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Co-winner of the 2006 Schumpeter Prize of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society. This book explains the shift of the organizational landscape away from vertically integrated firms and towards more specialized entities connected by markets and networks. In doing so, it places in a larger theoretical framework the work of Joseph Schumpeter and Alfred Chandler, two of the twentieth century's most important analysts of the modern corporation. Weaving together business history, economic theory and the history of ideas, Langlois - who won the Newcomen Award in 1992 - sorts through the competing understanding of the rise and (relative) eclipse of the multi-unit enterprise. Rather than rejecting the accounts of Schumpeter and Chandler, he offers his own nuanced and historically grounded account of the rise and success of the corporation and its subsequent unbundling. Topical and timely, Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism is a useful resource for postgraduates and academics interested in the economics of organization, business history, economic sociology, and the history of economic thought, as well as to the general reader interested in the place of the corporation in the new economy.

What is e-Business: How the Internet Transforms Organizations provides a thorough and reflective introduction to business strategies and organisational innovations for the Internet world. This much-needed new text gives business and technology students the integrated framework they need to interpret conflicting and rapidly changing business phenomena in the e-arena.Based on over 10 years' experience teaching e-Business modules at both postgraduate and undergraduate levels, Feng Li's textbook takes the reader through the vast range of issues surrounding e-Business. What is e-Business covers key topics such as:- New technologies and new business environment as the context for E-Business- Emerging strategies and business models developed in response to the internet and related technologies- Organizational innovations necessary in order to implement and manage E-Business strategies and E-Business models- The transformation of various industries, from banking, music, retailing, telecoms, to public services- Emerging issues such as privacy, security, identity and online presence, as well as legal, regulatory, social and political issues.Students and teachers alike will welcome this coherent, well-tested text, with its student-friendly case examples, questions and summaries. What is e-Business is supported by online lecturer and student resources, available at www.blackwellpublishing.com/fengli.

In this book the Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Lucas collects his writings on economic growth, from his seminal "On the Mechanics of Economic Development" to his previously unpublished 1997 Kuznets Lectures. The chapters progress from a general theory of how growth could be sustained and why growth rates might differ in different countries, to a model of exceptional growth in certain countries in the twentieth century, to an account of the take-off of growth in the Industrial Revolution, and finally to a prediction about patterns of growth in this new century. The framework in all the chapters is a model with accumulation of both physical and human capital, with emphasis on the external benefits of human capital through diffusion of new knowledge or on-the-job learning, often stimulated by trade. The Kuznets Lectures consider the interaction of human capital growth and the demographic transition in the early stages of industrialization. In the final chapter, Lucas uses a diffusion model to illustrate the possibility that the vast intersociety income inequality created in the course of the Industrial Revolution may have already reached its peak, and that income differences will decline in this century.