Economics of industrial organization

This book examines China's digital transformation and its complex policy landscape, offering fresh insights into how the world's second-largest economy navigates the challenges of governing its rapidly evolving digital sector.

Port Economics is the study of the economic decisions (and their consequences) of the users and providers of port services.

The spread of the manufacturing industry is an important part of economic development, creating jobs, new products and trade and investment links between countries.

In recent years, the United Kingdom has become a more and more divided society with inequality between the regions as marked as it has ever been.

The Eastern Partnership (EaP) was launched in 2009 to strengthen institutional, economic and political relations between the European Union (EU) and the six Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine).

The global financial and economic crisis starting in 2007 has provoked the exploration of alternatives to neo-liberalism.

This book uses a series of high-profile case studies to examine the processes by which auto companies fail or survive.

Recently, evolutionary theories of economic and technological change have attracted a considerable amount of attention which reflects the problems encountered by mainstream analysis of dynamic phenomena and quantitative change.

Economic events such as the recent global economic crisis can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the individual and household levels.

Work is widely thought to have become more precarious.

The globalized economy depends on local and context-specific factors.

Peak Load and Capacity Pricing lays out clear pricing strategies for understanding peak load and capacity pricing structures, further cementing electricity's role as an asset class with fixed and variable costs.

This book analyzes the impacts of current and possible future GM crop applications and shows that these technologies can contribute substantially to sustainable agricultural development and food security.

Twenty revealing tales of real-life rivalry between firms in diverse industries, including wine, skiing, opera, video games and cruise liners.

This book, first published in 1985, presents a comprehensive overview of the world shipbuilding industry.

Pontus Braunerhjelm and Karolina Ekholm Over recent decades, foreign direct investment (FDI) has become a major force in the global economy.

The book provides a picture of the increasing significance of Central Europe and especially Poland in global production networks, discussing the underlying economic, social, and political factors.

The key approach taken in this book is that all local economic clusters have something in common - specific case-studies are thus put into wider perspective in a masterly study that will be of keen interest to both economists and geographers.

This volume, originally published in 1997, examines the combined effect of financial instability and industrial restructuring on postwar economic growth and recession in the US.

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.

The Occupation era (1945-1952) witnessed major change in Japan and the beginnings of its growth from of the ashes of defeat towards its status as a developmental model for much of the world.

This 2005 book describes in much detail both how and why franchising works.

Much recent research in Urban Studies has concentrated on the notion of the 'global city' but discussion has also covered a larger set of mega cities, with populations in excess of 10 million.

Originally published in 1986, this book was published at a time when the manufacturing structure of advanced economies was transformed.

The economics literature on industry dynamics contains a wide array of empirical works identifying a set of stylized facts.

In today's business world, competence is no longer enough in an employee;competent employees are merely a starting point.

Through the prism of 'Nowa Huta', a landmark of socialist industrialization, Trappmann challenges the one-sided account of Poland as a successful transition case and reveals the ambivalent role of the European Union in economic restructuring.

Current Directions in Postal Reform brings together leading practitioners, worldwide postal administrations, and the courier industry as well as a number of regulators, academic economists, mailers and lawyers, to examine some of the major policy and regulatory issues facing the postal and delivery industry.

In einer dynamischen Welt, in der sich Anforderungen und Märkte ständig verändern, ist Flexibilität der Schlüssel zum Erfolg.

First published in 1981.

This insightful book analyzes the development of cross-border and cross-sector partnerships in a number of European cities and regions.

The day-to-day world of crude oil traders is not usually open to outsiders.

Originally published in 1981.

Economic restructuring and demographic change have in recent years placed much strain on urban areas with the effects falling disproportionately on neighbourhoods that were previously underpinned by industry and manufacturing.

Cluster organizations are becoming more and more popular, both in developing and developed countries.

Intensive study of small firms in industrial clusters and locations on how to create jobs and achieve Make in India goals.

Does Information Technology matter?

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

Knowledge intensive entrepreneurship lies at the core of the structural shift necessary for the growth and development of a knowledge based economy, yet research reveals that the EU has fewer young leading innovators, and Europe's new firms do not adequately contribute to industrial growth.

The unprecedented Covid-19 crisis revealed the scale and scope of a new type of economy taking shape in front of our very eyes: the digital economy.

This edited book presents research results that are relevant for scientists, practitioners and policymakers who engage in knowledge and technology transfer from different perspectives.

It is now accepted that the world's climate has warmed by about 0.

Texas' economic growth has consistently outpaced that of the United States as a whole over the past quarter century.

Beer is widely defined as the result of the brewing process which has been refined and improved over centuries.

Originally published in 1965 and written by a noted economist and leader in the field of conflict resolution, this book traces the forces which have brought the 20th century 'post-civilisation' into being: the ever-increasing power of science and the scientific attitude, the global communication network, the high efficiency of industrial societies.

The fields of Economic Geography and International Business share an interest in the same phenomena, whilst each provides both a differing perspective and different research methods in attempting to understand those phenomena.

Added Value in Design and Construction takes a holistic, student-centred approach to offering public and private sector clients the ultimate reward; doing more for less.

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.

This insightful book analyzes the development of cross-border and cross-sector partnerships in a number of European cities and regions.