Industry And Firm Studies

Author : Victor J. Tremblay,Carol Horton Tremblay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317468011

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Industry and Firm Studies by Victor J. Tremblay,Carol Horton Tremblay Pdf

The fourth edition of this acclaimed text is a rich resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in industrial organization, applied game theory, and management strategy. It incorporates game theory into industry analysis by studying the behavior of successful and failing firms as well as the structure-conduct-performance of particular industries. Chapters address a wide variety of issues concerning industry structure, policy towards business, and the strategic innovations and blunders of individual firms. New coverage of professional sports, soft drinks, distilled spirits, and cigarettes complements revised and updated chapters on airline services, retail and commercial banking, health insurance, motion pictures, and brewing. The book includes firm case studies of General Motors, Microsoft, Schlitz, and TiVo.

Author : Victor J. Tremblay,Carol Horton Tremblay
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0765617242

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Industry and Firm Studies by Victor J. Tremblay,Carol Horton Tremblay Pdf

Acts as a resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in industrial organization, applied game theory, and management strategy. This book incorporates game theory into industry analysis by studying the behavior of successful and failing firms as well as the structure-conduct-performance of particular industries.

Author : Tremblay
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780765628282

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Industry and Firm Studies by Tremblay Pdf

The fourth edition of this acclaimed text is a rich resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in industrial organization, applied game theory, and management strategy. It incorporates game theory into industry analysis by studying the behavior of successful and failing firms as well as the structure-conduct-performance of particular industries. Chapters address a wide variety of issues concerning industry structure, policy towards business, and the strategic innovations and blunders of individual firms. New coverage of professional sports, soft drinks, distilled spirits, and cigarettes complements revised and updated chapters on airline services, retail and commercial banking, health insurance, motion pictures, and brewing. The book includes firm case studies of General Motors, Microsoft, Schlitz, and TiVo.

Author : Greg Felker,K. S. Jomo,Rajah Rasiah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134642014

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Industrial Technology Development in Malaysia by Greg Felker,K. S. Jomo,Rajah Rasiah Pdf

This book, and its companion, Technology, Competitiveness and the State, examine and evaluate Malaysian industrialization in terms of its experience of and prospects for industrial technology development. The focus is on the development of Malaysia's technological-industrial base from a sector and firm-specific perspective, including the role of foreign multinationals in this process. Industrial Technology Development in Malaysia, provides a valuable analysis of the technological development of a Newly Industrializing Country and reflects on whether existing development strategies can be maintained in the wake of the financial crises sweeping the East Asian economies.

Author : Ashish Arora,Andrea Fosfuri,Alfonso Gambardella
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262261364

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Markets for Technology by Ashish Arora,Andrea Fosfuri,Alfonso Gambardella Pdf

The past two decades have seen a gradual but noticeable change in the economic organization of innovative activity. Most firms used to integrate research and development with activities such as production, marketing, and distribution. Today firms are forming joint ventures, research and development alliances, licensing deals, and a variety of other outsourcing arrangements with universities, technology-based start-ups, and other established firms. In many industries, a division of innovative labor is emerging, with a substantial increase in the licensing of existing and prospective technologies. In short, technology and knowledge are becoming definable and tradable commodities. Although researchers have made significant advances in understanding the determinants and consequences of innovation, until recently they have paid little attention to how innovation functions as an economic process. This book examines the nature and workings of markets for intermediate technological inputs. It looks first at how industry structure, the nature of knowledge, and intellectual property rights facilitate the development of technology markets. It then examines the impacts of these markets on firm boundaries, the division of labor within the economy, industry structure, and economic growth. Finally, it examines the implications of this framework for public policy and corporate strategy. Combining theoretical perspectives from economics and management with empirical analysis, the book also draws on historical evidence and case studies to flesh out its research results.

