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Enterprise Unionism In Japan

Enterprise Unionism In Japan

During the 1980s many Japanese began to feel the pressures of ‘internationalizing. ’ At the same time Japanese-style industrial relations came to receive wide international attention. For most people ‘Japanese-style industrial relations’ came to mean the ‘three sacred treasures’: lifetime employment seniority wages and enterprise unionism. During the 1980s many Japanese began to feel the pressures of ‘internationalizing. ’ At the same time Japanese-style industrial relations came to receive wide international attention. For most people ‘Japanese-style industrial relations’ came to mean the ‘three sacred treasures’: lifetime employment seniority wages and enterprise unionism. | Enterprise Unionism In Japan

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Agribusiness and Rural Enterprise

Agribusiness and Rural Enterprise

Originally published in 1987 and now reissued with a new Preface by the author this book is written primarily for planners public administrators and project managers in countries or international agencies considering a development strategy in which agribusiness and rural enterprise projects are viewed as a desirable policy instrument for generating employment and income. It makes available the background and methodology of project analysis so that agribusiness and rural enterprise project can be designed implemented and reviewed effectively in a wide range of circumstances. It outlines how to establish objectively the potential and limitations of agribusiness and rural enterprise projects; provides guidelines for deciding whether a project can be effective; considers the policy issues relating to such projects and suggests techniques for judging project performance.

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Studies in Public Enterprise From Evaluation to Privatisation

Studies in Public Enterprise From Evaluation to Privatisation

First Published in 1987. This book contains studies on some important aspects of public enterprise based on the experience of a wide spectrum of developed and developing countries. Public Enterprise and Evaluation seeks to introduce some fundamental ideas on the concept of evaluation at four levels deals with evaluation as a system and succinctly reviews the experience of the United Kingdom Argentina Malaysia Pakistan Nepal and India. Capital Structures of Public Enterprises brings out the economic issues that are implicit in the arrangements of capitalisation in vogue in the public enterprise sector. Public Enterprise and the Public Exchequer is an in-depth analytical study of certain aspects of the budget link of public enterprises and shows how this has not yet been adequately realised. And Privatisation in the African Context deals with the concept of privatisation now coming into prominence and presents a nondoctrinaire review of the problems it raises. | Studies in Public Enterprise From Evaluation to Privatisation

GBP 175.00
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Public Enterprise and Economic Development

Public Enterprise and Economic Development

Originally published in 1959 the subject of this book is an aspect of economic development which despite its importance had rarely attracted more than incidental attention at the time. The author’s interest in public enterprise in underdeveloped countries was stimulated by a year’s residence in Turkey. He felt the time had come for a general comparative study. Defining comparative as (1) between developed and underdeveloped countries and (2) between different underdeveloped countries at dissimilar stages of development or with dissimilar development perspectives. The purpose of the first is to discover what the developed can offer the underdeveloped by way of adaptable experience and relevant ideas; that of the second to examine the use of public enterprise in the many different social economic and political contexts to be found in the less advanced parts of the world. | Public Enterprise and Economic Development

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Social Enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe Theory Models and Practice

Social Enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe Theory Models and Practice

In the last two decades the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications. The main objective of the ICSEM Project (on which this book is based) was to show that the social enterprise field would benefit much more from linking conceptualisation efforts to the huge diversity of social enterprises than from an additional and ambitious attempt at providing an encompassing definition. Starting from a hypothesis that could be termed the impossibility of a unified definition the ICSEM research strategy relied on bottom-up approaches to capture the social enterprise phenomenon in its local and national contexts. This strategy made it possible to take into account and give legitimacy to locally embedded approaches while simultaneously allowing for the identification of major social enterprise models to delineate the field on common grounds at the international level. Social Enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe – the last volume in a series of four ICSEM-based books on social enterprise worldwide — will serve as a key reference and resource for teachers researchers students experts policy makers journalists and others who want to acquire a broad understanding of the social enterprise and social entrepreneurship phenomena as they emerge and develop in this region. | Social Enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe Theory Models and Practice

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Social Enterprise Cases and Analysis for Understanding Social Business

