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Author : Timothy Bresnahan
Release : 2004-04-05
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Building High-Tech Clusters by : Timothy Bresnahan
Download or read book Building High-Tech Clusters written by Timothy Bresnahan. This book was released on 2004-04-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richards; 7.
Author : Timothy F. Bresnahan
Release : 2004
Genre : Computer industry
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Book Synopsis Building High-tech Clusters by : Timothy F. Bresnahan
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Author : Yossi Sheffi
Release : 2012-09-14
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Logistics Clusters by : Yossi Sheffi
Download or read book Logistics Clusters written by Yossi Sheffi. This book was released on 2012-09-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How logistics clusters can create jobs while providing companies with competitive advantage. Why is Memphis home to hundreds of motor carrier terminals and distribution centers? Why does the tiny island-nation of Singapore handle a fifth of the world's maritime containers and half the world's annual supply of crude oil? Which jobs can replace lost manufacturing jobs in advanced economies? Some of the answers to these questions are rooted in the phenomenon of logistics clusters—geographically concentrated sets of logistics-related business activities. In this book, supply chain management expert Yossi Sheffi explains why Memphis, Singapore, Chicago, Rotterdam, Los Angeles, and scores of other locations have been successful in developing such clusters while others have not. Sheffi outlines the characteristic “positive feedback loop” of logistics clusters development and what differentiates them from other industrial clusters; how logistics clusters “add value” by generating other industrial activities; why firms should locate their distribution and value-added activities in logistics clusters; and the proper role of government support, in the form of investment, regulation, and trade policy. Sheffi also argues for the most important advantage offered by logistics clusters in today's recession-plagued economy: jobs, many of them open to low-skilled workers, that are concentrated locally and not “offshorable.” These logistics clusters offer what is rare in today's economy: authentic success stories. For this reason, numerous regional and central governments as well as scores of real estate developers are investing in the development of such clusters. View a trailer for the book at: http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/22284-logistics-clusters-yossi-sheffi
Author : Bas, Tomas Gabriel
Release : 2012-05-31
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Book Synopsis Comparing High Technology Firms in Developed and Developing Countries: Cluster Growth Initiatives by : Bas, Tomas Gabriel
Download or read book Comparing High Technology Firms in Developed and Developing Countries: Cluster Growth Initiatives written by Bas, Tomas Gabriel. This book was released on 2012-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clusters are geographic concentrations of interconnected companies, specialized suppliers, service providers, and associated institutions in a particular field that are present in a nation or region. The development and upgrading of clusters is an important agenda for governments, companies, and other institutions. Cluster growth initiatives are an important new direction in economic policy, building on earlier efforts in macroeconomic stabilization, privatization, market opening, and cost reduction related to doing business. Comparing High Technology Firms in Developed and Developing Countries: Cluster Growth Initiatives is the leading source of information for readers interested in this field of study as it promotes scientific discussion on policies and practice of cluster growth, as well as covers the emerging research topics which are going to define the future of the management of technology. Furthermore, this book demonstrates the effectiveness and efficiency of technology policy based on observations of differential growth rate of high technology firms in clusters, and explores the factors that explain superior performance of high technology firms to contribute the improvement of technology policy in both developed and developing countries.
Author : John F. Padgett
Release : 2012-10-14
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 872/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Emergence of Organizations and Markets by : John F. Padgett
Download or read book The Emergence of Organizations and Markets written by John F. Padgett. This book was released on 2012-10-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social sciences have sophisticated models of choice and equilibrium but little understanding of the emergence of novelty. Where do new alternatives, new organizational forms, and new types of people come from? Combining biochemical insights about the origin of life with innovative and historically oriented social network analyses, John Padgett and Walter Powell develop a theory about the emergence of organizational, market, and biographical novelty from the coevolution of multiple social networks. In the short run, they argue, actors make relations, but in the long run, they argue, actors make actors. Organizational novelty arises from spillover across intertwined networks, which tips reproducing biographical and production flows. This theory is developed through formal deductive modeling and through a wide range of careful and original historical case studies, ranging from early capitalism and state formation, to the transformation of communism, to the emergence of contemporary biotechnology and Silicon Vally. -- from back cover.
