Economics of industrial organization

The 2008 credit crisis started with the failure of one large bank: Lehman Brothers.

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This interdisciplinary book analyses the regional economic integration and its institutionalisation that has been pursued in East Asia since the late 1990s and its far-reaching impact for the entire region and beyond.

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.

about nascent entrepreneurship distilled from recent research.

Creative industries have become fundamental in signalling the economic wellbeing of cities and urban regions.

Input-Output Analysis (IOA) is widely used in the field of ecological economics, industrial ecology, and environmental sciences.

With more than half the world's population now living in urban areas, urbanisation is undoubtedly one of the most important phenomena of the 21st century.

From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things.

Job loss is one of the most important issues in the capitalist world today: endless reports document the increasing scale of unemployment.

Agriculture productivity, growth and regional change in post-colonial India from a spatial perspective are yet to be rigorously examined.

This book provides an authoritative resource on the topic of intelligent robots, artificial intelligence and the ethical implications of these revolutionary innovations.

A new analytical approach to small firms' cases, which * Uses rich primary source data on modern small businesses * Combines business strategy and industrial organization * Presents detailed Profiles on diverse small businesses * Shows how successful small businesses achieve competitive advantage * Considers both extended rivalry and financial structure * Shows how to `ground' small business theory in realityProfiles in Small Businesses has a companion volume Small Business Enterprise by Gavin Reid (also published by Routledge, Hb: 0-415-05681-0: GBP45.

This book examines the vast and largely uncharted world of cultural/creative city-making in Asia.

Non-value adding activities are otherwise known as 'waste' in the lean construction lexicon.

Economic growth is highly dependent on technological progress and innovation, yet the sources from which these innovations originate are still largely misunderstood and untapped.

Competition policy-encompassing cartels, monopolies, mergers and state aid-is a hallmark of the European Union (EU).

Multidisciplinary economics deliberately uses the insights and approaches of other disciplines and examines what consequences their contributions have for existing economic methods, theories and solutions to economic problems.

The spread of the manufacturing industry is an important part of economic development, creating jobs, new products and trade and investment links between countries.

Artificial intelligence and the autonomous robots of the Fourth Industrial Revolution will render certain jobs and competences obsolete but will also create new roles, which in turn require new sets of skills.

In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis placed on local and regional integration in major planning projects and infrastructure development including roads, rail and waterways.

Originally published in 1968, this book was one of the first full-scale published studies of the principles of investment planning and of the structure of marginal costs in a public enterprise.

Offering a retrospective view of how the system operated in Communist Czechoslovakia, this book is an important voice in the discussion about the systems of central planning.

This book takes an in-depth look at the economics of digital transformation.

This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and digital spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks (Routledge 2008).

Technology infrastructure supports the design, deployment and use of both individual technology-based components and the systems of such components that form the knowledge-based economy.

The fourth industrial revolution is developing globally, with no geographical centre.

The book identifies different national characteristics in terms of the motivation to privatise, the scale of privatization and its consequences.

An up-to-date analysis of the theory of the firm, including the latest research on the resource-based view.

Many of the central results of Classical and Marxian political economy are examples of the self-organization of the capitalist economy as a complex, adaptive system far from equilibrium.

This book offers a unique analysis of how our definitions of luxury have changed over the ages, and with that the role and actions of both suppliers and buyers of luxury products.

This book examines broad questions of industrial change in order to explain developments in the oil industry.

This title was first published in 2002.

This anthology aims to explain why some Nordic shipping companies became world leaders while others failed to respond effectively to the challenges and opportunities of globalization.

This book provides students and line managers in organizations with the means to create better scenarios and to use them to create winning business strategies.

Institutional reforms and their contribution to development and growth have been a source of renewed interest as well as of many challenges over the last two decades.

First published in 1974, Trade Unions and Society examines the process by which trade unions sought and achieved recognition in the three decades after 1850.

Making European Merger Policy More Predictable analyses European Merger Control with regard to its capacity to generate predictability among the concerned parties.

The evolution of the Nigerian oil and gas industry spanned about a century during which several challenges were encountered and surmounted by major International Oil Companies (IOCs).

Insight into today's economic and financial problems comes, in this revealing book, from an understanding of how and why the practice and the teaching of management has developed as it has.

Some books get written, others write themselves.

In the last few decades, urban quality of life has received increasing interest from policy makers who aim to make cities better places to live.

How effective are patents for stimulating economic activity?

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

Sunshades in October (1963) argues that under certain circumstances economic domestic restraint will in fact do precisely the opposite.

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

The Scottish economy is at the heart of contemporary constitutional and public policy debates.

This book disentangles the foundations of coopetition (i.

Originally published in 1977.