Social Enterprise Cases and Analysis for Understanding Social Business

This book introduces students and others to the discipline of social entrepreneurship which encourages the creation of enterprises that are socially inclusive yet economically and ecologically sustainable. In each chapter there is a mix of case studies about internationally well-known enterprises and other more local enterprises which are totally new. The book leads its readers to understand and appreciate entrepreneurial issues and to engage themselves in community-based activities. Social Enterprise helps readers to: analyze and articulate the blend of social environmental and economic values which is present in all kinds of enterprise understand the issues involved in translating good intentions with multiple goals into focused sustainable and practical actions propose alternative social enterprise management strategies based on their own analysis of case studies of entrepreneurial endeavors that are perceived to be ‘social’ The authors take a pragmatic yet critical approach and this book should be core or recommended reading for Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise modules at advanced undergraduate postgraduate and MBA levels. | Social Enterprise Cases and Analysis for Understanding Social Business

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Corruption in Commercial Enterprise Law Theory and Practice

Corruption in Commercial Enterprise Law Theory and Practice

This edited collection analyses from multiple disciplinary perspectives the issue of corruption in commercial enterprise across different sectors and jurisdictions. Corruption is commonly recognised as a major ‘social bad’ and is seriously harmful to society in terms of the functioning and legitimacy of political-economic systems and the day-to-day lives of individuals. There is nothing novel about bribes in brown envelopes and dubious backroom deals ostensibly to grease the wheels of business. Corrupt practices like these go to the very heart of illicit transacting in both legal markets – such as kickbacks to facilitate contracts in international commerce – and illegal markets – such as payoffs to public officials to turn a blind eye to cross-border smuggling. Aside from the apparent pervasiveness and longevity of corruption in commercial enterprise there is now renewed policy and operational attention on the phenomenon prompting and meriting deeper analysis. Corruption in commercial enterprise encompassing behaviours often associated with corporate and white-collar crime and corruption in criminal commercial enterprise where we see corruption central to organised crime activities are major public policy issues. This collection gives us insight into their nature organisation and governance and how to respond most appropriately and effectively. | Corruption in Commercial Enterprise Law Theory and Practice

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The Rural Enterprise Economy

The Rural Enterprise Economy

Enterprises located in rural regions face various challenges in the globalised and digitised world. This book offers comprehensive answers to the question of what makes up the rural enterprise economy in the contemporary business world. It addresses the competitiveness and viability strategic management and strategic change and marketing issues for both incumbent and start-up companies in rural regions. The book presents new concepts that shed light on the rural enterprise economy with its entrepreneurs. With a broad range of cases from European regions the book provides theoretical insights for scholars practical case-based evidence for lecturers and teachers and practical knowledge for business practitioners and planning specialists. Academic experts from European universities and research institutes provide compelling answers to this under-researched topic in business studies and economics.

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Enterprise Culture in Neoliberal India Studies in Youth Class Work and Media

Enterprise Culture in Neoliberal India Studies in Youth Class Work and Media

The promotion of an enterprise culture and entrepreneurship in India in recent decades has had far-reaching implications beyond the economy and transformed social and cultural attitudes and conduct. This book brings together pioneering research on the nature of India’s enterprise culture covering a range of different themes: workplace education religion trade films media youth identity gender relations class formation and urban politics. Based on extensive empirical and ethnographic research by the contributors the book shows the myriad manifestations of enterprise culture and the making of the aspiring enterprising-self in public culture social practice and personal lives ranging from attempts to construct hegemonic ideas in public discourse to appropriation by individuals and groups with unintended consequences to forms of contested and contradictory expression. It discusses what is ‘new’ about enterprise culture and how it relates to pre-existing ideas and goes on to look at the processes and mechanisms through which enterprise culture is becoming entrenched as well as how it affects different classes and communities. The book highlights the social and political implications of enterprise culture and how it recasts family and interpersonal relationships as well as personal and collective identity. Illuminating one of the most important aspects of India’s current economic and social transformation this book is of interest to students and scholars of Asian Business Sociology Anthropology Development Studies and Media and Cultural Studies. | Enterprise Culture in Neoliberal India Studies in Youth Class Work and Media

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International Enterprise Education Perspectives on Theory and Practice

International Enterprise Education Perspectives on Theory and Practice

The important debate on the growing graduate skills gaps the value of universities to their business communities and their role (or lack of ) in building entrepreneurial attributes among graduates is growing internationally. Using case studies from universities across the globe this edited book seeks to bring together leading authors with knowledge and/or experience of the challenges of embedding enterprise education in university and college programmes. The text identifies and presents the current debates around the future role of universities and colleges in providing ‘fit for workplace’ graduates as well as offering insights into the challenges and practices involved in delivering innovative enterprise education. The approach collates examples of ‘best practices’ from global institutions enabling educators to develop ‘blueprints’ for implementing in their own institutions. This innovative and comprehensive text is designed to be a ‘seminal resource’ for academic stakeholders on enterprise education collating diverse international contributions from enterprising universities and colleges. Drawing on both theory and best practice it provides invaluable guidance to researchers educators and practitioners considering embedding or expanding enterprising activities into their learning strategy. | International Enterprise Education Perspectives on Theory and Practice

