Product Description: Small Business in the Modern Economy is a collection of essays based on the 1994- F. de Vries lectures held at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam. The authors of this volume discuss the changing role of small firms in the modern economy from different angles: * Bo Carllson pays attention to the introduction of flexible automation and how this change of technology has resulted in a decrease in the size of firms * Zoltan Acs argues that small firms play an important role in the experimental phase of innovations in product and access...read more