Economics of industrial organization

`The book is an excellent example of the application of modern econometric techniques to Chinese data, some of which was especially collected for the research.

This dynamic study of the business of football considers its income and cost drivers, its capital structure and its accounting policies through UK examples and international comparison.

`Miwa is one of the leading young Japanese scholars debunking the myths - all too common in the west but eagerly promoted in Japan also - about the distinctive Japanese way.

A challenge to superficial and mistaken assumptions about Japan's top management among foreign businessmen, such as Japanese management's supposed long-term outlook, slow decision-making, and strong desire for new technologies.

This book shows how a system theoretical concept of technology helps us to understand the paradoxes of control.

The proliferation of the internet has often been referred to as the fourth technological revolution.

An analysis and exploration into the impact of Japan's 2011 nuclear crisis.

This anthology aims to explain why some Nordic shipping companies became world leaders while others failed to respond effectively to the challenges and opportunities of globalization.

This volume highlights the importance of interactive, practice-based learning as a means to promote more thorough innovation dynamics in regional and national economies.

This is the first book to explain the expansion of multinational enterprises (MNEs) into a transition economy from a technology accumulation perspective.

This book gives a detailed account of the primacy of the City of London, both as a domestic actor and as a global financial centre.

This book assesses the phenomenon of international framework agreements (IFAs), examining their implementation and impact around the world as well as their promotion of ILO standards.

Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Economic Policy are at the core of research and study in economics.

The financial crisis is destroying wealth but is also a remarkable opportunity to uncover the ways by which debt can be used to regulate the economic system.

This book is one of the first fully-fledged studies to examine the next world-class industrial leaders emerging from China and India; exploring the domestic and international factors that have led to their rise, and comparing their experiences with other East Asian late-comers such as Japan.

Regulating for Decent Work is a response to the dominant deregulatory approaches that have shaped labour market regulation in recent years.

Combining insights from leading academic research and experienced managers, this book provides a systematic framework to understand what innovation is, why it matters, how it can be managed and how it can help your organization to reach its objectives.

This book provides detailed empirical analysis of countries in Asia to examine various dynamic models that incorporate the impact of technology and innovations on the industry evolution and overall economic growth.

This book examines how to promote industrial development in low-income countries.

The globalized economy depends on local and context-specific factors.

This book outlines strategies and models for how to use technology and knowledge to improve performance, create jobs and increase income.

How does a market globalize?

This collection provides exceptional descriptive and analytical insights into changes in corporate governance settings in ten Eastern and Western European countries.

The volume focuses on privatisation in transition countries, addressing issues ranging from corporate governance to the relationship between privatisation and the emergence of markets, from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

An agenda-setting contribution to the field of intra-industry trade.

Using the concept of innovation capacity, this book, using recent field data from countries in Asia and Africa, competently demonstrates how biotechnology can contribute to sustainable economic development.

This book explores the drivers of technological upgrading and catch-up in the emerging economies, paying specific attention to technology and innovation policies, national innovation systems, the role of foreign direct investment and small and medium enterprises.

This updated and revised edition outlines strategies and models for how to use technology and knowledge to improve performance, create jobs and increase income.

The interplay between firms' internal organization and market behaviour is a long standing issue in industrial economics.

This volume is one of the first books to consider the impact of tripartism across the developing world.

This book aims to systematically assess laws and practices, close gaps that currently prevent a full profiling of financial participation, provide a description of individual countries against the background of comparable scores for the EU 27 and to promote a common platform for financial participation within the European Union.

Economic activities are becoming increasingly globalised.

This book provides a coherent and useful framework to explain the formation of agglomeration and the endogenous innovation process of upgrading industrial clusters to the higher R&D.

This book is designed to scrutinize the Russian business sector in transition with special attention to firm organization, business integration, corporate governance, and company management.

This is a revised and updated version of the celebrated 'Best Book on Chinese Economy'.

Suggesting that an expressive ideology has arisen within the workplace public sphere around the theme of 'competence', this book explores the hegemony of global finance and the fetishism of the new economy, exposing the dilemmas of the competence agenda, and illustrating how competence is played out in the workplace public sphere.

It is widely admitted that markets are the main driving force of the economy but governments' intervention could, in some circumstances, improve on their outcomes.

Provides a detailed analysis of the achievements and disappointments of the modern Indian economy, and an exploration of the issues which are shaping India's economic future.

This book provides a detailed insight into productivity, efficiency and growth in the Chinese economy, and offers results on capital stock and ICT capital estimates (at both national and regional levels) which will be an important resource for readers.

This book examines India's new economy - its strengths, weaknesses and potential.

Managerial Economics for Decision Makingis designed for MBA and final year undergraduates taking a module in Managerial Economics.

This book discusses both competitive and game theory models of industry growth through new technology, innovations and new entry, and provides a comprehensive treatment of various dynamic models of entry, applications of efficiency and entry models in computers and the pharmaceuticals industry, and applied models of Differential Games.

This book claims that de jure economic integration is in progress in East Asia, after the advancement of de facto integration.

This book explores the economic challenges involved in managing hydrocarbon wealth in the Caspian region, and looks at how to design an optimal energy policy.

This book addresses the key challenges of balancing economic growth, poverty alleviation, and environmental protection in the development of major physical infrastructure, ranging from transport to energy.

This book focuses on the Macquarie Group Ltd.

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

The demand for economic inclusion has increasingly intensified, as manifested by the growing movements of farmers, workers and social activists.

More than any other area of regulation, antitrust economics shapes law and policy in the United States, the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

George Washington ranks as one of the great military leaders in history.