Economics of industrial organization

This book offers an innovative examination of how 'low-technology' industries operate.

This book examines discourses of knowledge and innovation in post-industrial societies and knowledge-based organizations.

In contemporary global capitalism, the most powerful corporations are innovation or intellectual monopolies.

This book develops new theoretical perspectives on the economics and politics of innovation and knowledge in order to capture new trends in modern capitalism.

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

Originally published in 1988.

A frequent complaint in literature is that services have been previously largely overlooked by innovation researchers and technology policy makers.

This book tells you everything you need to know about international construction: the companies, their markets, the types of projects they build, how they compete and operate and how it affects us all.

By 2009, reverberations of economic crisis spread from the United States around the globe.

This book presents a wealth of perspectives on studying the manufacturing end of food processing industries, with a special focus on regions with a low industrial base and multiple missing markets, institutional finance being the most prominent example.

Globalization affects urban communities in many ways.

Aluminium was one of most cartelised industries in the international economic panorama of the 20th century.

This book is the result of a two-year interdisciplinary research programme named PRISM (Policy making, Reporting and measuring, Intangibles, Skills development and Management), financed by the European Commission and aimed both at understanding better how these assets are created and developed and what the policy implications of their growing importance in economies are.

This book assesses developmental experience in different countries as well as British expansion following the industrial revolution from a developmental perspective.

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

Novel research in construction management is often distant from existing practice.

An alternative theory of the firm is needed that helps better understand the nature and actual functioning of firms as well as the challenges raised by digital platform firms.

This is the first book that comprehensively describes the history of the game software industry in Japan.

First published in 1989.

Work is widely thought to have become more precarious.

Routledge Handbook on Labour in Construction and Human Settlements presents a detailed and comprehensive examination of the relationship between labour and the built environment, and synergises these critical focus areas in innovative ways.

In front of us lies a rather unique study.

Originally published in 1959, the subject of this book is an aspect of economic development which, despite its importance, had rarely attracted more than incidental attention at the time.

Ownership, Control and Ideology (1969) looks at the debate surrounding issues of ownership and control.

This book focuses on the economic aspects of intellectual property (IP).

Originally published in 1995, this book follows the preceding 4 volumes (Aisa, Africa, Latin America and Developed Countries) and discusses technological transformation in development history.

This book focuses on methods of choice in program evaluation.

Cycles, Growth and the Great Recession is a collection of papers that assess the nature and role of the business cycle in contemporary economies.

Life-cost approach to building evaluation comprehensively addresses in a reader-friendly, accessible way the fundamentals of life-cost studies in the built environment.

In today's digital era, the significance of standards in modernization and innovation cannot be overstated.

This book, first published in 1975, discusses the development of transport policy in the UK against a background of economic theory.

The TUC Overseas (1986) traces the decisions made by the Trades Union Congress in response to domestic and external influences and events, from its establishment of a joint international committee with the Labour Party in 1917 to the first congress of the World Federation of Trade Unions in 1945.

First published in 1986, this text brings together a selection of papers written by the great Alec Nove on development economics, Marxist economies, the Soviet economy, and law and politics in the Soviet Union.

Two trends will have more influence than anything else on the world's future political and economic situation: the development of artificial intelligence and the emergence of China as a competitor to the United States on the international stage.

This book expands the explanatory scope of econophysics to the real economy.

We know we should speak up and question what is being taken as normal in our work cultures - to notice and call out bad behaviour and resist being silenced.

The numbers of workers employed on a temporary basis has grown massively over the last few decades.

The Durham Miners (1971) examines the Durham miners' movement and of its organization - its economic, social, financial and political development.

This book, first published in 1963, examines the various aspects, roles and necessary skills of management in the transport industry.

This book investigates the birth and evolution of craft breweries around the world.

Through the process of globalization, the trade dependence and int- dependence of the developing countries have increased phenomenally than ever before.

Small and medium enterprises (SME) have attracted increasing interest in the last few years, and industrialization is no longer seen as a linear way of development.

This landmark textbook introduces students to the principles of regional science and focuses on the key methods used in regional analysis, including regional and interregional input-output analysis, econometrics (regional and spatial), programming and industrial and urban complex analysis, gravity and spatial interaction models, SAM and social accounting (welfare) analysis and applied general interregional equilibrium models.

First published in 1999, this volume examines technology in developing countries with a focus on Vietnam.

Competition policy-encompassing cartels, monopolies, mergers and state aid-is a hallmark of the European Union (EU).

Growth is a dominant economic driver accounting for the wealth of nations and organizations alike.

Economics and Business Environment is targeted at students preparing for a career in a managerial position in business or public service.

The British Worker Question (1986) examines the productivity of British workers, drawing upon a wide range of management, trade union and other sources, and spanning the traditional preserves of several other areas and disciplines - economic history, industrial administration, industrial relations and Marxism.