Economics of industrial organization

This handbook provides a wide-ranging, coherent, and systematic analysis of maritime management, policy, and strategy development.

Microeconomic policies in particular, industrial and innovation policies are appraised and enforced within the framework of the rules relative to free movement and competition.

This book provides a unique set of empirical and theoretical analyses on the conditions, determinants and effects of the exchange and trade of technological knowledge.

Unpredictable and unforeseen, or black swan, events are occurring increasingly often, one such recent example is the coronavirus crisis of 2020.

This book reframes the purpose of infrastructure from being an input to economic growth to becoming a major instrument in reducing socio-economic inequalities in both industrialized and developing countries.

This book outlines strategies and models for how to use technology and knowledge to improve performance, create jobs and increase income.

In the twenty-first century technology has become global, and firms compete using knowledge and capital.

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

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First Published in 1952, Problems of Nationalized Industry presents the first serious discussion on the issues related to nationalization of industries in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century.

This volume presents a comprehensive assessment of the economic effects of the emerging information and communication technologies associated with a knowledge-based economy, and looks at how knowledge is increasingly treated as a product in its own right.

Many effects of environmental and energy policy are likely to disproportionately burden those with low income.

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

When this book was originally published in 1988, this book was the first to include a large number of reports on British and US companies' experience with computers in company training in such areas as banking, finance, insurance, manufacturing, IT, the retail industry, transport, telecommunications and energy.

In recent years, European societies and territories have witnessed the spatial impacts of a severe financial and socio-economic crisis.

This title was first published in 2001: Exploring the relationship between the recession and labour supply in Kazakhstan during the 1990s, this volume develops an innovative new model of the transitional process in the context of the CIS.

This handbook presents a comprehensive study of the post-reform Indian economy, three decades after the economic liberalization started in the early 1990s.

This collection brings together international experts from different continents to examine creativity and innovation in the cultural economy.

The changes that Central European cities have undergone since 1989 deserve a complex, interdisciplinary analysis that offers deep insight into the specific nature of the transformation taking place in the region.

The concept of value in projects is a key issue for everyone involved in the construction industry.

Originally published in 1987.

Real property in the form of investment, ownership and use pervades almost every aspect of daily lives and represents over 40% of Australia's wealth.

The service sector accounts for a huge proportion of global employment, and is the biggest driver of gross domestic product in developing nations.

Regulation and Economic Analysis: A Critique Over Two Centuries argues that long experience with the practice of regulation creates a broad anti-intervention consensus among economists.

Contemporary capitalistic systems have been undergoing profound transformations determined by the transition towards the so-called knowledge based economy, i.

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.

Originally published in 1994 this book undertakes a comprehensive study dealing with the effects of machine flexibility, tool magazine capacity, varying production demands and different oeprating policies on the production planning problems.

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.

This survey, first published in 1934, was designed as a contribution to our knowledge of poverty, its incidence and causes.

Port Economics, Management and Policy provides a comprehensive analysis of the contemporary port industry, showing how ports are organized to serve the global economy and support regional and local development.

The financial system is currently confronted with tremendous challenges from the global economy, trade, politics, demographics, and most recently from enormous technological advancements.

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

This edited work attempts to 'make sense' of recent developments in the field of Human Resource Management in the People's Republic of China.

Since the 1980s, two different paradigms have reshaped industrial societies: the Neoliberal paradigm and a Research and Innovation paradigm.

This Element uses Austrian economics, public choice, and institutional economics to explain the origins and consequences of property rights.

Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Economic Policy are at the core of research and study in economics.

Originally published in 1983.

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

Algorithms will be what we want them to be: we must choose the world we want to live in.

What are the determinants of company performance?

This book analyses the historical context and progression of "e;significant innovations"e; beginning with the industrial revolution, starting around 1750 to the present.

First published as 'Markets for Managers', this book has proved to be a popular way for non-economists to understand and apply the key tools of economics.

Plenty has been written on the competitiveness of megacities, capital cities, and regional hubs.

This title was first published in 2003.

Industrial Relations in the Modern State (1937) provides an introduction, as objective as possible in character, to the differing policies of 1930s liberal and totalitarian states in the matter of industrial relations.

Interfirm networks include franchising, retail and service chains, cooperatives, financial networks, joint ventures, strategic alliances, licensing, public-private partnerships and new network forms in the digital economy.

The countryside has often been marginalised in discussions of economic and societal development, in favour of the urban.

This monograph explores the economic consequences of the Cold War, a polarised world order which politicised technology and shaped industrial development.