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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 The World Economic Forum continues its tradition of excellence with the 27th edition of the annual Global Competitiveness Report featuring the latest national statistics and results of the Executive Opinion Survey, which captures the perception of over 10,000 business leaders. The report provides the most comprehensive assessment of 118 developed and emerging economies.   Publisher Summary 2 The World Economic Forum continues its tradition of excellence with the 27th edition of the annual Global Competitiveness Reportfeaturing the latest national statistics and results of the Executive Opinion Survey, which captures the perception of over 10,000 business leaders. The report provides the most comprehensive assessment of 117 developed and emerging economies. Produced in collaboration with a distinguished group of international scholars and a global network of over 100 leading national research institutes and business organizations, the report presents individual detailed country profiles highlighting the competitive strengths and weaknesses of each economy as well as an extensive section of data tables containing country rankings for over 160 indicators. The report also showcases the latest thinking and research on issues of immediate relevance for business leaders and policy-makers. The forthcoming Report is scheduled to include thought-provoking papers by Jagdish Bhagwati, Nicholas Eberstadt, Michael E. Porter, Kenneth Rogoff, Beatrice Weder and John Williamson.   Publisher Summary 3 The World Economic Forum continues its tradition of excellence with the 27th edition of the annual Global Competitiveness Reportfeaturing the latest national statistics and results of the Executive Opinion Survey, which captures the perception of over 10,000 business leaders. The report provides the most comprehensive assessment of 118 developed and emerging economies.  

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简介：In the course of the twentieth century, no war looms as profoundly transformative or as destructive as World War II. Its global scope and human toll reveal the true face of modern, industrialized warfare. Now, for the first time, we have a comprehensive, single-volume account of how and why this global conflict evolved as it did. A War To Be Won is a unique and powerful operational history of the Second World War that tells the full story of battle on land, on sea, and in the air. Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millett analyze the operations and tactics that defined the conduct of the war in both the European and Pacific Theaters. Moving between the war room and the battlefield, we see how strategies were crafted and revised, and how the multitudes of combat troops struggled to discharge their orders. The authors present incisive portraits of the military leaders, on both sides of the struggle, demonstrating the ambiguities they faced, the opportunities they took, and those they missed. Throughout, we see the relationship between the actual operations of the war and their political and moral implications. A War To Be Won is the culmination of decades of research by two of America's premier military historians. It avoids a celebratory view of the war but preserves a profound respect for the problems the Allies faced and overcame as well as a realistic assessment of the Axis accomplishments and failures. It is the essential military history of World War II--from the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the surrender of Japan in 1945--for students, scholars, and general readers alike.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 For undergraduate and graduate students and philosophers, Dancy (philosophy, U. of Reading, UK, and U. of Texas at Austin) et al. offer a comprehensive overview of epistemology. The first section of new review essays addresses ten recent developments: a priori knowledge, common sense, Bayesian epistemology, closure, epistemic virtue, contextualism, internalism vs. externalism, foundationalism vs. coherentism, perception, skepticism, and social epistemology. The subsequent sections consist of 20 self-profiles of leading epistemologists, like Fred Dretske, Alvin Goldman, Gilbert Harman, Alvin Plantinga, John Pollock, Timothy Williamson, and Linda Zagzebski, and their work in the field, followed by an alphabetical dictionary of entries on topics, figures, concepts, theories, and ideas in the field. This edition has been revised and extended and includes new and rewritten entries, including a priori, belief, William Alston, defeasibility, empiricism, luck, ethics, deontology, conversational implicature, evolutionary argument, feminist epistemology, intuition, memory, and relativism. Annotation 漏2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)   Publisher Summary 2 With nearly 300 entries on key concepts, review essays on central issues, and self-profiles by leading scholars, this companion is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume reference guide to epistemology.Epistemology from A-Z is comprised of聽296 articles on important epistemological concepts that have been extensively revised to bring the volume up-to-date, with many new and re-written entries reflecting developments in the fieldIncludes聽20 new self-profiles by leading epistemologistsContains聽10 new review essays on central issues of epistemology  

