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dear AIB list,
just wanted to announce a new book has recently been published titled:
Routledge – 2014 – 376 pages
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
The book presents new studies who use state-of-the-art methodologies and extensive sources of firm level longitudinal data to analyze three major economic issues: entrepreneurship, new firm formation and growth; productivity-innovation-growth nexus; globalization, multinational firms and producers’ dynamics.
The book is the product of a series of researches carried out by distinguished scholars in the field, and it includes contributions from: 1. Marco Vivarelli (Entrepreneurship And Post-Entry Performance: The Microeconomic Evidence) 2. Marcello D’Amato, Christian Di Pietro, Riccardo Martina (Gibrat's Law, Firms' Growth (and decline) and the Evolution of Firms' Size Distribution) 3. Sergio Destefanis, Lisa Crosato, Piero Ganugi (Firm Size Distribution and Returns to Scale. Non-Parametric Frontier Estimates from Italian Manufacturing) 4. Silvio Esteve Pérez, Fabio Pieri, Diego Rodríguez (Innovation, growth and survival of Spanish manufacturing firms) 5. Virginie Vial (Survival of the Fittest: Productivity versus Corruption Effects) 6. Joakim Wagner, Alexander Vogel (Innovation and Exports of German Business Services Enterprises: First Evidence from a New Type of Firm Data) 7. Michael Gasiorek, Novella Bottini (Young, Small and Export Oriented: the Moroccan Winners?) 8. Giulio Bottazzi, Angelo Secchi (Financial fragility and the distribution of firm growth rates: A Quantile Regressions Approach) 9. Riadh Ben Jelili (Determinants of Entry and Exit: Evidence from Tunisian Manufacturing Industries) 10. Elisa Gerussi, Holger Görg, Aoife Hanley (Foreign Direct Investment and Firm Survival in Transition Countries) 11. Erol Taymaz, Kamil Yilmaz (Foreign Ownership, Survival and Growth Dynamics in Turkish Manufacturing) 12. Anna M. Ferragina, Fernanda Mazzotta (Foreign investment and firm selection in Italy: the role of linkages and absorptive capacity) 13. Roger Bandick (Global Activities and Plant Survival - The Case of Sweden) 14. Celeste Varum, Vera Rocha (Firm Survival and Employment Dynamics during Crises) 15. Anna M. Ferragina, Erol Taymaz, Kamil Yilmaz (What have We Learned? Lessons for Enterprise Policy)
The approach adopted is both theoretical and empirical with consideration of paradigmatic case studies in Europe, Africa and Asia.
Each chapter includes a detailed discussion of the implications of the respective analyses for enterprise policy. In a concluding chapter the overall implications for enterprise policy are drawn by the Editors. framework.
The book is an essential reading for scholars and students concerned with industry development, public policy and globalization, as well as to all those involved professionally in such issues.
Best regards.