Search Results - "Competition"

Knowledge and competitive advantage the coevolution of firms, technology, and national institutions / by Murmann, Johann Peter, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…-- 4: The coevolution of national industries and institutions -- Overview of collective strategies -- Forging a national science capability -- Lobbying for a supportive patent system -- Influencing tariff laws -- 5: Toward an institutional theory of competitive advantage -- Theoretical gaps -- Evolutionary interpretation of the key findings -- A theory of coevolution -- Implications for industrial organization studies -- Opportunities for future research on industrial development -- A technological history of dyes -- Short description of databases on firms and plants.…”
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Can Germany be saved? the malaise of the world's first welfare state / by Sinn, Hans-Werner

Subjects: “…Competition, Unfair Germany.…”
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Germany in Central America competitive imperialism, 1821-1929 / by Schoonover, Thomas David, 1936-

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Japanese-German business relations cooperation and rivalry in the inter-war period / by Kudō, Akira, 1946-

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Zaha Hadid BMW Central Building / by Hadid, Zaha

Table of Contents: “…Data and chronology -- Architect's statement --Conversations with Zaha Hadid -- Competition -- Competition panels -- Design development -- Final drawings -- Execution -- Completed construction -- Credits -- Biography.…”
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Promised land Solms, Castro, and Sam Houston's colonization contracts / by Morgenthaler, George J.

Table of Contents: “…Context -- France meets Texas -- The colonization contracts -- Shifting diplomatic winds -- The nobles and the pilgrims -- France sours, Germany ponders -- Setbacks and preparations -- Solms -- The journey -- Welcome to Texas -- West to San Antonio -- Competition -- Missed connections -- Priorities -- The founders depart -- The tides turn -- The outcome -- Aftermath.…”
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Designing One Nation : The Politics of Economic Culture and Trade in Divided Germany, 1945-1990 / by Schreiter, Katrin

Table of Contents: “…Form Follows Function: Industrial Design and the Emergence of Postwar Economic Culture -- Producing Modern German Homes: The Economy of National Branding -- Intra-German Trade and the Aesthetic Dialectic of European Integration -- From Competition to Cooperation: Cold War Diplomacy of German Design -- Conservative Modernity: The Reception of Functionalism in German Living Rooms.…”
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The politics of religion in Soviet-occupied Germany the case of Berlin-Brandenburg, 1945-1949 / by Brennan, Sean (Sean Philip), 1979-

Table of Contents: “…The brown dictatorship before the red: the German churches under national socialism -- The question of the CDU and the churches during the period of the "antifascist transformation, "1945-1947 -- The Volkscongress movement and the end of the CDU's political independence, December 1946 -October1949 -- "Unity schools are secular schools": the struggle over religious education in the secondary schools of Berlin Brandenburg -- The competition between socialist and religious youth and women's organizations in Berlin-Brandenburg -- The conflict over charitable activity by the evangelical and Catholic churches in Berlin-Brandenburg -- "Christianity and Marxism are not in opposition": the propaganda offensive in East Germany concerning "religious freedom" under communism -- The Allied Religious Affairs Committee and the impossibility of a united religious policy for Germany.…”
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