Economics of industrial organization

Rural Development in the Digital Age explores current theoretical and policy developments in EU rural policy during the 4.

Fast urbanizing countries like China have experienced rapid - albeit geographically uneven - local and regional economic growth during the past few decades.

This book deals with competition policy from the standpoint of a business executive.

Sweden has a long history of ambitious environmental, energy and climate policy.

This book discusses the history of thermal heat generators and focuses on the potential for these processes using micro-electrical mechanical systems (MEMS) technology for this application.

With the beginning of the twentieth century, American corporations in the chemical and electrical industries began establishing industrial research laboratories.

This Handbook offers an up-to-date collection of research on agricultural economics.

Developing regions are set to account for the vast majority of future urban growth, and women and girls will become the majority inhabitants of these locations in the Global South.

A critical issue in research and development (R&D) management is the structure and use of evaluative efforts for R&D programs.

Originally published in 1980.

This book provides 101 real-life construction management case studies from an author with over 40 years' experience in the construction industry and as a lecturer in construction management.

Having been state-owned for decades, the railway reform in China confused many people, particularly in terms of its ownership and property rights arrangements.

This book aims to systematically assess laws and practices, close gaps that currently prevent a full profiling of financial participation, provide a description of individual countries against the background of comparable scores for the EU 27 and to promote a common platform for financial participation within the European Union.

Reissuing works originally published between 1961 and 1990, this set of 12 books offers a selection of scholarship on the history of natural resources.

This book focuses on three main areas, each of which is central to economic theorising: firms' organisation and behaviour, technological change and the process of globalisation.

This book explores the dynamics of place, location and territories from the perspective of an experience-based economy.

This title was first published in 2001.

Conventional wisdom says that Europe's crisis is a financial crisis.

This volume examines what industrial policies are, and what role they play in the context of European integration.

First published in 1985, Prospects for Recovery in the British Economy examines the origins of the economic downturn of the early 1980s.

Going Circular explores the concept of a circular economy (CE) and its transformative potential for cities and regions.

This is the first comprehensive book on Military Cost-Benefit Analysis and provides novel approaches to structuring cost-benefit and affordability analysis amidst an uncertain defense environment and cloudy fiscal prospects.

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.

The Future of Work in Asia and Beyond presents the findings and associated implications arising from a collaborative research study conducted on the potential impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR - or Industry 4.

Aluminium was one of most cartelised industries in the international economic panorama of the 20th century.

The Conservatives and Industrial Efficiency, 1951-1964 responds to the need for a full assessment of the Conservatives performance in this crucial period.

Academic thought-leaders in the field of technology transfer analyze critically the factors behind success-oriented entrepreneurial start-up cultures on university campuses.

Over 20 years ago Philip Sadler, then head of a leading British business school, wrote Managerial Leadership in the Post-Industrial Society.

A majority of large-scale construction and major infrastructure projects are funded by public funds from taxpayers.

Efficient measurement plays a vital role in any sort of production but there is a dearth of both applications and in-depth research relating to the container port industry.

During the past 25 years the burden of managing economic policy for competitiveness has devolved to cities and to urban regions.

Introduces the reader to a wide variety of research results on pricing techniques and revenue management.

The passage of the Staggers Rail Act in 1980 led brought a renaissance to the freight rail industry.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

A timely contribution and incisive analysis, this is the story of the British experiment in privatizing the nuclear power industry and its subsequent financial collapse.

This book critically assesses the hedonic pricing technique as a method of imputing monetary values for the implicit attributes of housing.

In this volume, leading American health economists provide a critical assessment of the current state of knowledge of insurance market reform that is accessible to both policy-makers and researchers.

How do firms compete?

This title was first published in 2001.

In this book David Wittner situates Japan's Meiji Era experience of technology transfer and industrial modernization within the realm of culture, politics, and symbolism, examining how nineteenth century beliefs in civilization and enlightenment influenced the process of technological choice.

This two-volume work provides a comprehensive overview of the Belt and Road Initiative, examining its impact on economic growth, trade, financial systems and international relations.

This book explains the implementation of just in time (JIT) production in an industrial context, while also highlighting the application of various, vital lean production tools.

This book is an easy-to-read introduction to the principles and methods of building procurement and is aimed at first year students or non-cognate graduates starting out on a career in construction, property, quantity surveying and construction management.

Global climate change and the war in Ukraine have put energy back on the agenda for Europe in a way that has not been seen since the oil crisis of the 1970s.

The end of the twentieth century saw remarkable changes in the way that economic regulation was viewed.

This Element examines how the changing economic basis of nineteenth century Britain contributed to the development of British politics.

In the past, 'Global Management' meant optimizing production and commercialization activities around the world in an international business context.

Public Economics: A Concise Introduction provides a concise and non-technical overview of the role of government in the economy.

Industrial issues are often inextricably linked with labour market concerns and policy approaches that attempt to consider production and employment separately are inherently flawed.