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Lead Markets for Environmental Innovations

Collectif

Some countries are earlier than others in the development and introduction of environmental innovations. Often, the leadership in technological development is accompanied by a leadership in environmental policy. The book provides an analysis of lead markets for...

Product Standards, Exports and Employment

Rajat Acharyya

Through the process of globalization, the trade dependence and int- dependence of the developing countries have increased phenomenally than ever before. The characteristic of this late twentieth-century globalization process has been the new technological revolution...

WTO and World Trade

Günter S. Heiduk , Kar-Yiu Wong

Giinter S. Heiduk* and Kar-yiu Wong** * Institute of International and Regional Economic Relations, University of Du- burg-Essen, Campus Duisburg, Germany ** Department of Economics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA The rapid growth of world trade has become one...

Decentralised Government in an Integrating World

Dan Stegarescu

Risk-sharing in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Gerrit Reepmeyer

The productivity in pharmaceutical research and development faces intense pres­ sure. R&D expenditures of the major US and European companies have topped US$ 33 billion in 2003 compared to around US$ 13 billion just a decade ago. At the same time, the number of new drug...

Hazardous Chemicals in Products and Processes

Collectif

Substitution of hazardous substances is a prioritised objective in chemical regulation and risk management. However, it is experienced as a tough task with often inconsistent results. Based on thirteen case studies, this book analyzes substitution as an innovation...

Financial Market Imperfections and Corporate Decisions

Emilio Colombo , Luca Stanca

We would like to thank Akos Valentinyi and Mark Schaffer for their advice on various stages of this research project.We also would like to thank our col­ leagues at the Department of Economics of the University of Milan - Bicocca for their advice and support. This book...

Knowledge Integration

Antonie Jetter , Jeroen Kraaijenbrink , Hans-Horst Schröder , Fons Wijnhoven

The ability to manage knowledge is relevant for millions of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) that operate in high-tech environments. They strongly depend on external knowledge about customers, technologies, and competitors because, as opposed to large...

Computers and Productivity

Thomas Hempell

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) create potentials for considerable productivity gains and for higher economic growth. However, ICTs also pose varied challenges to firms in order to benefit from these potentials. Highlighting the importance of...

The Spread of Yield Management Practices

Fabiola Sfodera

Yield management has always been considered a teclinique for large companies, whether these be airlines, railroad, car rental or hotel companies. Its application to the small and medium sized businesses that characterise the tourism industry in many countries, Italy in...

Research Methodologies in Supply Chain Management

Herbert Kotzab , Martin Müller , Gerald Reiner , Stefan Seuring

For reseach in all subjects and among different philisopical paradigms, research methodologies form one of the key issues to rely on. This volume brings a series of papers together, which present different research methodologies as applied in supply chain management....

Material Flow Management

Stefan Enzler , Bernd Wagner

Material flow management gets right to the core of industrial production and its environmental impact. Basically, material flows are invariably at the nucleus of industrial production. Ecological effects are initially caused by materials: consumption and entropy of...

Knowledge Management

Art Westerberg , Joseph Davis , Eswaran Subrahmanian

The importance and value of tracking and sharing the dispersed knowledge resources of contemporary organizations have received widespread rec- nition in recent years. It is widely believed that with the transition from the industrial to information-based economies,...

Collective Bargaining and Wage Formation

Hannu Piekkola , Kenneth Snellman

Hannu Piekkola and Kenneth Snellman ETLA, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, Helsinki, Finland The Labour Institute for Economic Research, Helsinki, Finland 1 The Basic Issues Wages have traditionally been agreed on collectively in Europe. The articles in...

Außenhandel im Wandel

Christoph Leitl , Jonas F. Puck

Kaum ein Unternehmen ist nicht von internationalem Wettbewerb betroffen. Exporte, internationale Direktinvestitionen und multinationale Unternehmen sind nicht nur Schlagworte die sich täglich in den Medien finden, die Auswirkungen internationaler Unternehmensaktivität...