Focusing on the innovation processes within manufacturing firms, the book explores how new products and production methods are developed and marketed. It delves into sources of innovative ideas, the impact of R&D, and the role of patent protection and government policies. Additionally, it assesses the influence of innovation on employment and performance metrics like profitability and exports. The analysis highlights differences in innovation strategies between small and large firms, as well as domestic and multinational companies, while incorporating insights from other industrialized nations.
Focusing on the dynamics of innovation within Canadian manufacturing firms, this study examines the interplay between various actors in the innovation ecosystem, highlighting competition and collaboration. It analyzes how innovation practices vary by firm size and industry, with particular emphasis on foreign-owned enterprises due to Canada's significant foreign investment. By comparing Canadian innovation regimes with those from other industrialized nations, it reveals that successful innovators leverage both internal resources and external partnerships to create effective strategies, relying on a diverse range of knowledge sources beyond just R&D.
The book explores contractual failures in Canada's natural monopoly cases, utilizing transaction-cost theory from Oliver Williamson. It investigates the reasons behind the breakdown of initial contracts between the state and private enterprises, highlighting how these failures frequently led to the adoption of public enterprise over regulatory tribunals. Baldwin's analysis sheds light on the complexities of state-private relations and the implications for economic governance in monopolistic sectors.
The Dynamics of Industrial Competition provides the first extensive quantitative examination of the processes associated with competition: entry and exit, mergers, growth and decline of incumbent firms. It uses a unique data base to investigate phenomena that have rarely been measured and even more rarely set side by side so as to provide a comprehensive picture of the intensity of competition and its effects on productivity, efficiency and profitability. It will be of interest to all social scientists who are concerned with the workings of markets--economists, political scientists, government specialists, as well as antitrust lawyers.
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION FOR EVERYDAY LIFE Face the global challenges of the future with this accessible introduction to communication across boundaries Communication between cultures can be challenging in a number of ways, but it also carries immense potential rewards. In an increasingly connected world, it has never been more important to communicate across a range of differences created by history and circumstance. Contributing to global communities and rising to meet crucial shared challenges―human rights disputes, refugee crises, the international climate crisis―depends, in the first instance, on a sound communicative foundation. Intercultural Communication for Everyday Life provides a thorough introduction to this vital subject for students encountering it for the first time. Built around a robust and multifaceted definition of culture, which goes far beyond simple delineation of national boundaries, it offers an understanding of its subject that transcends US-centricity. The result, updated to reflect dramatic ongoing changes to the interconnected world, is essential for students of cross―cultural communication and exchange. Readers of the second edition of Intercultural Communication for Everyday Life readers will also Intercultural Communication for Everyday Life is essential for students and other readers seeking a foundational overview of this subject.
