Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Industries - General

The historical relationship between capital and labor has evolved in the past few decades. One particularly noteworthy development is the rise of shared capitalism, a system in which workers have become partial owners of their firms and thus, in effect, both employees and stockholders. Profit sharing arrangements and gain-sharing bonuses, which tie compensation directly to a firm's performance, also reflect this new attitude toward labor.

Shared Capitalism at Work analyzes the effects of this trend on workers and firms. The contributors focus on four main areas: the fraction...

Research in Health Economics has developed into a separate discipline during the last 25 years. All this intense research activity has come about through the teaching of courses on health economics, mostly at graduate level. However, the Industrial Organization aspects of the health care market do not occupy a central place in those courses. The authors propose a textbook of health economics whose distinguishing feature is the analysis of the health care market from an Industrial Organization perspective. This textbook will provide teachers and students with a reference to study the market...

After World War II, several late-developing countries registered astonishingly high growth rates under strong state direction, making use of smart investment strategies, turnkey factories, and reverse-engineering, and taking advantage of the postwar global economic boom. Among these economic miracles were postwar Japan and, in the 1960s and 1970s, the so-called Asian Tigers Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan whose experiences epitomized the analytic category of the "developmental state."

In Betting on Biotech, Joseph Wong examines the emerging biotechnology sector in each of...

This book attempts to characterize a new organizational form that is now visible in many companies as a substitute of previous forms related to mechanized or mechanistic standards. The book is based on the approach of organizational structure and on Henry Mintzberg's work on organizational configurations. As a matter of fact, it attempts to supplement and update" "Mintzberg's organizational taxonomy, taking into account changes in the structure and work organization of business firms. The book is written for all people whose work is related to organizations and who are interested in the...

Beer in Africa focuses on the making and unmaking of self in the inchoate, dark, exalted, and sometimes upsetting context of bars, shebeens, and other formal and informal drinking occasions. It takes the production and consumption of fermented drinks as its point of entry to investigate how local actors deal with the ambivalent and the hazy, and how this ambiguity affects social life and daily practice.

Was motivierte den Herausgeber Wolfgang Luck dazu, diese Reihe zu beginnen? In diesem Jahrbuch wird erfahrenen Praktikern und Wissenschaftlern grenzuberschreitend ein Forum geboten, um sowohl sehr grundsatzliche als auch aktuelle Fragestellungen und Probleme zu diskutieren. Jeder einzelne Beitrag zeigt eine Problemstellung auf, enthalt Losungsvorschlage und dokumentiert in kompakter Form ein klares Ergebnis. Dabei sprechen die Autoren fachspezifische wie auch facherubergreifende Themen an. Einleitend werden in jedem Jahrbuch Themen von allgemeinem Interesse fur Wirtschaft, Politik,...