Economics of industrial organization

This book presents a detailed background to the circular economy in China, explores government measures to promote it in China's market economy, and introduces the supporting laws and policies.

Diversity drives better business results; however, despite decades of effort, women make up only 15% of engineers.

This monograph provides theoretical and practical perspectives on competency management as a key resource for producing competitive products.

Compiled by AECOM, the 2025 edition has been updated with the latest pricing information to help you manage your projects over the next 12 months through this challenging period of high inflation and financial uncertainty.

Over the last thirty years Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) have been used to deliver transport capital projects and services.

The political economy of research and innovation (R&I) is one of the central issues of the early twenty-first century.

The Political Economy of International Commodity Cartels examines how international commodity cartels in the 1930s were impacted not only by commercial rivalry, but also by international trade political and diplomatic concerns.

This book collects high-quality papers on the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of industrial economics study and industrial security engineering, providing insights that address problems concerning the national economy, social development and economic security.

In recent years, we have witnessed huge economic and socio-political change in the Gulf.

This book examines a rapidly emerging new topic in urban settlement patterns: the role of shrinking cities.

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More than any other area of regulation, antitrust economics shapes law and policy in the United States, the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

Originally published in 1980 but re-issued now with a new preface, this book looks at the German manager from a sociological viewpoint and explains why German management has been so successful and highlights the key factors in the training of the German manager and the attitudes and skills he develops in his work.

Masters and Journeymen (1980) examines eighteenth-century trade unionism through nearly four hundred labour disputes in Britain between 1717 and 1800.

The book presents the descriptive findings and analytical results from the recent representative European Union Company survey of Operating hours, Working times and Employment (EUCOWE) in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom.

Targeting regional economic development (TRED) has a long and rich tradition among academic economists and in the world of economic development practitioners.

Consumers make purchasing decisions every day, taking into account their needs, preferences and beliefs which may change due to various determinants; some depending on the consumers themselves and others on the organizations acting in the market.

This volume offers a wide-ranging discussion on the interrelations among AI, algorithms, big data, and Industry 4.

As the volume of marine big data has increased dramatically, one of the main concerns is how to fully exploit the value of such data in the development of marine economy and marine science and technology.

This title was first published in 2002: This compelling text is the first major application of Michael Porter's diamond framework to identify the sources of national competitive advantage in the case of Greece.

Impact of liberalization on informality has been a subject of intense debate for many years and the major issue that has come up is whether liberalization helps to grow informal sector and informality in the economy or it is an obstruction for informal sector's growth.

Service Franchising succinctly extracts from observations about international franchising from both the scholarly and trade literature.

Originally published in 1972, this volume, supplemented extensively with maps and tables, and employing sophisticated institutional and empirical analyses, discusses a number of important issues relating to the viability of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and the natural environment.

Agricultural Co-operation in the Soviet Union (1929) examines agriculture in the USSR as the government was restructuring all national economic life and enterprise on a state socialist basis.

This volume highlights the importance of interactive, practice-based learning as a means to promote more thorough innovation dynamics in regional and national economies.

Engineering Asset Management discusses state-of-the-art trends and developments in the emerging field of engineering asset management as presented at the Fourth World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM).

Just how risky is the movie industry?

Knowledge intensive entrepreneurship lies at the core of the structural shift necessary for the growth and development of a knowledge based economy, yet research reveals that the EU has fewer young leading innovators, and Europe's new firms do not adequately contribute to industrial growth.

As the second volume of the two-volume Industrial Development in Modern China: Comparisons with Japan that studies the different paths of industrialization and economic modernization between China and Japan, this book explores the process of economic and industrial development in the Republic of China (1912-1949).

This book provides an analysis of the various challenges and opportunities facing the Japanese broadcasting industry.

Food loss is a serious issue in the United States.

Modelled on the concept of Industry 4.

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

First published in 1997.

The strengthening of relations between Poland and Ukraine over the last 25 years is one of the most positive examples of transformations in bilateral relations in Central and Eastern Europe.

This title was first published in 2002: Retailers who ignore the demographics of their customers do so at their peril.

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.

Transportation Network Companies and Taxis: The Case of Seattle is a modern economic case history and thorough analysis of the devastating impact of the transportation network company (TNC) industry (Uber and Lyft) on the taxicab industry in Seattle, Washington, beginning in 2014.

Containing selected papers from the ICRESH-ARMS 2015 conference in Lulea, Sweden, collected by editors with years of experiences in Reliability and maintenance modeling, risk assessment, and asset management, this work maximizes reader insights into the current trends in Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety (RAMS) and Risk Management.

In Australia, regions are not just geographic locations, they are also cultural ideas.

Cascades of new technologies and innovations are entering our lives so fast that it is difficult for us to adapt to one innovation before the next becomes embedded into our everyday lives.

This well-written and thoroughly illustrated description of the principles of job evaluation, first published in 1975, sets out to compare the relative usefulness and practical relevance of a wide range of methods within the overall context of remuneration policy and organisational effectiveness.

Cluster organizations are becoming more and more popular, both in developing and developed countries.

This book offers an in-depth insight into the Indian concept of swaraj--self-rule--both in theory and practice and posits it within the larger context of development.

Focusing on the IT and high-tech electronic industries, this book provides an analysis of foreign small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Taiwan and Mainland China.

National competitiveness has become a misnomer, as competitiveness is increasingly understood as a regional phenomenon and regions are not confined to the boundaries of the nation state.

This book addresses major issues facing postal and delivery services throughout the world.

Reissuing works originally published between 1964 and 1994, this set of ten volumes is an excellent collection of works on energy - production and consumption, economics and policy, conservation and the crisis.

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