Economics of industrial organization

The one-of-a-kind how-to book that puts effective agency management strategies at your fingertipsThe classic text that describes in detail how to successfully manage and market a public relations firm, has been completely updated with three new chapters and is now more than 50% longer.

While women's cricket, and women's sport in general, has gained enormously in popularity in terms of both spectators and TV audiences, comparatively little is known about it and its participants, and there are few, if any, quantitative assessments of the game.

Over the last decade, there has been an increasing amount of research on knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) and innovation.

This book provides a cogent summary of the economic history of the Irish Free State/Republic of Ireland.

This title was first published in 2003.

At the time in which this book was first published in 1987, mass unemployment had emerged as the dominant, most visible, problem of the West European economies.

The co-creative university has become the main driver of social and economic development stimulating internal (students and academics) and external creativity (companies and institutional environment) as well as cooperation in various areas (e.

This book presents a comprehensive history of handloom weaving industry in India to challenge and revise the view that competition from machine-produced textiles destroyed the country's handicrafts as claimed by historians until recently.

In recent years, the study of creativity has shifted from analysis of culture as an end in itself to one of economic enhancement, and its capability to generate wealth and promote economic development.

Cash is king, not least in the construction industry.

This book is an introductory text on building measurement and estimating for simple buildings in Hong Kong, based on the Hong Kong Standard Method of Measurement of Building Works 4th Edition Revised 2018 (HKSMM4 Rev 2018).

Knowledge management has been widely applied to various industries as a good strategy to help improve firms' performance.

The information age is reshaping current socio-economic structures and processes and this book touches upon the nature of clusters in the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.

The authors and editors of this Handbook have attempted to fill a serious gap in the professional literature on industrial automation.

The book investigates the relation between technology and institutions and their mutual influence during processes of development and change and illustrates this on the development process in Argentina after 1946.

Originally published in 1980 but re-issued now with a new preface, this book looks at the German manager from a sociological viewpoint and explains why German management has been so successful and highlights the key factors in the training of the German manager and the attitudes and skills he develops in his work.

Unprecedented social changes, accelerated by facilitating technologies and the COVID-19 pandemic, are calling for airlines to think deeply and non-conventionally on what will be important to existing and new travelers, as they change their lifestyles.

This title was first published in 2001.

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Volume 3: Managing the Ecosystem focuses on those ecosystems in which human intervention has been or continues to be predominant, specifically within cities and rural areas.

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.

The existence and persistence of regional disparities between European regions require context-tailored policies to promote structural change.

It deals in a practical and reasonable way with many of the estimating problems which can arise where building and civil engineering works are carried out and to include comprehensive estimating data within the guidelines of good practice.

The procurement stage of the building process is critical to the success of any building project, and as such must be understood by everybody entering the industry.

The Move to the Market?

Originally published in 1988.

In The Financiers and the Nation (1934) Mr.

This book examines driving factors and the effects of globalisation on economic development through firm and product-level data.

Fudenberg and Tirole use the game-theoretic issues of information, commitment and timing to provide a realistic approach to oligopoly.

Just how risky is the movie industry?

A thoroughly revised and updated edition of the leading textbook on government and business policy, presenting the key principles underlying sound regulatory and antitrust policy.

This book addresses how economic spaces dynamically change within the context of the global knowledge-based economy.

This book reviews the theory of the firm and the large modern corporation.

La ingeniería económica es una rama de la economía que se enfoca en la aplicación de principios económicos para analizar y optimizar las decisiones de inversión en general y en sistemas complejos, en particular.

Staff Relations in the Civil Service (1973) describes the origins of the Civil Service National Whitley Council, the growing pains it endured in its early years, its major achievements and the role it played in industrial relations between staff in the civil service and their employers, the British Government.

Originally published in 1986.

This book expands the explanatory scope of econophysics to the real economy.

Debates about public expenditure in the agricultural sector have reopened in many developing and emerging economies because of high budget deficits and changes in public opinion.

This title was first published in 2002: Retailers who ignore the demographics of their customers do so at their peril.

In the 1970s and following on from the deposition of Salvador Allende, the Chilean dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet installed a radical political and economic system by force which lent heavy privilege to free market capitalism, reduced the power of the state to its minimum and actively suppressed civil society.

The role and economic power of corporations that dominate the world economy has generated considerable controversy.

This volume contains twelve cutting edge papers contributing new research to important issues concerning worker welfare.

Provides a systematic theory and evidence-based answers to the question of how effective public managers are in shaping policy results.

Construction Economics provides students with the principles underlying the relationship between economic theory and the construction industry.

Employment has changed dramatically in the last few decades with the onset of neoliberal globalization.

This title was first published in 2000: The first book which brings together and interprets both the theoretical concepts associated with the study of networks in the business world, and the policy applications being applied to the practical building and development of such networks.

Shipping flows - maritime 'footprints' - remain underexplored in the existing literature despite the crucial importance of freight transport for global trade and economic development.

First published in 1998 this boo responds to the dynamics of Industrializing Asia and the behavioural changes of actors which, in response to changing internal and external forces, have given rise to and are constantly giving rise to alterations in patterns of growth.

The new 3rd edition of Nael Bunni's Risk and Insurance in Construction, now co-authored with Lydia Bunni, explains the need for insurance in construction and engineering projects and why it must be incorporated into the Conditions of Contract for such projects.

This Handbook compiles leading international research on the regulation of the sharing economy from a range of academic disciplines.