Economics of industrial organization

Interfirm Networks in the Japanese Electronics Industry analyses changes in production networks in the Japanese electronics industry.

This book advances the international debate on the development of e-commerce with focus on emerging ASEAN economies.

Almost 117 million passengers flew on Europe's low cost airlines in 2006.

Global construction data is vital for contractors, governments, international organisations, policy makers, academic researchers and statisticians.

Originally published in 1991 this book provides a multi-faceted analysis of German unemployment between 1873 and 1913.

Ownership and decision-making are key issues in the economic restructuring taking place as economies struggle to emerge from the Great Recession, and technological change and globalization continue to place new demands on workers and firms.

This book seeks to fill the information gap on a key emerging real estate market and demystify the perception that the market in Ghana and indeed, across sub-Saharan Africa is opaque.

Originally published in 1992 this book charts the global restructuring of telecommunications industries away from the monopoly structures of the past towards increased competition, deregulation and privatization.

Emerging Competition in Postal and Delivery Services brings together practitioners, postal administrators, the courier industry, regulators, academic economists and lawyers to examine important policy and regulatory issues facing the postal and delivery industries.

The focus of this book is the processes through which industries and regions grow and decline in capitalist economies via an investigation of the trajectory of change in the North East of England.

Studies the role of services in development as well as on sectoral issues, with policy considerations embedded in the analysis.

Targeting regional economic development (TRED) has a long and rich tradition among academic economists and in the world of economic development practitioners.

The Covid-19 pandemic brought about significant changes in the world order.

This book addresses the evolution of the strategies, structures, ownership patterns and performances of large European corporations since the early 1960s.

COVID-19 has stressed the condition of radical uncertainty that increasingly characterises our times and compels cities to learn new ways to cope with unexpected global urban challenges.

Cooperation in Research and Development provides an empirical and theoretical analysis of a distinct form of inter-firm collaboration in Research & Development (R&D): research joint ventures (RJVs).

The popular uprisings in 2011 that overthrew Arab dictators were also a rebuke to crony capitalism, diverted against both rulers and their allied businessmen who monopolize all economic opportunities.

The Economics of Military Spending offers a comprehensive analysis of the effect of military expenditures on the economy.

Toshiaki Tachibanaki and Atsuhiro Taki emphasise several institutional features in Japan which differ from those in Euro-American countries: for example, the permanent employment and seniority system in wages and promotion, the dual structure, Keiretsu transactions, the main bank system, and intercorporate shareholding.

The last twenty years have seen an increase in European integration and the emergence of the technological revolution.

Working Regions focuses on policy aimed at building sustainable and resilient regional economies in the wake of the global recession.

The perception of Central Asia and its place in the world has come to be shaped by its large oil and gas reserves.

The demands placed on land, water, energy and other natural resources are exacerbated as the world population continues to increase together with the expectations of economic growth.

This monograph provides the first comprehensive analysis of industrial development in Ireland and its impact on Irish society between 1801-1922.

Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is the systematic and analytical process of comparing benefits and costs in evaluating the desirability of a project or programme - often of a social nature.

'This book is different from most other attempts to understand the politics of Indian economic development.

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.

The political economy of research and innovation (R&I) is one of the central issues of the early twenty-first century.

This book provides deep insight into the emergent Chinese innovation economy, as we head towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

This book contains the papers presented at the XXX International Congress INGEGRAF, "e;Digital Engineering, its application in Research, Development and Innovation"e;, held on 24-25 June 2021 in Valencia, Spain.

Three quarters of our current electricity usage and transport methods are derived from fossil fuels and yet within two centuries these resources will dry up.

This collection of speeches delivered by Michael Debabrata Patra, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), captures the dilemmas and trepidations of conducting monetary policy in India.

China's engagement in Africa is generally portrayed simply as African countries being exploited for their mineral wealth by a wealthy political and economic superpower.

Business and Sociology (1982) is a sociological perspective on business that examines industrialisation, capitalism, organisation, management, work, and industrial relations.

This book focuses on how to promote innovation and an entrepreneurial mindset within organizations in the context of structural changes.

During the last two decades, Vietnam has been undergoing a process of deregulating economic activities and integrating into the global economy.

Originally published in 1999, this volume contains a systematic collection of both theoretical and applied studies on user information systems for road users.

The relationship between trade policy and industrialization has provoked much controversy.

Originally published in 1968, this second volume of the Glasgow Studies in Profit, Business Saving and Investment uses the financial data assembled in Volume 1 to test economic theories of the factor distribution income, of the appropriation of profit, of the determinants of investment, and of the return on capital.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the economics of the business of maritime transport.

First published in 1999, this volume examines technology in developing countries with a focus on Vietnam.

First published in 1986, this text brings together a selection of papers written by the great Alec Nove on development economics, Marxist economies, the Soviet economy, and law and politics in the Soviet Union.

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The world, of late, has seen a productivity slowdown.

This new text provides a rigorous analysis of real estate markets.

This book examines countries that have tried, with varying degrees of success, to use legislative strategies to encourage and support collective bargaining, including Australia's Fair Work Act.

'Jha is the right scholar and economist to take readers through the development of the Indian economy.

This book examines the changing fortunes of Australian trade unionism in the past 40 years.

The central concerns of mobilities research - exploring the broader context and human aspects of movement - are fundamental to an understanding of the maritime freight transport sector.