Product Description: Clustering as an economic policy concern has become increasingly fashionable. The authors of this book shed light on this subject on which there remains remarkably little understanding, and even less agreement, regarding what clusters are, what they require for success and what impacts they are likely to have in different contexts, locally, nationally and globally...read more

Product Description: This book looks at the role of the modern corporation in advanced capitalist countries. In particular it considers corporate control and shareownership and the impact of these on consumers' choice, the mobilization of financial capital, the saving function, and the question of the potentially inherent tendency towards stagnation and crisis...read more

Product Description: Edith Penrose has been one of the most significant economists of the second part of the twentieth century. Her contribution to the theory of the firm has reinvented and productively developed the classical tradition in economics, and informed the currently dominant, knowledge-based theory of the firm...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The theory of the transnational corporation is now a topic of central importance to economics. Transnational corporations play an increasingly important role in the world economy, and their enormous size and power make them a subject of great interest and concern to consumers, producers, nation states and international organizations as well as to researchers. The editors have brought together leading theorists in this area to present a wide variety of perspectives on the nature of the transnational firm. The volume incorporates both orthodox and radical theories, providing new insights and suggesting areas of potential development. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Institutionalist analysis is increasingly used as a key research tool for economists confronted with the shortcomings of mainstream economic analysis and the problems presented by the transformation of socio-economic systems in Eastern Europe...read more

Product Description: Examines the questions of the existence, evolution and failure of the three major institutions of capitalism: the market, the firm (including the transnational corporation) and the state. The author adopts an evolutionary-historical approach aimed at deriving a synthesis where possible...read more

Product Description: From 1970 - 1990, the notion of transaction costs has revolutionized economic theory. The perspective has been primarily associated with the contributions of Ronald Coase and Oliver Williamson and continues to be one of the fastest growing areas of economic analysis...read more