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Free Download Innovation at the Peripheries: Firm Strategy for Enabling Regional Advantages by Alba Marino
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 194 Pages | ISBN : 3031711726 | 45 MB

Free Download Roger E. Backhouse, "From Classical Economics to the Theory of the Firm: Essays in Honour of D.P. O’Brien"
English | ISBN: 1840641460 | | 320 pages | PDF | 16 MB
Denis O’Brien has made an outstanding contribution to economics, and the history of economic thought in particular. This selection of original essays, by a distinguished group of contributors, pays tribute to his work in the areas of the history of economic analysis and methodology.

Free Download Resource-Based and Evolutionary Theories of the Firm: Towards a Synthesis By Nicolai Juul Foss, Christian Knudsen (auth.), Cynthia A. Montgomery (eds.)
1995 | 273 Pages | ISBN: 1461359236 | PDF | 7 MB
Resource-Based and Evolutionary Theories of the Firm: Towards a Synthesis explores the intersection of evolutionary theories of the firm with an emergent body of research in the field of strategic management that has been broadly referred to as the `resource-based view of the firm’. The volume approaches strategic questions from several vantage points, thereby fostering a useful cross-fertilization of ideas. The views presented spring from a variety of sources, namely the principles of strategic management, organisation economics, and population ecology.

Free Download The Dynamic American Firm By Andrew Wilson (auth.), Robert A. Batterson, Dr. Kenneth W. Chilton, Dr. Murray L. Weidenbaum (eds.)
1996 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 1461285631 | PDF | 10 MB
Business is becoming more global, more competitive, and more knowledge-intensive. Consequently, business executives are being required to reexamine and redefine fundamental relationships – both intra- and inter-company. The Dynamic American Firm explores the pivotal factors motivating the organizational changes that are sweeping American business, with a particular emphasis on the global marketplace. It provides a critical analysis of the forces that are shaping strategies and structures of American business, emphasizing that the process of adaption is more important than particular strategies and structures that develop along the way. The authors begin by illustrating the external factors that shape the development of the firm, including a combination of technological advances and increasingly global markets, and proceed to discuss corporate efforts to adapt to this external environment by means of changing relationships with other firms. They pay particular attention to the alliances that help American firms establish a presence in overseas markets, including the roles of mergers, acquisitions, strategic alliances, and joint ventures. The book concludes with a discussion of the internal changes taking place in American firms, including shifts in organizational strategy and structure, the elimination of middle management, and the development of work teams.

Free Download Firm Objectives, Controls and Organization: The Use of Information and the Transfer of Knowledge within the Firm By Gunnar Eliasson (auth.)
1996 | 278 Pages | ISBN: 9401072183 | PDF | 18 MB
The actual organization and use of information systems in American, European and Japanese firms are investigated and compared with theoretical conclusions. Finally, following the experimental evolution of the information products over the past twenty years, the results presented indicate that information and communication firms are now starting to offer the kind of business information systems predicted by the analysis. The transformation of business information systems technology can be followed in the Chronicle, which is provided on diskette and which covers the development of modern IT and telecommunications industries. The data are arranged to allow researchers to reconfigure the data according to their own needs.

Free Download Towards a Relational Theory of the Firm: Relational Governance, Cost and Stakeholder Business Models
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031716078 | 144 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 6 MB
This book lays the groundwork for a relational theory of the firm as a network of stakeholder resources and interests. Drawing on the author’s earlier publications on relational economics as the political economy of a global cooperative economy or stakeholder capitalism, it explores the governance and managerial implications of a relational economy for firms, while also critically revisiting the traditional and resource-based view of the firm. In turn, it explains concepts such as relational governance, relational costs, relational spaces, rent from cooperation, and shared value creation, as well as a dynamic and process-oriented relational business model. The book discusses the epistemological and methodological prerequisites of a relational theory of the firm and addresses their theoretical taxonomy. A relational theory of the firm is a work in progress; the book represents an invitation to join this theoretical and empirical undertaking.

Free Download Microsimulation Modelling of the Corporate Firm: Exploring Micro-Macro Economic Relations By Dr. Frank W. van Tongeren (auth.)
1995 | 278 Pages | ISBN: 3540594434 | PDF | 7 MB
My interest in microsimulation started to develop when I was exposed to the works of Guy Orcutt and his associates on microsimulation of households in the USA, and those of Gunnar Eliasson and his associates on simulatio~ of Swedish firms. Their approaches promised the exciting possibility to represent an by simulating the behaviour of individual microeconomic entire economic system units on a computer. The construction of a large scale microsimulation model seemed to be a worthwhile adventure which could yield much more detailed results than existing models. It was also evident that microsimulation of firms is a relatively underdeveloped area, in spite of the large number of operational microsimulation models of households in the USA and Europe. Developing the computer implementation has been an integral part of the research. Translating initially vague ideas into mathematical formulae and subsequently into a structured computer language provides a testing ground for 10Bical consistency of ideas. When writing this book I have purposefully abstained from describing the computer program and dedicated solution algorithms. The reason is that the book is primarily directed towards readers interested in economics and therefore uses the language of economics and not that of computer science. The simulation model has been programmed for the personal computer in Turbo Pascal. Sophisticated memory management techniques have lifted constraints on the number of firms which can be simulated on the PC.

Free Download The China Firm: American Elites and the Making of British Colonial Society (A Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American-East Asian Relations) by Thomas Larkin
English | March 19, 2024 | ISBN: 0231210671 | 336 pages | PDF | 83 Mb
What roles did Americans play in the expanding global empires of the nineteenth century? Thomas M. Larkin examines the Hong Kong-based Augustine Heard & Company, the most prominent American trading firm in treaty-port China, to explore the ways American elites at once made and were made by British colonial society. Following the Heard brothers throughout their firm’s rise and decline, The China Firm reveals how nineteenth-century China’s American elite adapted to colonial culture, helped entrench social and racial hierarchies, and exploited the British imperial project for their own profit as they became increasingly invested in its political affairs and commercial networks.

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English | July 12, 2024 | ISBN: 163299836X | 220 pages | EPUB | 1.41 Mb
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Free Download Thomas Larkin, "The China Firm: American Elites and the Making of British Colonial Society "
English | ISBN: 0231210671 | 2024 | 336 pages | PDF | 35 MB
What roles did Americans play in the expanding global empires of the nineteenth century? Thomas M. Larkin examines the Hong Kong-based Augustine Heard & Company, the most prominent American trading firm in treaty-port China, to explore the ways American elites at once made and were made by British colonial society. Following the Heard brothers throughout their firm’s rise and decline, The China Firm reveals how nineteenth-century China’s American elite adapted to colonial culture, helped entrench social and racial hierarchies, and exploited the British imperial project for their own profit as they became increasingly invested in its political affairs and commercial networks.