Economics of industrial organization

Practically everybody in the community uses the transport system, and an eighth of personal consumption expenditure in Britain is spent on transport.

The descriptive data in this book, first published in 1989, were obtained from participant observation and interviews with merchant seaman current and retired.

This book, first published in 1975, discusses the development of transport policy in the UK against a background of economic theory.

Each industry faces unique human resource management challenges and opportunities and in shipping these include a global labour market and global unionism, long periods spent at sea, and health and safety issues resulting from a variety of risks.

Addressing a number of 'missing links' in the analysis of labour and its geographies, this volume examines how theoretical perspectives on both labour in general and the organizations of the labour movement in particular can be refined and redefined.

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This book is based on a conference on `Regulation and the Evolving Nature of Postal and Delivery Services: 1992 and Beyond' held at Village PTT, La Londe les Maures, France, on March 18, 1992.

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

Enterprise and entrepreneurship is of strong interest to policy-makers because new and small firms can be a key contributor to job and wealth creation.

In recent years, policy makers have given much credence to the role of entrepreneurship in the transformation of regions.

Following the restructuring process which swept away the traditional manufacturing economy of the inner city 25 years ago, new industries are transforming these former post-industrial landscapes.

Originally published in 1992 and now with an updated Preface this book analyses the development of innovations using a network perspective.

The book explores how, to what extent and with what consequences the international crisis of 2007-2008 and the recession which followed have affected European SMEs (small and medium enterprises) in both the well established market economies of the old member countries and in the post-transformation new member countries, and what can be done at the institutional and political level to uphold them.

Economics, Strategy and the Firm draws on the increasing synthesis of ideas from economics and business strategy to explain how organizations fulfil their corporate goals.

Published in 1984, this book reviews British industrial policy towards information technology within the context of the international trading system.

Modern advertising was created in the US between 1870 and 1920 when advertisers and the increasingly specialized advertising industry that served them crafted means of reliable access to and knowledge of audiences.

This book draws on work from across northern Europe and is parallel and complementary to the network itself.

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.

Living wage activism has spanned time and space, reaching across decades and national boundaries.

Mining has played a key role in the growth of many towns in South Africa.

This title was first published in 2002: The information revolution has deeply influenced the development of Europe's large cities.

Economics and the Business Environment is directed at students who will be taking up managerial positions in trade and industry or in government.

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.

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Title first publishedin 2003.

Airport development is critical to economic growth and poverty reduction.

This book focuses on exploring the relationship between spin-outs from incumbents and the patterns of innovation in general purpose technology.

Aviation is one of the most widely talked about industries in the global economy and yet airlines continue to present an enigma.

Port Economics is the study of the economic decisions (and their consequences) of the users and providers of port services.

It is a major problem for less developed countries to make their primary sectors sufficiently profitable in order to be able to build up their manufacturing and service sectors.

Islamic Macroeconomics proposes an Islamic model that offers significant prospects for economic growth and durable macroeconomic stability, and which is immune to the defects of the economic models prevailing both in developed and developing countries.

The theory of the firm has been fertile ground for economists.

This book describes the adoption, growth and subsequent relinquishment of industrial subsidies in the UK, tracing their development back to the early years of this century and following their extension through to virtually every area of economic policy.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the economics of the business of maritime transport.

Academic thought-leaders in the field of technology transfer analyze critically the factors behind success-oriented entrepreneurial start-up cultures on university campuses.

Industrial issues are often inextricably linked with labour market concerns and policy approaches that attempt to consider production and employment separately are inherently flawed.

This book demonstrates how rethinking and adapting basic employment services into labor intermediation services can help address the many labor market disconnections of developing country economies.

Unprecedented, broad coverage of downtown and community development topics from a practitioner's viewpoint!

Training and Promotion in Nationalised Industry (1951) is the results of a study made into the personnel department and into certain aspects of personnel policy in the nationalised coal, electricity, gas, transport and airways industries in postwar Britain.

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

The Routledge Handbook of Public Transport is a reference work of chapters providing in-depth examination of the current issues and future developments facing public transport.

This book presents in its first part the financial determinants of innovation processes considered in a macro-economic perspective, which are limited by short-term constraints, and studies in its second part the linkages existing between the necessity to innovate in order to survive and the constant attention given to financial results.

South Africa's struggle in balancing its domestic needs while playing a dynamic developmental role in the African region and global context exposes a complex web of relations shaped by its geostrategic location on the continent, and the world, and the staggering legacies of colonialism and apartheid.

Research in Health Economics has developed into a separate discipline for the last 25 years.

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

Management as we know it has been the driver of business growth in U.

Provides an evolutionary perspective on the origin of products.

New Labour was outwardly hostile to trade unions and their concerns.

Essentials of Economics in Context is specifically designed to meet the requirements of a one-semester introductory economics course that provides coverage of both microeconomic and macroeconomic foundations.

A theoretical, practical approach to the field of lean production from multiple perspectives: five disciplines, ten industries, and seven countries.