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Roadblocks to the Socialist Modernization Path and Transition
This open access book examines how different economic systems impacted the development of East Germany and Poland. Through comparing these countries while they were centrally planned socialist economies with the periods when they transitioned to capitalism, the inability of socialist economies to modernize effectively and produce sustained economic growth is highlighted. Particular attention is…
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- 978-3-031-37049-6
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- XVI, 331
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Dynamics among Nations: The Evolution of Legitimacy and Development in Modern…
"Liberal internationalism has been the West's foreign policy agenda since the Cold War, and the West has long occupied the top rung of a hierarchical system. In this book, Hilton Root argues that international relations, like other complex ecosystems, exists in a constantly shifting landscape, in which hierarchical structures are giving way to systems of networked interdependence, changing ever…
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- 9781461950349
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 332 pages)
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Creative Destruction: Business Survival Strategies in the Global Internet Eco…
A collection of 12 papers which "grew out of a March 1999 symposium held at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. "Creative Destruction -- or Just Destruction? Telecoms in Transition: Survival and Success in the Global Internet Economy" was co-sponsored by the Fletcher School's Hitachi Center for Technology and International Affairs, the Fletcher School's Edward R. Murrow …
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- 9780262276788
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- 1 online resource (xii, 289 pages) :illustrations
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The Entrepreneur in Rule-Based Economics
This volume brings together three areas of interest: the rule-based approach, the entrepreneur, and Japan as an empirical application. It highlights the advantages of the rule-based approach for economic analysis by linking different methodological underpinnings. Using these, the author exemplifies how rule-based economics allows a systematic analysis of the entrepreneur as the key figure in br…
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- 978-3-319-62779-3
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- Economic
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The Anatomy of Entrepreneurial Decisions
The creation, success and long-term survival of enterprises are fundamentally linked to the effectiveness of decision-making processes and negotiation capabilities. This book provides an overview of research into how decisions permeate entrepreneurial ventures throughout their lifecycle. A multidisciplinary approach combining psychology, sociology and political science is used to investigate ho…
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- 978-3-030-19685-1
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- Manajemen
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The Evolution of Innovation Networks
Tobias Buchmann analyzes innovation network dynamics in the German automotive industry. The study is based on a model for analyzing the complex evolution of innovation networks and the driving mechanisms underlying network evolution derived from theoretical and empirical findings in innovation economics, economic geography and management science. The author uses established social network analy…
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- 978-3-658-10383-5
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- XVII, 235, 29 b/w illustrations
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The Evolution of Economic and Innovation Systems
This book is at the cutting edge of the ongoing ‘neo-Schumpeterian’ research program that investigates how economic growth and its fluctuation can be understood as the outcome of a historical process of economic evolution. Much of modern evolutionary economics has relied upon biological analogy, especially about natural selection. Although this is valid and useful, evolutionary economists h…
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- 978-3-319-13299-0
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- VII, 641, 39 b/w illustrations, 63 illustrations in colour
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- Economic Complexity and Evolution
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Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century England Engagement in the Urba…
Aston challenges and reshapes the on-going debate concerning social status, economic opportunity, and gender roles in nineteenth-century society. Sources including trade directories, census returns, probate records, newspapers, advertisements, and photographs are analysed and linked to demonstrate conclusively that women in nineteenth-century England were far more prevalent in business than…
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- 978-3-319-30880-7
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- XVII, 257
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Evolving Norms Cognitive Perspectives in Economics
This book presents institutional evolution and individual choice as codependent results of behavioral patterns. Drawing on F.A. Hayek's concepts of cognition and cultural evolution, Teraji demonstrates how the relationship between the sensory and social orders can allow economists to track social norms and their effects on the global economy. He redirects attention from the conventional focus o…
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- 220220101007
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- 7 b/w illustrations
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Japan and the Great Divergence: A Short Guide
This text offers an accessible guide to the ways in which our growing knowledge of development in early-modern and modernising Japan can throw light on the paths that industrialisation was eventually to take across the globe. It has long been taken as read that the industrial revolution was the product of some form of ‘European superiority’ dating back to at least early-modern times. In The…
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