Economics of industrial organization

This book demonstrates that long-awaited changes to technology policy and corporate strategy are now taking place in Japan.

The air transport industry has high economic impact; it supports more than 60 million jobs worldwide.

German industry in particular is a central focus for studying technical and organizational changes in industry due to its pivotal position in international markets, its technological sophistication and its well-established training systems.

The Decline of Trade Union Organisation (1987) considers the reasons behind the decline in trade union membership and discusses the prospects for recovery.

This book offers a unique guide to the three-dimensional (3D) printing of metals.

This monograph is the proceedings of a symposium held at the University of California at Berkeley, September 12-14, 1990.

Managing the Digital Workplace in the Post-Pandemic provides a cutting-edge survey of digital organizational behaviour in the post-pandemic workplace, drawing from an international range of expertise.

The definitive guide to measurement and estimating using NRM1, written by the author of NRM1 The 'RICS New rules of measurement: Order of cost estimating and cost planning of capital building works' (referred to as NRM1) is the cornerstone of good cost management of capital building works projects - enabling more effective and accurate cost advice to be given to clients and other project team members, while facilitating better cost control.

This volume is an excellent addition to Routledge's Studies in Small Business series.

Technology has long been seen as a path to economic growth.

This book is a seminal contribution to decision making theory through its study of management decision making in six Beijing state enterprises during the period 1985 to 1989, when the government adopted decentralization as the key to reforming state industries.

Deregulation of Electric Utilities reviews the main issues relating to the changing environment in the utility industry.

This book illustrates how the strategic placement of 'error-proofing' devices, which is refered in this book as Success Every Time (SET), drives up industries' profits and throughput.

This book is about dynamic capabilities (DCs) in the context of the 21st century, in which global challenges seem to come from different quadrants.

This book presents an historical analysis of the global paper industry evolution from a comparative perspective.

Saudi Arabia (1986) is a major study of the political and administrative development of Saudi Arabia following its establishment as a leading world exporter of oil.

Regional policy is an essential in any government's toolkit for promoting socioeconomic prosperity.

Dozens of judicial opinions have held that shareholders own corporations, that directors are agents of shareholders, and even that directors are trustees of shareholders' property.

This Element examines how the changing economic basis of nineteenth century Britain contributed to the development of British politics.

Port Economics, Management and Policy provides a comprehensive analysis of the contemporary port industry, showing how ports are organized to serve the global economy and support regional and local development.

The results of the 1959 Glasgow University investigation into British industrial profit, business saving, and investment are the subject of this book, originally published in 1965.

Research on the growth of the precarious economy is of signifi cant interest as the economy increasingly becomes dependent on gig work.

A new agenda for studying advocacy organizations which treats them as ''firms'' operating in policy markets.

This collective volume explores the ways merchants managed to connect different spaces all over the globe in the early modern period by organizing the movement of goods, capital, information and cultural objects between different commercial maritime systems in the Mediterranean and Atlantic basin.

Originally published in 1961.

This book explains the implementation of just in time (JIT) production in an industrial context, while also highlighting the application of various, vital lean production tools.

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.

This book looks at systems engineering now and comments on the future.

This book analyses the seminal role of megaprojects for sustainable development, and the related, complex challenges they bring.

This book offers a broad overview of the topic of the European enterprise: It ex- ines what the Europeanenterpriseis or might be, whetheror not it exists, and,if not, if tendencies towards its emergence can be discerned or not.

Cooperation in Research and Development provides an empirical and theoretical analysis of a distinct form of inter-firm collaboration in Research & Development (R&D): research joint ventures (RJVs).

Issues such as the patentability of scientific ideas, the market for organs and open source software are hotly debated and yet poorly understood.

The unique challenges associated with understanding network industries requires insights from a range of disciplinary perspectives, namely economics, engineering, law, and political science.

This comprehensive reference work gives an overview of the industrial development and current state of industrialization and deindustrialization in Asia, specifically Southeast Asia and China.

This edited volume describes the spatial diffusion of knowledge and innovation using a large dataset at the regional level, and presents scientific evidence on the role of knowledge and innovation on regional development.

First published in 1970.

Technological advances and the drive to digitalize business processes in aviation, tourism, and hospitality have forced the industries to go along with the digital movement.

 This book systematically provides a prospective integrated approach for complexity social science in its view of statistical physics and mathematics, with an impressive collection of the knowledge and expertise of leading researchers from all over the world.

This book highlights the social, economic and environmental importance of the mutual relations between industries in the same and in different regions and nations, and demonstrates how to model these relations using regional, interregional and international input-output (IO) models.

Writing this book would have been impossible without the help of certain institutions and persons.

In recent decades, the importance of creative cluster development has gained increasing recognition from national and regional governments.

Proper cost accounting and financial management are essential elements of any successful construction job, and therefore make up essential skills for construction project managers and project engineers.

Emphasizing the new challenges posed by the data science revolution, digital media, and changing norms, Research Ethics in Applied Economics examines the ethical issues faced by quantitative social scientists at each stage of the research process.

This intriguing book examines the ways contagion - or disease - inform and shape a wide variety of nineteenth century texts and contexts.

This title was first published in 2001: Exploring the relationship between the recession and labour supply in Kazakhstan during the 1990s, this volume develops an innovative new model of the transitional process in the context of the CIS.

Originally published in 1982.

The Economics of Military Spending offers a comprehensive analysis of the effect of military expenditures on the economy.

First published in 1937, this book examines the changes in working conditions and vast improvements on sugar plantations in 20th century Fiji.

Ernest Aves (1857-1917) was an influential social analyst and civil servant.

Economic Trends in Soviet Russia (1930) examines the economic position of the USSR a decade after the Revolution.