Economics of industrial organization

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Why are some countries rich and others poor?

Originally published in 1981, Patterns of European Urbanisation Since 1500 examines urbanisation in Europe since 1500, paying particular attention to the underlying factors which govern the differentiated process of urbanisation.

Originally published in 1981, this book discusses the development of higher cost North Sea gas and oil fields.

Originally published in 1988.

Based on extensive archival research, Beyond Market and Hierarchy reconstructs how Fan waged modern China's war of salts.

This edited volume seeks to explore established as well as emergent forms of governance by combining social network analysis and governance research.

The Future of Work in Asia and Beyond presents the findings and associated implications arising from a collaborative research study conducted on the potential impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR - or Industry 4.

Markteintritt und Marktaustritt sind die wichtigsten Bestimmungs­ gründe für die Existenz von Wettbewerbsmärkten.

Originally published in 1994.

Live music events are synonymous with fun but seldom associated with international trade.

Shipping flows - maritime 'footprints' - remain underexplored in the existing literature despite the crucial importance of freight transport for global trade and economic development.

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

Over the past two decades, city economies have restructured in response to the decline of older industries.

Modelling is a tool used by savvy business managers to understand the processes of their business and to estimate the impact of changes.

This book analyses the possible regionalization of global value chains, particularly in manufacturing.

The uranium market is a particularly volatile and unpredictable international commodity market.

This book allows readers to discover the great potential of Open Innovation Labs (OILs).

The book explores the effect of modern technological shifts on human society, showing that technologies are undergoing accelerating qualitative changes that open up new opportunities for personal development and satisfaction of wants and, simultaneously, engender risks associated with growing opportunities of human interference with nature and technogenic stress on the environment.

A demonstration of how economics is used (and sometimes abused) in competition cases in practical competition policy across Europe.

This book focuses on environmental technology and financial markets of the Asia-Pacific region, which includes traditional and emerging innovative countries such as Japan, China, and South Korea.

The Geography of the Port of London (1957) deals with the mid-century functions of the port studied in relation to their physical setting and in the light of their historical development.

Changes in the environment such as trends, drivers, and influencing factors affect entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship in several ways.

In recent decades urban regions around the world have engaged in a new process of development based on the creation of new knowledge.

The global financial and economic crisis starting in 2007 has provoked the exploration of alternatives to neo-liberalism.

A Short Economic and Social History of Twentieth Century Britain (1968) overcomes the statistical complexities of the twentieth century by establishing long-term social and economic trends to provide a succinct analysis of Twentieth Century Britain.

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

Financial risk management for institutional investors has recently grown in scope to include long-term sustainability considerations and climate change risk concerns.

This textbook introduces logistics from a broad perspective to include all activities throughout the product and service life cycle pertaining to supply chain and logistics management, the physical supply and distribution of products, and the corresponding maintenance and support.

Originally published in 1991.

Real property in the form of investment, ownership and use pervades almost every aspect of daily lives and represents over 40% of Australia's wealth.

Soviet Agriculture in Perspective (1969) examines the framework within which Soviet agriculture had to operate from the start: the dilemma of a revolutionary regime in a backward peasant country, the straightjacket of a bureaucratic system inherited from Tsarism, made even more rigid by the internal tensions of the new society, and the imperative needs of economic development.

This book reports on cutting-edge legal, ethical, social and economic issues relating to robotics and automation, human-machine interaction and artificial intelligence, in different application areas.

This book presents a comprehensive history of handloom weaving industry in India to challenge and revise the view that competition from machine-produced textiles destroyed the country's handicrafts as claimed by historians until recently.

This book presents selected contributions on a wide range of scientific and technological areas covered by AITeM (the Italian Association of Manufacturing).

This book focuses on the process of designing a new business, known as entrepreneurship.

In this new volume, 28 Scandinavian researchers and others who are active in arts and culture seek to answer the questions: What has been the effect of regional and local investment in arts and culture?

The last four decades have seen major changes in the global economy, with the collapse of communism and the spread of capitalism into parts of the world from which it had previously been excluded.

Working for Ford (1984) describes just what it is like to work in a car factory, very often in the words of the workers themselves.

The Challenge for Japanese Multinationals is about strategic issues of modern management from the view of global business practice.

about nascent entrepreneurship distilled from recent research.

Responsible and sustainable business practices are becoming increasingly important in the information age, as companies are realizing the need to address ethical and social issues associated with their operations.

This employee engagement book focuses on the HOW of engaging employees in sustainability through four diverse case studies, thought-prompting questions and tips, as well as a unique model of employee engagement to guide strategy.

The role and economic power of corporations that dominate the world economy has generated considerable controversy.