Economics of industrial organization

Originally published in 1961.

Originally published in 1986.

Construction Project Management: An Integrated Approach is a management approach to leading projects and the effective choice and use of project management tools and techniques.

This book examines the problem of the innovation divide in the world economy, and convergence in innovation performance between leaders and followers, analysed through the prism of Chinese experiences, and explored from an European Union (EU) perspective.

A Practical Research Process for Developing a Sustainable Built Environment in Emerging Economies aims to fill the dearth of practical research guidance and reference material with specific focus on the built environment in developing countries.

This book, originally published in 1988, reviews the development of high technology industries at global and selected national and local levels, providing a unique insight into reasons for and consequences of such modern industrial development.

This book focuses on zero hours and on-call work as an extreme form of casual and precarious employment.

This book discusses digitalization trends and their concrete applications in business and societal contexts.

Originally published in 1977.

First published in 1973, Fashion Marketing is intended for all whose work is linked to the vagaries of fashion or who are simply fascinated by the subject.

This 2005 book describes in much detail both how and why franchising works.

Trust and Digital Business: Theory and Practice brings together the theory and practice of trust and digital business.

Economic inequality, the environmental crisis and the climate crisis are systemically linked.

Now in its sixth edition, Ivan Png's Managerial Economics has been extensively revised with an introductory chapter emphasizing decision-making and behavioral biases, intensive application to current business and economic issues including technology, globalization, and pandemics, a closing chapter highlighting business responses to climate change, a streamlined presentation focusing on the economics that managers need to know.

This book explores the impact of railroads on 19thcentury Russian peasant collectivism.

This is the story of a dedicated group of foreign and Chinese reformers who tried, but failed, to solve China's intractable industrial problems over the three decades prior to 1949.

Business innovation and industrial intelligence are paving the way for a future in which smart factories, intelligent machines, networked processes and Big Data are combined to foster industrial growth.

Blackman draws on original material and the work of many earlier researchers to paint a verbal picture of the evolution of a remarkable city.

A majority of large-scale construction and major infrastructure projects are funded by public funds from taxpayers.

This is the first book to examine the "e;nuts and bolts"e; of production processes.

Growing inequalities in Europe are a major challenge threatening the sustainability of urban communities and the competiveness of European cities.

Studies investment, portfolio involvement and exit strategies of venture capital firms investing in high-technology early-stage start-ups in India.

At the time in which this book was first published in 1987, mass unemployment had emerged as the dominant, most visible, problem of the West European economies.

This book, a bestseller in China with over a million copies sold, depicts the role played by the Chinese government in China's economic development.

Practically everybody in the community uses the transport system, and an eighth of personal consumption expenditure in Britain is spent on transport.

This title was first published in 2001.

Economic inequality, the environmental crisis and the climate crisis are systemically linked.

The author describes the property rights that exist in different organizational forms and explains how these establish incentives for managerial decision behaviour.

National industrial subsidies are a major irritant in international trading relations.

Market Menagerie examines technological advance and market regulation in the health industries of nations such as India, Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria, and Japan.

In recent years "e;smartness"e; has risen as a buzzword to characterize novel urban policy and development patterns.

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An Introduction to Industrial Relations (1991) analyses various theoretical approaches to industrial relations, and summarises the origins and development of the subject.

In the last decade, energy markets have developed substantially due to the growing activity of financial investors.

This book offers the first theoretical analysis of the determination of quality standards and their effects along the value chain.

In the wake of the global financial crisis, and ongoing savage government cuts across the world, Garry Leech addresses a pressing and necessary topic: the nature of contemporary capitalism, and how it inherently generates inequality and structural violence.

With the ongoing restructuring in Sudan, structural issues such as the need for skill development and interaction with technological change need an in-depth analysis that this book offers.

Studies the role of services in development as well as on sectoral issues, with policy considerations embedded in the analysis.

This book examines failure in the urbanisation of Northwest China as a result of government industrial policies that have impacted on the economic development of the region.

"e;When you are doing something that is a brand new adventure, breaking new ground, whether it is something like a techno- logical breakthrough or simply a way of living that is not what the community can help you with, there is always the danger of too much enthusiasm, of neglecting certain mechan- ical details.

In this volume, David B.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE BOOKS BY THE MOTLEY FOOL"e;Staiger gives us the technical tools needed to build robust pro forma modeling around our real estate assets.

In this second edition of Privatization, Regulation and Deregulation, the author has updated and augmented the original material to take account of developments over the last 5 years.

Added Value in Design and Construction takes a holistic, student-centred approach to offering public and private sector clients the ultimate reward; doing more for less.

This book focuses on Albania, North Macedonia and Kosovo; it explores the industrial policies currently in place in these economies and compares their effects with the situation in Slovenia, which is used as a reference country.

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

Can we really use economic thinking to understand our health care system?

Featuring selected contributions from the 2nd International Conference on Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering, held in Nice, France, February 18-19, 2016, this book introduces recent advances and state-of-the-art technologies in the field of advanced intelligent manufacturing.

Economists have long recognized the gains from international trade.