Economics of industrial organization

This volume goes beyond a narrow conceptualization of macroeconomic stability and explores the link between socio-economic policies, structural transformation and inclusive development.

This book analyses the long term spatial-economic metamorphosis of Schiphol and the Schiphol region as archetypal for a wider international phenomenon of urban development of metropolises across the world.

During the past 25 years the burden of managing economic policy for competitiveness has devolved to cities and to urban regions.

To combat economic disparity and low growth, the European Union has established an integrated policy system that pursues increased cohesion and smart, sustainable, and inclusive growth.

R&D Investment and Impact in the Global Construction Industry brings together contributions from leading industry researchers in a diverse group of countries to investigate the role of research and development (R&D) in the construction industry.

Holistic in approach and rooted in the real world Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology presents a new way of looking at environmental policy; exploring the relationship between ecological economics and industrial ecology.

This book focuses on three main areas, each of which is central to economic theorising: firms' organisation and behaviour, technological change and the process of globalisation.

This title was first published in 2001.

The spectacular economic performance of China, East Asia and India during the last ten years has ignited some profound changes in the world economy.

The purpose of this book is to provide a guided tour through the theoretical foundations of spatial locations of firms and industries in an evolutionary economic framework.

This book explains the links between past and present oil crises, financial crises, and geopolitical conflicts.

Originally published in 1981, this book discusses the development of higher cost North Sea gas and oil fields.

In the wake of the global financial crisis, and ongoing savage government cuts across the world, Garry Leech addresses a pressing and necessary topic: the nature of contemporary capitalism, and how it inherently generates inequality and structural violence.

Digital currencies are a fairly new phenomenon brought about by the spectacular rise of the internet.

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

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

Originally published in 1982, The Railwaymen examines the impact of the transformation which took place in the British Railways in the second half of the 20th Century on the people who maintained British railway services and reveals the change which took place in the union to which most of them belonged: the National Union of Railwaymen (now part of the National Union of Rail and Maritime Transport Workers: RMT).

In easily accessible language, this book analyses the impact of Economic and Monetary Union on Small and Medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe.

The most up-to-date guide on making the right capital restructuring moves The Art of Capital Restructuring provides a fresh look at the current state of mergers, acquisitions, and corporate restructuring around the world.

This timely new book provides an international perspective on Public Private Partnerships.

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.

The definitive guide to measurement and estimating using NRM1, written by the author of NRM1 The 'RICS New rules of measurement: Order of cost estimating and cost planning of capital building works' (referred to as NRM1) is the cornerstone of good cost management of capital building works projects - enabling more effective and accurate cost advice to be given to clients and other project team members, while facilitating better cost control.

Originally published in 1993, this book contains 4 studies on Asia: Bangladesh, India, South Korea and Sri Lanka.

Asks whether and to what effect the widespread adoption of digital technology has led to large-scale or structural economic changes in business.

In this wide ranging exposition of the various economic theories of technological change, Stanislaw Gomulka relates them to rates of growth experienced by different economies in both the short and the long term.

First published in 1999, this book offers a new study of local government in Japan.

The Regional Economics of Technological Transformations provides a comprehensive overview of 4.

This book examines complex challenges in managing major strategic economic and social infrastructure projects.

Lu Zhang explains how labor relations in the auto industry and broader social economy can be expected to develop in China in the coming decades.

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.

The financial malaise that has affected the Eurozone countries of southern Europe - Spain, Portugal, Italy and, in its most extreme case, Greece - has been analysed using mainly macroeconomic and financial explanations.

Originally published in 1989 this book is a valuable contribution to the development of a non-technological approach in the study of technology and work.

This book develops a novel industry emergence framework to explain the features, interaction, and synchronization of key elements for the birth and growth of new industries.

There is a growing concern among Chinese researchers and policymakers about China's industrial development being unsustainable and the irreversible depletion of natural resources and deterioration of the ecological environment.

This book examines the role of competence, organization and strategies of firms in industrial dynamics linking economic, management and historical perspectives.

It is not uncommon that a group of scientists from many different disciplines join a working group, discuss a topic of interest and edit a volume of articles related to this topic.

This book makes an original contribution to our knowledge of the world's major defence industries.

The importance of the built environment to environmental protection is well established, with strict environmental regulations now a feature of the working lives of planners, contractors, building designers, and quantity surveyors alike.

This title was first published in 2003.

This book, originally published in 1999, provided the first comparative, in-depth analysis of workplace relations in east and west Germany.

First published in 1955, this book offers a detailed history from the past to the mid-20th century on economic control.

Originally published in 1968, this book was one of the first full-scale published studies of the principles of investment planning and of the structure of marginal costs in a public enterprise.

This book provides empirical insights into the relationship between capital and equity-ownership structure of Indian manufacturing companies and their financial performance.

This book examines the problem of the innovation divide in the world economy, and convergence in innovation performance between leaders and followers, analysed through the prism of Chinese experiences, and explored from an European Union (EU) perspective.

This book is an easy-to-read introduction to the principles and methods of building procurement and is aimed at first year students or non-cognate graduates starting out on a career in construction, property, quantity surveying and construction management.

In Australia, regions are not just geographic locations, they are also cultural ideas.

This is a revised and updated edition of Paul Ferguson's successful textbook.

A nuanced examination of how antitrust law must change to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century economy.

During the final months of his life, Walt Disney was consumed with the world-wide problems of cities.

Investment is the engine of growth.