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 The Support Vector Machine is a powerful new learning algorithm for solving a variety of learning and function estimation problems, such as pattern recognition, regression estimation, and operator inversion. The impetus for this collection was a workshop on Support Vector Machines held at the 1997 NIPS conference. The contributors, both university researchers and engineers developing applications for the corporate world, form a Who's Who of this exciting new area. Contributors: Peter Bartlett, Kristin P. Bennett, Christopher J. C. Burges, Nello Cristianini, Alex Gammerman, Federico Girosi, Simon Haykin, Thorsten Joachims, Linda Kaufman, Jens Kohlmorgen, Ulrich Kressel, Davide Mattera, Klaus-Robert Muller, Manfred Opper, Edgar E. Osuna, John C. Platt, Gunnar Ratsch, Bernhard Scholkopf, John Shawe-Taylor, Alexander J. Smola, Mark O. Stitson, Vladimir Vapnik, Volodya Vovk, Grace Wahba, Chris Watkins, Jason Weston, Robert C. Williamson.  

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 The innovative approach to economic history known as the New Comparative Economic History represents a distinct change in the way that many economic historians view their role, do their work, and interact with the broader economics profession. The New Comparative Economic History reflects a belief that economic processes can best be understood by systematically comparing experiences across time, regions, and, above all, countries. It is motivated by current questions that are not nation specific--the sources of economic growth, the importance of institutions, and the impact of globalization--and focuses on long-run trends rather than short-run ups and downs in economic activity. The essays in this volume offer a New Economic Comparative History perspective on a range of topics and are written in honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson, the most distinguished and influential scholar in the field.The contributors, prominent American and European economists, consider such topics as migration, education, and wage convergence; democracy and protectionism in the nineteenth century; trade and immigration policies in labor-scarce economies; and the effect of institutions on European productivity and jobs.   Publisher Summary 2 Essays by internationally prominent economists examine long run cross-country economic trends from the perspective of New Comparative Economic History, an approach pioneered by Harvard economist Jeffrey G. Williamson.  

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简介：This book was first published in 1939. Its author, Robert W. Williamson, died in 1933. The volume was subsequently completed, and carefully edited, by Ralph Piddington, who drew upon Williamson's research at length in order to speculate whether the formation of a cohesive ethnology of Polynesia could be possible. This fascinating volume draws upon work within the field as well as historical and theoretical study, and is itself a valuable investigation of Polynesia's people. Williamson and Piddington discuss patterns of migration between these pacific islands and from Polynesia to Oceania, before speculating on the effects this has on the islands' own history and culture. The authors also place particular emphasis on the laws and traditions of Polynesians, their personal and political relationships, and their views on war, courtship and matrimony. The investigations of Williamson and Piddington are further supported by a number of photographs showing tribal dress, dance, and ceremony.

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简介：　　In the 1930s, Henry and Helen Williamson arrive on the French Riviera looking for a house. Barely thirty, Henry has been forced to retire from the Indian civil service through ill-health. They fall in love with the dreamlike Lou Paradou and set about constructing a life of ease, and a ravishing garden. But as the political conflict gathers, so the atmosphere of their new home becomes increasingly unquiet and a tragic fate befalls them. THE LONG AFTERNOON enchants and involves the reader, just as the Williamsons' garden seduces its visitors.　　

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简介：Harrison (New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, Sydney) and Williamson (heritage consultant, Melbourne) introduce this collection by explaining that they chose its title to evoke the figure central to Australia's colonial mythology, who is also a figure in Indigenous literature critiquing those myths. The title captures the central subject of the volume: the application of the historical archeology of Aboriginal Australia in researching the shared history of Aboriginal and settler Australians. Drawing on case studies from across the continent, the contributors demonstrate the ways archeology can illuminate the responses of Indigenous Australians to European settlement and colonization. Annotation 漏2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 A landmark anthology draws on a range of thought and spiritual perspectives--from Judeo-Christian to Buddhist to Wicca--to explain how to negotiate the changing world of the future, in contributions from Mariannne Williamson, Joan Broysenko, Gloria Steinem, Starhawk, and others. 50,000 first printing. One Spirit.   Publisher Summary 2 Draws on a range of thought and spiritual perspectives--from Judeo-Christian to Buddhist to Wicca--to explain how to negotiate the changing world of the future  

