Economics of industrial organization

Seit dem Winter 1956/57 sind die Größenverhältnisse in der deutschen Energiewirtschaft in Bewegung geraten.

With a focus on the European labour market, this book seeks to understand how digital transformation affects changes in employee-employer relations.

The theory of the firm has been fertile ground for economists.

Management as we know it has been the driver of business growth in U.

Management by Agreement (1973) examines the ramifications of the 1971 Industrial Relations Act and industrial relations in Britain.

This book presents an in-depth analysis of the functional dynamics of Indian industrial clusters which have grown and stayed as hubs of business activity in India, thanks to a large calibrated domestic market for goods.

This book provides 101 real-life construction management case studies from an author with over 40 years' experience in the construction industry and as a lecturer in construction management.

Migration is conceived differently in Europe compared with countries like the US, Canada or Australia.

Increased concentration and rising market power require new rules.

This book aims to shed light on why it is that so many well-meaning initiatives and government white papers have failed to have the expected impact in transforming the UK construction industry.

The problems inherent in the traditional design-bid-build procurement method often lead to the adversarial working relationships within the construction industry.

Recent years have seen a return to high inflation that has sparked debate about the causal role of monetary policy in significant price increases, especially in the context of the quantity theory of money.

The Soviet Far East (1990) examines the largest economic region in the Soviet Union, the Far East.

Infrastructure is vital to a resilient society and infrastructure investment is therefore critical to the vibrant functioning of societies.

In recent years, the United Kingdom has become a more and more divided society with inequality between the regions as marked as it has ever been.

The Soviet Union Looks Ahead (1930) is the official statement of the five-year economic plan put forward by the Soviet Union, a plan involving the radical reconstruction of the entire production system of Russia.

This book is novel in that it reveals significant issues of economics, management and business fields currently observed in network industries such as public utilities and transportation, and provides empirical evidence of their mechanisms and policy implications from various perspectives.

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.

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.

Future farm managers need a range of tools and knowledge to run successful businesses, and this accessible textbook provides the required foundations from economics and management, applied to the farm context.

Since the DCMS Creative Industries Mapping Document highlighted the key role played by creative activities in the UK economy and society, the creative industries agenda has expanded across Europe and internationally.

This book provides unique insight into Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in Africa.

This book shows that agglomeration economies, new industrial clusters, and Japanese multinational firms' location are particularly important for the Japanese manufacturing industry in Japan and East Asia.

In the complex world of finance, understanding the relationship between a company's capital structure and its overall performance is crucial.

De-industrialization, accelerated by the financial crisis, is a long term process.

First Published in 1937, Public Enterprise presents a broad overview of the numerous public boards and commissions established in Britain during early twentieth century.

Published in 1982 this is an introductory study of the international spread of modern industrial technology.

Originally published in 1981.

This book examines the impact of artificial intelligence on competition and antitrust in today's global digital economy.

This book deals with the emergence of intellectual monopolies.

This book examines a rapidly emerging new topic in urban settlement patterns: the role of shrinking cities.

Many people have great ideas.

This book focuses on methods of choice in program evaluation.

Postal service has received considerably less attention in the economics literature than traditional public utilities.

This book cuts through the jargon and complicated formulae to focus on the key concepts in sports economics, introducing the fundamentals in a concise and engaging way to give the reader without a background in economics the tools with which to read and apply sports economics in their work.

Principles of Agricultural Economics, now in its fourth edition, continues to showcase the power of economic principles to explain and predict issues and current events in the food, agricultural, and agribusiness sectors.

This practical guide to cost studies of buildings has been updated and revised throughout for the 6th edition.

This book offers a unique analysis of how our definitions of luxury have changed over the ages, and with that the role and actions of both suppliers and buyers of luxury products.

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.

R&D Investment and Impact in the Global Construction Industry brings together contributions from leading industry researchers in a diverse group of countries to investigate the role of research and development (R&D) in the construction industry.

The fields of Economic Geography and International Business share an interest in the same phenomena, whilst each provides both a differing perspective and different research methods in attempting to understand those phenomena.

The separation between ownership and control has become common practice over the last century, in most medium and large firms across the world.

This book covers three main areas, namely the pharmaceuticals industry, the telecommunications sector and the banking sector, with a focus on manufacturing and service.

This book analyses the multidimensional condition of the Romanian industrial landscape, which played host to a multitude of demo-economic, financial, trade, and trans- and inter-sectoral development practices before the intense period of European deindustrialisation.

Originally published in 1981 but now with a new preface, this volume provided the first detailed comparative analysis of how local authorities in the UK and W.

Originally published in 1983.

This interesting book discusses the emergence and development of five extremely popular team sports - baseball, basketball, football-soccer, ice hockey and cricket - since the 1800s in 15 different countries.

This book shows, first of all, that leadership plays a crucial role in reinventing regions and branching out from an old path to something new in order to create more balanced and sustainable regional development.

Over the last two centuries, artists, critics, philosophers and theorists have contributed significantly to such representations of "e;the economy"e; as sublime.