Economics of industrial organization

Conventional wisdom says that Europe's crisis is a financial crisis.

Very little has been written on industrialization and deindustrialization in Asia and Africa.

The book provides an integrated approach to risk sharing, risk spreading and efficient regulation through principal agent models.

The Community of Oil Exporting Countries (1972) looks at the oil producing countries of the developing world and their economic reliance on oil.

Markets, Pricing, and Deregulation of Utilities examines the effects of deregulation on the energy and telecommunications industries in an economic environment that has changed dramatically since deregulation was first introduced in those industries several years ago.

A distinctive new account of why markets focus on short-term goals, while government needs to concentrate on society''s long-term interests.

Energy Economics outlines the fundamental issues and possible solutions to the challenges of energy production and use, presenting a framework for decisions based upon sound economic analysis.

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.

In The Financiers and the Nation (1934) Mr.

First published in 1998, the objective of this book is to provide a detailed examination of steel production, consumption and trade in East Asia.

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.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Bringing together some of the world's leading thinkers, academics and professionals to provide practitioners, students and academicians with comprehensive insights into implementing effective service innovation.

Historically, the challenge for humans has been to secure a sufficient supply of food to stave off hunger and starvation.

Originally published in 1994, this book contains the edited papers of the workshop of the Energy and Environmental Programme at the Royal Institute of Interantional Affairs which examined the interaction between environmental legislation and the energy indusutries.

First Published in 1952, Problems of Nationalized Industry presents the first serious discussion on the issues related to nationalization of industries in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century.

In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis placed on local and regional integration in major planning projects and infrastructure development including roads, rail and waterways.

The Routledge Handbook of Industry and Development is a global overview of industrialisation.

Economic Nationalism of the Danubian States (1928) examines the economic situations in the newly-configured countries of the basin of the Danube.

The purpose of this book is to provide a guided tour through the theoretical foundations of spatial locations of firms and industries in an evolutionary economic framework.

This volume is devoted to management accounting approaches for analyzing business benefits and costs of climate change.

Going Circular explores the concept of a circular economy (CE) and its transformative potential for cities and regions.

In recent years, auctions have become an important field and many markets have designed new and sophisticated auction models to assign different types of items.

Savvy managers no longer look at contracts and the law reactively but use them proactively to reduce their costs, minimize their risks, secure key talent, collaborate to innovate, protect intellectual property, and create value for their customers that is superior to that offered by competitors.

In easily accessible language, this book analyses the impact of Economic and Monetary Union on Small and Medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe.

This book provides the tools needed to analyse the present and the future of economic regulation.

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

Innovation is the motor of economic change.

After a decade or more of privatisation and deregulation there is a growing consensus that government can have a positive role in promoting industrial development.

In recent decades urban regions around the world have engaged in a new process of development based on the creation of new knowledge.

Energy policies play a pivotal part in helping countries achieve their sustainable development goals.

Understanding the economic implication of creative individuals and firms is at the heart of the new economy and of related fields such as the economics of knowledge, the economics of science and innovation management.

Knowledge management has been widely applied to various industries as a good strategy to help improve firms' performance.

This book provides a broad overview of the financial, economic and legal implications of energy industry regulations in various countries.

Globalization of production has created opportunities and challenges for developing country producers and workers.

This book provides an evaluation of the industrial organization of banking with a focus on the interrelationship among bank behavior, market structure, and regulation.

This book focuses on the establishment process of the Japanese style of management (JSM).

Changes in the dynamics of economic activities since the last decades of the 20th century have yielded major changes in the composition of industries and the division of labor and production across different regions of the world.

Sports Economics focuses primarily on the business aspects of major professional sports, employing the principles of economics to address essential issues in the industry.

This fully updated edition of the bestselling textbook on Health Service Operations Management provides an invaluable reference for students and researchers in the fields of healthcare management, operations management and patient flow logistics.

This book presents an economic framework that addresses the motivation of the innovative entrepreneur.

There is a large shortage of affordable housing across Europe.

Chicago went from nothing in 1830 to become the second-largest city in the nation in 1900, while the Midwest developed to become one of the world's foremost urban areas.

Originally published in 1991, Financial Market Liberalization in Chile, 1973-1982, analyses the liberalization of the financial market which took place during the 1973-1982 monetarist experiment.

This book provides a detailed analysis of the main innovations and impacts associated with the package of European legislation comprising MiFID II and MiFIR, which constitutes a pillar of the EU's "e;single rulebook"e; for financial regulation.

This book is the result of a two-year interdisciplinary research programme named PRISM (Policy making, Reporting and measuring, Intangibles, Skills development and Management), financed by the European Commission and aimed both at understanding better how these assets are created and developed and what the policy implications of their growing importance in economies are.

The transition to Industry 4.

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

World War II presented a unique opportunity for American business to improve its reputation after years of censure for inflicting the Great Depression upon the nation.