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Enterprise: Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Enterprise: Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Enterprise Entrepreneurship and Innovation provides readers with an accessible and readable introduction to the various dimensions of entrepreneurship and market innovation. It has a clear structure that is easy for the reader to follow and it focuses on enterprising behaviour. Helpful text features include case studies andpause and reflect situations for the entrepreneur to deliberate on the information they have available before making their decision. This helps to emphasise the point that there are few simple and straightforward decisions closely reflecting decisions inreal life. The authors also employ integrative personal development activities that provide a basis for readers to reflect on the learning of the chapters and develop a personal development strategy to increase their ability to become more entrepreneurial and improve their ability to manage market innovation. After completing the book readers will understand how to acquire the entrepreneur‘s skills attitudes and knowledge; the techniques needed to generate new business and create a new organisation. | Enterprise: Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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Social Enterprise in China State-Third Sector Relations and Institutional Effectiveness

Social Enterprise in China State-Third Sector Relations and Institutional Effectiveness

Wang offers an empirically based exploration into work-integration social enterprises as a means for delivering social services in China. Focusing on the political economy of social enterprise development in China Wang examines the nature of the relationship between the state and social enterprises and the implications of such relationships for their institutional effectiveness. She adopts a bottom-up approach that investigates indigenous practices embedded within the local political context. Common ground has been established internationally that the social enterprise model provides new ways of social service delivery that could potentially change and restructure the social welfare economy. However the development path differs across social contexts especially in an authoritarian country like China. This study provides insights into China's efforts to develop its social welfare sector and reinvigorate customary ideas about how public services could be better offered given the country's political economy. This book will be of great interest to both scholars of China’s political economy and those with an interest in the development of the social enterprise sector looking to see how this works in a Chinese context. | Social Enterprise in China State-Third Sector Relations and Institutional Effectiveness

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Public Enterprise and the Developing World

Public Enterprise and the Developing World

Originally published in 1984 this book grew out of the papers (and discussions) presented at the Seminar conducted at London Business School during March-June 1983 with a focus on the problems of public enterprise in the context of the developing world. Essentially three facts of thought emerged: first on the working of public enterprises in developing countries; second on joint ventures and consultancies involving public enterprises in the two groups of countries; and third on the value and relevance of experience of public enterprises in developed countries particularly in the UK for the developing countries. Broadly the Chapter 1 belongs to the first category Chapters 6 and 7 to the second and Chapters 8 to 13 to the third. The concluding review seeks to highlight some of the major issues that deserve notice in the light of the views expressed in the papers and the discussions that took place on them. | Public Enterprise and the Developing World

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The Humachine Humankind Machines and the Future of Enterprise

The Humachine Humankind Machines and the Future of Enterprise

There is a lot of hype hand-waving and ink being spilled about artificial intelligence (AI) in business. The amount of coverage of this topic in the trade press and on shareholder calls is evidence of a large change currently underway. It is awesome and terrifying. You might think of AI as a major environmental factor that is creating an evolutionary pressure that will force enterprise to evolve or perish. For those companies that do survive the silicon wave sweeping through the global economy the issue becomes how to keep their humanity amidst the tumult. What started as an inquiry into how executives can adopt AI to harness the best of human and machine capabilities turned into a much more profound rumination on the future of humanity and enterprise. This is a wake-up call for business leaders across all sectors of the economy. Not only should you implement AI regardless of your industry but once you do you should fight to stay true to your purpose your ethical convictions indeed your humanity even as our organizations continue to evolve. While not holding any punches about the dangers posed by overpowered AI this book uniquely surveys where technology is limited and gives reason for cautious optimism about the true opportunities that lie amidst all the disruptive change currently underway. As such it is distinctively more optimistic than many of the competing titles on Big Technology. This compelling book weaves together business strategy and philosophy of mind behavioral psychology and the limits of technology leadership and law. The authors set out to identify where humans and machines can best complement one another to create an enterprise greater than the sum total of its parts: the Humachine. Combining the global business and forecasting acumen of Professor Nada R. Sanders PhD with the legal and philosophical insight of John D. Wood Esq. the authors combine their strengths to bring us this profound yet accessible book. This is a must read for anyone interested in AI and the future of human enterprise. | The Humachine Humankind Machines and the Future of Enterprise

