Economics of industrial organization

Cash is king, not least in the construction industry.

This book provides an understanding of the concept of marketing and its role in business and public organization including the need for scientific marketing analysis.

Originally published in 1965, this book is concerned with an important yet neglected part of economic life 'fringe benefits' which employers provide for and on behalf of their employees apart from wages and salaries.

Originally published in 1980.

Practically everybody in the community uses the transport system, and an eighth of personal consumption expenditure in Britain is spent on transport.

This book, originally published in 1987, evaluates the human and managerial implications of new office information technology, based on the actual experiences of organisations using the new technology.

Winner of the Regional Studies Association's Best Book Award 2018.

This book provides a wealth of information and a critically required framework for sustainable automobile policy development in major Asian countries.

The 2008 credit crisis started with the failure of one large bank: Lehman Brothers.

The key approach taken in this book is that all local economic clusters have something in common - specific case-studies are thus put into wider perspective in a masterly study that will be of keen interest to both economists and geographers.

This well-established handbook presents integral logistics management as the management of the flow of goods, data and control along the comprehensive life cycle of products and services in both classical and service industries.

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.

The Political Economy of Regulation in Turkey brings together leading international scholars and experts on Turkey and regulatory reform to provide essential information on the recent Turkish experience and its relation to competition policy.

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.

The task of modelling the evolution of cities - the dynamics - is one of the major challenges of the social sciences.

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

This volume explores Iran's industrial and trade policy options for achieving sustainable, export-oriented, and pro-employment growth.

Explores the nature of corporate personhood and how it affects the rights, powers, and influence of corporations in society.

Economically and politically, North Sea oil very quickly became of vital importance to Britain.

This title was first published in 2002.

The COVID-19 crisis has proven that sustainability of an institution or organization requires a constant review of one's strategic positioning and the execution of pertinent plans in response to evolving externalities.

We know a lot about change leadership.

Introduction to Construction Management, Second Edition, is the beginner's guide to key concepts, terms, processes and practices associated with modern construction management.

In the centennial year of the birth of Sir John Cockcroft, first master of my Cam- bridge College, Churchill, and the first man to split the atomic nucleus by artificial means, it is indeed relevant to consider the outcome of his efforts at developing atomic power.

As China has blended market reforms with comprehensive industrial policies, most research has focused on the national government's strategies for economic growth.

This book presents state-of-the-art probabilistic methods for the reliability analysis and design of engineering products and processes.

COVID-19 has stressed the condition of radical uncertainty that increasingly characterises our times and compels cities to learn new ways to cope with unexpected global urban challenges.

This book provides some recent research advances in the field of lean manufacturing.

Telecommunications Demand in Theory and Practice, which builds upon the author's seminal 1980 book, Telecommunications Demand: A Review and Critique, provides comprehensive analyses of the determinants and structure of telecommunications demands in the United States and Canada.

We know a lot about change leadership.

Dynamic oligopolistic competition has implications both for the strategic management of firms and for the design of an effective competition policy.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and platforms are closely related.

The only comprehensive textbook on Europe''s business environment, examining the region''s economics and policies in social, political and historical contexts.

Innovation is the means by which organizations survive and thrive in uncertain and turbulent conditions.

This book examines cost-of-capital models and their application in the context of managerial finance.

This volume analyses employee participation in under- researched countries and whose economic institutions differ from the Anglo-American context.

Since the emerging discipline of engineering enterprise systems extends traditional systems engineering to develop webs of systems and systems-of-systems, the engineering management and management science communities need new approaches for analyzing and managing risk in engineering enterprise systems.

This book is a compendium of Alok Bhargava's most important contributions in longitudinal econometric methods and its application to problems of food, nutrition and health.

Airport development is critical to economic growth and poverty reduction.

Working Regions focuses on policy aimed at building sustainable and resilient regional economies in the wake of the global recession.

Winner of the 2016 Coup de Coeur prize at the Plumes des Achats & Supply Chain, Paris.

Economic growth is highly dependent on technological progress and innovation, yet the sources from which these innovations originate are still largely misunderstood and untapped.

First published in 1999, this book offers a new study of local government in Japan.

This book presents in its first part the financial determinants of innovation processes considered in a macro-economic perspective, which are limited by short-term constraints, and studies in its second part the linkages existing between the necessity to innovate in order to survive and the constant attention given to financial results.

The Occupation era (1945-1952) witnessed major change in Japan and the beginnings of its growth from of the ashes of defeat towards its status as a developmental model for much of the world.

East Asia has led rapid economic growth in the last few decades with India joining them over the last five years.

The co-creative university has become the main driver of social and economic development stimulating internal (students and academics) and external creativity (companies and institutional environment) as well as cooperation in various areas (e.

Ever since Schumpeter's groundbreaking work there has been a plethora of new research seeking to extend the direction and dynamics of innovation.