Economics of Industrial Organisation

This Minibook is a brief guide for Green Belt during a Lean Six Sigma project management or for Kaizen Leader during a process improvement activity...

In a turbulent global economy, the popular idea of declining farms and factories is largely unfounded. UN and World Bank data show growing output e...

A comprehensive picture of the effects of economic integration on industry location in less developed East Asia - particularly in Cambodia, Laos, V...

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

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

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...

The economics of the NCAA Division I men's basketball league are peculiar because it fails to hire the best college-aged players and does little to...

New Labour was outwardly hostile to trade unions and their concerns. Yet the Blair government worked closely with the TUC on several key employment...

The Growth of Chinese Electronics Firms outlines the way firms grow in China at an organizational level. Kimura uses China's electronics industry a...

Congress' Own Think Tank recaps the OTA experience?it's creation, operation, and circumstances of its closure? and that of organizations attempting...

International Partnership in Russia provides a unique insight into the joint ventures formed by international oil companies in Russia during the po...

Why is it that some countries become rich while others remain poor? Do markets require regulation to function efficiently? If markets offer an effi...

Based on extensive archival research, Beyond Market and Hierarchy reconstructs how Fan waged modern China's war of salts. Led by his Jiuda Salt Ind...

Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is the systematic and analytical process of comparing benefits and costs in evaluating the desirability of a project or...

This book revisits the history of industry and industrial and economic policy in independent Ireland from the birth of the state to the eve of EEC ...

The reason for the depth the 2008's global depression lies in the intractability of modern economic systems. This has led to an emergence of unprec...

Explores challenges for developing and emerging economies for enhancing green financing for sustainable, low-carbon investment, looking at Indonesi...

The Challenge for Japanese Multinationals is about strategic issues of modern management from the view of global business practice. In the 2010 i...

This volume is concerned with labor market developments in China from a comparative perspective on selected East and South Asian countries. It clos...

From the very dawn of the industrial epoch, wage earners have organised themselves into unions, fought bitter strikes and even gone so far as to ch...

The world is at a critical juncture where our industrial and economic principles have to be reshaped. Three major transitions are underway: towards...

This book provides detailed empirical analysis of countries in Asia to examine various dynamic models that incorporate the impact of technology and...

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach and using the case of the automotive industry as a starting point this volume discusses how industrial compa...