Economics of industrial organization

As most economies remain caught in a global recession, that shows little sign of abatement, the importance of maintaining a flourishing industrial sector for the economic wellbeing of a country has rarely been so relevant.

Combining best practices, empirical studies and the authors' own research on technology transfer offices (TTOs), technology transfer, ecosystems and scientists in the principal investigator role, this book presents a business model framework for TTOs.

This book reports on cutting-edge legal, ethical, social and economic issues relating to robotics and automation, human-machine interaction and artificial intelligence, in different application areas.

This book explores the twists and turns in Argentina's modern economic history and the debates that raged there around a problem common to all former colonies: how to achieve a level of economic growth for its population in a world characterized by unequal economic relations between the industrialized nations of the north and the commodity producers of the south.

This book looks at institutional reforms for the use of energy, water and resources toward a sustainable future in East Asia.

This book allows readers to discover the great potential of Open Innovation Labs (OILs).

This book offers an alternative view of the economy - and indeed, society - that does not rely on an ever-expanding government to address the problems which individuals typically face during their lives.

Airline pilots in various countries around the world have made determined use of industrial action.

Universities have become essential players in the generation of knowledge and innovation.

This volume looks at the critical issues of industrial policy and sustainability.

In this new volume it is argued that network effects are much more common than usually assumed, and that they have a profound impact on many aspects of economic systems, especially technological change and economic growth.

Steel is the foundational material of modern civilization and constitutes the core of industry, and yet, it is overproduced across the world.

In the last few decades, urban quality of life has received increasing interest from policy makers who aim to make cities better places to live.

This book investigates the potential of the Spanish Sociedades Laborales (SLs) as an instrument of active labour market policy for re-turning the unemployed to the labour market and also the transferability of the scheme to other EU Member States.

This two-volume work provides a comprehensive overview of the Belt and Road Initiative, examining its impact on economic growth, trade, financial systems and international relations.

Insight into today's economic and financial problems comes, in this revealing book, from an understanding of how and why the practice and the teaching of management has developed as it has.

Studer shows that institutional, geographical, political, and technological factors account for Europe''s rise to undisputed world economic leader.

Safety at Work and the Unions (1983) surveys the whole field of safety at work.

The twelfth edition of this essential valuation textbook reflects the changes in the regulatory and statutory framework for property valuations that have occurred since 2013, as well as presenting the tried and tested principles and practices of real estate valuation.

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

Legal argumentation is a distinctively multidisciplinary field of inquiry.

The radical transformations to which the economy and society have been subjected for decades have gained momentum in recent years, not least because of the coronavirus pandemic, the consequences of which are yet to be fully understood.

In most countries the economic structure and financial landscape are dominated by corporations.

The Policy-making Process (1969) studies the relationships between the Conservative Government of 1956 and the organised industrial groups that were considered its natural allies in the aftermath of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act of 1956.

This book, originally published in 1974, examines the changes that took place in the market position of the coal industry in the twentieth century.

Schedule-Based Dynamic Transit Modeling: Theory and Applications outlines the new schedule-based dynamic approach to mass transit modeling.

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

Job loss is one of the most important issues in the capitalist world today: endless reports document the increasing scale of unemployment.

Three quarters of our current electricity usage and transport methods are derived from fossil fuels and yet within two centuries these resources will dry up.

Although China is now the 'factory of the world', there is no reason to expect that it will always be content with manufacturing labor-intensive goods for foreign corporations.

Public Sector Industrial Relations (1992) concentrates on individual relations in the public sector, identifying the distinctive features of management organization, collective bargaining, strikes and dispute resolution.

The authors also offer practical advice to improve reform policies.

Energy is a key resource for transformational development globally.

This Handbook compiles leading international research on the regulation of the sharing economy from a range of academic disciplines.

These proceedings constitute a selection of best papers from the 3rd International Conference on Economics and Social Sciences, Innovative Models to Revive the Global Economy, ICESS 2020, held in Bucharest, Romania, in October 2020.

In a knowledge-based economy, universities are vital institutions.

The four sections of the book deal in succession with Marshall's key ideas on the subject, the wider context of his thought in which they are to be read, their later development by some of his pupils, and their revival in contemporary economics.

The recent development of endogenous growth theories has renewed the in- terest into the sources of productivity growth of the advanced industrialized economies.

Drawing on a mixture of theory, cases, and interviews, Startups and Crisis Management provides a valuable overview of how new ventures fared in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The field of artificial economics (AE) embraces a broad range of methodologies relying on computer simulations in order to model and study the complexity of economic and social phenomena.

For most of the twentieth century tin was fundamental for both warfare and welfare.

In today's industrial and complex world, the progress of change is incredible.

This book examines the changing business andeconomic environment for postal services in Lithuania and the upcomingchallenges for this industry.

This book takes a comparative law and economics approach to explore the role of public and private actors in regulating generative artificial intelligence.

This collection of edited papers, first published in 1990, has two broad sets of objectives.

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.

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