Economics of industrial organization

In this updated and expanded second edition, Keith Potts and Nii Ankrah examine key issues in construction cost management across the building and civil engineering sectors, both in the UK and overseas.

Small businesses in virtually all industrialized countries find it increasingly difficult to obtain finance from institutional sources.

This book presents contributions of intelligent management theories and models for a more effective management of sustainable business practices in competitive, profitable and socially responsible organizations.

This book answers the following questions: How will the global oil and gas market change in the next decade?

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

In recent years transaction cost economics have come to dominate the discussion of the nature and organization of firms.

Changing vessel technology presents a major challenge to shipping management.

Global military expenditure reached an estimated $1,822 billion in 2018 and this book questions what that spending responds to and indeed what that entails in terms of global security.

R&D, Innovation and Competitiveness in the European Chemical Industry explores the science & technology base and the dynamic performance of the European "e;system of innovation"e; in the chemical industry, with particular attention to its contribution to economic growth through innovation and competitiveness, and its ability to translate its research into commercially useful products.

Launch activities performed by private entities deal with a complex legal environment.

Focusing on aspects of modern Taiwan related to the fields of economics, social policy and politics, this collection brings together leading scholars to discuss recent developments in Taiwanese society.

First published in 1927, Hobson's treatise on industrial conflict analyses the nature and causes of industrial disputes with the aim of finding an equitable means of settling them.

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

This book documents the experiences, development, and prospects of the construction industry in numerous developing countries.

This book takes a comparative law and economics approach to explore the role of public and private actors in regulating generative artificial intelligence.

This book shows, first of all, that leadership plays a crucial role in reinventing regions and branching out from an old path to something new in order to create more balanced and sustainable regional development.

The Move to the Market?

The book considers the determinants of the regional distribution of foreign manufacturing investment in the UK.

The perception of Central Asia and its place in the world has come to be shaped by its large oil and gas reserves.

In agilen Teams ist Kommunikation der Schlüssel zum Erfolg – doch was passiert, wenn Missverständnisse den Fortschritt behindern oder das Team seine volle Leistung nicht entfalten kann?

Building on the work of labor historians, industrial relations scholars, and institutional labor economists, this book offers not only a comprehensive analysis of the changing nature of shopfloor labor-management relations in the large manufacturing firms of this century, it also supplies empirical evidence of the effect of these institutional changes on labor productivity growth and injury rates.

This book presents a collection of papers which evaluate the achievements of the Australian Trade Practices Act 1974 in making Australian markets more competitive.

Recently, attempts have been made to understand the patterns of corporate technological diversification and their implications in economic and managerial dimensions.

The problem with the way the safety industry functions is three-fold: (1) the dysfunctional relationship between business and safety leaders, (2) the practice of Results-Based Safety, and (3) the creation of a false reality.

This book is about dynamic capabilities (DCs) in the context of the 21st century, in which global challenges seem to come from different quadrants.

This comprehensive reference work gives an overview of the industrial development and current state of industrialization and deindustrialization in Asia, specifically Southeast Asia and China.

We are bombarded with economic numbers: unemployment, retail sales, inflation, GDP-the list goes on and on.

The book contains selected papers presented at two international Euro-Asia research conferences held in Nantes and Poitiers, France, in 1994 and 1995.

Published in 1999, this book explores the emergence of contemporary urban agriculture as well as official attitudes toward this practice.

This book focuses on issues that are relevant for the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.

This book outlines strategies and models for how to use technology and knowledge to improve performance, create jobs and increase income.

Peak Load and Capacity Pricing lays out clear pricing strategies for understanding peak load and capacity pricing structures, further cementing electricity's role as an asset class with fixed and variable costs.

The debate on the free movement of labour within the EU has gained new momentum in the wake of the economic crisis.

The descriptive data in this book, first published in 1989, were obtained from participant observation and interviews with merchant seaman current and retired.

I remember that the idea of this book emerged ?

This study provides an in-depth analysis of the Hong Kong Ship Recycling Convention as adopted in May 2009 and a thorough analysis of the overall status quo of ship recycling regulations.

This book analyses quantitative open source software (OSS)reliability assessment and its applications, focusing on three major topicareas: the Fundamentals of OSS Quality/Reliability Measurement and Assessment;the Practical Applications of OSS Reliability Modelling; and RecentDevelopments in OSS Reliability Modelling.

The physical distribution of products is an important element in the marketing operations of all productive enterprises, and in many cases efficient distribution is the most important single factor leading to success.

The economics literature on industry dynamics contains a wide array of empirical works identifying a set of stylized facts.

This book is a timely examination of congressional oversight in the United States, serving as a definitive guide for scholars and political, legal, and media observers seeking to navigate contemporary conflicts between Congress and the White House.

Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies comprises a selection of sixteen newly written essays that provide clarification to issues pertinent to contemporary cooperatives.

Like the railroad and the automobile, the airliner has changed the very geography of the societies it serves.

Investment is the engine of growth.

Academic thought-leaders in the field of technology transfer analyze critically the factors behind success-oriented entrepreneurial start-up cultures on university campuses.

Japan and the Internet Revolution challenges the portrait of Japan as a technologically slow-moving nation, lacking in creativity and entrepreneurial spirit.

The book explains strategic issues, trends, challenges, and future scenario of global economy in the light of Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Non-profit Organizations and Co-production:The Logics Shaping Professional and Citizen Collaboration develops a novel framework for analyzing the practices of co-production between citizens and professionals in the non-profit sector.

This book investigates the economic decisions behind the implementation of public-private partnerships (PPPs).

Innovation and finance are in a symbiotic and twin-track relationship: a well-functioning financial system spurs innovation by identifying and funding stimulating entrepreneurial activities which trigger economic growth.