Product Description: Is it the central purpose of American antitrust policy to encourage decentralization of economic power? Or is it to promote "consumer welfare"? Is there a painful trade-off between market dominance and economic "efficiency"? What is the proper role of government in this area? In recent years the public policy debate on these core questions has been marked by a cacophony of divergent opinions--theorists against empiricists, apostles of the "new learning" against defenders of the traditional structure-conduct-performance paradigm, "laissez-faire" advocates against "interventionists...read more

Cooperation in Research and Development provides an empirical and theoretical analysis of a distinct form of inter-firm collaboration in Research & Development (R&D): research joint ventures (RJVs). Of all types of cooperation, RJVs have received the most attention in both formal industrial organization and science and technology policy literature. The emerging theoretical economic literature on incentives of firms to join RJVs has not been followed by much empirical work. Cooperation in Research and Development attempts to fill the void caused by this lack of consistent data on the rate of RJV formation, RJV characteristics, and RJV member characteristics. Significant attention is paid to the role of RJVs in facilitating `virtual' firm diversification as necessary to pursue particular technological objectives. An effort is also made to blend the reported theoretical and empirical analyses with conceptual models of the process of technological innovation and models of industrial evolution in order to provide answers beyond the reach of the received economic theory. Cooperation in Research and Development should be of interest to academic economists, policy makers, and business representatives. The microeconomic issues the book deals with overlap significantly with the interests of decision makers both in government and business.

Product Description: Jean d’Arras’s splendid prose romance of Melusine, written for Jean de Berry, the brother of King Charles V of France, is one of the most significant and complex literary works of the later Middle Ages. The author, promising to tell us “how the noble and powerful fortress of Lusignan in Poitou was founded by a fairy,” writes a ceaselessly astonishing account of the origins of the powerful feudal dynasty of the Lusignans in southwestern France, which flourished in western Europe and the Near East during the age of the Crusades...read more

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Product Description: Trust is the glue that holds organizations together. More powerful than contracts or authority, trust enables partner companies -- or groups within a company -- to achieve results that exceed the sum of the parts. Without trust, alliances fail...read more

Product Description: Until now, the relationship between a company and its customers or suppliers has consisted of arms-length haggling over the price of a part or a service. Today, reveals alliance expert Jordan D. Lewis, customers and suppliers are actually embracing each other—sharing data, design work, and even research and development...read more

Product Description: Partnering Intelligence explains a proven process for generating powerful alliances, completely updated with new case studies including the award-winning Bank of America-Exult, Inc. partnership study, new research and statistical information from thousands of partners, and the Win/Win Orientation Assessment...read more

Product Description: Twenty-three top advisors from leading firms show entrepreneurs how to transition their business The Entrepreneur's Transition provides an all-in-one handbook for entrepreneurs and corporate insiders seeking advice on their personal financial planning prior to selling or taking a business public...read more

A comprehensive understanding of the current acquisition trend distinguishes between 'heroic' and 'hostile' takeovers and is aimed at the general reader as well as the bankers, traders, and lawyers who must stay abreast of new legal rulings and techniques

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A guide to creating mutually successful business partnerships, from a respected expert on cooperation, offers plans and advice for making sure that joint ventures work, exploring why some alliances fail and explaining how to build trust. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Corporate governance, namely the relationship between the ownership and control of firms, takes on new dimensions in the case of international joint ventures operating in the special context of China. The present study contributes a new examination of this relationship, firstly through its conceptual refinement, and secondly through original empirical research...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Acquiring an unquoted company can be complex and hazardous. This book provides a practical step-by-step guide to help complete the acquisition of unquoted companies and subsidiaries of quoted ones with success. This new edition reflects the changing climate for acquiring and selling unquoted companies, including the growth of management buy-outs and buy-ins, and the emergence of venture capitalists buying companies as principles...read more

Product Description: This is the 1999 supplement to The Law and Finance of Corporate Acquisitions. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Strategic alliances are increasingly common, as many organizations look toward various partnering arrangements. This book is a clear and comprehensive survey by two experienced authors with extensive knowledge of alliances in Europe, Asia, and America...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Dynamics of Industrial Competition provides the first extensive quantitative examination of the processes associated with competition: entry and exit, mergers, growth and decline of incumbent firms. It uses a unique data base to investigate phenomena that have rarely been measured and even more rarely set side by side so as to provide a comprehensive picture of the intensity of competition and its effects on productivity, efficiency and profitability...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Analyzing the Fortune 100, three business consultants offer their opinions on which large corporations stand to gain the most from breaking up their operations and explore the driving forces between recent breakups in the news. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: While many theories assume the success of alliances, author S. Shiva Ramu takes the opposite view, namely, that alliances also often fail. These failures occur, notes the author in Strategic Alliances, primarily because one of the partners begins to transgress the basic premises of the alliance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Shows how companies and their suppliers now share data, design, and research and development, and discusses the advantages of allied companies working more closely together (view table of contents)

Product Description: The joint operating agreement is a commercial contract extensively used in oil and gas joint ventures, where one co-venturer manages the venture under the supervision of the other co-venturers. The English courts have yet to pronounce whether a joint operating agreement (JOA) establishes a fiduciary relationship between its co-venturers and whether fiduciary duties are created by it...read more