Economics of industrial organization

This book explores the dynamics of place, location and territories from the perspective of an experience-based economy.

The regeneration of critical urban areas through the redesign of public space with the intense involvement of local communities seems to be the central focus of place-making according to some widespread practices in academic and professional circles.

The regeneration of critical urban areas through the redesign of public space with the intense involvement of local communities seems to be the central focus of place-making according to some widespread practices in academic and professional circles.

From the mid-1980s, investors in the US increasingly directed capital towards the financial sector at the expense of non-financial sectors, lured by the perception of higher profits.

From the mid-1980s, investors in the US increasingly directed capital towards the financial sector at the expense of non-financial sectors, lured by the perception of higher profits.

This book challenges mainstream neo-classical perspectives on the firm.

This book challenges mainstream neo-classical perspectives on the firm.

Since the explosion of multimedia, the creation and promotion of multimedia clusters has become a target for regional development strategies across the globe.

Since the explosion of multimedia, the creation and promotion of multimedia clusters has become a target for regional development strategies across the globe.

Based on extensive original research, this volume examines contemporary patterns of womens employment in Europe in the context of the profound economic, social and cultural changes that have taken place in recent years.

This volume examines the nature of interfirm networks and their role in promoting industrial competitiveness.

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.

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.

This book focuses on the major issues that will affect the airline industry in this new millennium.

This book focuses on the major issues that will affect the airline industry in this new millennium.

Industrial production and consumption patterns rely heavily on the intensive use of both renewable and non-renewable resources and the consequences for the environment can be serious.

Industrial production and consumption patterns rely heavily on the intensive use of both renewable and non-renewable resources and the consequences for the environment can be serious.

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

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

Cash is king, not least in the construction industry.

Cash is king, not least in the construction industry.

This collection examines the phenomenon of economic growth with admirable economic vigour and includes contributions from leading academic figures.

This collection examines the phenomenon of economic growth with admirable economic vigour and includes contributions from leading academic figures.

Beginning with a detailed discussion of the World Trade Organisation and the Uruguay Round and its achievements, this book delves into the causal factors behind the failure to launch the new round of multilateral trade negotiations in Seattle in December 1999.

This collection draws on international comparisons from the main industrialized countries in a key field - the construction industry.

Industrial issues are often inextricably linked with labour market concerns and policy approaches that attempt to consider production and employment separately are inherently flawed.

Industrial issues are often inextricably linked with labour market concerns and policy approaches that attempt to consider production and employment separately are inherently flawed.

For decades governments, politicians, and trade unions have feared that firms investing abroad involved a loss of employment and a decline in wages for the home country, the implied assumption being that global production and consumption are somehow fixed.

At the turn of the century, questions about multinational firms' strategies as regards the forces, on the one hand, of globalization and, on the other hand, of the regional and local dimensions are very much to the fore.

For 5000 years shipping has served the world economy and today it provides a sophisticated transport service to every part of the globe.

This book reviews the theory of the firm and the large modern corporation.

This impressive book sees the author applying and extending the resource based view of the firm to explain and predict the strategy of corporate diversification.

This book provides a concise synthesis of leading edge research in the theory and practise of efficiency measurement in health and health care.

This book can be used as a way of introducing business and management students to economic concepts as well as providing economics students with a clear grasp of how to use the skills they will need in the world of business.

This book can be used as a way of introducing business and management students to economic concepts as well as providing economics students with a clear grasp of how to use the skills they will need in the world of business.

Although economics is a relative newcomer to research into the determinants of good health, its significance should not be under-estimated.

Although economics is a relative newcomer to research into the determinants of good health, its significance should not be under-estimated.

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

This revealing book examines different types of network industries such as railways, telecommunications and new media, and investigates their economics with an accent on history makes it stand apart from others in the area.

There is wide consensus on the importance of knowledge for economic growth and local development patterns.

There is wide consensus on the importance of knowledge for economic growth and local development patterns.

In recent years we have seen the predictions of our forebears that leisure time would increase as the years pass utterly confounded.

In recent years we have seen the predictions of our forebears that leisure time would increase as the years pass utterly confounded.

This book analyzes the economics of the food industry at every stage between the farm gate and the kitchen counter.

This book analyzes the economics of the food industry at every stage between the farm gate and the kitchen counter.

The biotechnology industry is an extremely important sector in the developed world's economies.

Shipping and port systems are vital to societies and lifestyles around the world.

This edited collection examines the interaction between industrial relations and international relations in the global economy.

This edited collection examines the interaction between industrial relations and international relations in the global economy.

This collection of essential data on eleven Asian economies outlines new trends and highlighting increasing differences between developed and developing countries.