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Powering Social Enterprise with Profit and Purpose The Tandem Hybrid

Powering Social Enterprise with Profit and Purpose The Tandem Hybrid

Trail-blazing social entrepreneurs are tackling the world’s most pressing problems that government business or charity have failed to solve. They are creating businesses with a primary mission of social change. Scott Boyer is one such social entrepreneur. This 28-year veteran of Big Pharma left a six-figure salary to start OWP Pharmaceuticals and the ROW Foundation. This commercial business and non-profit organization exist in a symbiotic relationship we call a tandem hybrid social enterprise. This model combines a multimillion dollar business with a foundation that’s on track to become the largest funder of projects serving people with epilepsy and associated psychiatric disorders in the world. The tandem hybrid incorporates the principles learned by Scott and others for building a truly unique social enterprise from the ground up; one that is: Driven by a compelling social mission Financed by commercial success Structured to retain control Scalable and sustainable for the long haul Powering Social Enterprises With Profit And Purpose offers a detailed blueprint that has proven commercially and philanthropically successful and that can be replicated in most business sectors. | Powering Social Enterprise with Profit and Purpose The Tandem Hybrid

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Digital Enterprise Transformation A Business-Driven Approach to Leveraging Innovative IT

Digital Enterprise Transformation A Business-Driven Approach to Leveraging Innovative IT

The integration of technological innovations such as In-Memory Analytics Cloud Computing Mobile Connectivity and Social Media with business practice can enable significant competitive advantage. In order to embrace recent challenges and changes in the governance of IT strategies SAP and its think tank - the Business Transformation Academy (BTA) - have jointly developed the Digital Capability Framework (DCF). Digital Enterprise Transformation: A Business-Driven Approach to Leveraging Innovative IT by Axel Uhl and Lars Alexander Gollenia outlines the DCF which comprises six specific capabilities: Innovation Management Transformation Management IT Excellence Customer Centricity Effective Knowledge Worker and Operational Excellence. In cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) Queensland University of Technology (Australia) University of Liechtenstein (Principality of Liechtenstein) and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) SAP and the BTA have been validating each capability and the corresponding maturity models based on analyzing several ’lighthouse’ case studies comprising: SAMSUNG IBM Finanz Informatik The Walt Disney Company Google Inc. HILTI AG. Digital Enterprise Transformation presents how these companies take advantage of innovative IT and how they develop their digital capabilities. On top the authors also develop and present a range of novel yet hands-on Digital Use Cases for a number of different industries which have emerged from innovative technological trends such as: Big Data Cloud Computing 3D Printing and Internet of Things. | Digital Enterprise Transformation A Business-Driven Approach to Leveraging Innovative IT

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The Large Industrial Enterprise Some Spatial Perspectives

The Large Industrial Enterprise Some Spatial Perspectives

Large industrial enterprises are an important phenomena in advanced Western economies. They control large percentages of total industrial assets employ millions of workers and together with their dependent satellite firms produce their own spatial patterns of employment location of production capacity and flow of material and information and thus dominate the economic base of whole towns. This study first published in 1980 surveys a massive amount of work on large industrial firms and features an in-depth study of the growth of large industrial enterprises in the UK brewing industry from 1951-76. This illustrates many of the themes discussed in the book. | The Large Industrial Enterprise Some Spatial Perspectives

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The Theory of Business Enterprise

The Theory of Business Enterprise

Veblen has been claimed and rejected both by sociologists and economists as being one of theirs. He enriched and attacked both disciplines as he did so many others: philosophy history social psychology politics and linguistics. Because he took all knowledge as necessary and relevant to adequate understanding Veblen was a holistic analyst of the social process. First published in 1904 this classic analysis of the U. S. economy has enduring value today. In it Veblen posited a theory of business fluctuations and economic growth which included chronic depression and inflation. He predicted the socioeconomic changes that would occur as a result: militarism imperialism fascism consumerism and the development of the mass media as well as the corporate bureaucracy. Douglas Dowd's introduction places the volume within the traditions of both macroeconomics and microeconomics tracing Veblen's place among social thinkers and the place of this volume in the body of his work. | The Theory of Business Enterprise

GBP 130.00
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The Agricultural Scientific Enterprise A System In Transition

