Economics of industrial organization

This volume illustrates the relationship between environmental factors and economic development of countries from various angles.

Debates about public expenditure in the agricultural sector have reopened in many developing and emerging economies because of high budget deficits and changes in public opinion.

"e;Everything should be made as simple as possible-but not simpler"e; Albert Einstein Traffic Theory, like all other sciences, aims at understanding and improving a physical phenomenon.

Originally published in 1981 but now with a new preface, this volume provided the first detailed comparative analysis of how local authorities in the UK and W.

The New European Automobile Industry is about the struggle for survival going on among the assembler and components firms which constitute the European automobile industry.

This new edition of Reporting for Buyers provides guidance for the surveyor on setting out the findings of the inspection in a clear, unambiguous and unequivocal way.

Soviet Management and Labor Relations (1988) examines the official model of Soviet labor relations and the operational reality.

Personal Branding in the Knowledge Economy: The Interrelationship between Corporate and Employee Brands aims to contribute to the academic debate about the marketization of individuals' knowledge, creativity, and personal images, alongside a growing interest in the whole area of branding in the networked economy based on knowledge.

Oil Companies in the International System (1978) provides an original and wide-ranging examination of the impact that the leading oil companies have had on international relations.

First published in 1891, this seminal work examines the primary causes of poverty during the industrial age.

What are the determinants of company performance?

New Drugs, Fair Prices addresses the important question of how we might get the innovative new medicines we need at prices we can afford.

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How do firms compete?

Labour and Business in Modern Britain (1989) examines the history of labour relations in British business using important empirical research.

Originally published in 1994 this book concerns successful implementation of radical, technological innovations within business organizations.

First published in 1983.

In this new volume, 28 Scandinavian researchers and others who are active in arts and culture seek to answer the questions: What has been the effect of regional and local investment in arts and culture?

This book presents the first broad reflection on the challenges, opportunities, and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

What is the 'new economy'?

The Randstad metropolitan region encompassing Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht in the western Netherlands is regarded worldwide as a model of a 'successful' polycentric metropolis.

Originally published in 1995, this book explores a number of subjects of significance for labor and economic policy, especially the role of U.

This book is aimed at contemplating and reflecting on future course of action for businesses in order to become more resilient.

This book makes a strong and coherent contribution to the discussion of the knowledge economy and of innovation, offering a range of theoretical insights from different disciplinary perspectives.

This book focuses on three main areas, each of which is central to economic theorising: firms' organisation and behaviour, technological change and the process of globalisation.

Combining best practices, empirical studies and the authors' own research on technology transfer offices (TTOs), technology transfer, ecosystems and scientists in the principal investigator role, this book presents a business model framework for TTOs.

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Originally published in 1990.

We are in the midst of a leadership crisis that is derailing business success, and it's time to get rigorous about talent.

The day-to-day world of crude oil traders is not usually open to outsiders.

Originally published in 1981.

Business networks are an important economic phenomenon of increasing practical importance throughout Europe.

This textbook integrates financial economics and management in the area of agricultural finance.

This book examines driving factors and the effects of globalisation on economic development through firm and product-level data.

The Saudi Arabian Economy (1986) is a comprehensive analysis of the late-twentieth century Saudi Arabian economy.

Recent decades have seen many economic history books and articles published about working men and women, small and big entrepreneurs, guilds and state manufactures, farmers and journeymen, and children and citizens.

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

Austrian Controller Award 2005This book develops a comprehensive concept of regulatory risk integrating existing theoretical and empirical research.

This book takes a fresh perspective to acquisition research, focusing on employee emotions.

In recent years, the study of creativity has shifted from analysis of culture as an end in itself to one of economic enhancement, and its capability to generate wealth and promote economic development.

Local Authority Borrowing (1985) sets out the history of local authorities' activities as borrowers.

Originally published in 1985.

An analysis of the history of economic thought reveals that transport and econ- ics have always gone hand-in-hand.

First published in 1999, this book brings together the findings from research projects funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions.

This book showcases cutting-edge research on a variety of themes related to sustainable and impact investments.

Economic restructuring and demographic change have in recent years placed much strain on urban areas with the effects falling disproportionately on neighbourhoods that were previously underpinned by industry and manufacturing.