Economics of Industrial Organisation

Indigenous peoples have occupied their territories for thousands of years, territories that are increasingly being mined by an industry applying th...

The global food crises of 2008 and 2010 and the increased price volatility revolve around biofuels policies and their interaction with each other, ...

Game theory has revolutionised our understanding of industrial organisation and the traditional theory of the firm. Despite these advances, industr...

By investigating the nexus of relationships between urban and rural factories in the Shanghai region of China, this book shines light on an overloo...

The fossil fuel revolution is usually rendered as a tale of historic advances in energy production. In this perspective-changing account, Christoph...

The shipping business is a lesser-known industry, but it is an extremely influential element in the global economy. This book provides a snapshot o...

This volume contains an Open Access Chapter The Sustainability of Health Care Systems in Europe provides a comprehensive understanding of the sust...

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a global development that shows no signs of slowing down. In his book, The Workplace of the Future: The Fourth ...

A growing body of literature in the area of business administration has focused on the phenomenon of decline. These studies span multiple levels of...

This edited volume delves into Sierra Leones complex post-conflict landscape. It posits that the nations path to peace and stability hinges on rob...

Globalization and technological innovation have greatly enhanced the free mobility of currencies, commodities, services, information, jobs and peop...

This book analyses shipping markets and their interdependence. This ground-breaking text develops a new macroeconomic approach to maritime economic...

This book explores the combination of capital's changing composition and labour's subjective agency to examine whether the waning days of the 'swea...

In recent years, the European air transport industry has seen a number of important changes, with more on the horizon. This comprehensive work pres...

This edited volume contains the research results of the EU funded project MAAXIMUS. The topical focus lies on composite airframe technology with pa...

The book explores the effect of modern technological shifts on human society, showing that technologies are undergoing accelerating qualitative cha...

Apple, Starbucks, Amazon, Zara, McDonald's - these are some of the brands and companies that are at the forefront of today's global economy. They a...

The book uses distance functions, a generalization of the more familiar production function, as the theoretical and empirical tools to construct Le...

Ownership and decision-making are key issues in the economic restructuring taking place as economies struggle to emerge from the Great Recession, a...

This volume analyses employee participation in under- researched countries and whose economic institutions differ from the Anglo-American context. ...

The research featured in this volume is devoted to understanding the competitive and collaborative challenges that firms face as they manage intera...

After three decades of economic reform, China is experiencing substantial demographic changes and a steady structural transformation toward a marke...