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简介：One of America's great novelists, William Faulkner was a writer deeply rooted in the American South. In works such as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light In August,and Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner drew powerfully on Southernthemes, attitudes, and atmosphere to create his own world and place - the mythical Yoknapatawpha County - peopled with quintessential Southerners such as the Compsons, Sartorises, Snopes, and McCaslins. Indeed, to a degree perhaps unmatched by any other major twentieth-century novelist, Faulkner remained at home and explored his own region - the history and culture and people of the South. Now, in William Faulkner and Southern History, one of America's most acclaimed historians of the South, Joel Williamson, weaves together a perceptive biography of Faulkner himself, an astute analysis of his works, and a revealing history of Faulkner's ancestors in Mississippi -a family history that becomes, in Williamson's skilled hands, a vivid portrait of Southern culture itself. Williamson provides an insightful look at Faulkner's ancestors, a group sketch so brilliant that the family comes alive almost as vividly as in Faulkner's own fiction. Indeed, his ancestors often outstrip his characters in their colorful and bizarre nature. Williamson has made several discoveries: the Falkners (William was the first to spell it "Faulkner") were not planter, slaveholding "aristocrats"; Confederate Colonel Falkner was not an unalloyed hero, and he probably sired, protected, and educated a mulatto daughter who married into America's mulatto elite; Faulkner's maternal grandfather Charlie Butler stole the town's money and disappeared in the winter of 1887-1888, never to return. Equally important, Williamson uses these stories to underscore themes of race, class, economics, politics, religion, sex and violence, idealism and Romanticism - "the rainbow of elements in human culture" - that reappearin Faulkner's work. He also shows that, while Faulkner's ancestors were no ordinary people, and while he sometimes flashed a curious pride in them, Faulkner came to embrace a pervasive sense of shame concerning both his family and his culture. This he wove into his writing, especially about sex, race, class, and violence - psychic and otherwise. . William Faulkner and Southern History represents an unprecedented publishing event - an eminent historian writing on a major literary figure. By revealing the deep history behind the art of the South's most celebrated writer, Williamson evokes new insights and deeper understanding, providing anyone familiar with Faulkner's great novels with a host of connections between his work, his life, and his ancestry.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Twenty-seven unpredictable, eccentric, and far-from-stodgy British designers are showcased in narrative profiles, interviews, and, of course, abundant color photos of some of their creations. The focus is on some of the international powerhouses of the last ten years, with some investigation of how Britishness informs their work. Some of the names: Louis Goldin, Nathan Jenden, Burberry Prorsum, Vivienne Westwood, Christopher Kane. The author is a London-based fashion writer and journalist. Annotation 漏2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)   Publisher Summary 2 This is the first book to embrace the whole of the UK and its creative influence on international fashion. It is aimed at industry professionals, students, and anyone with an interest in fashion. Both inspirational and informative, it will also appeal as a coffee-table book, being visually inspiring and modern. The UK is a creative and cultural melting pot for international designers to develop their creative identity. London Fashion Week is renowned for showing an edgier breed of fashion designer, and for celebrating cutting-edge couture that pushes the boundaries of convention. This book focuses on the British designers since 2000 who have made their influence resonate globally: designers such as Stella McCartney, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan, Vivienne Westwood, John Galliano, Julien Macdonald, Giles Deacon, Matthew Williamson, and Paul Smith. Each chapter is devoted to one designer and defines visually how Britishness informs their work, showing final collections, process work, and studio space. Text in the form of questionsand answers or running text illustrates each designer's British influence and distinct style.  

