Economics of industrial organization

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

Improving Industrial Relations (1985) presents and discusses the findings of research into the advisory function of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS).

The unique challenges associated with understanding network industries requires insights from a range of disciplinary perspectives, namely economics, engineering, law, and political science.

This book examines the political origins of financial institutions across fifteen developed democracies, with focused case studies on the US, France, Japan, Austria, and Germany.

This book focuses on informal workers and margins and seeks to advance the discourse on the concepts of 'work', 'workers' and 'margins'.

Through two World Wars and the Great Depression, this book explores the turbulent history of colonial Indian industry in the period immediately prior to independence.

Explores the Latin American economy and management through the study of Japanese companies in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico.

The book presents a coherent description of distributed manufacturing, providing a solid base for further research on the subject as well as smart implementations in companies.

The fields of entrepreneurship, innovation and regional development are inextricably linked, with people, organisations and the environment or their location, forming the main building blocks in an integrated model of value creation.

The relationship between project managers representing project owners and those on the contractor side is often threatened by communication risk.

This handbook provides a wide-ranging, coherent, and systematic analysis of maritime management, policy, and strategy development.

New Labour was outwardly hostile to trade unions and their concerns.

In recent years, there has been steady increase in the interest shown in both big data analytics and the use of information technology (IT) solutions to improve healthcare services.

A new analytical approach to small firms' cases, which * Uses rich primary source data on modern small businesses * Combines business strategy and industrial organization * Presents detailed Profiles on diverse small businesses * Shows how successful small businesses achieve competitive advantage * Considers both extended rivalry and financial structure * Shows how to `ground' small business theory in realityProfiles in Small Businesses has a companion volume Small Business Enterprise by Gavin Reid (also published by Routledge, Hb: 0-415-05681-0: GBP45.

This title was first published in 2000.

This contributed volume focuses on competition policy enforcement in BRICS and developing counties.

This book, first published in 1986, is a major reference work for the political discussions arising out of the 1985 Congress revisions of US food and farm laws.

A century ago, health services absorbed few resources and provided little benefit.

Huang examines a recurring pattern of rapid economic growth in East Asia from 1951 to the present and explores how far a single East Asian Growth model can be said to exist.

While innovation can be defined in many ways, the author sees it as a process.

This book focuses on exploring the relationship between spin-outs from incumbents and the patterns of innovation in general purpose technology.

The years since the global financial crisis have seen something of a renaissance in the manufacturing industry.

The Danish Economy in the Twentieth Century (1987) surveys the Danish economy, examining the effects of the rapid industrialisation which occurred in the country in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Agriculture productivity, growth and regional change in post-colonial India from a spatial perspective are yet to be rigorously examined.

This book examines the role of strategic visions of future technological development in the evolution of market structure.

Marcus Warren's book provides a broad coverage of economic theory, analysis and policy relevant to most undergraduate students studying economics as part of their degree.

Including a foreword by Simon Callow, a dedicated admirer of the Maly, Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre provides both a valuable methodological model for actor training and a unique insight into the journeys taken from studio to stage.

The Northern Sea Route and the Economy of the Soviet North (1956) evaluates the commercial value of the route on the basis of a detailed study of the economy of the Soviet North.

This book is the first volume presenting carefully selected chapters from the proceedings of the 7th International Scientific Conference on Business and Economics (ISCBE), Vila Real, Portugal, which took place in June 2024.

Bringing together theoretical, empirical and comparative perspectives on the European Social Model (ESM) and transitional labour market policy, this volume contains theoretical accounts of the ESM and a discussion of policy implications for European social and employment policies that derive from research on transitional labour markets.

In recent years, we have witnessed huge economic and socio-political change in the Gulf.

Originally published in 1977, this book concentrates on the period since nationalisation in the history of the coal industry.

The re-emergence of private enterprises is one of the most important factors in China's recent economic development.

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.

Students and professionals encountering estimating for the first time need an approachable introduction to its principles and techniques, which is up to date with current practice.

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

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the factors affecting corporate capital structures across 12 European Union countries, focusing on the influence of country-specific, industry-specific and firm-size-related determinants.

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

This book demonstrates how rethinking and adapting basic employment services into labor intermediation services can help address the many labor market disconnections of developing country economies.

This book takes the reader on a new tour of the world of firms.

This stimulating collection of essays by distinguished British, American, Australian and German scholars, originally published in 1985, offers a picture of the upsurge of New Unionism and the growth of old unions, and looks at the severe setbacks which occurred in the labour movements of Britain and Germany between the 1880s and the First World War.

This book provides a methodology for the analysis of oligopolistic markets from an equilibrium viewpoint, considering competition within and between groups of firms.

1 by Karel Van Miert Since the early years of the European Community, competition policy has played a decisive role in the creation of a more prosperous, competitive and integrated European economy.

Women in the developed world expect to work in the labour force over the course of their lives.

Industrial Relations and Health Services (1982) provides a comparative treatment of labour and industrial relations in health services in Canada, Britain and the USA.

This book, originally published in 1978 concentrates on the structure and growth of the North Sea oil industry in Scotland.

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