The first volume in a major new series, this book will be an essential read for all those who need to deal with the causes and consequences of rapid technological change in an increasingly globalized world, whether they be government policy-makers, managers of multi-national corporations, commentators on the international scene or specialists in and students of international politics, economics and business studies. The authors discuss three related areas: * How do we think about technology and international relations/international political economy? How does technology relate to competitiveness? How does it inlfuence our culture and how is it influenced by it? * In what sense is technology a fundamental component of national competitive advantage and what ought national, local and corporate policy to be in the light of this? * What is the relationship between technological innovation and global political and economic change? Technology is discussed not just in an instrumental sense - as a tool of power and an object of policy - but equally in a transcendental sense - as a key to shaping and structuring how we understand and interpret reality. The final section of the book presents case studies of three core sectors of the world political economy, finance , aviation and automobiles.

'ABCDE 2009 Global' presents selected papers from the ABCDE meetings, held June 9-11, 2008 in Cape Town South Africa. This volume presents papers on Trade and Investment; Migration, Remittances, and Transition from Foreign Aid; Higher Education and High-tech Industries; Human Development; and Political Economy.

A guide to the technical, political and economic agenda for aerospace in the next decade and beyond. It focuses on the consolidated American aerospace industry, which has undergone $100 billion worth of merger activity, and the task of rationalism and consolidation in the European industry.

This book picks Cisco as an example to propose a framework of ambidextrous integration of innovation and operation, which is the key to the success of global companies along their evolutions, especially for those technology companies. The authors try to find how the company combines active innovation and efficient operation for its sustainable development. On the basis of comprehensive analysis of the strategic leadership, change management, innovation system, M&As, IT-enabled value chains, collaboration, etc., in Cisco, as well as the interviews with Cisco staff, this book shows that management practices shape the balance of internal-external resources for explorative-exploitative innovations. IT strategies and implementation enable efficient operations when innovations are identified and justified in the leading company. Managerial insights for sustainable competitiveness can be gained from Cisco practices in this book. The companion of the book, Huawei: From Catching up to Lead, telling another growth path of technology company in China by similar framework.

The aim of this book is to consider theoretically the notion of the global competitiveness of regions, as well as giving attention as to how such competitiveness may be empirically measured. With this in mind, the book has three specific objectives: first, to place the concept of regional competitiveness within the context of regional economic development theory; second, to present a rationale and method for quantifying the global competitiveness of regions; and, third, to undertake the most geographically widespread analysis of regional competitiveness differences across the globe. With regard to the third goal, the analysis incorporates more than 500 regions across Europe, North and South America, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and the so-called BRIC economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China. The importance of the concept of competitiveness has increased rapidly in recent years, with the issues surrounding it becoming, at the same time, more empirically refined and theoretically complex. The focus on regions reflects the growing consensus that they are the primary spatial units that compete to attract investment, and it is at the regional level that knowledge is circulated and transferred, resulting in agglomerations, or clusters, of industrial and service sector enterprises. This growing acknowledgement of the region’s role as a key spatial unit of organisation has led to attention turning to competitiveness at a more regional level. The book explores the results of the World Competitiveness Index of Regions (WCIR), covering the rankings and results of the 2014 edition. The WCIR provides a tool for analysing the development of a range of regional economies across the globe. It enables an illustration of the changing patterns of regional competitiveness on the international stage to be generated. In fundamental terms, the WCIR aims to produce an integrated and overall benchmark of the knowledge capacity, capability, and sustainability of each region, and the extent to which this knowledge is translated into economic value and transferred into the wealth of the citizens of each region.

Published in 1998. Rapidly advancing information technology plays an important role in the formation of new corporate organizations. Some people say, in fact, that the Internet itself may well suggest a future corporate organization. Under these circumstances, how is the corporate culture, which is integral to the organization, to be duly taken? What is an appropriate culture to the would-be future business organization, which will necessarily be all the more supported and strengthened by information technology? In the author's view, the cultures fit in well with the structure of enterprise competitiveness can readily evolve into the 21st century organization. Such a culture would, with no difficulty, find an arena of its own in the future organization and eventually become integral to the company.

