Economics of industrial organization

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

Turbulence characterises the current global scene.

This book, first published in 1985, presents a comprehensive overview of the world shipbuilding industry.

Pontus Braunerhjelm and Karolina Ekholm Over recent decades, foreign direct investment (FDI) has become a major force in the global economy.

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.

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.

In today's business world, competence is no longer enough in an employee;competent employees are merely a starting point.

The theory of the firm did not exist, in any serious manner, until around 1970.

This Element applies capability-architecture-performance approach to the automobile sector, featuring lean production, modularization, etc.

Originally published in 1992 and now with an updated Preface this book analyses the development of innovations using a network perspective.

Originally published in 1987 this book presents a comprehensive survey of the global natural gas industry: it looks at the problems of supply, the pattern of demand, the economics of the industrya nd how the industry in the 1980s was being affected by changes in other energy sectors.

This proceedings of the 13th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management covers a range of topics that are timely, relevant and practically important in the modern digital era towards safer, cost effective, efficient, and secure engineered assets such as production and manufacturing plants, process facilities, civil structures, equipment, machinery, and infrastructure.

This book explores the interdependencies between technologies and institutions in network infrastructures.

In a knowledge-based economy, universities are vital institutions.

Consumers make purchasing decisions every day, taking into account their needs, preferences and beliefs which may change due to various determinants; some depending on the consumers themselves and others on the organizations acting in the market.

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This volume goes beyond a narrow conceptualization of macroeconomic stability and explores the link between socio-economic policies, structural transformation and inclusive development.

Commodity Derivatives: A Guide for Future Practitioners describes the origins and uses of these important markets.

This book provides an evaluation of the industrial organization of banking with a focus on the interrelationship among bank behavior, market structure, and regulation.

Electricity Pricing In Transition is written to address the new issues facing utilities, retailers, regulators, and customers in the changing electricity market.

Studer shows that institutional, geographical, political, and technological factors account for Europe''s rise to undisputed world economic leader.

Bread was the staple of the ancient Mediterranean diet.

Originally published in 1973, the aim of this work was to discuss the various factors governing the rate of growth of the British economy since the First World War.

This book addresses the recent debate about copyright law and its impact on the distribution of scientific knowledge from an economic perspective.

The construction industry is undergoing great change particularly with the introduction of digital technologies and the increasing emphasis on sustainability and ethical practice.

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Originally published in 1988 this book was the culmination of 7 years of research in micro-electronics by the Center for Science and Technology Policy in New York.

The papers in this volume cover three major areas of International Business: Developments in Theory, The Foreign Market Servicing Strategies of Multinational Firms and Asia-Pacific Issues.

How have modern labour markets developed?

This book focuses on the economic aspects of cloud computing, a critical ICT infrastructure in our digital age.

This impressive book sees the author applying and extending the resource based view of the firm to explain and predict the strategy of corporate diversification.

The book arose from a multi-disciplinary study which looked at the development of global-local manufacturing clusters in the context of a developing, Asian economy.

This comprehensive yet accessible text emphasizes problem solving, evaluation of projects, capital budgeting and resource allocation under risk and uncertainty.

All over the world societies are facing a number of major problems.

Regional technology-based economic development and the recruitment and retention of talent is a top priority of city-regions in the United States and in countries around the world.

After years of official disrepute, industrial policy (IP) is back in vogue at regional, national and international levels driven by concerns over competitiveness, globalisation, de-industrialisation, unemployment and the comparatively slow growth of the EU economy especially in this post-recession phase.

This book offers a comparative perspective on the technological, economic, and political aspects of Internet development in the post-Soviet countries.

Originally published in 1964 and revised in 1971.

Originally published in 1985, this volume examines the determinants of transport energy consumption and discusses policies which could modify rising transport energy consumption while still providing the transport services necessary for economic development.

Regional technology-based economic development and the recruitment and retention of talent is a top priority of city-regions in the United States and in countries around the world.

This title was first published in 2002: This compelling text is the first major application of Michael Porter's diamond framework to identify the sources of national competitive advantage in the case of Greece.

This book discusses several product development strategies and tools employed by organizations around the world to implement frugal innovations.

From the 1970s to the 1990s, China implemented a wide array of industrial policies to build up indigenous big business groups in their attempts to 'catch-up' with the industries of the developed world.

Edmond Malinvaud This book provides a most welcome survey of what statisticians and economists know about an aspect of production that is difficult to precisely characterize but matters a lot for both its importance on economic performance and its social implications.

This book examines the adverse effects of complexity, information asymmetries, transaction costs, and uncertainty on investors' decision making.

In the global economy, regional development and innovation are increasingly an imperative to increase the competitive edge of EU economies.

Volume 2: Compartments, Stressors and Sectors, deals with the problems that occur in the three 'compartments' of the environment, namely air, water and soil.

Published in 1984, this book reviews British industrial policy towards information technology within the context of the international trading system.