Business Cooperation: From Theory to Practice

by N. Peña, J. Fernández de Arroyabe, Kenneth A. Loparo

Overview

This book highlights the phenomenon of business cooperation from different theoretical approaches, and studies the most important aspects of the organisational design of cooperation. Part one studies the economic approach, organisational points of view, strategic points of view and the game theory approach. Part two studies a number of questions related to the analysis of the organisation design and cooperation, and the principal cases in which cooperation has the greatest relevance: technology and international cooperation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349431120
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2002
Edition description:	1st ed. 2002
Pages:	193
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

NIEVES ARRANZ PEÑA and JUAN CARLOS FERNANDEZ DE ARROYABE are both Economics Professors at the Facultad de Ciencias, Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: Theoretical Approaches of Business Cooperation The Cooperation from the Economic Point of View Cooperation Decision: A Strategic Choice Organisational Ways of Cooperation The Cooperation in the Game Theory Approach Decision, Negotiation and Cooperation Structure PART TWO: Principal Cases Enterprise International Cooperation Enterprise Cooperation in Technological Topics Technological Cooperation within the Frame of the National Innovative System