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 The two editors started exchanging ideas for this reader about ten years ago until the opportunity arose to bring it to fruition. They invited original contributions as well as suggestions for materials to reprint or excerpt. What they have assembled is a far-reaching anthology composed of 50 essays, poems, and reprinted pieces, accompanied by a section of 16 full-page color plates and numerous b&w images. Writings by Mies van der Rohe and Mircea Eliade are included, and essays address a startling array of topics. A sampling: the dark side of Bauhaus, the Gnostic dimension of abstraction in modern architecture, the spiritual basis of creativity, Louis Kahn and the language of God, and Jewish space 1978-present, among other topics. In fact, the editors had to winnow down the selections from a surplus of good ones, and they envision future volumes to accommodate the surplus and expand the scope even further to include eastern religions and architecture. Hejduk is affiliated with the design department at Arizona State U.; Williamson, with the architecture department at Cornell U. Annotation 漏2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)  

Macroeconomics / Canadian ed.

作者：  Stephen D. Williamson.

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An introduction to animal husbandry in the tropics /

作者：  G. Williamson and W.J.A. Payne.

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简介：In this volume the author aims to summarize knowledge of tropical livestock husbandry which could be useful for students, extension and development specialists, administrators and progressive farmers. For this edition all the chapters have been updated and rewritten. The section on forage in chapter 3 has been discarded as detailed information is now available in other publications. Information that was provided in the appendix "nomadism in Africa" has been absorbed into chapter 5, in which production systems are discussed in some detail. A new chapter "The Donkey" has been added in order to improve the overall coverage of tropical livestock species, whilst in the final chapter information on all animal fibres, and not only wool, is reviewed. An ELBS/LPBB edition is available.

Shadow effect:illuminating the hidden power of your true self

作者：  狄帕克·乔布拉(Deepak Chopra)，黛比·福特(Debbie Ford)，玛莉安·威廉森(Marianne Williamson)著;谢明宪译

出版社：天下远见出版股份有限公司,2011

简介：　　唯有當我們有勇氣如實面對事物，不帶任何自欺或幻覺，事情才會出現光明，因而認出通往成功的道路。 　　遭到排斥的，他會反撲。 　　遭到壓抑的，他會反攻。 　　當我們將不想要的自己藏進陰影裡時，他還是存在的。 　　而且反而會成為控制我們的力量，讓我們做出自己從未想過的事。 　　誰的人生裡沒有陰影？ 　　陰影會摧毀我們的人生，卻也會為我們帶來禮物。 　　你想怎麼面對陰影呢？ 　　最美好的你，尚未成形， 　　潛藏在陰影裡的巨大寶藏，正等著你去拿回來。 　　這是一趟最深沈的自我之旅，也是一趟最能完整療癒自己的內在之旅。 　　不入虎穴，焉得虎子。 　　這本書帶給我們最棒的訊息是，我們最光明、最輝煌燦爛、最偉大的自己，就在陰影當中。 　　走進陰影中，你才有機會知道，這一生你會有多不可思議的轉變！ 　　我們的陰影誕生得很早，可能從第一聲惹爸媽不高興的啼哭，就開始存在了。 　　在陰影之下，我們把自己掩藏得多深，或許連自己都不知道。 　　請給自己一次機會，透過這本書的陪伴，走入陰影。 　　這三位作者，各有多年的經驗，深盼能畢其功於一役，將陰影解釋個透徹明白。 　　從這本書，你會明白自己的陰影是怎麼出現的、他存在哪裡、怎麼影響你的生活，又如何讓你逐漸喪失力量，甚至做出自己都沒想過的事。 　　當然，你一定也會明白該如何面對陰影、接納陰影，與陰影共處，甚至獲得陰影的支持，收到他想帶給你的獨特禮物。 　　讀完這本書，你永遠再也不會以同樣的方式來看待自己的陰影。 　　這輩子，我們那樣努力地隱藏自己，現在，我們不只可以放下這個重擔，還可以從陰影中，將自己被壓抑的潛能完全發揮出來，找回愛，也找回真實完整的自我。　　

