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Revitalizing Socialist Enterpriseby John Heath
Routledge 1993; US$ 180.00Immediate concerns for the former socialist states have been largely economic, although little has been written about the change at enterprise level. This book examines this change through detailed case studies and cross-country comparisons. more...
Privatization in the European Unionby David Parker
Routledge 1998; US$ 190.00The book considers the different perspectives on privatisation theory and policy in Europe and identifies different national characteristics in terms of the motivation to privatise, the scale of privatisation and its consequences. more...
Governance, The State, Regulation and Industrial Relationsby Ian Clark
Routledge 2000; US$ 198.00This book makes an important contribution to the history and theory of British post-war economics in its presentation of an innovative, historically informed, yet contemporary theory of the British state. more...
The Rule of Threeby Jagdish Sheth; Rajendra Sisodia
Simon & Schuster 2002; US$ 13.99Name any industry and more likely than not you will find that the three strongest, most efficient companies control 70 to 90 percent of the market. Here are just a few examples: McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's General Mills, Kellogg, and Post Nike, Adidas, and Reebok Bank of America, Chase Manhattan, and Banc One American, United, and Delta Merck, Johnson & Johnson, and Bristol-Myers Squibb Based on extensive studies of market forces, the distinguished business school strategists and corporate advisers Jagdish Sheth and Rajendra Sisodia show that natural competitive forces shape the vast majority of companies under "the rule of three." This stunning new concept has powerful strategic implications for businesses large and... more...
Impact of Privatizationby Stephen Martin; David Parker
Routledge 1997; US$ 220.00Are resources allocated more efficiently through private ownership than through the public sector? The experiences of eleven newly privatised companies are examined to evaluate this hypothesis. more...
Climates of Global Competitionby Maria Bengtsson
Routledge 1998; US$ 240.00By combining questions of geography with those of corporate strategy, this study provides an advanced analysis of the relationship between competition and corporate learning processes. more...
Private Sector after Communismby Jan Winiecki; Vladimir Banacek; Mihaly Laki
Routledge 2004; US$ 170.00Winiecki's latest work examines the hurdles and problems that face entrepreneurs and private firms in post-communist nations. more...
Political Competition, Innovation and Growth in the History of Asian Civilizationsby P. Bernholz; R. Vaubel
Edward Elgar Publishing 2004; US$ 40.00Do political decentralisation and inter-state competition favour innovation and growth? There has long been a lively debate surrounding this question, going back to David Hume and Immanuel Kant. This book is a new attempt to test its veracity. The existing literature tends to assume that the beneficial effects of inter-state competition have been confined to European history. more...
The International Handbook of Competitionby M. Neumann; J. Weig
Edward Elgar Publishing 2004; US$ 60.00This indispensable new Handbook examines both economic and legal aspects of competition policy and industrial organization. It provides a scholarly review of the state-of-the-art regarding economic theory, empirical evidence and standards of legal evaluation. more...
Private and Public Enterprise in Europeby Robert Millward; Paul Johnson; Avner Offer; Sheilagh Ogilvie; Gianni Toniolo; Gavin Wright
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 40.00The first comparative history of the economic organisation of energy, telecommunications and transport in Europe. It examines the role played by private and public enterprise in their construction and operation from the arrival of the railways in the 1830s to the eve of privatisation in the 1980s. more...