Economics of industrial organization

A considerable number of higher educational institutions in North America, Oceania, and Europe, offer what are known as cooperative education, work-integrated learning, work placements, sandwich courses, or internships, to provide pragmatic experience to students, and its popularity is spreading to many higher educational institutions in the world.

This book gathers selected peer-reviewed papers from the 14th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM), which was held in Singapore on 28-31 July 2019, as well as papers presented during the 1st WCEAMOnline event which focused on the ramifications of Covid-19 on infrastructure systems.

This book offers a unique guide to the three-dimensional (3D) printing of metals.

Das Lehrbuch führt systematisch in die Grundlagen der Mikroökonomik ein.

Originally published in 1984.

Whole life costing has been a subject waiting to come of age for many years.

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

How has China approached the global economy?

Global climate change and the war in Ukraine have put energy back on the agenda for Europe in a way that has not been seen since the oil crisis of the 1970s.

The key to success in business is planning.

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

Congress' Own Think Tank recaps the OTA experience?

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

This book is one of the first comprehensive works to fill the knowledge gap resulting from the limited number of empirical studies on interfirm networks.

This comprehensive yet accessible text emphasizes problem solving, evaluation of projects, capital budgeting and resource allocation under risk and uncertainty.

This book is the eighth volume in a series entitled "e;Contemporary Logistics in China,"e; authored by researchers from the Logistics Research Center at Nankai University.

This book explores new alternative metaheuristic developments that have proved to be effective in their application to several complex problems.

Real Estate Analysis: A Toolkit for Property Analysts presents economic and financial models, applications and insights, packaged as a toolkit for analysts and other participants in commercial and residential real estate markets.

Lives in Peril demonstrates how and why seafarers are a vulnerable group of workers.

First published in 1921, Industrial Fatigue and Efficiency aims to provide a fairly complete overview of industrial fatigue and its influence on efficiency.

In this book discussing the principles of green chemistry and green engineering an international team of investigators present significant recent developments in applying nanoscience, nanoengineering, and nanotechnology to the area of environmental remediation.

The Routledge Handbook of Accounting Information Systems is a prestige reference work offering a comprehensive overview of the state of current knowledge and emerging scholarship in the discipline of AIS.

One cannot conceive of capitalism without labor.

First published in 1999, the main feature of this book is its multidisciplinary nature, since the book focuses on the complexity of spatial/ economic networks from several methodological points of view.

John Tomer was a leading intellectual figure in behavioural economics, making distinct contributions to the theory of the firm, social economy, choice theory, and government policy.

Agricultural Policy in the United States: Evolution and Economics traces U.

German economic history in the industrial age has classically formed an important basis for the study of economic growth and industrialisation more generally.

The near-ubiquitous spread of ICT offers unprecedented opportunities for social and economic agents, reshapes social and economic structures and drives the emergence of socioeconomic networks.

The innovation economy sets new standards for global business and requires efficient innovation management to plan, execute and evaluate innovation activities, establish innovative capability and coordinate resources and capacities for innovation on an intra- and inter-organizational level.

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

Presenting an unusual and unique system for Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI), this new book is geared for executives who want or need to support quality improvement in their organizations.

The book explores the evolving economics of gold as a global commodity as well as the production and trade of gold in and from the African continent.

The behaviour of commodity prices never ceases to marvel economists, financial analysts, industry experts, and policymakers.

European macro-regions, Euroregions and other forms of inter-regional, cross-border cooperation have helped to shape new scenarios and new relational spaces which may generate opportunities for economic development, while redefining the political and economic meaning of national borders.

The book addresses the entrepreneurial origin of the capitalist firm and its asymmetric contractual relationships between capitalists, workers, managers and entrepreneurs, and explains the origin of the firm by focusing on entrepreneurship.

This book examines returns on experience and managerial practices to generate deeper collaboration, intensify co-creation, support start-ups and established companies to explore, develop, and accelerate their projects thanks to open labs (living labs, fab labs, coworking spaces, "e;third spaces"e;, etc.

Originally published in 1989.

This book discusses mathematical models for various applications in economics, with a focus on non-linear dynamics.

This proceedings volume presents new methods and applications in applied economic research with an emphasis on advances in panel data analysis.

Silicon Valley is the most salient example of high-tech industrial clusters.

In many professions daily work life has become unthinkable without the use of a computer with access to the Internet.

How effective are patents for stimulating economic activity?

Marwick argues that economic development in Scotland was severely delayed until the 18th Century unlike neighbouring countries.

Regions and cities are the natural loci where knowledge is created, and where it can be easily turned into a commercial product.

Digital technologies have become a new economic and social force, reshaping traditional business models, strategies, structures, and processes.

This book examines the inter-firm networks created by interlock coordination through shared directors (inter-board) and managers (inter-department) at various levels: whole aggregate, core vs.

The European Commission and its member states, along with many others, are wrestling with the problem of how to implement the scheduled liberalization of the postal sector while maintaining the universal service obligation.