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Policymakers are often hard-pressed to understand what economists have to say on policy issues, and scholars and students need to know what the latest research findings are and what questions remain unanswered. Fiscal Policy: Lessons from Economic Research presents the work of leading contributors to the public finance literature. The papers were originally presented at a 1996 conference sponsored by the Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance at the University of California, Berkeley.Although the papers are broad in scope, they are not intended to be neutral, comprehensive surveys of the literature. Instead, authors were encouraged to focus on the issues they thought most important or interesting. The conference confirmed that on some questions there is a broad consensus, and on others there is strong disagreement. Because perspectives differ, after each paper two discussants offer their own views on the subject. More so than in many conference volumes, these comments are an integral part of each presentation.The eight chapters fall into three subject areas: government budget management and control, federal entitlement programs, and attempts to influence private sector behavior through tax code management.Contributors : Henry J. Aaron, B. Douglas Bernheim, David M. Cutler, Nada Eissa, Jeffrey Frankel, William G. Gale, Roger H. Gordon, Edward M. Gramlich, Bronwyn H. Hall, Kevin A. Hassett, James R. Hines, Jr., Hilary Williamson Hoynes, R. Glenn Hubbard, Robert P. Inman, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Robert A. Moffitt, Joseph P. Newhouse, James M. Poterba, John M. Quigley, Robert D. Reischauer, David Romer, Daniel L. Rubinfeld, John B. Shoven, Jonathan S. Skinner, Joel Slemrod, John B. Taylor.   Publisher Summary 2 The eight chapters in this volume fall into three subject areas: government budget management and control, federal entitlement programs, and attempts to influence private sector behavior through tax code management.  

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简介：What methodology should philosophers follow? Should they rely on methods that can be conducted from the armchair? Or should they leave the armchair and turn to the methods of the natural sciences, such as experiments in the laboratory? Or is this opposition itself a false one? Arguments about philosophical methodology are raging in the wake of a number of often conflicting currents, such as the growth of experimental philosophy, the resurgence of interest in metaphysical questions, and the use of formal methods. This outstanding collection of specially-commissioned chapters by leading international philosophers discusses these questions and many more. It provides a comprehensive survey of philosophical methodology in the most important philosophical subjects: metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, philosophy of science, ethics, and aesthetics. A key feature of the collection is that philosophers discuss and evaluate contrasting approaches in each subject, offering a superb overview of the variety of methodological approaches - both naturalistic and non-naturalistic - in each of these areas. They examine important topics at the heart of methodological argument, including the role of intuitions and conceptual analysis, thought experiments, introspection, and the place that results from the natural sciences should have in philosophical theorizing. The collection begins with a fascinating exchange about philosophical naturalism between Timothy Williamson and Alexander Rosenberg, and also includes contributions from the following philosophers: Lynne Rudder Baker, Matt Bedke, Greg Currie, Michael Devitt, Matthew C. Haug, Jenann Ismael, Hilary Kornblith, Neil Levy, E.J. Lowe, Kirk Ludwig, Marie McGinn, David Papineau, Matthew Ratcliffe, Georges Rey, Jeffrey W. Roland, Barry C. Smith, Amie L. Thomasson, Valerie Tiberius, Jessica Wilson, and David W. Smith.

