Economics of industrial organization

This monograph analyses the role of border cities in promoting territorial development processes in border regions across the world.

Although all economic activities take place in sectors, economists often devote little attention to differences between and characteristics of sectors.

Contemporary capitalistic systems have been undergoing profound transformations determined by the transition towards the so-called knowledge based economy, i.

Making European Merger Policy More Predictable analyses European Merger Control with regard to its capacity to generate predictability among the concerned parties.

This book highlights the extraordinary range of areas to which geographical analysis and spatial modelling can bring lessons and insights.

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

KMU und Grossunternehmen sind für die gesamte nationale Wirtschaft relevant.

Application of additive manufacturing and tissue engineering in the fields of science and technology enables the manufacturing of biocompatible, customized, reliable, and cost-effective parts, restoring the functionality of a failed human body part.

This book explores the core themes of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) highlighting the digital transformation that has been occurring in society and business.

This Element uses Austrian economics, public choice, and institutional economics to explain the origins and consequences of property rights.

This book offers a detailed analysis of the key sectors in the Italian economy, with the focus especially on areas in which the economy excels, such as the automatic packaging machinery sector, pharmaceutical production, the food and wine industry, and tourism.

This book illustrates two approaches for firms to shape successful circular strategies, namely, the Circular Economy and Circular Districts.

This book provides insights into contemporary issues and challenges in multi-criteria decision models.

The past two decades have seen rapid development of micro-/nanotechnologies with the integration of chemical engineering, biomedical engineering, chemistry, and life sciences to form bio-MEMS or lab-on-chip devices that help us perform cellular analysis in a complex micro-/nanoflluidic environment with minimum sample consumption and have potential biomedical applications.

Originally published in 1965 and written by a noted economist and leader in the field of conflict resolution, this book traces the forces which have brought the 20th century 'post-civilisation' into being: the ever-increasing power of science and the scientific attitude, the global communication network, the high efficiency of industrial societies.

Over the last decade, there has been an increasing amount of research on knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) and innovation.

This title was first published in 2002.

Economic and organizational literature has long separated the figure of the capitalist and the manager, but it often continues to assimilate that of the capitalist and the entrepreneur around the notion of risk-bearing.

This volume is the second book based on comparative and comprehensive data from the 2003 representative European Union Company survey of Operating hours, Working times and Employment (EUCOWE) in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom.

Few economies have witnessed such accelerated economic growth as that arising from Saudi Arabia's discovery of oil.

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

This book covers advancements across business domains in knowledge and information management.

The aim of this book, Future of the Telecommunications Industry: Forecasting and Demand Analysis, is to describe leading research in the area of empirical telecommunications demand analysis and forecasting in the light of tremendous market and regulatory changes.

The British countryside is a national institution; most people aspire to live there, many people use it for leisure and recreation and we can all watch rural life played out on our television screen, read about it in novels or consume its imagery in art and cinematography.

Originally published in 1987 and taking a review of the theories and processes of industrial relocation as its starting point, this book examines the nature of organisational and technologcal changes in detail and concludes with a series of industry case studies drawn from areas throughout the world.

Industrial transformation is a research and teaching field with a focus on the phenomenon and mechanisms of industrial development and renewal.

Ship management is a worldwide activity.

The fourth industrial revolution is developing globally, with no geographical centre.

History and Heritage (1985) offers the first comprehensive exploration and assessment of the historical developments that form Britain's industrial relations system - its institutions, texture and place in wider society.

A growing body of literature in the area of business administration has focused on the phenomenon of decline.

Economic geographers increasingly consider the significance of history in shaping the contemporary socio-economic landscape, and increasingly believe that experiences and competencies, acquired over time by individuals and entities in particular localities, to a large degree determine present configurations as well as future regional trajectories.

Clients have been identified as critical for building delivery but have been under-researched with only a few studies about them.

This book develops the theory of productivity measurement using the empirical index number approach.

The Causes of Tropical Deforestation (1994) is an analysis of the problem of deforestation, using statistical technique - a form of 'environ-metrics' - to discover the true causes of an issue whose basis is hotly debated, and attributed to causes as varied as poverty, external debt, multinational logging companies, government corruption, the IMF, population growth, and non-sustainable agriculture.

There is a growing tendency to organize various aspects of business life by projects, and to set up temporary organizations in a competition where speed and adaptability becomes a major necessity.

Offers coverage of each important step in engineering cost control process, from project justification to life-cycle costs.

This book explores the wave of liberalization reforms experienced by OECD network industries.

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

In today's increasingly complex and uncertain business environment, financial analysis is yet more critical to business managers who tackle problems of an economic or business nature.

This book explores how small nations can mobilise and use productive activities to generate inclusive growth and rapidly move up the economic ladder.

A critical issue in research and development (R&D) management is the structure and use of evaluative efforts for R&D programs.

The relationship between trade policy and industrialization has provoked much controversy.

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

This book is a continuation of Corporate Law and the Theory of the Firm: Reconstructing Corporations, Shareholders, Directors, Owners, and Investors.

History and Heritage (1985) offers the first comprehensive exploration and assessment of the historical developments that form Britain's industrial relations system - its institutions, texture and place in wider society.

All companies which reach a critical size are faced with outsourcing decisions that can increase the value of their products and services primarily through lower costs, greater reliability and improved efficiency.

Social capital theorists have shown that some people do better than others in part because they enjoy larger, more supportive, or otherwise more useful networks.

This Handbook offers an up-to-date collection of research on agricultural economics.

This book, first published in 1923, examines the states of Britain's rail network at the cusp of great change.