Economics of industrial organization

Market Menagerie examines technological advance and market regulation in the health industries of nations such as India, Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria, and Japan.

This study presents new microeconomic analyses of congestion-prone services that comprise most private and public services at the final consumption stage.

Originally published in 1972, Industrial Relations in the Common Market is a comparative study of the members of the Common Market, exploring the range of industrial relations and some of the contemporary issues and problems that they faced.

The biotechnology industry is an extremely important sector in the developed world's economies.

New technology arguably provided the greatest challenge to industrial relations since the formation of unions.

Survey of the theory, empirical evidence and public policy related to the role of patents in a global knowledge economy.

The title of this book,  Math in the Time of Corona, has been drawn from the highly acclaimed novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez,  Love in the Time of Cholera.

This book explores Japanese investment in Europe and Southeast Asia, in relation to the automobile industry.

This book explores the twists and turns in Argentina's modern economic history and the debates that raged there around a problem common to all former colonies: how to achieve a level of economic growth for its population in a world characterized by unequal economic relations between the industrialized nations of the north and the commodity producers of the south.

This book expresses the reasons to embark on a production management system and begin a journey to a better social and economic life in Puerto Rico.

Originally published in 1989 Defence Industries presents a worldwide survey of defence industries.

Wage Regulation under the Statute of Artificers (1938) is a study of the enforcement of the 1562 Statute of Artificers during the period of its operation, with particular reference to wage assessment and the contract of employment.

This book takes an in-depth look at the software industry as a major factor in future global economic performance.

This book addresses the evolution of the strategies, structures, ownership patterns and performances of large European corporations since the early 1960s.

This textbook provides the tools for a modern post-graduate introductory course on system reliability theory.

This title was first published in 2000: The central aim of the Common Agricultural Policy is to support the incomes of farmers, yet reliable information on the overall incomes of farmers and their households is scarce.

Faced with the ever-accelerating pace of technological change and the restructuring of markets, many firms have been questioning the appropriateness of their own organizational structure and effectiveness.

The concepts of social networks, social capital and trust play an increasingly central role in the social sciences.

An up-to-date analysis of the theory of the firm, including the latest research on the resource-based view.

This book brings together a collection of empirical case studies featuring a wide spectrum of medical innovation.

Analyzes the causes of the decline in labor''s global fortunes from 1975 to the 2000s.

Construction cost inflation is at its highest level for decades.

This title was first published in 2003.

This new text provides a rigorous analysis of real estate markets.

Whilst there is widespread agreement about the goals of economic policy, consensus about how best to achieve them can be harder to achieve.

This book examines key aspects of the increasingly important phenomenon of reshoring - the decision of companies to reverse offshoring by bringing manufacturing back from overseas.

The Price of TUC Leadership (1961) is a serious criticism of the TUC by the General Secretary of another large trade union.

This book is a study on the Japanese city gas industry, which has been rapidly liberalized in recent years.

Decision-making on outsourcing new product development (especially innovation projects), such as engaging and managing the supply chain, is far from easy.

Job loss is one of the most important issues in the capitalist world today: endless reports document the increasing scale of unemployment.

Interfirm Networks in the Japanese Electronics Industry analyses changes in production networks in the Japanese electronics industry.

This textbook provides an introduction to the field of mineral economics and its use in understanding the behaviour of mineral commodity markets and in assessing both public and corporate policies in this important economic sector.

This book addresses some of the major issues facing postal and delivery services throughout the world.

Every consulting project has its governance, which is not always explicitly agreed with the client.

Explains how innovation happens and which factors can help or hinder, by treating innovation as a systemic phenomenon, or ecosystem of players and processes.

Principles of Agricultural Economics, now in its fourth edition, continues to showcase the power of economic principles to explain and predict issues and current events in the food, agricultural, and agribusiness sectors.

One of the most striking phenomena of China's remarkable economic growth is that its huge volume of exports are becoming high-tech.

The break-up of BAA and the blocked takeover of Bratislava airport by the competing Vienna airport have brought the issue of airport competition to the top of the agenda for air transport policy in Europe.

Originally published in 1986, this book takes an inter-disciplinary approach to the options for energy in the future.

This book explores the making, unmaking and remaking of social infrastructure in 'left-behind places'.

First published in 1920, Chaos and Order in Industry studies the causes and solutions to labour strikes as well as inadequacies in industry organizations.

Covering cost structures and cost problems as well as costing methodologies, this book, first published in 1988, aims to enhance understanding of the economics of all types of transportation: freight and passenger, by truck, rail, bus and air.

The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook, providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, and balancing economic theory, empirical evidence, and public policy.

The use of comparisons to explain, analyze and understand social and economic phenomena is recognized as a valuable social science tool.

This volume shows what the increasingly important field of experimental economics can bring to the theory and practice of competition policy.

This book offers a selection of the best papers presented at the annual international scientific conference "e;Digital Transformation in Industry: Trends, Management, Strategies,"e; which was held by the Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Ekaterinburg, Russia) on October 28, 2022.

First published in 1982, The Liberation of Capital develops a challenging and critical confrontation of orthodox and Marxist theories of capital with the unifying concept of 'free capital' - human creativity and intellectually-derived productivity.

The offsite and modular market is continuing to grow.

This collection of essential data on eleven Asian economies outlines new trends and highlighting increasing differences between developed and developing countries.