Economics of industrial organization

With extensive case studies for illustration, this is a practitioner's guide to an entirely new production system for construction management using flowline scheduling.

This book examines PRC "e;involved"e; seaports overseas, where involvement can take the form of PRC foreign direct investment (FDI), contracting, and/or terminal operations, in countries such as Cambodia, Pakistan, and the Philippines.

The physical distribution of products is an important element in the marketing operations of all productive enterprises, and in many cases efficient distribution is the most important single factor leading to success.

Avoiding prejudice will be critical to economic success in the fourth industrial revolution.

In this book, Radlo increases understanding of offshoring, outsourcing and international production fragmentation, and explains the impact of this phenomenon on the economies and enterprises.

The proper role of government in the US economy has long been the subject of ideological dispute.

In today's industrial and complex world, the progress of change is incredible.

Jon Woronoff - an acknowledged authority in Japanese economy and society - provides insight into crucial aspects of doing business in Japan, and advice on how to succeed in a very difficult market.

At the turn of the century, questions about multinational firms' strategies as regards the forces, on the one hand, of globalization and, on the other hand, of the regional and local dimensions are very much to the fore.

This practical guide to cost studies of buildings has been updated and revised throughout for the 6th edition.

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`The book is an excellent example of the application of modern econometric techniques to Chinese data, some of which was especially collected for the research.

This book demonstrates that the cooperative model is based on principles essential to building a more just and democratic society.

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.

This book provides a survey of the theory and of the empirical knowledge about the links between market structure and technological change.

Among the key debates fought in developing economies is whether globalization through liberalization is the means by which economies can industrialize and provide their labour forces with tangible improvements in the material conditions of living.

Since the emergence of urban systems, cities have developed in a mutually inter-dependent process of socio-economic dynamics and transportation linkages.

This book examines the internal and external implications of Israel's natural gas discoveries in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Originally published in 1972, Incomes Policy and the Public Sector is a consideration of the work conducted by The National Board for Prices and Incomes from 1965 to 1970.

Globalization and information and communications technology (ICT) have played a pivotal role in revolutionizing value creation through the development of human capital formation.

This book, first published in 1975, discusses the development of transport policy in the UK against a background of economic theory.

Enterprises in rural regions must now act in a globalized world and face global challenges, such as climate change, resource scarcities and social inequalities or the sustainability preferences of consumers.

Tourism has become one of the largest and fastest growing sectors in the world economy.

This book, originally published in 1978 concentrates on the structure and growth of the North Sea oil industry in Scotland.

This volume explores interactions between academia and different societal stakeholders with a focus on sustainability.

This volume focuses on incentive regulation and competition.

Cycles, Growth and the Great Recession is a collection of papers that assess the nature and role of the business cycle in contemporary economies.

Entrepreneurship, Growth and Innovation provides comprehensive insight into the economics of entrepreneurship, claiming that this recently established discipline should establish a framework of analysis that integrates the understanding of the determinants and the effects of both entrepreneurship and innovation without neglecting the functioning of the inducement mechanisms.

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.

A challenge to superficial and mistaken assumptions about Japan's top management among foreign businessmen, such as Japanese management's supposed long-term outlook, slow decision-making, and strong desire for new technologies.

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Open Innovation describes an emergent model of innovation in which firms draw on research and development that may lie outside their own boundaries.

The debate on the free movement of labour within the EU has gained new momentum in the wake of the economic crisis.

Modelled on the concept of Industry 4.

Alternative urban spaces across civic, private, and public spheres emerge in response to the great challenges that urban actors are currently confronted with.

This book synthesizes the existing quantitative evidence on organizational design, bringing together the growing stream of theoretical work on the economics of firms' organization and available empirical findings produced by qualitative work in management, business history and organizational sociology.

Measurement of buildings is the core skill of the quantity surveyor.

The interplay between smart urban technologies and city development is a relatively uncharted territory.

This book presents several pieces of empirical work which disentangle why the standard measure of productivity growth used in macroeconomics turn out to be procyclical for American manufacturing industries.

This book focuses on the antitrust process and how that process affects the efficiency of antitrust law enforcement.

Gender, Growth and Trade examines the role of women as a flexible, contingent workforce in Germany and Japan.

This book provides an updated and expanded overview of basic concepts of energy economics and explains how simple economic tools can be used to analyse contemporary energy issues in the light of recent developments, such as the Paris Agreement, the UN Sustainable Development Goals and new technological developments in the production and use of energy.

When this book was first published in 1967, it was one of the first pieces of research to systematically examine the manpower problems associated with rapidly changing technology.

This book is the result of a two-year interdisciplinary research programme named PRISM (Policy making, Reporting and measuring, Intangibles, Skills development and Management), financed by the European Commission and aimed both at understanding better how these assets are created and developed and what the policy implications of their growing importance in economies are.

Over the last thirty years Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) have been used to deliver transport capital projects and services.

The book is designed to help public and private decision-makers and academics deepen their knowledge and understanding of the contexts, obstacles and challenges of a variety of business types involved in Industrial Symbiosis and Circular Economy practices.

This book draws on the expertise of both North American and European specialists of regional economics, evaluating the impact of economic policy in certain regions and considering alternative policies to foster regional economic development and improve the employment and income of the residents of these regions.

Marwick argues that economic development in Scotland was severely delayed until the 18th Century unlike neighbouring countries.

World War II presented a unique opportunity for American business to improve its reputation after years of censure for inflicting the Great Depression upon the nation.