Economics of industrial organization

Our socio-economic innovation ecosystem is riddled with ever-increasing complexity, as we are faced with more frequent and intense shocks, such as COVID-19.

Originally published in 1994 this volume investigates the relationship between a firm's decision to integrate vertically and its research and development (R & D) strategy.

The cultural sector plays an important role in sustainable economic development and creates economic activities, opportunities for entrepreneurship and jobs, adding to the attractiveness of cities and contributing to the development of tourism.

This title was first published in 2002: Why do endogenous cycles persist in Spain?

An updated revisting of the themes of Robin Marris' classic The Economic Theory of Managerial Capitalism (1964).

This edited volume proposes that the phenomenon of private sector, financialized higher education expansion in the United States benefits from a range of theoretical and methodological treatments.

A theoretical and empirical investigation of how economics can contribute to our understanding of entrepreneurship.

This book examines the role of creative mental labor in determining long-term economic growth, production costs, and product pricing.

Towards a Better Port Industry provides professionals in freight transport and maritime logistics, and specifically the port industry, as well as students in these fields, with a better conceptual understanding of the port industry.

In recent years, scholars from a variety of disciplines have addressed many perplexing questions about the Industrial Revolution in all its aspects.

Gastronomy, particularly gourmet tourism, is widely acknowledged as having a powerful impact on local development.

The privatisation of the British railway industry was a unique political and economic event.

Ownership and decision-making are key issues in the economic restructuring taking place as economies struggle to emerge from the Great Recession, and technological change and globalization continue to place new demands on workers and firms.

Organization, Performance and Equity: Perspectives on the Japanese Economy provides an analysis of key components of the Japanese economy and business structures, edited by two leading American-based Japan scholars.

First published in 1980, this book collects 17 lectures presented at the annual conference of the Association of University Teachers of Economics covering a wide range issues and debates.

This volume celebrates the life and career of Gordon Rausser, pioneer and leader in natural resource economics, while critically overviewing the emerging literature in the field.

This book provides an assessment of the evolution and dynamics of regional innovation systems (RISs) and the economic and social impact of resulting knowledge spillovers, presenting comparative case studies on the regions of several Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries (Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Lithuania and Estonia).

A distinctive new account of why markets focus on short-term goals, while government needs to concentrate on society''s long-term interests.

This book focuses on environmental technology and financial markets of the Asia-Pacific region, which includes traditional and emerging innovative countries such as Japan, China, and South Korea.

Industrial Action (1980) examines in a comparative analysis the principal elements involved in industrial action - strikes, work-to-rule, go-slows etc - in four key industries in Australia - construction, shipbuilding, the waterfront and telecommunications.

This book reviews and assesses the impact of economic forces on the rate and direction of technical change.

The growth of digital technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to increase global wealth and tackle some of the world's most serious problems, including economic marginalization.

After years of near 'disrepute' in official circles, Industrial Policy has made something of a comeback over the last few years and is now very much back on the agenda at national and EU levels, driven by concerns over globalisation, deindustrialisation, unemployment and perceived poor growth in the EU.

Originally published in 1985 by a group of international experts and oil industry officials, this book surveys the dramatic changes which took place in the oil industry in the second half of the twentieth century.

This book is a concise review of the current status and future prospects of concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) technology.

When a venture seems to be faltering, do you persist and hope that things will get better or do you cut your losses?

This title was first published in 2000: Providing a review and assessment of a number of the major features evident in regional planning and development in Europe, this volume contains a series of regional case studies, drawn from current research in various European countries.

This title was first published in 2001.

Harukiyo Hasegawa challenges the notion of the Japanese success story with an in-depth case study of comparative growth and decline in the steel industries of two mature economies.

The debate on the future of the aviation sector and the viability of its traditional business practices is the core of this book.

This book is an attempt to capture and analyze several idiosyncratic features of industry and labor in the developing world.

This book focuses on the analysis of financial data and innovative results of Zhongguancun NEEQ listed Firms, and objectively evaluates the growth ability of them.

Routes are arguably the most valuable of airline assets.

This book deals with anti-dumping measures (AD) and investigates two questions: First, what country characteristics affect AD use and notably, do domestic political institutions have an effect?

The overarching aim of Finance, Innovation and Geography: Harnessing Knowledge Dynamics in German Biotechnology is to explore linkages between geographies of finance and relational geographies of innovation.

Corporate governance failures are all too frequent and their patterns and outcomes seem avoidably familiar.

Postal and Delivery Services: Delivering on Competition is an indispensable source of information and analysis on the current state of the postal and delivery sector.

China's outward foreign direct investment, for which Australia is one of the largest destinations, has rapidly increased and become an important source of global capital.

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

Decisions twenty years ago during the fIrst generation of modern traffIc safety policymaking were easier than today.

This book provides an explanation of key underlying economic principles, allowing the reader to come to a better understanding of the critical factors that structure and guide transport markets.

Growing scarcity of freshwater worldwide brings to light the need for sound water resource modeling and policy analysis.

This book, first published in 1974, provides a comprehensive review of the application of economic concepts to the appraisal of transport systems.

This book offers an alternative view of the economy - and indeed, society - that does not rely on an ever-expanding government to address the problems which individuals typically face during their lives.

Newspapers: A Lost Cause?

In the network economy, concepts of management knowledge, management learning, and business school organization should change.

This book discusses the extent to whcih differences exist in the approach to energy management by different types of firms: large multidivisional firms at corporate headquarters level and division level and independent firms, energy intensive and non-energy intensive firms and growth and non-growth firms.

'Jha is the right scholar and economist to take readers through the development of the Indian economy.