Economics of industrial organization

One of the first comparative reflections of its kind, this book examines the challenges that young men face when trying to grow up in societies where violence is the norm.

Today's businesses are driven by customer 'pull' and technological 'push'.

This book offers conceptual and empirical insights from economic geography to explore how uncertainties, crises, and risks, shape, reshape, and ultimately transform the spatial arrangements of companies and regions.

This book, first published in 1932, provides a survey of the subject of railway economics as a whole, including the theory and practice of railway charging; State regulation and ownership; railway amalgamation; railway capital; railway organization and labour problems.

This Element uses Austrian economics, public choice, and institutional economics to explain the origins and consequences of property rights.

A considerable number of higher educational institutions in North America, Oceania, and Europe, offer what are known as cooperative education, work-integrated learning, work placements, sandwich courses, or internships, to provide pragmatic experience to students, and its popularity is spreading to many higher educational institutions in the world.

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

Originally published in 1986, this book was published at a time when the manufacturing structure of advanced economies was transformed.

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

China and Taiwan are two of the fastest growing economies of the newly industrialized countries.

Before the arrival of the twenty-first century, Taiwan was widely regarded as a successful model of a country which had not only transformed herself from an underdeveloped economy into a high-tech industrialised island, but had also undergone a revolution from an authoritarian regime to a democratic one.

In the past, 'Global Management' meant optimizing production and commercialization activities around the world in an international business context.

This book introduces the main concepts of manufacturing systems and presents several evaluation approaches for these systems' evaluation.

This book highlights procedures utilized by the design departments of leading global manufacturers, offering readers essential insights into the electromagnetic and thermal design of rotating field (induction and synchronous) electric machines.

This book examines the extent of, and motives for, the diffusion of flexible automation (FA) at global level and then turns to the local and firm level, bringing together in-depth studies of sixty-two firms in Brazil, India, Mexico, Thailand, Turkey and Venezuela.

The Physiology of Industry is a remarkable work which set out to challenge contemporary theory surrounding the economics of labour, supply and demand.

This book offers a comprehensive study of regional industrialization in Europe and Asia from the early nineteenth century to the present.

The publication of this clinically analytical and trenchantly insightful volume is felicitously timed.

Hispanics account for more than half the population growth in the United States over the last decade.

This book addresses the fundamental question why and under which conditions Korean firms increased their investment so heavily in the EU after 1986 and why they and not the Korean government took the initiative in the decision-making process.

The popular uprisings in 2011 that overthrew Arab dictators were also a rebuke to crony capitalism, diverted against both rulers and their allied businessmen who monopolize all economic opportunities.

Non-value adding activities are otherwise known as 'waste' in the lean construction lexicon.

Technologies and tech companies are routinely accused of creating many societal problems.

Generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation of nonlinear systems has two important advantages over conventional maximum likelihood (ML) estimation: GMM estimation usually requires less restrictive distributional assumptions and remains computationally attractive when ML estimation becomes burdensome or even impossible.

This is a story of the soft budget constraint.

This book explores the theoretical and practical challenges of engaging with climate and disaster risk in the changing context of capital investments and market expansion.

Marwick argues that economic development in Scotland was severely delayed until the 18th Century unlike neighbouring countries.

This book examines returns on experience and managerial practices to generate deeper collaboration, intensify co-creation, support start-ups and established companies to explore, develop, and accelerate their projects thanks to open labs (living labs, fab labs, coworking spaces, "e;third spaces"e;, etc.

Many client organisations occupy large and often diverse property estates which require significant expenditure on maintenance, alterations, refurbishment or small-scale new building work.

Bei der Unternehmensmodellierung wird das Ziel verfolgt, die wichtigsten Komponenten von Organisationen sowie deren Relationen zueinander in geeigneten Modellen abzubilden.

Inpatriates have become an important means of knowledge transfer within multinational companies.

Methods for raising awareness of how human's value the environment range from monetary valuation through to greater public participation in decisions.

Real property in the form of investment, ownership and use pervades almost every aspect of daily lives and represents over 40% of Australia's wealth.

This book is a study on the Japanese city gas industry, which has been rapidly liberalized in recent years.

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

This book analyzes the competitive forces which dominate this major sector, and traces how the nature of competition has evolved during the last two hundred years.

Coordination is extremely important in economic, political, and social life.

Current Directions in Postal Reform brings together leading practitioners, worldwide postal administrations, and the courier industry as well as a number of regulators, academic economists, mailers and lawyers, to examine some of the major policy and regulatory issues facing the postal and delivery industry.

In contemporary global capitalism, the most powerful corporations are innovation or intellectual monopolies.

First published in 1985 Industrial Relations in Europe examines the development of trade unions and their relations with the employers and employers' organisations in a number of Western European countries in the 1980s.

This comprehensive book reveals the intricate interplay between entrepreneurship, strategy, and marketing management in the context of sustainability.

In recent years, much has been made of the success of developing countries, particularly in East Asia, which have achieved economic growth by manufacturing goods which are then exported to developed economies.

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive analysis of US Federal Antitrust and EC Competition Law.

The era of globalisation brought waves of consolidation in business ownership alongside Leviathon-like state actors.

In the last decades, women's role in the workforce has dramatically changed, though gender inequality persists and for women, gender identity still prevails over work identity.

Corporate governance failures are all too frequent and their patterns and outcomes seem avoidably familiar.

Interfirm Networks in the Japanese Electronics Industry analyses changes in production networks in the Japanese electronics industry.