NEIL KAY has been Professor of Business Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Strathclyde since 1989 and previously was Reader in the Department of Economics, Heriot-Watt University from 1979-1989. He is author of The Innovating Firm: A Behavioural Theory of R & D (Macmillan 1979), The Evolving Firm: Strategy and Structure in Industrial Organisation (Macmillan 1982), The Emergent Firm: Knowledge, Ignorance and Surprise in Economic Organisation (Macmillan 1984) and Pattern in Corporate Evolution (Oxford University Press 1997).

• Preface Acknowledgements Overview SECTION 1: CRITIQUES Industrial Structure, Rivalry and Innovation: Theory and Evidence How Economists Can Accept Shackles Critique of Economic Doctrines Without Arguing Themselves Out of Their Jobs Markets, False Hierarchies and the Evolution of the Modern Corporation The Economics of Trust SECTION 2: STRATEGIES The R&D Function; Corporate Strategy and Structure Boeing, Corporate Strategy and Technological Change Towards a Theory of Multinational Enterprise Collaborative Strategies of Firms; Theory and Evidence SECTION 3: POLICIES Industrial Collaborative Activity and the Completion of the Internal Market Mergers, Acquisitions and the Completion of the Internal Market Industrial Collaboration and the European Internal Market Bibliography Index

NEIL KAY has been Professor of Business Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Strathclyde since 1989 and previously was Reader in the Department of Economics, Heriot-Watt University from 1979-1989. He is author of The Innovating Firm: A Behavioural Theory of R & D (Macmillan 1979), The Evolving Firm: Strategy and Structure in Industrial Organisation (Macmillan 1982), The Emergent Firm: Knowledge, Ignorance and Surprise in Economic Organisation (Macmillan 1984) and Pattern in Corporate Evolution (Oxford University Press 1997).

• Preface Acknowledgements Overview SECTION 1: CRITIQUES Industrial Structure, Rivalry and Innovation: Theory and Evidence How Economists Can Accept Shackles Critique of Economic Doctrines Without Arguing Themselves Out of Their Jobs Markets, False Hierarchies and the Evolution of the Modern Corporation The Economics of Trust SECTION 2: STRATEGIES The R&D Function; Corporate Strategy and Structure Boeing, Corporate Strategy and Technological Change Towards a Theory of Multinational Enterprise Collaborative Strategies of Firms; Theory and Evidence SECTION 3: POLICIES Industrial Collaborative Activity and the Completion of the Internal Market Mergers, Acquisitions and the Completion of the Internal Market Industrial Collaboration and the European Internal Market Bibliography Index

NEIL KAY has been Professor of Business Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Strathclyde since 1989 and previously was Reader in the Department of Economics, Heriot-Watt University from 1979-1989. He is author of The Innovating Firm: A Behavioural Theory of R & D (Macmillan 1979), The Evolving Firm: Strategy and Structure in Industrial Organisation (Macmillan 1982), The Emergent Firm: Knowledge, Ignorance and Surprise in Economic Organisation (Macmillan 1984) and Pattern in Corporate Evolution (Oxford University Press 1997).

• Preface Acknowledgements Overview SECTION 1: CRITIQUES Industrial Structure, Rivalry and Innovation: Theory and Evidence How Economists Can Accept Shackles Critique of Economic Doctrines Without Arguing Themselves Out of Their Jobs Markets, False Hierarchies and the Evolution of the Modern Corporation The Economics of Trust SECTION 2: STRATEGIES The R&D Function; Corporate Strategy and Structure Boeing, Corporate Strategy and Technological Change Towards a Theory of Multinational Enterprise Collaborative Strategies of Firms; Theory and Evidence SECTION 3: POLICIES Industrial Collaborative Activity and the Completion of the Internal Market Mergers, Acquisitions and the Completion of the Internal Market Industrial Collaboration and the European Internal Market Bibliography Index