Economics of industrial organization

Open Innovation describes an emergent model of innovation in which firms draw on research and development that may lie outside their own boundaries.

This book, fist published in 1979, traces the growth of Britain's inland transportation systems, chiefly for goods traffic, by road, canal and railway, from the early seventeenth century to the eve of nationalisation in 1947.

This practical guide covers the steps necessary to sustain quality in a project from start to finish.

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

The innovation economy is the driver for the development of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and consequently, there is a growing focus on innovation in general and technological innovation in particular.

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The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering.

The book addresses the most recent challenges faced by the postal and delivery sector.

Miwa analyzes how the Japanese government prepared itself for the Second World War and the war with China preceding it.

This book assesses developmental experience in different countries as well as British expansion following the industrial revolution from a developmental perspective.

This volume provides a collection of theoretical articles and empirical studies on innovation and location by focusing on the institutions and systems that mediate knowledge spillovers.

Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a defining figure of the twentieth century; a philosopher, Christian (although never baptised), resistance fighter, Labour activist and teacher, described by Albert Camus as 'the only great spirit of our time'.

This book begins by analysing the various corporate governance mechanisms explored in the extant literature and determining their effectiveness in enhancing the firm value using multivariate analysis.

This book highlights cutting-edge research in the economics and management of networks as an interdisciplinary field, offering new theoretical, empirical and practical perspectives on the management, governance, ownership and control of cooperatives, franchising networks and strategic alliances.

Originally published in 1951, this book is a straightforward account of the British nationalized coal industry in the first half of the twentieth century.

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

Based on extensive research in formerly secret archives, this volume examines the progress of Soviet industrialisation against the background of the rising threat of aggression from Germany, Japan and Italy, and the consolidation of Stalin's power.

The book is divided into three major sections.

This book focuses on the main challenges that cities, regions and other territories at sub-national level face when it comes to designing and implementing a territorial strategy for economic development and competitiveness.

First published in 1921, Problems of a New World deals with the economic and political issues that arose from the First World War.

Essentials of Economics in Context is specifically designed to meet the requirements of a one-semester introductory economics course that provides coverage of both microeconomic and macroeconomic foundations.

"e;Schedule-Based Modeling of Transportation Networks: Theory and Applications"e; follows the book Schedule-Based Dynamic Transit Modeling, published in this series in 2004, recognizing the critical role that schedules play in transportation systems.

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First published in 1985, Prospects for Recovery in the British Economy examines the origins of the economic downturn of the early 1980s.

Creative industries have become fundamental in signalling the economic wellbeing of cities and urban regions.

In this new book, Hara, Kambayashi and Matsushima gather together a collection of case studies of innovation in various industries in modern Japan, including automobile, electronics, semiconductor, component, chemical, pharmaceutical and service industries.

First published in 1981, this book brings together a collection of essays on microeconomics and development presented at the conference of the Association of University Teachers of Economics.

This widely researched comparative study addresses the critical issue of literacy crises around the world and questions their wider sociological and educational impact.

This book assesses Chinese acquisitions in developed countries, evaluates the drivers and opportunities and, above all, explores the major operational challenges.

This book explains information agglomeration, a new concept we devise under the influence of Hidalgo (2015).

Das Lehrbuch führt systematisch in die Grundlagen der Mikroökonomik ein.

The construction industry is undergoing great change particularly with the introduction of digital technologies and the increasing emphasis on sustainability and ethical practice.

This book shows that agglomeration economies, new industrial clusters, and Japanese multinational firms' location are particularly important for the Japanese manufacturing industry in Japan and East Asia.

This state-of-the-art book brings together the full range of issues that can inform care for patients experiencing the effects of concussion.

Russia and America (1987) examines the divergence between two countries organised on diametrically opposed economic principles - one centrally-planned, state-dominated, the other a highly decentralised market economy, free from significant government intervention.

This book comprises chapters authored by experts who are professors and researchers in internationally recognized universities and research institutions.

The Lean Six Sigma Workshop describes important and practically relevant methods and tools for optimizing industrial production structures.

Trade Unions and Regions: Better Work, Experimentation, and Regional Governance is about the place of workers and their unions in the modern world.

This book provides a survey of the theory and of the empirical knowledge about the links between market structure and technological change.

Originally published in 1964 and revised in 1971.

The Manager's Guide to Industrial Relations (1968) traces the origins and evolution of the attitudes of managers and men from the beginning of industrialization to the Fawley Agreement.

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 textbook is designed to be used in an advanced undergraduate course.

Originally published in 1990, this anthology of articles from the German financial and industrial press, translated into English for this volume, discusses the socio/politico/economic background that was a catalyst for the development of replacement cost accounting ideas in Europe and Anglo-American countries.

This is the first book of its kind to bring together the microeconomic insights on the functioning of non-profit organizations, complementing the wide range of books on the management of non-profit organizations by instead focusing on both theoretical and empirical work.

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First published in 1998, this book introduces a new concept of profitability, called the 'efficiency rate of profit', which is defined as the ratio between the unit net margin and the unit capital requirement and shows how the efficiency rate of profit may be used in the assessment of mechanization and economies of scale.

The metaverse is undergoing rapid and transformative changes, yet it has thus far lacked a comprehensive scholarly examination from a global and comparative standpoint.