Overview
- Introduces a new analytical framework that applies ideas from biogenetics to the study of business dynamics and economic thinking
- Includes case studies of large Internet companies such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and Samsung, which illustrate the dynamics of ‘business ecosystems’
- Maximizes readers' insights into how selected technology companies adapt to major changes in their respective business environments
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
• Economics of technical change
• Evolutionary economics and institutionalism
• Evolutionary Economic geography
• Innovation systems
Jon Mikel Zabala is a postdoc researcher at the University of Deusto. He graduated as an engineer in industrial organization at the University of Mondragon (2002) and holds a European Ph.D. in engineering and innovation projects from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (2008). Between 2009 and 2013 he held a postdoctoral position at CIRCLE, Lund University (Sweden). He was also a visiting scholar at the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) in 2006. His research focuses on the following areas:
• Innovation policy
• Policy evaluation
• Innovation Systems
• Innovation management
Jon Barrutia is a Professor of Management and Business Economics at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao. He has extensive academic and professional experience in various high-level academic and administrative positions. From 1990 to 1995 he was Vice Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at the University of the Basque Country, where he subsequently served (from 1996 to 1999) as Vice Rector of the University. In 1999 he was appointed asa Director of Universities in the Basque Government, a position he held until 2001. He then held the office of Vice Councilor of University and Research of the Basque Government between 2001 and 2006. Since 1987 he has been a member of the European Academy of Management and Business Economics, and since 2009 he has been Head of the Department of Management and Business Economics at the University of the Basque Country. As a lecturer, he has taught courses on organizational theory and public management at the undergraduate, executive education, MBA and PhD levels. E-mail: jon.barrutia@ehu.es
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dynamics of Big Internet Industry Groups and Future Trends
Book Subtitle: A View from Epigenetic Economics
Editors: Miguel Gómez-Uranga, Jon Mikel Zabala-Iturriagagoitia, Jon Barrutia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31147-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-31145-6Published: 11 April 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80975-5Published: 25 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31147-0Published: 31 March 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 254
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour
Topics: R & D/Technology Policy, Management of Computing and Information Systems, Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing