Economics of industrial organization

This book focuses on the importance of human factors in optimizing the learning and training process.

This book presents a systematic approach to the management of physical assets from concept to disposal, building upon the previous editions and brought up-to-date with the new international standards ISO55002 and ISO/TS50010.

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.

Focusing on the theory and applications of point processes, Point Processes for Reliability Analysis naturally combines classical results on the basic and advanced properties of point processes with recent theoretical findings of the authors.

This book examines failure in the urbanisation of Northwest China as a result of government industrial policies that have impacted on the economic development of the region.

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

This book draws on a neo-institutional theory to characterize service-oriented manufacturing firms in relation to more familiar organizational forms, such as lean and agile.

This textbook presents 122 exercises on industrial organization with detailed answer keys.

Industrial Relations in a Changing World (1975) shows how industrial relations embrace very deep-rooted attitudes and institutions, and that change, if it is to be radical, is slow.

This book provides an evaluation of the industrial organization of banking with a focus on the interrelationship among bank behavior, market structure, and regulation.

Energy policies play a pivotal part in helping countries achieve their sustainable development goals.

This book draws on a neo-institutional theory to characterize service-oriented manufacturing firms in relation to more familiar organizational forms, such as lean and agile.

This volume brings together current academic research and knowledge on the economics and management of professional road cycling.

This textbook helps students to understand the social, economic, and environmental importance of the mutual relations between industries in the same and in different regions and nations and demonstrates how to model these relations using regional, interregional, and international input-output (IO) models.

This book compiles empirical evidence on both the challenges raised by neo-liberal policies and the internet to trade unions, and the development of more flexible forms of worker organisation and collective representation.

This book reports on cutting-edge legal, ethical, social and economic issues relating to robotics and automation, human-machine interaction and artificial intelligence, in different application areas.

This book comprises chapters authored by experts who are professors and researchers in internationally recognized universities and research institutions.

This book presents contributions of intelligent management theories and models for a more effective management of sustainable business practices in competitive, profitable and socially responsible organizations.

This book gathers selected peer-reviewed papers from the 15th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM), which was hosted by The Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul Campo Grande, Brazil, from 15--18 August 2021This book covers a wide range of topics in engineering asset management, including: strategy and standards;sustainability and resiliency;servitisation and Industry 4.

This book is Volume II of a two-volume set on antitrust policy, analyzing the economic efficiency and moral desirability of various kinds of antitrust-policy-coverable conduct and various possible government responses to such conduct, including US and EU antitrust law.

This book presents a selection of the best papers given at the XXIV International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management.

This book offers a selection of the best papers presented at the annual international scientific conference "e;Digital Transformation in Industry: Trends, Management, Strategies (DTI2021),"e; held by the Institute of Economics, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in Ekaterinburg (Russia) on October 29, 2021.

This book contains the papers presented at the XXX International Congress INGEGRAF, "e;Digital Engineering, its application in Research, Development and Innovation"e;, held on 24-25 June 2021 in Valencia, Spain.

This book covers advanced reliability and maintainability knowledge as applied to recent engineering problems.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and platforms are closely related.

This book explores the impact of railroads on 19thcentury Russian peasant collectivism.

This book develops new theoretical perspectives on the economics and politics of innovation and knowledge in order to capture new trends in modern capitalism.

This textbook provides the tools for a modern post-graduate introductory course on system reliability theory.

These proceedings constitute a selection of best papers from the 3rd International Conference on Economics and Social Sciences, Innovative Models to Revive the Global Economy, ICESS 2020, held in Bucharest, Romania, in October 2020.

This book directs the engineering manager or the undergraduate student preparing to become an engineering manager, who is or will become actively engaged in the management of economic-risk trade-off decisions for engineering investments within an organizational system.

The work contains selected and thoroughly reviewed research papers of the topics Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Digitalization, Sustainability, Transportation Management, Process Management, Risk Management, Corporate Social Responsibility and Governance.

This book constitutes a critical review of Nigeria's attempts to achieve rapid industrial development since independence from Britain in 1960.

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.

The book addresses the most recent challenges faced by the postal and delivery sector.

In recent years, digital business models have frequently been the subject of academic and practical discourse.

This book highlights the importance of clusters for the competitiveness of companies and is divided into three interrelated parts.

This book is Volume I of a two-volume set on antitrust policy, analyzing the economic efficiency and moral desirability of various tests for antitrust legality, including those promulgated by US and EU antitrust law.

This volume celebrates the life and career of Gordon Rausser, pioneer and leader in natural resource economics, while critically overviewing the emerging literature in the field.

This book examines the economics of natural resource markets and pricing, as well as the field of natural resource economics in general.

This textbook deals with engineering, science, technical, legal, financial, ICT, logistics and people management topics necessary for managing engineered assets such as all man-made tools, gadgets, buildings, equipment, machines, infrastructure, large-scale physical and industrial facilities and systems which pervade all sectors of industry.

This book develops the theory of productivity measurement using the empirical index number approach.