Market Relations and the Competitive Process

Informationen zum Autor Stan Metcalfe is Stanley Jevons Profesor of Political Economy and Cobden Lecturer at the University of Manchester Alan Warde is Professor of Sociology and Co-director of the Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition at the University of Manchester Klappentext The book, newly available in paperback, considers the social role of economic institutions in society and examines the various meanings embedded in the word 'markets', as well as developing arguments on the nature of competition as an instituted economic process, rather than as competition being something that disturbs norms or institutions. Zusammenfassung The book! newly available in paperback! considers the social role of economic institutions in society and examines the various meanings embedded in the word 'markets'! as well as developing arguments on the nature of competition as an instituted economic process! rather than as competition being something that disturbs norms or institutions. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. On the complexities and limits of market organisation - R. R. Nelson2. Markets, embeddedness and trust: Problems of polysemy and idealism - A. Sayer3. Cognition and markets - B. J. Loasby4. Competition as economic instituted process - M. Harvey5. Markets, materiality and the 'new economy' - D. Slater6. Between markets, firms and networks: Constituting the cultural economy - F. Tonkiss7. Regulatory issues and industrial policy in football - J. Michie and C. Oughton8. The evolution of the UK software market: Scale of demand and role of competencies - S. Athreye9. Open systems and regional innovation: The resurgence of Route 128 in Massachusetts - M. H. BestConclusion

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Stan Ed Metcalfe, Stan Warde Metcalfe
• Mitarbeit: S. Metcalfe (Herausgeber), Stan Metcalfe (Herausgeber), Metcalfe Stan (Herausgeber), Alan Warde (Herausgeber), Warde Alan (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.12.2012
• EAN: 9780719064692
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-6469-2
• Seiten: 224
• Serien: New Dynamics of Innovation and Competition; New Dynamics of Innovation and; New Dynamics of Innovation and Competition
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Volkswirtschaft; Sociology, Economics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General