- Effective Management of Social Enterprises
- Editorial coordination by Social Enterprise Knowledge Network SEKN
- Edited by James E. Austin
- Edited by Roberto Gutierrez
- Edited by Enrique Ogliastri
- Edited by Ezequiel Reficco
- Based on the results of a two-year research process on how social and business organizations in Ibero-America achieve superior social performance, Seeking Success in Social Enterprise presents the most comprehensive and in-depth analysis of such practices ever undertaken in this region. This practitioner-oriented book also enriches the literature on organizational performance, social enterprise, and corporate social responsibility. It aims to enable social and business leaders to gain a greater understanding of how to achieve high performance in terms of social value creation.
- Paperback 2006
- Hollywood's Road to Riches
- David Waterman
- Combining historical and economic analysis, this book shows how, beginning in the 1950s, a largely predictable business has been transformed into a volatile and complex multimedia enterprise now commanding over 80 percent of the world's film business. At the same time, the book asks how the economic forces leading to this success--the forces of audience demand, technology, and high risk--have combined to change the kinds of movies Hollywood produces.
- Hardcover 2005
- Innovation--The Missing Dimension
- Richard K. Lester
- Michael J. Piore
- Amid mounting concern over the loss of jobs to low-wage economies, one fact is clear: America's prosperity hinges on the ability of its businesses to continually introduce new products and services. But what makes for a creative economy? For an answer, Lester and Piore examine innovation strategies in some of the economy's most dynamic sectors, including cell phones, medical devices, and blue jeans.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006
- R&D, Education, and Productivity
- Zvi Griliches
- Zvi Griliches was a modern master of empirical economics. In this short book, he recounts what he and others have learned about the sources of economic growth. This book conveys the way he tackled research problems. For Griliches, economic theorizing without measurement is merely the fashioning of parables, but measurement without theory is blind. Judgment enables one to strike the right balance.
- Hardcover 2001
- Reconstructing Macroeconomics
- Lance Taylor
- This book presents both a critique of mainstream macroeconomics from a structuralist perspective and an exposition of modern structuralist approaches. The fundamental assumption of structuralism is that it is impossible to understand a macroeconomy without understanding its major institutions and distributive relationships across productive sectors and social groups.
- Hardcover 2004
- Upgrading to Compete
- Edited by Carlo Pietrobelli
- Edited by Roberta Rabellotti
- Contributions by Alessia Amighini
- Contributions by Ner Artola
- Contributions by Claudio Maggi Campos
- Contributions by Jose Eduardo Cassiolato
- Contributions by Clemente Ruiz Duran
- Contributions by Arlindo Villaschi Filho
- Contributions by Elisa Giuliani
- Contributions by Raquel Gomes
- Contributions by Helena Lastres
- Contributions by Eduardo Zepeda Miramontes
- Contributions by Mario Davide Parrilli
- Can local markets and clusters represent a powerful alternative to global markets? Do transnational corporations and global buyers enhance or undermine local firms' upgrading and learning? Using original empirical evidence from several clusters in Latin America, Upgrading to Compete shows that both local and global dimensions matter at once.
- Paperback 2007
- Why Wages Don't Fall during a Recession
- Truman F. Bewley
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002