Economics of industrial organization

Smart Evaluation and Integrated Design in Regional Development puts forward an alternative approach to evaluation in spatial planning - one that focuses on 'territory' and 'landscape'.

Ever since Schumpeter's groundbreaking work there has been a plethora of new research seeking to extend the direction and dynamics of innovation.

Like the railroad and the automobile, the airliner has changed the very geography of the societies it serves.

This book gives a detailed account of the primacy of the City of London, both as a domestic actor and as a global financial centre.

Originally published in 1984.

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive analysis of US Federal Antitrust and EC Competition Law.

The role that small firms and entrepreneurship play in economic development has been particularly contentious.

This book explores one of the most pressing issues of our time: development, a concern that has persisted from the past century through to today, and is increasingly intertwined with challenges related to environmental sustainability and growing inequalities.

Productivity, Technology and Economic Growth presents a selection of recent research advances on long term economic growth.

Maritime transport is one of the most ancient supports to human interactions across history and it still supports more than 90% of world trade volumes today.

How effective are patents for stimulating economic activity?

Entry and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms focuses on newborn firms, analyzing the determinants of entry, survival and post-entry performance.

This comprehensive reference work gives an overview of the industrial development and current state of industrialization and deindustrialization in Asia, specifically Southeast Asia and China.

This book assesses the effects of globalization and neoliberal economic regimes in low- and middle-income countries, primarily on industries, investment and trade; finance and credit; and employment, gender and development.

Gives an understanding of the economic theory underlying health economics, supplemented with practical case study material to show how the theory has been applied.

This book introduces the main concepts of microeconomics to upper division undergraduate students or first year graduate students who have undergone at least one elementary calculus course.

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

Bringing together theoretical, empirical and comparative perspectives on the European Social Model (ESM) and transitional labour market policy, this volume contains theoretical accounts of the ESM and a discussion of policy implications for European social and employment policies that derive from research on transitional labour markets.

This book, first published in 1984, analyses the institutions and decision-making processes that determined agricultural production in the Soviet Union.

Explores the impact of the internet on the future directions of the ''New Economy''.

The brewing industry, through its network of public houses, has a profound impact on the lives of much of the population of United Kingdom.

An Introduction to Industrial Relations (1991) analyses various theoretical approaches to industrial relations, and summarises the origins and development of the subject.

Originally published in 1997, this book puts information management in the context of technology transfer, industrialization and national development.

We are bombarded with economic numbers: unemployment, retail sales, inflation, GDP-the list goes on and on.

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.

With growing concern about the conditions facing low wage workers and new challenges to traditional forms of labor market protection, this book offers a timely analysis of the purpose and effectiveness of minimum wages in different European countries.

Industrial Action (1976), written by an experienced active trade unionist, brings valuable real-world examples to an examination of the many facets of trade union organising.

Over the past ten years, there has been growing interest in the process of strategic decision-making among both managers and researchers.

'The region' has been used to understand and propose solutions to phenomena and problems outside the dominant spatial scale of the twentieth century - the nation state.

Over the past thirty-five years, a substantial amount of theoretical and empirical scholarly research has been developed across the discipline domains of Transportation.

The Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Knowledge provides a comprehensive framework to integrate the advancements over the last 20 years in the analysis of technological knowledge as an economic good, and in the static and dynamic characteristics of its generation process.

The demand for economic inclusion has increasingly intensified, as manifested by the growing movements of farmers, workers and social activists.

The relationship between project managers representing project owners and those on the contractor side is often threatened by communication risk.

Written for students taking courses in building and surveying, 'Estimating for Builders and Surveyors' describes and explains the method used by the estimator to build up prices or rates for items described in the SMM7 format.

Despite the fact that Rubber is one of the world's major commodities, surprispingly little has been written about hte the subject.

The re-emergence of private enterprises is one of the most important factors in China's recent economic development.

This title was first published in 2002.

The past thirty years have seen a proliferation of new forms of territorial governance that have come to co-exist with, and complement, formal territorial spaces of government.

The Economics of Sport and Recreation provides a much needed and up-to-date analysis of sport's contribution to the global economy.

Entry and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms focuses on newborn firms, analyzing the determinants of entry, survival and post-entry performance.

Addressing a number of 'missing links' in the analysis of labour and its geographies, this volume examines how theoretical perspectives on both labour in general and the organizations of the labour movement in particular can be refined and redefined.

The global financial and economic crisis starting in 2007 has provoked the exploration of alternatives to neo-liberalism.

Building on the historical analysis of organizations and theories that have influenced their development, Gianfranco Dioguardi provides an insightful exploration of the network enterprise and its evolution from the Medieval guilds to the present innovation clusters of Silicon Valley, the Research Triangle, Route 128, and other regions in the U.

Through two World Wars and the Great Depression, this book explores the turbulent history of colonial Indian industry in the period immediately prior to independence.

This revealing book examines different types of network industries such as railways, telecommunications and new media, and investigates their economics with an accent on history makes it stand apart from others in the area.

This book offers an in-depth insight into the Indian concept of swaraj--self-rule--both in theory and practice and posits it within the larger context of development.

This book focuses on the process of designing a new business, known as entrepreneurship.

China is in the midst of transitioning from a manufacturing-based economy to one driven by innovation and knowledge.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of infrastructure financing from a global perspective.

First published in 1988, this book analyses the changes that took place in the economic organisation of the British construction industry throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, in particular considering its social and economic structure and examining the causes of its poor industrial record.