Economics of industrial organization

This book advances the international debate on the development of e-commerce with focus on emerging ASEAN economies.

This book examines how cross-border mobility across the eastern border of Poland with Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, driven by external shocks, influences different territorial units.

This volume highlights the importance of interactive, practice-based learning as a means to promote more thorough innovation dynamics in regional and national economies.

Intellectual property rights are essential for a firm's competitive edge and success and form the significant assets for many firms.

Intellectual property rights have become increasingly important for our modern economies in recent years.

Originally published in 1986.

Originally published in 1940, this book remains an illuminating and forceful survey of the economic development of modern Germany.

Originally published in 1980.

This book challenges mainstream neo-classical perspectives on the firm.

Provides a systematic theory and evidence-based answers to the question of how effective public managers are in shaping policy results.

My interest in X-Efficiency (XE) dates back to 1978.

In a knowledge-based economy, universities are vital institutions.

This Element examines how the changing economic basis of nineteenth century Britain contributed to the development of British politics.

Avoiding prejudice will be critical to economic success in the fourth industrial revolution.

Does democracy control business, or does business control democracy?

This book, originally published in 1987, evaluates the human and managerial implications of new office information technology, based on the actual experiences of organisations using the new technology.

Competitive Transformation of the Postal and Delivery Sector is an indispensable source of information and analysis on the current state of the postal and delivery sector.

The acquisition and management of information is central to the operation and marketing of many service-providing firms and other organizations.

This collection of edited papers, first published in 1990, has two broad sets of objectives.

Urban sustainability has become a political and social agenda of global significance, of which real estate is an integral dimension.

Originally published in 1984.

Freight Transport and the Modern Economy adapts a well-known textbook by Michel Savy, revising, extending and updating it for British, European and international readers.

This work outlines a state-of-the-art project control and trending programme, focusing on advanced applied-cost and schedule-control skills for all phases of a project at both owner and contractor level.

Technology infrastructure supports the design, deployment and use of both individual technology-based components and the systems of such components that form the knowledge-based economy.

This is a revised and updated version of the celebrated 'Best Book on Chinese Economy'.

Suggesting that an expressive ideology has arisen within the workplace public sphere around the theme of 'competence', this book explores the hegemony of global finance and the fetishism of the new economy, exposing the dilemmas of the competence agenda, and illustrating how competence is played out in the workplace public sphere.

This collection of essential data on eleven Asian economies outlines new trends and highlighting increasing differences between developed and developing countries.

This book analyzes the economics of the food industry at every stage between the farm gate and the kitchen counter.

Randolph J.

This book examines a rapidly emerging new topic in urban settlement patterns: the role of shrinking cities.

First published in 1909 and reissued in 1910, J.

This book is a seminal contribution to decision making theory through its study of management decision making in six Beijing state enterprises during the period 1985 to 1989, when the government adopted decentralization as the key to reforming state industries.

The life sciences is an industrial sector that covers the development of biological products and the use of biological processes in the production of goods, services and energy.

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.

Knowledge intensive entrepreneurship lies at the core of the structural shift necessary for the growth and development of a knowledge based economy, yet research reveals that the EU has fewer young leading innovators, and Europe's new firms do not adequately contribute to industrial growth.

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

Globalization and information and communications technology (ICT) have played a pivotal role in revolutionizing value creation through the development of human capital formation.

Sports now constitute one of the most valuable forms of broadcast entertainment in today's lucrative international market.

Building Lean, Building BIM is the essential guide for any construction company that wants to implement Lean Construction and Building Information Modelling (BIM) to gain a strategic edge over their competition.

Recent years have seen a growth in strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions and collaborative networks involving knowledge-intensive and hi-tech industries.

Using the concept of innovation capacity, this book, using recent field data from countries in Asia and Africa, competently demonstrates how biotechnology can contribute to sustainable economic development.

This sixth edition of Agribusiness Management provides students and managers with a fundamental understanding of the key concepts needed to successfully manage agribusinesses in a rapidly changing, high-tech, consumer-oriented, and uncertain world.

Survey of the theory, empirical evidence and public policy related to the role of patents in a global knowledge economy.

It is now accepted that the world's climate has warmed by about 0.

The book identifies different national characteristics in terms of the motivation to privatise, the scale of privatization and its consequences.

Proper cost accounting and financial management are essential elements of any successful construction job, and therefore make up essential skills for construction project managers and project engineers.

This book takes the reader on a new tour of the world of firms.

This book, first published in 1974, provides a comprehensive review of the application of economic concepts to the appraisal of transport systems.

Capital cities that are not the dominant economic centers of their nations - so-called 'secondary capital cities' (SCCs) - tend to be overlooked in the fields of economic geography and political science.

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.