Economics of industrial organization

In this classic text, Masahiko Aoki explores how the 2008-9 financial crisis demanded a re-examination of the role of corporations and the working of financial markets around the world, providing a compelling new analysis of the corporate firm; the role of shareholders, managers and workers; and institutional governance structures.

How do firms compete?

This book examines influential ideas within Management Information Systems (MIS).

In this classic text, Masahiko Aoki explores how the 2008-9 financial crisis demanded a re-examination of the role of corporations and the working of financial markets around the world, providing a compelling new analysis of the corporate firm; the role of shareholders, managers and workers; and institutional governance structures.

How do firms compete?

Open Innovation describes an emergent model of innovation in which firms draw on research and development that may lie outside their own boundaries.

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Edith Penrose was a remarkable woman and distinguished scholar who lived through, and witnessed at first hand, many of the major events of the 20th century; the great depression in the US; the rise of Nazism in Europe; the second world war when she worked as a special adviser to the US Ambassador in London; post-war reconstruction, assisting Eleanor Roosevelt with the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the McCarthy era; and the oil crisis of the 1970s.

This book addresses the important issue of food prices across EU Member States.

Since the early 1980s there has been an explosion of auditing activity in the United Kingdom and North America.

Institutional reforms and their contribution to development and growth have been a source of renewed interest as well as of many challenges over the last two decades.

George Washington ranks as one of the great military leaders in history.

In a world of organizations that are in constant change scholars have long sought to understand and explain how they change.

This book brings together the research of a number of scholars in the field of knowledge creation and imparts a sense of order to the field.

More than any other area of regulation, antitrust economics shapes law and policy in the United States, the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

This book aims to provide new research methods, theories and applications from various areas of industrial economics and engineering.

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 proceedings volume presents new methods and applications in applied economic research with an emphasis on advances in panel data analysis.

This book presents a wealth of perspectives on studying the manufacturing end of food processing industries, with a special focus on regions with a low industrial base and multiple missing markets, institutional finance being the most prominent example.

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

This book is the first book that provides comprehensive economic analysis of cross-border outsourcing by Japanese manufacturing firms based on microdata.

This book explores the principles of supply-side structural reform and current practices in the Chinese steel industry.

Across several industries, we are observing a paradigm shift from traditional, firm-centric and top-down value creation to more open and collaborative approaches, also referred to as bottom-up economics.

In 2021 Coventry celebrates being the national City of Culture.

This book provides an overview of the historical financial reforms and regulatory changes in China, highlighting the background to and causes of changes in the income structure of China's banks.

This book engages in the long-standing debate on the relationship between capitalism and colonialism.

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

This proceedings of the 13th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management covers a range of topics that are timely, relevant and practically important in the modern digital era towards safer, cost effective, efficient, and secure engineered assets such as production and manufacturing plants, process facilities, civil structures, equipment, machinery, and infrastructure.

Viewed through a politico-economic lens, Nordic countries share what is often referred to as the 'Nordic model', characterised by a comprehensive welfare state; higher spending on childcare; more equitable income distribution; and lifelong-learning policies.

Global cities today are facing fundamental challenges in relation to unaffordable housing and growing economic inequality.

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

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

The Abolition of Antitrust asserts that antitrust laws--on economic, legal, and moral grounds--are bad, and provides convincing evidence supporting arguments for their total abolition.

Brings economic regulation to life by tracing theoretical insights through to real-world applications in eight essential regulated sectors.

This book offers a comparative perspective on the technological, economic, and political aspects of Internet development in the post-Soviet countries.

This book explains the implementation of just in time (JIT) production in an industrial context, while also highlighting the application of various, vital lean production tools.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and platforms are closely related.

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

The financial system is currently confronted with tremendous challenges from the global economy, trade, politics, demographics, and most recently from enormous technological advancements.

The financial system is currently confronted with tremendous challenges from the global economy, trade, politics, demographics, and most recently from enormous technological advancements.

The book provides a picture of the increasing significance of Central Europe and especially Poland in global production networks, discussing the underlying economic, social, and political factors.

From the author of the modern business classic The Smartest Guys in the Room comes a damning indictment of late-stage capitalism-and the leaders that were brutally unprepared for a global pandemic.

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Now in its 45th edition, Spon's External Works and Landscape Price Book 2026 offers the only comprehensive source of information for detailed external works and landscape costs.