Third Industrial Revolution in Global Business

Informationen zum Autor Giovanni Dosi is Professor of Economics at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy, where he directs the Institute of Economics. He is Co-Director of the task forces on Industrial Policy and on Intellectual Property Rights at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, and Continental European Editor of Industrial and Corporate Change. Louis Galambos is Professor of History and co-director of the Institute of Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise at The Johns Hopkins University. His most recent book is The Creative Society - And the Price Americans Paid for It (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Klappentext Asks whether and to what effect the widespread adoption of digital technology has led to large-scale or structural economic changes in business. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Louis Galambos; 1. Technological revolutions and the evolution of industrial structures: assessing the impact of new technologies upon the size, pattern of growth, and boundaries of firms Giovanni Dosi, Alfonso Gambardella, Marco Grazzi and Luigi Orsenigo; 2. The long-run dynamics of big firms: the one hundred largest employers from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Japan, 1907-2002 Howard Gospel and Martin Fiedler; 3. Knowledge and the changing boundaries of firms and industries Pamela Adams, Stefano Brusoni and Franco Malerba; 4. Organizing the electronic century Richard N. Langlois; 5. Aircraft and the third industrial revolution Andrea Prencipe; 6. Aluminium and the third industrial revolution Margaret Graham; 7. The role of the state in the third industrial revolution: continuity and change Andrea Colli and Nicoletta Corrocher; 8. Celebrating youth: the historical origins of the US stock market's appetite for young firms Mary A. O'Sullivan; 9. Labor in the third industrial revolution: a tentative synthesis Stefano Musso; Conclusion.

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• Authors: Giovanni Dosi, Giovanni Galambos Dosi
• Assisted by: Giovanni Dosi (Editor), Dosi Giovanni (Editor), Louis Galambos (Editor), Galambos Louis (Editor), Alfonso Gambardella (Editor), Gambardella Alfonso (Editor), Orsanigo Luigi (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.04.2013
• EAN: 9781107028616
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02861-6
• No. of pages: 358
• Series: Comparative Perspectives in Bu; Comparative Perspectives in Business History
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management, International business, International Economics, Impact of science & technology on society, International Trade, Economics of industrial organization