written an ambitious and challenging book, spanning economics, economic history, the history of ideas and technology per se. It should be recommended reading for economic historians, economists and anyone interested in the dynamics of technical change.' -- Peter Holmes, University of Sussex, UK'The book's organization allows it to be read as a whole or treated as a resource to guide students studying a particular topic. Undergraduate, graduate, professional .' -- M. Perelman, Choice'Von Tunzelmann has written a great book, impressive in both scope and depth. Often the reader is overwhelmed by the wealth of detail, at times by the profoundness of insight.' -- Paul Diederen, The Economic Journal'This is an impressive book, and an unusual one too. This is not only because of its length (more than five hundred pages), nor the large number of books and articles cited in the text (between seven and eight hundred). What really makes this book exceptional is its broad coverage and the way it is written.' -- J. Fagerberg, Journal of Evolutionary Economics'Technology and Industrial Progress deserves to be widely read and should be of great interest to many business historians.' -- N.F.R. Crafts, Business History'These essays are a useful guide to the strengths and limitations of radical debate in the 1990s.' -- Joseph Melling, Business History'This book represents economic history at its best-theoretically informed but sceptical, unburdened by jargon or abstruse mathematics, alive to historical contingency, and comparative on a grand scale. Lucidly written, well referenced, and cogently organized into subsectioned chapters, its author's premises made explicit and terms clearly defined, it merits inclusion as a standard text on all advanced courses in comparative industrialization.' -- Christine MacLeod, Journal of Economic History'The book makes good use of the most recent and classical theories of innovation to provide a framework to understand the industrial and technological change which has been going on since the eighteenth century.' -- Cristiano Antonelli, The Manchester SchoolTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Classical Theories of Economic Growth and Structure 3. Modern Analyses of Growth and Structural Change 4. Britain in the Industrial Revolution 5. European Industrialization, Late 18th to Early 20th Centuries 6. Industrialization in the USA, 1870–1930 7. Industrialization in the West, 1930s to the 1970s 8. Western Industrialization, 1970s to the 1990s 9. Industrialization in the USSR 10. Industrialization in Japan 11. The Newly Industrializing Countries 12. Conclusions
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Knowledge and Investment: The Sources of
Book SynopsisThis innovative book analyses the role and importance of investment in knowledge and fixed capital as two distinct sources of technological change. It provides a balance to most of the recent literature on technological change, which focuses almost exclusively on R&D and intangible investment in innovation and technological assets. The author shows how innovative investment in fixed capital still represents a central part of innovation in firms.The book begins by reviewing the major economic approaches to technology and innovation. It discusses the progressive shift from capital (embodied) investment to disembodied investment including R&D and design. Using one of the most extensive data sources, Rinaldo Evangelista empirically tests whether disembodied technological activities are more important than traditional investment in productive capital. Perhaps surprisingly, the evidence suggests that fixed productive capital emerges as the most relevant and widespread source of investment in innovation across firms and industrial sectors. The author concludes that even in high-tech industries embodied and disembodied technological activities are complementary rather than substitutive.This book will be welcomed by those interested in technological and innovation studies, industrial organization and business strategy.Trade Review'This book explores the circular relations between innovation and investments; in doing so it provides a new original bridge between the classical and post Keynesian traditions of analysis of investment and the neo-Schumpeterian approach to the knowledge based economy.'Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Investment in Knowledge and Machinery: Theory and Perspectives 1. Disembodied and Embodied Technological Change 2. Disembodied and Embodied Perspectives on Technological Change in the Economic Literature 3. Disembodied and Embodied Technological Change in the Innovation Literature 4. Embodied and Disembodied Perspectives on the Relationship Between Technological Change, Firm Size and Market Structure 5. Towards an Integrated Perspective on Technological Change and Industrial Structure Part II: Evidence from the Italian Industry 6. An Overview of Innovation Activities in Manufacturing and Services 7. Embodied and Disembodied Innovation Strategies and the Production Structure of Firms 8. Innovation Strategies and the Productive Structure of Firms 9. Innovative Patterns and Technological Regimes of Production 10. Embodied and Disembodied Patterns of Technological Change and Production Structure 11. Conclusions and Policy Implications Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Alternative Theories of the Firm
