Economics of industrial organization

This book investigates the dynamics of the management of sustainability in networks and clusters - an area of increasing importance that is neglected by the many studies addressing sustainability at the single-enterprise level.

This book offers a detailed analysis of the key sectors in the Italian economy, with the focus especially on areas in which the economy excels, such as the automatic packaging machinery sector, pharmaceutical production, the food and wine industry, and tourism.

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.

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 aims to identify promising future developmental opportunities and applications for Tech Mining.

This book introduces the issues and problems that arise when implementing smart energy management for sustainable manufacturing in the automotive manufacturing industry and the analytical tools and applications to deal with them.

This book examines the changing business andeconomic environment for postal services in Lithuania and the upcomingchallenges for this industry.

This book analyses quantitative open source software (OSS)reliability assessment and its applications, focusing on three major topicareas: the Fundamentals of OSS Quality/Reliability Measurement and Assessment;the Practical Applications of OSS Reliability Modelling; and RecentDevelopments in OSS Reliability Modelling.

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

Aston challenges and reshapes the on-going debate concerning social status, economic opportunity, and gender roles in nineteenth-century society.

This book offers a strategic analysis of current and future perspectives of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows into the South East European media market.

This book deals with World Class Operations Management (WCOM), detailing its principles, methods and organisation, and the results that this approach can bring about.

This book presents an empirical investigation into the relationship between companies' short-term response to capital and labor market frictions and performance.

This state-of-the-art collection of papers on the theory of Cournotian competition focuses on two main subjects: oligopolistic Cournot competition and contests.

Winner of the 2016 Coup de Coeur prize at the Plumes des Achats & Supply Chain, Paris.

This volume is devoted to management accounting approaches for analyzing business benefits and costs of climate change.

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This volume features papers from the 18th International Congress on Project Management and Engineering, held by the University of Zaragoza in collaboration with the Spanish Association of Project Management and Engineering (AEIPRO).

This book analyzes the continuous operation of a power plant with condensing power units in combined heat and power mode (CHP-mode) over a period of one year.

Worldwide, postal operators have been slow to address the threats from and opportunities created by electronic competition.

Containing selected papers from the ICRESH-ARMS 2015 conference in Lulea, Sweden, collected by editors with years of experiences in Reliability and maintenance modeling, risk assessment, and asset management, this work maximizes reader insights into the current trends in Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety (RAMS) and Risk Management.

Over the past decade, a growing body of academic literature on the economics of road cycling has been amassed.

This book describes the dramatic changes that have occurred in the exchange industry during the past two decades.

This book focuses on assumptions underlying methods choice in program evaluation.

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.

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The book presents theoretical and empirical research on the integrated assessment of cartels' effects on national economies.

This SpringerBrief discusses multiple forms of open-source-inspired outsourcing: opensourcing, innersourcing and crowdsourcing.

This book expresses the reasons to embark on a production management system and begin a journey to a better social and economic life in Puerto Rico.

The purpose of this book is to examine the geospatial and temporal linkage between offshore supply vessels and oil and gas activity in the Outer Continental Shelf Gulf of Mexico, and to model OSV activity expected to result from future lease sales.

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This book covers the issues related to human resource management (HRM) in an international context.

This book provides an economic perspective on the effects of food safety standards on international trade.

This book examines cost-of-capital models and their application in the context of managerial finance.

Significantly extended from the first edition and published in response to the new international standard ISO55000, this book on physical asset management (2nd Ed.

This volume investigates the impact of energy technology innovations on economic development and presents new areas of research into the financial economics of energy as well as new studies into valuation, electricity pricing and the economic, regulatory and environmental costs of alternative energy sources.

This book takes an in-depth look at the software industry as a major factor in future global economic performance.

This book is at the cutting edge of the ongoing 'neo-Schumpeterian' research program that investigates how economic growth and its fluctuation can be understood as the outcome of a historical process of economic evolution.

Worldwide, postal and delivery economics is the subject of considerable interest.

This book analyzes the wrapping and packaging machinery sector in the Emilia/Bologna district in Italy and compares the most recent trends with those in the industry in Schwabisch Hall and Waiblingen, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, which represents a direct rival.

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

This textbook on network economics provides essential microeconomic instruments for the analysis of network sectors like telecommunications, transport or energy.

The book describes advanced business analytics and shows how to apply them to many different professional areas of engineering and management.

This book deals with anti-dumping measures (AD) and investigates two questions: First, what country characteristics affect AD use and notably, do domestic political institutions have an effect?

The organization of interfirm networks, such as alliances, cooperatives, franchise and retail chains, has become an important research topic in the field of economics, marketing, strategic management, and organization theory.

This Brief identifies and contrasts the groups of National Basketball Association (NBA) expansion franchises and of any teams that relocated from one metropolitan area or city to another from 1950 to 2013.

In recent years, auctions have become an important field and many markets have designed new and sophisticated auction models to assign different types of items.

This volume provides rich insight into the nature and practice of media management.

Now that supply chain operations are facing new challenges due to the necessity of reducing costs and CO2 emissions, companies are increasingly leveraging cooperation from companies from other supply chains as a source of competitive advantage.

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