Economics of industrial organization

In this book, the editors and a team of distinguished international contributors analyse the nature of organizational capabilities-how organizations do things, use their knowledge base, and diffuse that knowledge in a competitive environment.

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Edith Penrose was a remarkable woman and distinguished scholar who lived through, and witnessed at first hand, many of the major events of the 20th century; the great depression in the US; the rise of Nazism in Europe; the second world war when she worked as a special adviser to the US Ambassador in London; post-war reconstruction, assisting Eleanor Roosevelt with the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the McCarthy era; and the oil crisis of the 1970s.

This book addresses the important issue of food prices across EU Member States.

Since the early 1980s there has been an explosion of auditing activity in the United Kingdom and North America.

Institutional reforms and their contribution to development and growth have been a source of renewed interest as well as of many challenges over the last two decades.

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

In a world of organizations that are in constant change scholars have long sought to understand and explain how they change.

This book brings together the research of a number of scholars in the field of knowledge creation and imparts a sense of order to the field.

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

The book offers a theoretical and practical analysis of the contemporary approach to art, culture and innovation, with special emphasis on the relationship between culture, innovation and the economy, in the context of green transition, as an indispensable sustainability factor.

This book aims to provide new research methods, theories and applications from various areas of industrial economics and engineering.

This book contains the papers presented at the XXX International Congress INGEGRAF, "e;Digital Engineering, its application in Research, Development and Innovation"e;, held on 24-25 June 2021 in Valencia, Spain.

This proceedings volume presents new methods and applications in applied economic research with an emphasis on advances in panel data analysis.

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.

This book focuses on exploring the relationship between spin-outs from incumbents and the patterns of innovation in general purpose technology.

This book is the first book that provides comprehensive economic analysis of cross-border outsourcing by Japanese manufacturing firms based on microdata.

This book explores the principles of supply-side structural reform and current practices in the Chinese steel industry.

Across several industries, we are observing a paradigm shift from traditional, firm-centric and top-down value creation to more open and collaborative approaches, also referred to as bottom-up economics.

In 2021 Coventry celebrates being the national City of Culture.

This book provides an overview of the historical financial reforms and regulatory changes in China, highlighting the background to and causes of changes in the income structure of China's banks.

This book engages in the long-standing debate on the relationship between capitalism and colonialism.

This book offers a unique guide to the three-dimensional (3D) printing of metals.

This proceedings of the 13th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management covers a range of topics that are timely, relevant and practically important in the modern digital era towards safer, cost effective, efficient, and secure engineered assets such as production and manufacturing plants, process facilities, civil structures, equipment, machinery, and infrastructure.

Viewed through a politico-economic lens, Nordic countries share what is often referred to as the 'Nordic model', characterised by a comprehensive welfare state; higher spending on childcare; more equitable income distribution; and lifelong-learning policies.

Global cities today are facing fundamental challenges in relation to unaffordable housing and growing economic inequality.

This book addresses major issues facing postal and delivery services throughout the world.

This proceedings volume aims to provide new research methods, theories and applications from various areas of applied economic research.

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Energy is a key resource for transformational development globally.

Unpredictable and unforeseen, or black swan, events are occurring increasingly often, one such recent example is the coronavirus crisis of 2020.

This book investigates how extractive capitalism has developed over the past three decades, what dynamics of resistance have been deployed to combat it, and whether extractivism can ever be transformed into being a part of a progressive development path.

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

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.

This book provides deep insight into the emergent Chinese innovation economy, as we head towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

This book provides deep insight into the emergent Chinese innovation economy, as we head towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Brings economic regulation to life by tracing theoretical insights through to real-world applications in eight essential regulated sectors.

This book offers a comparative perspective on the technological, economic, and political aspects of Internet development in the post-Soviet countries.

This book explains the implementation of just in time (JIT) production in an industrial context, while also highlighting the application of various, vital lean production tools.

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.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and platforms are closely related.

Urban heritage, which is part of the conceptual expansion of cultural heritage, has become an extraordinarily complex notion.

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

In feudal society, it was the few at the top who laid the ground for what was produced, how it was produced and how it was distributed.

The privatisation of the British railway industry was a unique political and economic event.

This book reframes the purpose of infrastructure from being an input to economic growth to becoming a major instrument in reducing socio-economic inequalities in both industrialized and developing countries.

The financial system is currently confronted with tremendous challenges from the global economy, trade, politics, demographics, and most recently from enormous technological advancements.