Book SynopsisAlternative Theories of the Firm provides a range of fundamental readings embracing the economics of firm behaviour from a non-neoclassical perspective. The collection covers several basic topics including: the importance of transaction costs and agency theory for the analysis of firm behaviour; capabilities and resource-based theories of the firm; the economics of firm strategy; behavioural theories; Austrian theories; evolutionary theories; and the historical development of firms. The readings include selections from traditional masters as well as writings by more recent authors. This collection will be of great value both to scholars who want a summary of developments in the field and to students of industrial economics and corporate strategy.Trade Review'This is an impressive collection of 80 reprints of journal articles and book selections criticizing the neoclassical theory of the firm. . . These three volumes not only provide stimulating reading for scholars working on the modern theory of the firm, but will be a great help for academic teachers preparing their courses.'Table of ContentsContents Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction Richard N. Langlois, Tony Fu-Lai Yu and Paul L. Robertson PART I DEVELOPMENT IN THE THEORY OF THE FIRM: A CRITICAL REVIEW 1. Richard N. Langlois and Nicolai J. Foss (1999), ‘Capabilities and Governance: The Rebirth of Production in the Theory of Economic Organization’ PART II FOUNTAINHEADS OF THE MODERN THEORIES OF THE FIRM 2. Alfred Marshall (1890/1961), ‘Industrial Organization, Continued. Division of Labour. The Influence of Machinery’ and ‘Industrial Organization, Continued. The Concentration of Specialized Industries in Particular Localities’ 3. Frank H. Knight (1921), ‘Enterprise and Profit’ 4. R.H. Coase (1937), ‘The Nature of the Firm’ 5. James G. March and Herbert A. Simon (1958), ‘Cognitive Limits on Rationality’ 6. Edith Penrose (1995), ‘Foreword to the Third Edition’ 7. G.B. Richardson (1959), ‘Equilibrium, Expectations and Information’ PART III TRANSACTION COSTS, PROPERTY RIGHTS AND ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION 8. H.B. Malmgren (1961), ‘Information, Expectations and the Theory of the Firm’ 9. Armen A. Alchian and Harold Demsetz (1972), ‘Production, Information Costs, and Economic Organization’ 10. Benjamin Klein, Robert G. Crawford and Armen A. Alchian (1978), ‘Vertical Integration, Appropriable Rents, and the Competitive Contracting Process’ 11. Steven N.S. Cheung (1983), ‘The Contractual Nature of the Firm’ 12. Yoram Barzel (1987), ‘The Entrepreneur’s Reward for Self-policing’ 13. Harold Demsetz (1988), ‘The Theory of the Firm Revisited’ PART IV AGENCY THEORIES, INCOMPLETE CONTRACTS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 14. Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling (1976), ‘Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure’ 15. Oliver E. Williamson (1979), ‘Transaction-Cost Economics: The Governance of Contractual Relations’ 16. Eugene F. Fama (1980), ‘Agency Problems and the Theory of the Firm’ 17. Bengt Holmstrom (1982), ‘Moral Hazard in Teams’ 18. Eugene F. Fama and Michael C. Jensen (1983), ‘Separation of Ownership and Control’ 19. Oliver E. Williamson (1984), ‘The Economics of Governance: Framework and Implications’ 20. Sanford J. Grossman and Oliver D. Hart (1986), ‘The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration’ 21. Oliver Hart (1989), ‘An Economist’s Perspective on the Theory of the Firm’ 22. Bengt Holmstrom and Paul Milgrom (1991), ‘Multitask Principal-Agent Analyses: Incentive Contracts, Asset Ownership, and Job Design’ 23. John Moore (1992), ‘The Firm as a Collection of Assets’ 24. Roy Radner (1992), ‘Hierarchy: The Economics of Managing’ 25. Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling (1992), ‘Specific and General Knowledge, and Organizational Structure’ Name Index Volume II Acknowledgements An introduction by the editors to all three volumes appears in Volume I PART I CAPABILITIES AND RESOURCE-BASED VIEWS 1. G.B. Richardson (1972), ‘The Organisation of Industry’ 2. Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter (1982), ‘Organizational Capabilities and Behavior’ 3. Birger Wernerfelt (1984), ‘A Resource-based View of the Firm’ 4. Wesley M. Cohen and Daniel A. Levinthal (1990), ‘Absorptive Capacity: A New Perspective on Learning and Innovation’ 5. Jay Barney (1991), ‘Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage’ 6. Kathleen R. Conner (1991), ‘A Historical Comparison of Resource-Based Theory and Five Schools of Thought Within Industrial Organization Economics: Do We Have a New Theory of the Firm?’ 7. Joseph T. Mahoney and J. Rajendran Pandian (1992), ‘The Resource-based View Within the Conversation of Strategic Management’ 8. L. Marengo (1992), ‘Coordination and Organizational Learning in the Firm’ 9. Margaret A. Peteraf (1993), ‘The Cornerstones of Competitive Advantage: A Resource-based View’ 10. Nicolai J. Foss (1996), ‘Capabilities and the Theory of the Firm’ 11. David J. Teece, Gary Pisano and Amy Shuen (1997), ‘Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management’ PART II STRATEGIC THEORIES OF THE FIRM 12. Kenneth R. Andrews (1971/1980), ‘The Concept of Corporate Strategy’ 13. Michael E. Porter (1981), ‘The Contributions of Industrial Organization To Strategic Management’ 14. Richard P. Rumelt (1984), ‘Towards a Strategic Theory of the Firm’ 15. Sidney G. Winter (1987), ‘Knowledge and Competence as Strategic Assets’ 16. C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel (1990), ‘The Core Competence of the Corporation’ 17. Richard R. Nelson (1991), ‘Why Do Firms Differ, and How Does It Matter?’ 