The Agricultural Scientific Enterprise A System In Transition

The State Agricultural Experiment Stations have played a fundamental role in the development of science and agriculture in the United States. From their inception in 1887 the experiment stations have attempted to wed basic research with practical application and have helped institutionalize a utilitarian approach to agricultural science. Agricultural research and the new technology it helped to generate were major factors in the transformation of U. S. agriculture into a high technology mechanized science-based industry. Moreover the experiment stations as the first large-scale publicly supported scientific research institutions in the United States have also long been models for scientific institutions both here and abroad. Compiled for the 1987 centennial of the State Agricultural Experiment Stations this volume critically examines past performance current issues and future directions for public agricultural research in the United States. Each of the authors drawn from disciplines as diverse as philosophy and agronomy focuses on a central concern for the scientific enterprise. Issues include priority setting maintaining and promoting disciplinary and interdisciplinary effectiveness supporting higher education for agriculture and efficacious dissemination of research findings. By setting these issues in their historical and philosophical context the volume suggests new approaches for meeting the continuing challenge to achieve equity efficiency sustainability flexibility conservation and consistency with other objectives of U. S. society. | The Agricultural Scientific Enterprise A System In Transition

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Responsible Management and Sustainable Consumption Creating a Consumer and Enterprise Social Responsibility Index

Responsible Management and Sustainable Consumption Creating a Consumer and Enterprise Social Responsibility Index

While the number of publications on corporate social responsibility has skyrocketed since the last economic crisis that began in 2008 challenges still remain in the modern economy that make socially responsible business a leading topic both in the field of science and business practice. The concept of corporate social responsibility covers not only practices implemented by enterprises but also attitudes represented by consumers and other market entities. Though much has been written about corporate social responsibility and the potential benefits it offers businesses there remains a misunderstanding of corporate social responsibility (CSR) responsible management (RM) and responsible consumption (RC). Examining the level of responsible management practices implemented by Polish enterprises and assessing consumer attitudes in the field of corporate social responsibility will serve to identify best business practices and enhance management theory. Because this research examines both sides of the market companies and consumers it offers a more holistic view on social responsibility responsible management and responsible consumer behaviour. The contribution of this book is the development of the assessment tool for measuring social responsibility of every enterprise – Enterprise Social Responsibility Index (EnSRI) and Consumer Social Responsibility Index (CnSRI). This book is written to meet the needs of academics students company owners and managers. It also provides an integrated view of responsibility from the point of view of both enterprises and consumers. | Responsible Management and Sustainable Consumption Creating a Consumer and Enterprise Social Responsibility Index

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Multinational Enterprise Political Risk and Organisational Change From Total War to Cold War

Multinational Enterprise Political Risk and Organisational Change From Total War to Cold War

Hitherto the organization of international business has been studied mostly from a managerial point of view or by examining the relationship between firms and the economy. Yet the development of the modern multinational firm - the most important type of business organisation - has been strongly influenced by the conflicts that bedeviled the twentieth century. The volatile macroeconomic and political environments experienced by international business point to how important it is to study political risk. Consequently Multinational Enterprise Political Risk and Organisational Change: From Total War to Cold War breaks new ground: it argues that non-market elements and historical context are key to understanding the way international business has been organised. This edited volume offers an historical approach to analysing how multinational enterprise has developed over time and around the world through a series of well-crafted chapters on important topics in international economic and business history written by authorities in their respective fields of study and research. The study is based on the underlying premise that the coming of the two World Wars the devastating and long-term consequences of such total wars and the ideological challenge of the Cold War acted as a pivot points in shaping the nature and character of multinational firms. By examining such phenomena this study offers insights to anyone who has an interest in business economic or political history management and business studies or international relations. | Multinational Enterprise Political Risk and Organisational Change From Total War to Cold War

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Integral Community Enterprise in Africa Communitalism as an Alternative to Capitalism

Integral Community Enterprise in Africa Communitalism as an Alternative to Capitalism

