Economics of industrial organization

This book investigates the economic decisions behind the implementation of public-private partnerships (PPPs).

This book provides a survey of the academic research and knowledge on the economics and management of professional hockey.

This book presents state-of-the-art research, challenges and solutions in the area of cloud-based cyber-physical systems (CPS) used in manufacturing.

This book explores methods and techniques to predict and eventually prevent financial distress in corporations.

This book provides an assessment of the evolution and dynamics of regional innovation systems (RISs) and the economic and social impact of resulting knowledge spillovers, presenting comparative case studies on the regions of several Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries (Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Lithuania and Estonia).

This volume explores the challenge of engaging knowledge management in a sharing economy.

This book analyses the multidimensional condition of the Romanian industrial landscape, which played host to a multitude of demo-economic, financial, trade, and trans- and inter-sectoral development practices before the intense period of European deindustrialisation.

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.

This book examines the adverse effects of complexity, information asymmetries, transaction costs, and uncertainty on investors' decision making.

This book explains how and why the state-socialist regime in Hungary used technology and propaganda to foster industrialization and the conservation of natural resources simultaneously.

This book is a concise review of the current status and future prospects of concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) technology.

This textbook on knowledge management draws on the authors' more than twenty years of research, teaching and consulting experience.

This book places knowledge, learning and innovation at the heart of cross-sector collaborations.

This book examines key aspects of the increasingly important phenomenon of reshoring - the decision of companies to reverse offshoring by bringing manufacturing back from overseas.

This book investigates the birth and evolution of craft breweries around the world.

This book highlights cutting-edge research in the economics and management of networks as an interdisciplinary field, offering new theoretical, empirical and practical perspectives on the management, governance, ownership and control of cooperatives, franchising networks and strategic alliances.

This book deals with research in open challenges in Management Engineering in the 21st century, as well as selected opportunities and solutions to remedy them.

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

This book investigates the potential of the Spanish Sociedades Laborales (SLs) as an instrument of active labour market policy for re-turning the unemployed to the labour market and also the transferability of the scheme to other EU Member States.

This book discusses how much other countries reflect the EU chemical regulation REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, Restriction of Chemicals), in the context of Europeanization theory.

This book gathers the best papers presented at the 19th International Congress on Project Management and Engineering, which was held in Granada, Spain in July 2015.

This book employs an interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral lens to explore the collaborative dynamics that are currently disrupting, re-creating and transforming the production and consumption of tourism.

This edited volume seeks to explore established as well as emergent forms of governance by combining social network analysis and governance research.

This book examines the relationship between digital innovations on the one hand, and accounting and management information systems on the other.

This proceedings volume aims to provide new research methods, theories and applications from various areas of applied economic research.

This edited volume proposes that the phenomenon of private sector, financialized higher education expansion in the United States benefits from a range of theoretical and methodological treatments.

This Palgrave Pivot explores how communication technology such as the Internet has changed the nature of trade, focusing especially on economy-wide reductions in company size (granularity) and the role of retailers (disintermediation).

This book presents an original empirical investigation of the market structure of airline city pair markets, shedding new light on the workings of competitive processes between firms.

This book addresses some of the major issues facing postal and delivery services throughout the world.

This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to the issue of "e;local liabilities"e;, drawing on close analysis of the case of Chinese migrants and the Italian industrial district of Prato in order to elucidate the problems, or liabilities, that derive from the separation between natives and immigrants in local systems of people and firms.

This book brings together original research on the role of networks in regional economic development and innovation.

This book explores the wave of liberalization reforms experienced by OECD network industries.

This book provides a systematic examination of the relationship between industrial clusters and poverty, which is analyzed using a multidimensional framework.

This book focuses on the theory and practice involved in the management of innovative activities that enhance the competitiveness of enterprises, industries and economies.

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.