領導人的自我修練 不論您身處何處，全球經濟已明顯地進入另一個動盪世代。企業與老百姓對大環境的不確定感，也自然四處流竄。 不論過去如何輝煌，此時總不免想到一己的有限。重新檢視自我，思索如何有效維持自己的競爭力，自然又成了每個人、每個組織的要務之一。 這種壓力對肩負責任的領導人與中高階幹部更是直接。 這也正是本期《哈佛商業評論》全球繁體中文版規畫「領導人的自我修練」主題的主要思考。 面對變動的潮流，我們必須快速回應。但什麼該變，什麼不變；要改變的，又該如何改變。 細心讀完本期，可以找到一些做好自我修練功課的竅門： 首先，要想清楚，該如何做好這門功課。 我們可由哈佛名師柯普朗（Robert S. Kaplan）執筆的〈領導最好的自己〉（Reaching Your Potential）一文入手。柯普朗創造了平衡計分卡、策略地圖等重要管理工具，此次焦點、筆風一變，具體列出領導幹部尋找自我目標的三個角度。善用柯普朗的工具，不會如汪洋中不知往何處去的焦急船長。 其次，領導人務必在實踐中學習。 肩負組織交付的使命，領導人沒法停下腳步靜思出路。換言之，領導人的學習成長，都是在作中進行的。由艾蒙森（Edmonson）所寫的〈知識領導戰〉（The Competitive Imperative of Learning），明述身處今日的知識經濟時代，績效愈來愈難具體衡量，企業必須將執行與學習結合，讓幹部、員工在享有安全感的情況下，不斷成長。 第三，領導人要留給自己時間與空間，來進行 自我修練。 就如〈知識領導戰〉一文分析，過去的生產線式管理模式已不適用。知識經濟時代的績效反應在學習能力與成果。組織必須給幹部時間與空間，去思考、去探索。 自我修練的結果，最終反應在成功贏得部屬衷心支持的組織。 領導人，不論是基層還是高層，能調教出士氣高昂、戰鬥力強、又彼此歸屬的團隊，的確能產生不凡的成績。但是領導人切記，領導的地位不僅來自組織的授權，更來自團隊的認可與接納。因此，領導人必須如履薄冰，堅定自持。由艾森史泰特（Russel A. Eisenstat）等所著的〈不妥協的領導〉（The Uncompromising Leader），直接點醒領導迷思，強調作領導在許多方面可以有彈性，唯在部屬向心力與團隊績效兩項，不能打折扣，不得妥協。 而由諾瑞亞（Nitin Nohria）等三位所撰的〈激勵領導力〉（Employee Motivation：A Powerful New Model）則以新的角度探究領導人應如何遂行激勵。他們發現，績效不是唯一的依據。高昂的士氣來自來自領導人均衡照顧團隊的競爭、感情、智識、與安全感等物質與心理需求。 領導人必須學習以新思維去重新定義原有的管理職能。本期的〈打造明日領導人〉（Why Did We Ever Go Into HR?）以及〈跨國運籌的財務長〉（The Finance of Global Corporation）兩文也正反應傳統的人資與財務功能，已成為企業決勝的策略要項，而不再是單純行政與會計。 輕忽修練功課的領導人，將面對日益困難的處境；而持續修練的領導人，同樣面對挑戰，他們必然可以更自信、更沉穩地應對。

The fast-evolving relationship between the promotion of welfare-enhancing competition and the balanced protection of intellectual property (IP) rights has attracted the attention of policymakers, analysts and scholars. This interest is inevitable in an environment that lays ever greater emphasis on the management of knowledge and innovation and on mechanisms to ensure that the public derives the expected social and economic benefits from this innovation and the spread of knowledge. This book looks at the positive linkage between IP and competition in jurisdictions around the world, surveying developments and policy issues from an international and comparative perspective. It includes analysis of key doctrinal and policy issues by leading academics and practitioners from around the globe and a cutting-edge survey of related developments across both developed and developing economies. It also situates current policy developments at the national level in the context of multilateral developments, at WIPO, WTO and elsewhere.