Author : Ata Mazaheri,Dipak Mazumdar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134425709

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The African Manufacturing Firm by Ata Mazaheri,Dipak Mazumdar Pdf

The African manufacturing sector continues to face many problems as it struggles to progress from its presently underdeveloped state. If the countries that make up Africa are ever to raise the living standards of the vast majority of its population to a more acceptable level, then the economic growth that would result from an enlarged and improved manufacturing sector may hold an important key. The book provides a useful source of greater understanding of African manufacturing firms and the perplexing lack of widespread industrial growth during the post-colonial decades. The comprehensive coverage includes such themes as: *the size and distribution of firms in Africa *entrepreneurship, labour and the regulatory and business environments in Africa *the dynamic problem of growth and investment of firms Any reader wanting to understand the economic problems of Africa will need to read this book, and any student, academic or policy-maker working in the areas of development and industrial economics will find it to be a most useful guide.

Author : Chris Parsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business enterprises
ISBN : 0662480589

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Profile of Growth Firms, a Summary of Industry Canada Research by Chris Parsley Pdf

Author : Markus Schief
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783658043520

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Business Models in the Software Industry by Markus Schief Pdf

The relevance of software business models has tremendously increased in recent years. Markus Schief explores opportunities to improve the management of these models. Based on a conceptual framework of software business model characteristics, he conducts large empirical studies to examine the current state of business models in the software industry. These data then serve as a foundation for statistical analyses of business models’ impact on firm and M&A performance. Finally, the author develops a software business model management tool.

Author : George Farkas,Paula England
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781489935366

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Industries, Firms, and Jobs by George Farkas,Paula England Pdf

This book is a welcome reassertion of an old tradition of interdisdplinary research. That tradition has tended to atrophy in the last decade, largely because of an enormous expansion of the domain of neoc1assical economics. The expansion has fed on two sdentific developments: first, human capital theory; second, contract theory. Both developments have taken phenomena critical to the operation of the economy but previously understood in terms of categories separate and distinct from those with which economists generally work and sought to apply the same analytical techniques that we use to understand other economic problems. Human capital theory has applied conventional techniques to questions of labor supply. It began this endeavor with the supply of trained labor and then expanded to a general theory of labor supply by broadening the analysis to the allocation of time over the individual's life, the interdependendes of supply decisions within the family, and finally to the formation of the family itself. Similarly, contract theory has moved from a theory that explains the existence of c10sed economic institutions to a theory of their formation and internaioperation. The hallmark of both of these developments is the extension and applica tion of analytical techniques based on purposive maximization under con traints and the interaction of individual decision makers through a com petitive market or its analogue.

Author : John F. Wilson,Ian Jones,Steven Toms
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429680427

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A Search for Competitive Advantage by John F. Wilson,Ian Jones,Steven Toms Pdf

This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each author on how British industrial firms achieved a competitive advantage. With contributions on industrial cartelisation, organisational structure, the quality of British management, marketing and trade marks, labour relations, and technological innovation, this volume provides an array of fascinating insights into industrial history. Of interest to business and economic historians, this shortform book also provides analysis and illustrative case-studies that will be valuable reading across the social sciences.

Author : Case Western Reserve University. Research Program in Industrial Economics
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1989-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 079239044X

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Industrial Dynamics by Case Western Reserve University. Research Program in Industrial Economics Pdf

This book is based on the papers presented at a conference on "New Issues in Industrial Economics" held at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, June 8-10, 1987. The conference was organized by the Research Program in Industrial Economics (RPIE) in the Department of Economics at CWRU and was sponsored by The Cleveland Foundation, the Eaton Corporation, and The Standard Oil Company (later renamed BP America, Inc.). Their generous support is gratefully acknowledged. All of the papers have been revised, in several cases extensively, since their presentation at the conference. One of the primary reasons for organizing the conference was the concern that Industrial Economics has become too narrowly focused in most academic programs, largely being confined to Industrial Organization, i.e., issues of public policy towards enterprise with emphasis on antitrust and regulatory policy. This subject definition leaves out a number of interesting and important questions about how industries evolve over time, what the role of technological change (and organizational change) is in that process, and the associated structural changes within industries and firms. The object of this book is to derme these issues and suggest a framework within which they can be analyzed. I would like to thank all the conference participants for their contributions, particularly my colleagues at CWRU, Asim Erdilek and William S. Peirce, without whose encouragement and support the conference would not have taken place.

