Economics of industrial organization

In this book Harold L.

This volume features papers from the 18th International Congress on Project Management and Engineering, held by the University of Zaragoza in collaboration with the Spanish Association of Project Management and Engineering (AEIPRO).

This book analyzes the continuous operation of a power plant with condensing power units in combined heat and power mode (CHP-mode) over a period of one year.

Worldwide, postal operators have been slow to address the threats from and opportunities created by electronic competition.

Containing selected papers from the ICRESH-ARMS 2015 conference in Lulea, Sweden, collected by editors with years of experiences in Reliability and maintenance modeling, risk assessment, and asset management, this work maximizes reader insights into the current trends in Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety (RAMS) and Risk Management.

Over the past decade, a growing body of academic literature on the economics of road cycling has been amassed.

This book describes the dramatic changes that have occurred in the exchange industry during the past two decades.

This book focuses on assumptions underlying methods choice in program evaluation.

The book presents a coherent description of distributed manufacturing, providing a solid base for further research on the subject as well as smart implementations in companies.

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The book presents theoretical and empirical research on the integrated assessment of cartels' effects on national economies.

This SpringerBrief discusses multiple forms of open-source-inspired outsourcing: opensourcing, innersourcing and crowdsourcing.

This book expresses the reasons to embark on a production management system and begin a journey to a better social and economic life in Puerto Rico.

The purpose of this book is to examine the geospatial and temporal linkage between offshore supply vessels and oil and gas activity in the Outer Continental Shelf Gulf of Mexico, and to model OSV activity expected to result from future lease sales.

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This book covers the issues related to human resource management (HRM) in an international context.

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

This book examines cost-of-capital models and their application in the context of managerial finance.

Significantly extended from the first edition and published in response to the new international standard ISO55000, this book on physical asset management (2nd Ed.

This volume investigates the impact of energy technology innovations on economic development and presents new areas of research into the financial economics of energy as well as new studies into valuation, electricity pricing and the economic, regulatory and environmental costs of alternative energy sources.

This book takes an in-depth look at the software industry as a major factor in future global economic performance.

This book is at the cutting edge of the ongoing 'neo-Schumpeterian' research program that investigates how economic growth and its fluctuation can be understood as the outcome of a historical process of economic evolution.

Worldwide, postal and delivery economics is the subject of considerable interest.

This book analyzes the wrapping and packaging machinery sector in the Emilia/Bologna district in Italy and compares the most recent trends with those in the industry in Schwabisch Hall and Waiblingen, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, which represents a direct rival.

This book addresses the recent debate about copyright law and its impact on the distribution of scientific knowledge from an economic perspective.

This textbook on network economics provides essential microeconomic instruments for the analysis of network sectors like telecommunications, transport or energy.

The book describes advanced business analytics and shows how to apply them to many different professional areas of engineering and management.

This book deals with anti-dumping measures (AD) and investigates two questions: First, what country characteristics affect AD use and notably, do domestic political institutions have an effect?

The organization of interfirm networks, such as alliances, cooperatives, franchise and retail chains, has become an important research topic in the field of economics, marketing, strategic management, and organization theory.

This Brief identifies and contrasts the groups of National Basketball Association (NBA) expansion franchises and of any teams that relocated from one metropolitan area or city to another from 1950 to 2013.

In recent years, auctions have become an important field and many markets have designed new and sophisticated auction models to assign different types of items.

This volume provides rich insight into the nature and practice of media management.

Now that supply chain operations are facing new challenges due to the necessity of reducing costs and CO2 emissions, companies are increasingly leveraging cooperation from companies from other supply chains as a source of competitive advantage.

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Technological innovation is fundamental to firm performance and economic prosperity.

This book summarizes the "e;interim result"e; of the servitization activities in manufacturing industries.

This Brief identifies and contrasts the groups of expansion franchises and any teams that relocated from one metropolitan area or city to another within the National Football League (NFL) during three distinct periods from 1920 to 2013.

This book is an authentic historical document, supported by extensive analytical information, in which former Fiat top manager Giorgio Garuzzo passionately recounts his experience within Fiat between 1976 and 1996.

In light of the recent dynamics of the recession sparked by the global economic crisis, a roadmap for the growth and recovery of national economies is urgently needed.

This book examines the modules/elements required before implementing knowledge management solutions in typical manufacturing and service industry.

The geography of networks and R&D collaborations, in particular the spatial dimension of interactions between organisations performing joint R&D, have attracted a burst of attention in the last decade, both in the scientific study of the networks and in the policy sector.

This book provides a rough entry into the interdisciplinary field of Infranomics.

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This book is about the history of product variety in the US automotive industry from the black Ford-T to hot-rodders and easy-riders up to latest trends.

Trade policy has played a vital role in the decline of European electronics business.

The systemic view provides a basic approach through which people may advance their understanding of knowledge production in organizations.

Many people have great ideas.

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

Compiled by AECOM, the 2025 edition has been updated with the latest pricing information to help you manage your projects over the next 12 months through this challenging period of high inflation and financial uncertainty.

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