At a time of global economic crisis and disillusionment with capitalism Adodo offers refreshing and positive insight into a more integral way of business management enterprise and community development as well as holistic healing in Africa. For over three decades Africa was the recipient of billions of dollars in aid funds that were meant to catapult the continent from undeveloped to developed status. Yet the more the aid poured in the poorer African countries became. The devastating effect of western economic models in Africa that followed is well documented. Integral Community Enterprise in Africa exposes the limitations of existing theories such as capitalism socialism and communism and shows how western theories were imposed on Africa. Such imposition of concepts and ideas is not only demeaning but also unsustainable serving only the interest of the elite. Father Anselm Adodo argues for the need to have a southern theory to serve as an alternative to western theories. The majority of African intellectuals and activists while criticizing existing theories often do not provide alternative theories to address the prevalent inadequacies entrenched in conventional social political and economic systems. This revolutionary book aims to address this lapse and proposes the theory of communitalism as a more indigenous sustainable and integral approach to tackling the social political economic and developmental challenges of today’s Africa. There is an African alternative to capitalism socialism and communism – a surer path to sustainable development in and from Africa. This is a book that is positioned at the very core of a much needed African Renaissance. A profoundly new approach to development in Africa this is essential reading for anyone concerned with authentic development in Africa and in the world. | Integral Community Enterprise in Africa Communitalism as an Alternative to Capitalism

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Dance of Disruption and Creation Epochal Change and the Opportunity for Enterprise

Dance of Disruption and Creation Epochal Change and the Opportunity for Enterprise

It’s an exciting time to be alive! We are witness to an epoch of change a dance of disruption and creation that is re-imagining our world. Where are these disruptions coming from? What opportunities do they uncover? How can one make sense of them? And most importantly how should one prepare and act? This book written by two influential business leaders unpacks these epochal changes and how they represent a defining moment of opportunity for the world of business. Nandu Nandkishore and Neeraj Chandra draw upon diverse sources academic literature discussions with CEOs startup founders and experts in order to understand the significant pivots of change emerging from a wide canvas and then stitch together a perspective of an exciting brave new world. Unlike many other books that focus only on emerging technologies the authors here look at disruption through several lenses: technology demographics economic change the changing nature of institutions and the interplay of technology as it fundamentally shapes consumers and society. The book goes beyond describing changes taking place. It explores the why so and so what to provide an understanding of the shifts taking place and crucially the implications for the world of enterprise. Using simple examples and frameworks throughout the book provides specific action-oriented solutions that businesses can employ. This book will be of specific interest to business leaders strategists investment professionals as well as social scientists and public servants. It is for change-makers who are excited to seize the unique opportunity that this change represents – to build competitive advantage re-invent markets and enterprise and indeed to make the world a better place. A selection of reference links and material for the book is accessible at www. routledge. com/9781032184791. | Dance of Disruption and Creation Epochal Change and the Opportunity for Enterprise

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Innovation Globalization and Firm Dynamics Lessons for Enterprise Policy

Innovation Globalization and Firm Dynamics Lessons for Enterprise Policy

This book is about the relationship between firm dynamics innovation and globalization the processes that are essential for long term economic growth and welfare creation. This volume deals with these three issues in three sections titled respectively: entrepreneurship new firm formation and growth; productivity-innovation-growthnexus; globalization multinational firms and producers’ dynamics. The book presents new studies written by distinguished researchers in the field who use state-of-the-art methodologies and extensive sources of firm- and plant-level longitudinal data to analyze and understand these major economic issues facing modern economies. In the first section the book proposes two comprehensive introductory surveys which explore in detail the underpinnings of entrepreneurship new firm formation and growth in advanced and developing countries. The second fundamental issue productivity-innovation and firm dynamics is approached by examining key drivers of selection mechanisms such as size scale elasticity innovative efforts financial fragility of the firms barriers to entry and exit capital and financial market distortions institutional inefficiencies and other market imperfections which affect the ability of firms to expand or enter. The third section examines differences linkages and intertwined evolution of foreign and domestic firms in their dynamics of survival and growth in different institutional contexts and periods. Each chapter includes a detailed discussion of the implications of the respective analyses for enterprise policy. In a concluding chapter the overall implications for enterprise policy of the analyses presented in the different chapters are drawn by the Editors. This approach ensures that the book is integrated around a coherent central theme in comprehensive framework. The book responds to a growing concern among scholars professionals and policy makers over the recent decades about firm ability to survive and compete in a context of increasing globalization and international competition. The approach adopted is both theoretical and empirical with consideration of paradigmatic case studies in Europe Africa and Asia providing new evidence on developed developing and transition economies in a comparative perspective. The cases selected represent different levels of development different firms strategies and paths with distinct outcomes. The book is an essential reading for scholars and students concerned with industry development public policy and globalization as well as to all those involved professionally in such issues. | Innovation Globalization and Firm Dynamics Lessons for Enterprise Policy

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