Economics of industrial organization

The regeneration of critical urban areas through the redesign of public space with the intense involvement of local communities seems to be the central focus of place-making according to some widespread practices in academic and professional circles.

Fostering inclusive green growth in Africa means addressing existing and emerging development challenges, while efficiently managing Africa's natural capital and building resilience to environmental, social and economic risks.

Change is a part of any organization, but in order to compete in the globally connected business environment, organizations also need to incorporate an entrepreneurial focus.

The task of modelling the evolution of cities - the dynamics - is one of the major challenges of the social sciences.

Design is central to every service or good produced, sold and consumed.

This book explores developmental policymaking across the multiple levels of Mexico's contemporary state, arguing that many of the innovations in industrial policy have been driven at the subnational level.

This book is about the role of knowledge spillovers and strategic entrepreneurship in the management context.

This book analyses the current debate around Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) and the future of New Global Financial System.

Originally published in 1963, The Railwaymen recounts the struggle of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants from its foundation in 1872 until the first national railway strike in 1911 to gain recognition from the companies and a reduction in the excessive hours of labour and the scandalously high accident rate among railwaymen.

First published in 1909 and reissued in 1910, J.

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

Cyber Policy and Economics in an Internet Age is a collection of essays from some of the world's best-known experts on Internet public policy.

The importance of the built environment to environmental protection is well established, with strict environmental regulations now a feature of the working lives of planners, contractors, building designers, and quantity surveyors alike.

Government Alone Cant Solve Societys Biggest ProblemsWorld hunger.

Each industry faces unique human resource management challenges and opportunities and in shipping these include a global labour market and global unionism, long periods spent at sea, and health and safety issues resulting from a variety of risks.

One of the keys to successful business process engineering is tight alignment of processes with organisational goals and values.

A majority of large-scale construction and major infrastructure projects are funded by public funds from taxpayers.

The economic system of competitive capitalism has proven to be both resilient and flexible over time and has contributed to the economic welfare of citizens in liberal and coordinated market economies in diverse regions and countries.

Marx claims that unselfishness is a child of (workplace) culture, whereas the gene is selfish.

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 work contains selected and thoroughly reviewed research papers of the topics Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Digitalization, Sustainability, Transportation Management, Process Management, Risk Management, Corporate Social Responsibility and Governance.

Drawing upon case studies of the steel industry in the US, Japan, South Korea, Brazil and India, this book explains how and why the steel industry has shifted from advanced capitalist countries to late industrializing countries.

Just how risky is the movie industry?

Urban Economy: Real Estate Economics and Public Policy analyses urban economic change and public policy in a more practical way than a typical urban economics book.

This book challenges mainstream neo-classical perspectives on the firm.

This book examines the linkages between exchange rates and India's merchandise trade since the 1990s.

This book places knowledge, learning and innovation at the heart of cross-sector collaborations.

In recent years, smart specialisation has been a key building block of regional economic and development policy across the European Union.

Dieses Lehrbuch befasst sich eingehend mit den Grundlagen der Wirtschaftspolitik.

This is the first book that comprehensively describes the history of the game software industry in Japan.

This Handbook provides a thorough discussion of the most recent wave of technological (and organisational) innovations, frequently called "e;smart"e; and based on the digitisation of information.

Management by Agreement (1973) examines the ramifications of the 1971 Industrial Relations Act and industrial relations in Britain.

This book summarizes the latest research on drug and gene delivery to the central nervous system (CNS).

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).

Over the past two decades, several sudden, unforeseen, and significant changes have occurred in the world's political and economic landscape.

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a global phenomenon which is gaining significant momentum across the world.

This book is the eighth volume in a series entitled "e;Contemporary Logistics in China,"e; authored by researchers from the Logistics Research Center at Nankai University.

With the Lisbon Agenda the European Council has set ambitious goals for 2010, namely to make the Community the most dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world.

This new book presents case studies from the US, the UK and Japan.

Existing literature looks at national innovation systems from the perspective of either "e;inside the black box"e; or "e;outside the black box"e;.

This book, which was first published in 1972, is not a collection of case-studies in cost-benefit analysis, of which there had been already several in use employing techniques of varying degrees of sophistication.

The role of small business enterprise in a mature market economy is one of the major issues in contemporary industrial organization, and is the focus of this book.

This book draws on work from across northern Europe and is parallel and complementary to the network itself.

Technological Infrastructure Policy provides a systematic treatment of technological infrastructure (TI) and Technological Infrastructure Policy (TIP) which are emerging fields of interest both for academic economists and for policy makers in both advanced and developing economies.

This in-depth case study evaluates the recent evolution of the Italian real estate market, which has lately been subject to two interlocking phenomena: a serious devaluation of physical assets and, at the same time, a deep legislative innovation of the vehicles investing in this asset class.

The role of small business enterprise in a mature market economy is one of the major issues in contemporary industrial organization, and is the focus of this book.

Until the 1990s, industrialization was the dominant development paradigm for the Asia-Pacific region.

If evolutionary economics is to compete with neoclassical economics as a general-purpose economic theory, it needs to incorporate new aspects of socioeconomic reality, such as institutions of all types, including technical, scientific, and political.