Product Description: An increasing number of studies in the last decade or so have emphasized the viability and persistence of distinctive systems of economic coordination and control in developed market economies. Over more or less the same period, the revival of institutional economics and evolutionary approaches to understanding the firm has focused attention on how firms create distinctive capabilities through establishing routines that coordinate complementary activities and skills for particular strategic purposes...read more

'This book focuses on how institutional settings provide a variety of resources and opportunities for firms to develop and evolve new competencies. It shows how national institutional contexts are often heterogeneous and loosely connected, offering a variety of resources that firms can use in order to enhance their competitiveness'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: Multinational firms are a ubiquitous feature of modern economies, yet how much do we really know about how they work? This book reveals the complexity of managing multinationals and shatters the myth of the multinational as a unified, economically-rational firm.

Product Description: Why are some firms successful on global markets whilst others are not? In this collection of papers, a group of distinguished international researchers examine the inter-relationship between national context, firm performance and global competitiveness...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book offers a radical new approach to the study of organizational change through an account of the transformations within the UK financial services over the last 20 years. It combines a broad, macro approach, drawing on regulation theory and the new institutionalism, with a detailed account of how actors within and outside organizations seek to adopt and reconstruct new rules of action...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: During the 1980s and 1990s, organisations have undergone both regulation and deregulation. This set of papers written by a distinguished selection of international experts examines the nature of regulation, its evolution in particular sectors and its impact on social and economic equality...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

During the 1980s, deregulation became adopted as a slogan and set of practices which by setting market forces free could increase the efficiency of market systems. This text examines the consequences of deregulation in retail financial services.

Product Description: This book brings together recent theories and research in the study of organizations to provide a new perspective on the central role of organizations in modern societies. Particular attention is paid to developing a theoretical framework which integrates the analysis of organizations from different sectors (private, public and voluntary) and from different societies (special attention is paid to Japan and the USSR)...read more