ACADEMIC BOOKS
2025
Handbook of Grand Challenges in Global Production and Innovation Networks
This Handbook is a comprehensive resource that brings together international experts to discuss sustainability and propose a new framework for cross-disciplinary research. It evaluates sustainability in relation to global production and innovation networks, addressing pressing challenges such as climate change, deforestation, desertification, technological advancement, and rising social inequality. The handbook highlights the importance of supply chain management and critical approaches to sustainability, including ethnographic drone interventions in the Global South. It also presents forward-thinking suggestions for future academic research, illustrating the need for scholars to think beyond established disciplinary boundaries to leverage synergies between fields. This handbook is beneficial for students and academics in international business, economics, and development studies, and its insights into the Sustainable Development Goals make it an essential tool for practitioners in sustainability, supply chain management, and entrepreneurship.
2011
This Handbook is the first attempt to adapt the IS approach to developing countries from a theoretical and empirical viewpoint.
The Handbook brings eminent scholars in economics, innovation and development studies together with promising young researchers to review the literature and push theoretical boundaries. They critically review the IS approach and its adequacy for developing countries, discuss the relationship between IS and development, and address the question of how it should be adapted to the realities of developing nations.
2006
Asia´s Innovation System in Transition
The success of Asian economies (first Japan, then Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and, more recently, China and India) has made it tempting to look for ‘an Asian model of development’. However, the strength of Asian development lies less in strategies that reproduce successful national systems of innovation and more in the capacity for institutional change to open up new development trajectories with greater emphasis on knowledge and learning. The select group of contributors demonstrate that although there are important differences among Asian countries in terms of institutional set-ups supporting innovation, government policies and industrial structures, they share common transitional processes to cope with the globalizing learning economy.