Economics of industrial organization

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

This book contains the description of machines and systems as investments goods in production.

This book comprises chapters authored by experts who are professors and researchers in internationally recognized universities and research institutions.

This book constitutes a critical review of Nigeria's attempts to achieve rapid industrial development since independence from Britain in 1960.

When we talk about clusters, it's the fabulous destiny of Silicon Valley that first comes to mind - the place where entrepreneurs and policymakers alike flock.

This book provides a survey of the academic research and knowledge on the economics and management of professional hockey.

This book takes a fresh perspective to acquisition research, focusing on employee emotions.

This volume explores the challenge of engaging knowledge management in a sharing economy.

This contributed volume studies and explains the effect of agglomeration on a firm's innovation and performance.

This textbook presents an overview of how the activities of an organisation can be managed to satisfy the needs of stakeholders through the cost effective, operationally efficient and sustainable transformation of resources into outputs.

This book examines the role of agriculture in the economic transformation of developing low- and middle-income countries and explores means for accelerating agricultural growth and poverty reduction.

This edited volume proposes that the phenomenon of private sector, financialized higher education expansion in the United States benefits from a range of theoretical and methodological treatments.

This book covers advanced reliability and maintainability knowledge as applied to recent engineering problems.

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

This book focuses on the theory and practice involved in the management of innovative activities that enhance the competitiveness of enterprises, industries and economies.

This book examines cooperation between the US and the EU on financial regulatory reform, notably at the outset and the first three years of the global financial crisis.

This book gathers selected peer-reviewed papers from the 15th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM), which was hosted by The Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul Campo Grande, Brazil, from 15--18 August 2021This book covers a wide range of topics in engineering asset management, including: strategy and standards;sustainability and resiliency;servitisation and Industry 4.

This book examines the American industrial strategy, from the late 70s to the present day, in what is now known as the 'neoliberal era'.

The main objective of this book has been to carry out research into the definition of industrial policy and its goals; to evaluate previously-introduced policies and instruments; and to identify the future challenges for and features of a modern EU industrial policy.

This book explores the impact of railroads on 19thcentury Russian peasant collectivism.

This Palgrave Pivot explores how communication technology such as the Internet has changed the nature of trade, focusing especially on economy-wide reductions in company size (granularity) and the role of retailers (disintermediation).

Energy policies play a pivotal part in helping countries achieve their sustainable development goals.

This book deals with research in open challenges in Management Engineering in the 21st century, as well as selected opportunities and solutions to remedy them.

This volume offers a wide-ranging discussion on the interrelations among AI, algorithms, big data, and Industry 4.

This edited book presents research results that are relevant for scientists, practitioners and policymakers who engage in knowledge and technology transfer from different perspectives.

This book examines the relationship between digital innovations on the one hand, and accounting and management information systems on the other.

Featuring selected contributions from the 2nd International Conference on Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering, held in Nice, France, February 18-19, 2016, this book introduces recent advances and state-of-the-art technologies in the field of advanced intelligent manufacturing.

John Tomer was a leading intellectual figure in behavioural economics, making distinct contributions to the theory of the firm, social economy, choice theory, and government policy.

This book examines the role of experts and expertise in the dynamics of globalisation since the mid-nineteenth century.

Adopting evolutionary and behavioral approaches, this volume presents the latest research advances in knowledge competencies and human capital, as well as the changing structural dynamics, highlighting their links with entrepreneurial activities.

This book discusses how much other countries reflect the EU chemical regulation REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, Restriction of Chemicals), in the context of Europeanization theory.

This monograph provides theoretical and practical perspectives on competency management as a key resource for producing competitive products.

This book presents an original empirical investigation of the market structure of airline city pair markets, shedding new light on the workings of competitive processes between firms.

This book introduces the main concepts of manufacturing systems and presents several evaluation approaches for these systems' evaluation.

This book investigates the birth and evolution of craft breweries around the world.

The book addresses the most recent challenges faced by the postal and delivery sector.

This book reports on cutting-edge legal, ethical, social and economic issues relating to robotics and automation, human-machine interaction and artificial intelligence, in different application areas.

This book presents contributions of intelligent management theories and models for a more effective management of sustainable business practices in competitive, profitable and socially responsible organizations.

This book highlights procedures utilized by the design departments of leading global manufacturers, offering readers essential insights into the electromagnetic and thermal design of rotating field (induction and synchronous) electric machines.

This book investigates the economic decisions behind the implementation of public-private partnerships (PPPs).

This book provides some recent research advances in the field of lean manufacturing.

This book highlights cutting-edge research in the economics and management of networks as an interdisciplinary field, offering new theoretical, empirical and practical perspectives on the management, governance, ownership and control of cooperatives, franchising networks and strategic alliances.

This book gathers selected peer-reviewed papers from the 14th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM), which was held in Singapore on 28-31 July 2019, as well as papers presented during the 1st WCEAMOnline event which focused on the ramifications of Covid-19 on infrastructure systems.

This book analyzes how and under what conditions collaborating corporations can effectively manage relationships with their suppliers in order to decrease the risk of suppliers' noncompliance with codes of conduct and standards.

This book examines key issues, challenges, opportunities and trends in innovation processes and supply chain management.

This book systematically describes and evaluates the impact of energy cooperatives as a key driving force in the German energy transition toward a sustainability-oriented energy sector.

This book examines key aspects of the increasingly important phenomenon of reshoring - the decision of companies to reverse offshoring by bringing manufacturing back from overseas.

This volume offers a collection of studies on problem of organization's efficiency, criteria for evaluating the efficiency, tools and methods for measuring the efficiency.

This book presents state-of-the-art probabilistic methods for the reliability analysis and design of engineering products and processes.