The Third Industrial Revolution in Global Business

Herausgeber: Dosi, Giovanni; Galambos, Louis

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this volume probe the impact the digital revolution has had, or sometimes failed to have, on global business. Has digital technology, the authors ask, led to structural changes and greater efficiency and innovation? While most of the essays support the idea that the information age has increased productivity in global business, the evidence of a 'revolution' in the ways industries are organized is somewhat more blurred, with both significant discontinuities and features which persist from the 'second' industrial revolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 732g
• ISBN-13: 9781107028616
• ISBN-10: 1107028612
• Artikelnr.: 36956404

Inhaltsangabe

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.