18. Raphael Amit and Paul J.H. Schoemaker (1993), ‘Strategic Assets and Organizational Rent’ 19. David J. Teece, Richard Rumelt, Giovanni Dosi and Sidney Winter (1994), ‘Understanding Corporate Coherence: Theory and Evidence’ PART III THE TECHNOLOGICAL PARADIGM 20. David J. Teece (1980), ‘Economies of Scope and the Scope of the Enterprise’ 21. Giovanni Dosi (1982), ‘Technological Paradigms and Technological Trajectories’ 22. David J. Teece (1986), ‘Profiting from Technological Innovation: Implications for Integration, Collaboration, Licensing and Public Policy’ 23. Giovanni Dosi and Luigi Orsenigo (1988), ‘Coordination and Transformation: An Overview of Structures, Behaviours and Change in Evolutionary Environments’ 24. David J. Teece (1988), ‘Technological Change and the Nature of the Firm’ PART IV BEHAVIORAL THEORIES OF THE FIRM 25. Richard M. Cyert and James G. March (1959/1996), ‘A Behavioral Theory of Organizational Objectives’ 26. Herbert A. Simon (1962), ‘New Developments in the Theory of the Firm’ 27. Fritz Machlup (1967), ‘Theories of the Firm: Marginalist, Behavioral, Managerial’ 28. Harvey Leibenstein (1966), ‘Allocative Efficiency vs. "X-efficiency"’ 29. Herbert A. Simon (1979), ‘Rational Decision Making in Business Organizations’ 30. James G. March (1991), ‘Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning’ Name Index Volume III Acknowledgements An introduction by the editors to all three volumes appears in Volume I PART I AUSTRIAN INSIGHTS 1. Morris Silver (1984), ‘A Model of Vertical Integration and Disintegration with Supporting Evidence’ 2. Nicolai Juul Foss (1993), ‘The Theory of the Firm: The Austrians as Precursors and Critics of Contemporary Theory’ 3. Ulrich Witt (1998), ‘Imagination and Leadership: The Neglected Dimension of an Evolutionary Theory of the Firm’ 4. Tony Fu-Lai Yu (1999), ‘Toward a Praxeological Theory of the Firm’ PART II THE FIRM AND THE MARKET 5. Allyn A. Young (1928), ‘Increasing Returns and Economic Progress’ 6. George J. Stigler (1951), ‘The Division of Labor is Limited by the Extent of the Market’ 7. Edward Ames and Nathan Rosenberg (1965), ‘The Progressive Division and Specialization of Industries’ 8. Axel Leijonhufvud (1986), ‘Capitalism and the Factory System’ 9. Brian J. Loasby (1989), ‘Knowledge and Organization: Marshall’s Theory of Economic Progress and Coordination’ 10. Arthur L. Stinchcombe (1990), ‘Individuals’ Skills as Information Processing: Charles F. Sabel and the Division of Labor’ PART III HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE FIRM 11. Gardiner C. Means (1962), ‘Collective Capitalism and Economic Theory’ 12. Stephen A. Marglin (1974), ‘What Do Bosses Do? The Origins and Functions of Hierarchy in Capitalist Production’ 13. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1977), ‘Introduction: The Visible Hand’ 14. Charles Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin (1985), ‘Historical Alternatives to Mass Production: Politics, Markets and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Industrialization’ 15. David S. Landes (1986), ‘What Do Bosses Really Do?’ 16. Alfred D. Chandler (1992), ‘Organizational Capabilities and the Economic History of the Industrial Enterprise’ 17. Paul L. Robertson and Lee J. Alston (1992), ‘Technological Choice and the Organization of Work in Capitalist Firms’ 18. William Lazonick (1992), ‘Controlling the Market for Corporate Control: The Historical Significance of Managerial Capitalism’ 19. Michael C. Jensen (1993), ‘Modern Industrial Revolution, Exit, and the Failure of Internal Control Systems’ 20. S.R.H. Jones (1994), ‘The Origins of the Factory System in Great Britain: Technology, Transaction Costs or Exploitation?’ PART IV TOWARDS A SYNTHESIS: AN EVOLUTIONARY THEORY OF THE FIRM 21. Richard N. Langlois (1988), ‘Economic Change and the Boundaries of the Firm’ 22. Sidney G. Winter (1990), ‘Survival, Selection, and Inheritance in Evolutionary Theories of Organization’ 23. Richard N. Langlois and Paul L. Robertson (1993), ‘Business Organization as a Coordination Problem: Toward a Dynamic Theory of the Boundaries of the Firm’ 24. Giovanni Dosi and Luigi Marengo (1994), ‘Some Elements of an Evolutionary Theory of Organizational Competences’ 25. Nicolai Juul Foss, Christian Knudsen and Cynthia A. Montgomery (1995), ‘An Exploration of Common Ground: Integrating Evolutionary and Strategic Theories of the Firm’ Name Index
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