单飞天下:最适合“她旅行”的50个地方

作者：  (美)特雷莎·罗德里格斯·威廉姆斯(Teresa Rodriguez Williamson)著;张宏浩译

出版社：上海人民出版社,2009

简介：　　 外面是一个广阔的世界，女孩儿们如何走出去、去征服这个世界—— 　　这本书给出了精彩的答案。无论是在夏威夷冲浪，还是在圣彼得堡的鹅卵 　　石街道漫步，无论是在都柏林畅饮，还是在加勒比海与海豚们游泳嬉戏， 　　女孩儿们都可以投入到广阔世界的怀抱，谱写一段永不褪色的回忆，而且 　　还是和最棒的旅行伴侣一起——女孩儿自己！这是一本鼓舞人心的指南， 　　专为想要单飞天下的女孩儿们所写——旅途中单飞的同时，一定要保证安 　　全、保持冷静，同时也要控制开销。书中有最恳切的建议和关于全球最迷 　　人去处的内部消息： 　　 一个简单的测试来帮助你选择最适合你个性、兴趣和构想的旅游类型 　　。 　　 女孩儿必去——每一个女孩儿都不应该错过的好去处。 　　 为什么书中的每一个目的地都是单身旅行者的绝佳去处；重要的外语 　　词汇；行李应该带些什么；穿什么鞋；特别事件；历史知识；到哪里去邂 　　逅各国名人；一张列出女孩儿旅游时最应该做的10件事的清单。 　　 在哪里用餐、交友、派对、观望人群、日光浴、静心自省、购物、泡 　　温泉、玩闹、拍照等等。 　　 这次精神之旅是不是有些令人难以置信？这似乎比你曾经的旅行经历 　　令人兴奋得多！在本书中，我们游览了50个最适合女性单独旅行的地方， 　　有超过500种各种各样的活动推荐给你。 　　 我相信，一个人周游世界一直以来是你想要尝试的事情，而如今有了 　　这本好用的指南书在身边，你至少要到其中的一个，甚至好几个地方去旅 　　行了。如果你刚刚从一个人的旅行中回来，那你便已经加入我们的“单飞 　　姐妹聚乐部”了。对于还没有准备好进入单飞旅行阵营的姑娘们来说，不 　　妨约上朋友们一块儿去探险，体验这些文字中讲述的动人故事。没错，这 　　本书是为单飞姐妹而写的，你能在这里找到你想要的东西。 　　 还等什么？该是上路，创造你自己的旅行故事的时候了！ 　　 北京、上海、广州、深圳、成都、厦门、纽约、巴黎、东京、伦敦、 　　柏林、维也纳……她们住在这里，她们从这里出发。50个倩影，50段日记 　　，她们单飞天下！ 　　

中小企业集群社会资本再生产研究[电子资源.图书]

作者：  毛文静著

出版社：经济科学出版社,2008

简介：　　《中小企业集群社会资本再生产研究》就是对中小企业集群社会资本再生产进行研究。中小企业集群的成长、发展得到各国、各界的普遍关注和研究。综观世界，发展良好的中小企业集群都积累了丰富的社会资本。紧密联系、高度信任、互惠规范、合作精神等是成功中小企业集群的重要特征。正如威廉姆森(Williamson，1975)所指出的，当一个中小企业集群出现时，它不一定就是有效率的集群；而一个有效率的企业集群必定有着广泛的社会联系和相互信任。因此，信任、承诺和密切联系等社会资本的丰富与否直接影响着中小企业集群的成长壮大。如何增加、积累和发展社会资本是中小企业集群研究的一个重要领域。 　　中小企业是各国经济发展中的一支重要力量，占据举足轻重的地位。促进中小企业发展是一项重要而紧迫的世界性课题。相关企业与组织簇群而居、共生共荣的集群模式是中小企业成长壮大的战略选择。无论在美国、英国、德国、法国、意大利等发达国家，还是在中国、印度、巴西、墨西哥等发展中国家，中小企业集群都比比皆是、不胜枚举，对国家或地区经济的发展起着不可忽视和不可替代的重要作用。如，美国的硅谷的电子业集群、意大利的普拉托毛纺业集群、印度的班加罗尔软件业集群、我国浙江的义乌小商品业集群、温州的打火机业集群等尽人皆知。世界各地的中小企业集群已如雨后春笋般茁壮成长。　　

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简介：This collection of papers is edited by renowned business thinker Oliver Williamson, who is currently Transamerica Professor of Corporate Strategy at the School of Business Administration at Berkeley. The fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Chester I. Barnard's remarkable and still influential book, The Functions of the Executive , was celebrated with a seminar series at the University of California, Berkeley in the Spring of 1988. Eight of those lectures are published here. The contributors include organization specialists and sociologists (Barbara Levitt and James March; W. Richard Scott; Glenn Carroll; Jeffrey Pfeffer), an anthropologist, a political scientist, and two economists (Mary Douglas; Terry Moe; Oliver Hart; Oliver Williamson). An important contribution to organization theory, this volume reports on recent progress in this field, and projects a productive research future.