Author : Mateusz Machaj
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000412840

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A Market Process Theory of the Firm by Mateusz Machaj Pdf

Neoclassical economics has been criticized from various angles by orthodox schools. The same can be said about its particular branch: the theory of the firm. This book demonstrates how a successful theory of the firm can be presented without flawed notions of a neoclassical framework and used to comprehend actual business history. The author argues that we should start from the assumption that businesses are inevitably imponderable, as that is their nature, in the process of economic evolution. The book offers an in-depth exploration of neoclassical limitations by examining each of the small details associated with the famous MR = MC rule. It follows a step-by-step approach, which starts off with neoclassical assumptions and then moves into more empirically sound theory, based on modeling logic and rooted in real world examples. The author presents a novel discussion on the size of the firm, both in terms of classifying a firm’s expansion and about the factors that limit the size of the firm and argues how formal pricing theory can be built using more indeterminate assumptions about firms. Further, there is a discussion on how firms are rooted in amorphous industries, which helps to explain economic progress better by emphasizing the importance of economic experiments, mistakes and bankruptcies. This is a valuable reference for scholars and researchers who are interested in a range of topics from microeconomics, through pricing theory to industrial organization, history of economic thought and managerial economics.

Author : Canada. Statistics Canada. Analytical Studies Branch,John Russel Baldwin,Statistics Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Competition
ISBN : OCLC:30784189

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The Dynamics of Firm Turnover and the Competitive Process by Canada. Statistics Canada. Analytical Studies Branch,John Russel Baldwin,Statistics Canada Pdf

The dynamics of change within industries has rarely been studied by industrial economists because of the lack of panel data. A series of studies have recently been completed using a specially constructed panel of Canadian Census of Manufactures data. This paper summarizes the results. It looks at the importance of entry and exit, of acquisitions and of growth and decline in continuing firms. It describes the contribution that firm turnover makes to productivity growth, to efficiency, and to equilibration of differences in industry profitability.

Author : Enrico Santarelli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780387323145

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Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Innovation by Enrico Santarelli Pdf

Entrepreneurship, Growth and Innovation provides comprehensive insight into the economics of entrepreneurship, claiming that this recently established discipline should establish a framework of analysis that integrates the understanding of the determinants and the effects of both entrepreneurship and innovation without neglecting the functioning of the inducement mechanisms. For this purpose, the book combines theoretical prescriptions and international empirical evidence. Contributions by some of the best known scholars in the field of the economics of entrepreneurship and innovation investigate whether the interrelationships between the forces that affect firm and industry dynamics and ultimately determine economic growth are subject to change across countries and over time. The analysis of different national cases puts forward that the relationship between entrepreneurship and growth via innovation is shaped by the context of country-specific institutions and industries, thereby providing hints for industrial and innovation policy.

Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy,Committee on the Competitiveness and Workforce Needs of U.S. Industry
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780309134286

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Innovation in Global Industries by National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy,Committee on the Competitiveness and Workforce Needs of U.S. Industry Pdf

The debate over offshoring of production, transfer of technological capabilities, and potential loss of U.S. competitiveness is a long-running one. Prevailing thinking is that "the world is flat"â€"that is, innovative capacity is spreading uniformly; as new centers of manufacturing emerge, research and development and new product development follow. Innovation in Global Industries challenges this thinking. The book, a collection of individually authored studies, examines in detail structural changes in the innovation process in 10 service as well as manufacturing industries: personal computers; semiconductors; flat-panel displays; software; lighting; biotechnology; pharmaceuticals; financial services; logistics; and venture capital. There is no doubt that overall there has been an acceleration in global sourcing of innovation and an emergence of new locations of research capacity and advanced technical skills, but the patterns are highly variable. Many industries and some firms in nearly all industries retain leading-edge capacity in the United States. However, the book concludes that is no reason for complacency about the future outlook. Innovation deserves more emphasis in firm performance measures and more sustained support in public policy. Innovation in Global Industries will be of special interest to business people and government policy makers as well as professors, students, and other researchers of economics, management, international affairs, and political science.