Industry and industrial studies

This book explores how identity plays a pivotal role in tourism consumption.

This book examines the connections between poverty and innovation in Africa.

This book discusses theoretically and empirically the trade-off relationship between the frequency of product adaptation activities and the constraints on development resources, and how companies can respond to these constraints.

The revolution in financial technology (FinTech) has created many advancements in the lending and investment space across the world.

This book is a stepping stone toward solving public sector human capital challenges in Zimbabwe as it equips human capital managers with solutions to key issues in the public sector.

This book argues that law has a vital role in shaping the electricity system to enable a more active role for consumers in liberalizsed electricity industries.

This book is a compass for resource rich-developing countries, taking Mongolia as a case study.

This book explores East Asia's and the Asia Pacific's energy security exploring key issues including major trans-border energy projects, major country's energy mix policy, trans- border pipelines, LNG transfer between nations, balance of power relations between major powers, the North Korean energy situation, energy alliances, Belt and Road Initiative, Indo-Pacific Strategy, World Choke point and more.

This book examines the emerging trends in vanishing borders of urban local government finance due to uncertain local tax and expenditure regimes.

This book analyzes potential yields of six major food crops - rice, wheat, maize, potato, soybean and rapeseed worldwide using both qualitative and quantitative approaches to study both China's and global food security under climate change.

The ocean is a major source of income for many coastal nations, particularly in the developing world.

This book explores the linkages among economic development, energy, and environment.

Entrepreneurship as practice refers to the everyday way that innovation and futuristic thinking is incorporated into business ventures.

The book deals with the pricing of ecosystem services provided by agriculture.

This book combines the fundamentals of industrial organization theories based on microeconomic foundations, applied econometrics and environmental and natural resource economics in undertaking a comprehensive review of reforms of the power sector and its impact on industrial and socio-economic performance.

This is the very first book to explicitly both detail the core general principles of institutional and evolutionary political economy and also apply the principles to current world problems such as the coronavirus crisis, climate change, corruption, AI-Robotics, policy-governance, money and financial instability, terrorism, AIDS-HIV and the nurturance gap.

The goal of this book is to improve the ability of enterprises to implement the green growth model and value chain reconstruction.

This book explains farmer suicides in India in the backdrop of rural politics as a determining factor.

The revolution in financial technology (FinTech) has created many advancements in the lending and investment space across the world.

This textbook is based upon a philosophical method of logical deduction from basic principles such as scarcity, individual choice and subjectivism.

This book examines the background of fourth-generation biofuel production, use of genetically modified microalgae for production of fourth-generation biofuels; cultivation and harvesting of genetically modified microalgae; residue from biofuel extraction; health and environmental concerns of fourth-generation biofuels; regulations on cultivation and processing of the genetically modified algae; carbon dioxide sequestration; water footprint and current status and key challenges.

The book provides an analytic framework for grand strategy and applies the framework to illuminate the grand strategies of the Great Powers of the twenty-first century: India, China, Russia, and the United States.

This book highlights the major institutional changes in the development of the Japanese retail industry after the bubble economy.

 This is the first book to clarify the relationships between multi-functions of urban agriculture, creative classes, and social business in China and Japan.

This book includes original, peer-reviewed research papers from the 12th China Academic Conference on Printing and Packaging (CACPP 2021), held in Beijing, China on November 12-14, 2021.

This book features a collection of high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Tourism, Technology & Systems (ICOTTS 2021), held at the University of Cartagena, in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, from 4 to 6 November 2021.

This book is the first to shed light on the recent opinion of taxpayers on tax and fiscal policy in Japan through an attitude questionnaire.

This book features a collection of high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Tourism, Technology & Systems (ICOTTS 2021), held at the University of Cartagena, in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, from 4 to 6 November 2021.

This is a fully rewritten and extended version of the successful first edition of a textbook which focuses on consumer-driven food product innovation using a systems-oriented approach.

This introductory textbook on social choice theory makes the social choice theoretic framework and its main results, that have a direct bearing on the discourses on electoral rules and policy evaluation, accessible to a larger audience.

This is the first book that analyzes the growth of the Peruvian fresh fruit and vegetable (FFV) export industry from the view point of the industrial development.

This book combines energy economics and big data modeling analysis in energy conversion and management and comprehensively introduces the relevant theories, key technologies, and application examples of the smart energy economy.

This book describes the mineralization process of barite-fluorite deposits in southeastern Sichuan, Yangtze Block, China.

Growing concerns about the rapid depletion of fossil fuel reserves, rising crude oil prices, energy security and global climate change have led to increased worldwide interest in renewable energy sources such as biofuels.

This book includes a selection of reviewed papers presented at the 11th China Academic Conference on Printing and Packaging, held on November 26-29, 2020, Guangzhou, China.

The problem of enforcing a money judgment exists in every legal system in the world, but the methods and orientation vary significantly.

This book presents a timely investigation of radar remote sensing observations for agricultural crop monitoring and advancements of research techniques and their applicability for crop biophysical parameter estimation.

Futures markets offer numerous advantages in the marketing of agricultural commodities, and in this context, the book examines the major factors and issues that determine the participation of India's farmers in the futures markets.

This book offers a new perspective and empirical evidence that are relevant for understanding changes in family structures, intergenerational relationships, and female labor force participation in the "e;strong family"e; societies and that also shed light on those in the "e;weak family"e; societies.

This book includes a selection of reviewed papers presented at the 11th China Academic Conference on Printing and Packaging, held on November 26-29, 2020, Guangzhou, China.

This book provides a framework to understand the disregarded aspect of emerging market growth which is informal employment.

This book presents a synthesis of recent developments in axiomatic analyses of social welfare evaluation in social choice theory.

The book deals with the pricing of ecosystem services provided by agriculture.

This book clarifies the status quo and mechanisms of agricultural and rural development in today's Russia, especially focusing on human capital and human development.

This book features a collection of high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Tourism, Technology & Systems (ICOTTS 2019), held at the Universidad Abierta Interamericana, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 5th to 7th December 2019.

This book includes a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the 10th China Academic Conference on Printing and Packaging, which was held in Xi'an, China, on November 14-17, 2019.

This book addresses software faults-a critical issue that not only reduces the quality of software, but also increases their development costs.

This book includes a selection of reviewed papers presented at the 9th China Academic Conference on Printing and Packaging, which was held in November 2018 in Shandong, China.

Conventional wisdom dictates that a fiscal policy should be counter-cyclical.

This book covers multiple areas such as technology and the type of application in aviation, tourism and hospitality with looking at current and future technology application, as well as in a rural tourism perspective.