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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for more than 90
per cent of all businesses in the Asia-Pacific region - an area
which is rapidly updating its competition laws and regulations to
encourage greater enterpreneurship and open, dynamic economies. Yet
SMEs are almost invisible when those competition policies and laws
are developed and enforced. SMEs are often quite different
businesses than large, multinational corporation, but their nature,
significance and characteristics are often overlooked. This book
seeks to rectify the relative neglect in research and policy
discussions on the role of the SME sector in competition policy and
law. Drawing on contributions from a wide range of competition
regulators, lawyers, academics, consultants and advisers to the SME
sector, it addresses such important issues as: - perceptions and
views of small businesses about competition law; regulator
engagement and education of the SME sector; - the link between
competition law and economic growth; - franchising, SMEs and
competition law; issues in enforcing competition law against SMEs;
- the role of Chinese family firms; - trade, professional and
industry associations; - country case studies from Vietnam,
Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, South Korea, Hong Kong SAR,
Japan and the Pacific Islands.
This book employs a variety of economic and philosophical
methodologies in order to discover the philosophical implications
of creative destruction, competition regulation, and the role that
businesses or market agents play. Instead of discussing these
relations in a purely abstract manner, Schneider uses Uber to
illuminate important matters in economic and philosophical thought.
Schneider tells the following story: While creative destruction and
disruptive innovation change the entrepreneurial landscape,
regulation--especially the regulation of sectorial markets and
competition regulation- delay this change or even bring it to a
halt. Uber, as an agent in the market, is not just an object moved
by these two opposing forces. Rather, it plays an active role,
first as an agent of creative destruction and then in championing
regulations on its own terms.
This book combines practical guidance and theoretical background
for analysts using empirical techniques in competition and
antitrust investigations. Peter Davis and Eliana Garces show how to
integrate empirical methods, economic theory, and broad evidence
about industry in order to provide high-quality, robust empirical
work that is tailored to the nature and quality of data available
and that can withstand expert and judicial scrutiny. Davis and
Garces describe the toolbox of empirical techniques currently
available, explain how to establish the weight of pieces of
empirical work, and make some new theoretical contributions.
The book consistently evaluates empirical techniques in light of
the challenge faced by competition analysts and academics--to
provide evidence that can stand up to the review of experts and
judges. The book's integrated approach will help analysts clarify
the assumptions underlying pieces of empirical work, evaluate those
assumptions in light of industry knowledge, and guide future work
aimed at understanding whether the assumptions are valid.
Throughout, Davis and Garces work to expand the common ground
between practitioners and academics."
Strategic Alliances for SME Development is a volume in the book
series Research in Strategic Alliances that focuses on providing a
robust and comprehensive forum for new scholarship in the field of
strategic alliances. In particular, the books in the series cover
new views of interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks and models,
significant practical problems of alliance organization and
management, and emerging areas of inquiry. The series also includes
comprehensive empirical studies of selected segments of business,
economic, industrial, government, and non-profit activities with
wide prevalence of strategic alliances. Through the ongoing release
of focused topical titles, this book series seeks to disseminate
theoretical insights and practical management information that
should enable interested professionals to gain a rigorous and
comprehensive understanding of the field of strategic alliances.
Strategic Alliances for SME Development contains contributions by
leading scholars in the field of strategic alliance research. The
12 chapters in this volume deal with the increasingly significant
role of strategic alliances in the development of SMEs, covering
such diverse topics as management capability and
internationalization of alliance portfolios, building alliances,
development drivers, founder ties, competitive edge, strategic
alignment, technology and innovative firms, and temporary project
alliances. The chapters contain empirical as well as conceptual
treatments of the selected topics, and collectively present a
wide-ranging review of the noteworthy research perspectives on the
role of strategic alliances for the development of small and
medium-sized enterprises.
Work has changed forever. How can HR and leaders adapt? How can
they deal with the wellbeing and productivity crisis, address the
skills gap and build better organizations? This book has the
answer. Written by a leading voice in the people profession, The
New World of Work takes an evidence-based approach to provide
practical advice on how the business and employees can succeed. It
covers how to combat stalling productivity, poor wellbeing and the
increase in mental health issues in the workplace as well as the
need for agile learning, ways to close the skills gap and a
refreshingly realistic look at the impact of technology. There is
also essential discussion of job design, flexible working,
diversity and inclusion (D&I) and how to engage both an ageing
workforce and new Gen Z recruits. This book also includes guidance
on how to build a business which is responsible, trustworthy and
transparent, is based on the principles of 'good work' and is one
that employees are proud to work for. With global examples and case
studies from private and public sector organizations, The New World
of Work is the book that HR and business professionals need to
seize the opportunity and allow both the business and its people to
succeed.
Uncertainty in Entrepreneurial Decision Making fills an existing
gap in understanding three key concepts of business management:
entrepreneurship, uncertainty, and strategy. By extending the
impact of uncertainty on entrepreneurship and the role of strategy
in reducing uncertainty, Petrakis and Konstantakopoulou emphasize
that uncertainty can be converted into creative advantage. Given
that the business environment is changing both very quickly and
very often, any wrong decisions taken can lead to devastation. This
exciting new volume explains the reasons why we cannot see the
complete the future and our position in it. This uncertainty
affects entrepreneurship and how it can be turned into a
competitive advantage for businesses sustainability.
This book explores 'wicked entrepreneurship', or the proliferation
of evil that harms our economic and social transactions, as the
greatest socio-economic problem of our time and offers strategies
to identify and address this phenomenon.
For all the turmoil that roiled financial markets during the Great
Recession and its aftermath, Wall Street forecasts once again
turned bullish and corporate profitability soared to unprecedented
heights. How does capitalism consistently generate profits despite
its vulnerability to destabilizing events that can plunge the
global economy into chaos? The Great Levelerelucidates the crucial
but underappreciated role of the law in regulating capitalism's
rhythms of accumulation and growth. Brett Christophers argues that
capitalism requires a delicate balance between competition and
monopoly. When monopolistic forces become dominant, antitrust law
steps in to discourage the growth of giant corporations and restore
competitiveness. When competitive forces become dominant,
intellectual property law steps in to protect corporate assets and
encourage investment. These two sets of laws-antitrust and
intellectual property-have a pincer effect on corporate
profitability, ensuring that markets become neither monopolistic,
which would lead to rent-seeking and stagnation, nor overly
competitive, which would drive down profits. Christophers pursues
these ideas through a close study of the historical development of
American and British capitalist economies from the late nineteenth
century to the present, tracing the relationship between monopoly
and competition in each country and the evolution of legal
mechanisms for keeping these forces in check. More than an
illuminating study of the economic role of law, The Great Leveler
is a bold and fresh dissection of the anatomy of modern capitalism.
Coping with Retail Giants critically analyzes the modern retail
market and identifies how businesses gain the competitive edge over
the major retailers that currently control the market. Dr. Samli
argues that as society advances economically, consumers will seek
better values generated by the retailing sector.
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