Product Description: Co-winner of the 2006 Schumpeter Prize of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society. This book explains the shift of the organizational landscape away from vertically integrated firms and towards more specialized entities connected by markets and networks...read more

Traditonal western forms of corporate organization have been called into question by the success of Japanese keiretsu. Firms, Markets and Economic Change draws on industrial economics, business strategy, and economic history to develop an evolutionary model to show when innovation is best undertaken. The authors argue that innovation is a complex process that defies neat categorization and government policy should be to facilitate change rather than to direct it.

Product Description: This is a study of the worldwide microelectronics industry - technology, economic structure, international trade, co-operative agreements, corporate strategy and government policy. The semiconductor industry is examined, explaining what it is, its peculiarities and its evolution over the relatively short time since it appeared...read more