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Strategy, Innovation and the Theory of the Firm
David J. Teece
David Teece is one of the leading thinkers on issues of strategic management, particularly the importance of dynamic capabilities for organizations in industries undergoing change. This collection of his papers explores ideas of both the... -
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Learning and Knowing in Practice-based Studies
Silvia Gherardi, Antonio Strati
Why is it that so many aspects of organizations are now spoken of as practices? How can organizations be studied within a practice-based approach? How can workable knowledge about them be produced? The authors answer these questions theo... -
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Productivity Growth
Thijs ten Raa, Edward N. Wolff
Productivity growth is the main vehicle to increase the standard of living. This book explains the relationships between technological change, efficiency, productivity growth and performance. The emphasis is on the interplay between indu... -
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Economic Incentives and Environmental Regulation
Edited by Hala Abou-Ali
Extensive country analyses are supported by references to the economic literature on regulation and incentives, and encompass recent trends in environmental management modes and policy orientations. The topical chapters include a critica... -
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An Evolutionary Approach to Entrepreneurship
Howard E. Aldrich
This much-needed book draws together Howard Aldrich’s key contribution to entrepreneurship research over recent decades. -
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Should Trees Have Standing?
Edited by Anna Grear
This Special Issue of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment revisits Professor Christopher D Stone’s iconic 1972 article, and features an introduction by Professor Philippe Sands QC, a set of elegant and thought-provoking refle... -
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Financial Stability in Practice
Charles A.E. Goodhart, Dimitrios P. Tsomocos
The maintenance of financial stability is a key objective of monetary policy, but the record of regulators in achieving this has been lamentable in recent years. This failure has been matched by an equivalent inability to establish an ap... -
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The Challenge of Financial Stability
Charles A.E. Goodhart, Dimitrios P. Tsomocos
The achievement of financial stability is one of the most pressing issues today. This timely and innovative book provides an analytical framework to assess financial (in)stability as an equilibrium phenomenon compatible with the orderly ... -
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Introduction to Cost–Benefit Analysis
Ginés de Rus
Introduction to Cost–Benefit Analysis is intended as a graduate and advanced undergraduate textbook. Nevertheless, economists and other practitioners involved in the economic evaluation of projects will also find the book extremely useful.eBook:Find out more$40.80
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Governance by Evaluation for Sustainable Development
Edited by Michal Sedlacko, André Martinuzzi
This path-breaking book provides balanced and comprehensive coverage of current research and practice on the role of evaluation in supporting governance for sustainable development and learning. -
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Societies in Motion
Edited by Amnon Frenkel, Peter Nijkamp, Philip McCann
In today’s globalised world, modern society is characterized by rapid transitions in space that are in part the result of technological developments of previous decades. This unique book deals with the complex issues raised by these tran... -
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Health Care, the Market and Consumer Choice
Alain C. Enthoven
In this well-documented book, Alain Enthoven develops the ideas of consumer choice and managed competition of alternative health care financing and delivery systems, as well as describing ways to improve quality and reduce the cost of he...