Economics of industrial organization

In response to both policy and conceptual debates, alternative narratives have begun to emerge about territorial governance and policymaking.

The shipping business is a lesser-known industry, but it is an extremely influential element in the global economy.

This important new book, the first of its kind in the fire safety field, discusses the economic problems faced by decision-makers in the areas of fire safety and fire precautions.

South Africa's struggle in balancing its domestic needs while playing a dynamic developmental role in the African region and global context exposes a complex web of relations shaped by its geostrategic location on the continent, and the world, and the staggering legacies of colonialism and apartheid.

This book presents a comprehensive history of handloom weaving industry in India to challenge and revise the view that competition from machine-produced textiles destroyed the country's handicrafts as claimed by historians until recently.

In recent years, scholars from a variety of disciplines have addressed many perplexing questions about the Industrial Revolution in all its aspects.

Developing countries face the challenge of maintaining economic growth and socio-economic development, at the core of which sits the construction industry.

In recent years, smart specialisation has been a key building block of regional economic and development policy across the European Union.

The geography of networks and R&D collaborations, in particular the spatial dimension of interactions between organisations performing joint R&D, have attracted a burst of attention in the last decade, both in the scientific study of the networks and in the policy sector.

This work focuses on the application of fundamental cost engineering principles to the capital and operating costs estimation of major projects.

Behind the mystery of economic growth stands another mystery: why do some places fare better than others?

The proper role of government in the US economy has long been the subject of ideological dispute.

The essential reference tool for all real estate, property, planning and construction students.

Winner of the 2009 Regional Studies Association Best Book Award!

This book provides students and line managers in organizations with the means to create better scenarios and to use them to create winning business strategies.

First published in 1988, this book sets out to reinterpret the changing place of working-class association in capitalist Britain.

Urban sustainability has become a political and social agenda of global significance, of which real estate is an integral dimension.

This book critically examines the phenomenon and the consequences of the increasing inter-dependence between industry, universities and national laboratories.

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.

Ever since Schumpeter's groundbreaking work there has been a plethora of new research seeking to extend the direction and dynamics of innovation.

This edited book includes original essays by prominent researchers and practitioners in the field of postal and delivery economics, originally presented at the 30th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics held in Rimini, Italy, May 25-27, 2022.

This thought-provoking book questions the framework of the Horizon 2020 strategy and the policies of smart development.

This book assesses the performance of Indian industries from the perspectives of trade, investment, policy, and development incentives.

Mining has played a key role in the growth of many towns in South Africa.

This study looks at union responses to the changes in the Latin American car industry in the last 15 years.

Inflation is the economic plague of the modern world, completely undermining conventional theory and policies for its containment, and setting governments, management and labour on a dangerous collision course.

Industrial engineers need to have a good foundation in the Six Sigma process to define needs, collect data, measure performance, analyze results, and improve operations in the workplace.

Economic growth is highly dependent on technological progress and innovation, yet the sources from which these innovations originate are still largely misunderstood and untapped.

This book will provide emerging construction professionals with insights and information helpful for a successful career in the Australian construction industry.

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

Published in 1999, the book is the proceedings volume of the 23rd International Conference of Agricultural Economists, held in Sacramento, California, in August 1997.

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

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

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

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.

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.

Health Economics: An International Perspective is the only textbook to provide a truly international, comparative treatment of health economics.

Over the last fifteen years there have been dramatic increases in both private and public intervention in international trade.

Provides empirical evidence on how firm-level data can help governments strike the right policy balance and ultimately achieving higher aggregate productivity.

Training and Promotion in Nationalised Industry (1951) is the results of a study made into the personnel department and into certain aspects of personnel policy in the nationalised coal, electricity, gas, transport and airways industries in postwar Britain.

The service sector accounts for a huge proportion of global employment, and is the biggest driver of gross domestic product in developing nations.

The Economic Analysis of Unions (1986) thoroughly examines a range of theoretical and empirical literature on the economics of labour unions.

This book applies cutting-edge economic analysis and social science to unpack the rich complexities and paradoxes of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Originally published in 1985.

This book examines the impact of artificial intelligence on competition and antitrust in today's global digital economy.

This book investigates how extractive capitalism has developed over the past three decades, what dynamics of resistance have been deployed to combat it, and whether extractivism can ever be transformed into being a part of a progressive development path.

Multinational Investment and Economic Structure examines the relationship between industrial development and foreign direct investment (FDI) activities, and the interaction between multinational (MNE) activity and economic structures.

The debate on the free movement of labour within the EU has gained new momentum in the wake of the economic crisis.