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  • Systemic Competitiveness

    New Governance Patterns for Industrial Development

    by Klaus Esser, Wolfgang Hillebrand, Dirk Messner, Jörg Meyer-Stamer ...
    The authors emphasize that an economy's competitiveness relies on purposive and intermeshed measures at the meta-, macro-, meso-, and micro- level and a multidimensional guidance concept consisting of competition, dialogue and shared decision-making which integrates the key groups of actors. ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • International Competitiveness in Latin America and East Asia

    Edited by Klaus Esser, Wolfgang Hillebrand, Dirk Messner, Jörg Meyer-Stamer ...
    First published in 1993. Latin America is undergoing a process of profound economic and social change. The industrial import substitution that continued for several decades was quantitatively successful in terms of industrialization but - like inward-oriented industrialization in the socialist countries - failed to raise the economies of the region to international productivity levels. The attempt ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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  • Innovation in Construction

    An International Review of Public Policies

    Edited by Andre Manseau, George Seaden ...
    Series series CIB
    How can innovation in the construction industry be strengthened? What instruments and approaches are being used by governments to promote it? What works and under what circumstances? These key questions have profound implications. This book presents a framework for the analysis of innovation models and systems in construction and an international comparison of these systems, with a focus on their ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Confronting Dystopia

    The New Technological Revolution and the Future of Work

    Edited by Eva Paus ...
    In Confronting Dystopia**, a distinguished group of scholars analyze the implications of the ongoing technological revolution for jobs, working conditions, and income**. Focusing on the economic and political implications of AI, digital connectivity, and robotics for both the Global North and the Global South, they move beyond diagnostics to seek solutions that offer better lives for all. Their ... Read more

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  • Looking behind the Label

    Global Industries and the Conscientious Consumer

    by Tim Bartley, Sebastian Koos, Hiram Samel, Gustavo Setrini, Nik Summers ...
    Series series Framing the Global
    What does it mean when consumers "shop with a conscience" and choose products labeled as fair or sustainable? Does this translate into meaningful changes in global production processes? To what extent are voluntary standards implemented and enforced, and can they really govern global industries? Looking behind the Label presents an informative introduction to global production and ethical ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Industrial Policy in Developing Countries

    Failing Markets, Weak States

    by Tilman Altenburg, Wilfried Lütkenhorst ...
    Industrial Policy in Developing Countries offers an in-depth assessment of both the potentials and perils of designing and implementing policy in countries at early stages of economic development. The range of insightful case studies illustrates the key dilemma: directing economic and social development through what are often incipient and weak institutions. This realistic, evidence-based ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Logic of International Restructuring

    The Management of Dependencies in Rival Industrial Complexes

    by Winfried Ruigrok, Rob van Tulder ...
    There is within the corporate world an evolving international restructuring race,between industrial complexes,that is set to intensify over the coming years.An industrial complex consists of suppliers,distributors,governments,financiers and trade unions.It is the reorganisation of the relationship between the core firm and the above components that is set to change before very long. In this book, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Making Mondragón

    The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex

    by William Foote Whyte, Kathleen King Whyte ...
    Series series Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Reports
    This well-researched study should be read by anyone with an interest in worker cooperatives, community economic development, and work redesign programs.― Contemporary SociologySince its founding in 1956 in Spain's Basque region, the Mondragón Corporation has been a touchstone for the international cooperative movement. Its nearly three hundred companies and organizations span areas from finance to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Dream Factories

    Why Universities Won't Solve the Youth Jobs Crisis

    by Bill Morrison, Ken S. Coates ...
    Two professors look at the mystique around universities and the consequences of “credentialism.”For decades, we have promoted the idea that a university degree is a passport to future career success. Ken Coates and Bill Morrison argue that the over-promotion of higher education and university degrees is actually undermining the lives of young people, saddling them with enormous debts, and costing ... Read more

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  • Business History

    Complexities and Comparisons

    by Franco Amatori, Andrea Colli ...
    This major new textbook on business history brings together the expertise of two internationally renowned authors to provide a thorough overview of the developments in business – from just before the industrial revolution right up to the present day.Business History is global in scope and looks at the major players – Europe, the US and Japan – as well as emerging economies, such as China and India ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

  • Innovation Policy: A Guide For Developing Countries

    by World Bank ...
    Innovation in all its forms, particularly technological innovation, has become a crucial driver of growth, enhancing competitiveness and increasing social well-being in all economies of the world. In a broad and diversified sense, innovation comprises not only the creation of new technology, but even more important, it includes the diffusion and use of products, processes, and practices that are ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Sustainability Standards and Global Governance

    Experiences of Emerging Economies

    Edited by Archna Negi, Jorge Antonio Pérez-Pineda, Johannes Blankenbach ...
    This open access book focuses on the issue of sustainability standards from the perspective of both global governance frameworks and emerging economies. It stems from the recognition that the accelerated pace of economic globalization has generated production and consumption patterns that are generating sustainability concerns. Sustainability standards (and regulations) are increasingly being used ... Read more

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