Economics of Industrial Organisation

This title was first published in 2001. The dynamics of New Firm Formation (NFF) are central to the phenomenon of economic growth and development. ...

During the past 25 years the burden of managing economic policy for competitiveness has devolved to cities and to urban regions. National governmen...

Why are some regions and cities so good at attracting talented people, creating high-level knowledge, and producing exciting new ideas and innovati...

Investment is the engine of growth. In consequence, the social welfare of the populace depends on the expectations of uncertain profitability as un...

These proceedings compile selected papers from presenters at the Conference: Managing Digital Industry, Technology and Entrepreneurship 2019 (CoMDI...

China's engagement in Africa is generally portrayed simply as African countries being exploited for their mineral wealth by a wealthy political and...

When a venture seems to be faltering, do you persist and hope that things will get better or do you cut your losses? This may be one of the most im...

Savvy managers no longer look at contracts and the law reactively but use them proactively to reduce their costs, minimize their risks, secure key ...

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of innovation management and its applications in various business contexts, providing an overview and ...

The structure and regulation of consumption and demand has recently become of great interest to sociologists and economists alike, and at the same ...

The privatisation of the British railway industry was a unique political and economic event. An integrated industry was broken-up into numerous com...

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. Freedom was...

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. Freedom was...

Decision-making on outsourcing new product development (especially innovation projects), such as engaging and managing the supply chain, is far fro...

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

This title was first published in 2002: Retailers who ignore the demographics of their customers do so at their peril. Examining the role of age an...

First published in 1988, this book sets out to reinterpret the changing place of working-class association in capitalist Britain. It argues that in...

There is a broad and long-standing debate on possible solutions to the regional vulnerabilities of globalisation. In 2014, the European Commission ...

Employment has changed dramatically in the last few decades with the onset of neoliberal globalization. This change has become the objective of inq...

Processes of multi-scalar regional urbanization are occurring worldwide. Such processes are clearly distinguishable from those of the nineteenth an...

The international fragmentation of economic activities from research and design to production and marketing described through the lens of the glo...

This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and digital spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent...

The countryside has often been marginalised in discussions of economic and societal development, in favour of the urban. This book aims to stimulat...

Contemporary capitalistic systems have been undergoing profound transformations determined by the transition towards the so-called knowledge based ...

Business retention and expansion (BRE) is regarded as the most practical and accessible method for economic development at the city, town, or neigh...

Transportation Network Companies and Taxis: The Case of Seattle is a modern economic case history and thorough analysis of the devastating impact o...

Across Europe there is a rapidly changing context for undertaking regional development. In the 20th century, development of the former planned econ...

Following drastic shifts in the spatial organization of goods production, increasingly fierce competition now forces firms also to look critically ...

The Challenge of Labour (1980) explains the changing forms of labours relationship with British society during the period of 1850 to 1930 as the e...

The service sector accounts for a huge proportion of global employment, and is the biggest driver of gross domestic product in developing nations. ...

In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis placed on local and regional integration in major planning projects and infrastructure devel...

In recent years, natural gas has become a major source of energy, with trade across borders increasing through both pipelines and as Liquefied Natu...

The existence and persistence of regional disparities between European regions require context-tailored policies to promote structural change. This...

European macro-regions, Euroregions and other forms of inter-regional, cross-border cooperation have helped to shape new scenarios and new relation...

Ever since Schumpeters groundbreaking work there has been a plethora of new research seeking to extend the direction and dynamics of innovation. Us...

This title was first published in 2000: The central aim of the Common Agricultural Policy is to support the incomes of farmers, yet reliable inform...

First published in 1937, this book examines the changes in working conditions and vast improvements on sugar plantations in 20th century Fiji. By t...

This book is about the relationship between firm dynamics, innovation and globalization, the processes that are essential for long term economic gr...

This sixth edition of Agribusiness Management provides students and managers with a fundamental understanding of the key concepts needed to success...

Originally published in French as Le territoire européen: des racines aux enjeux globaux, this book reflects the enormous changes that Europe has s...

Since the emergence of urban systems, cities have developed in a mutually inter-dependent process of socio-economic dynamics and transportation lin...

Beer is widely defined as the result of the brewing process which has been refined and improved over centuries. Beer is the drink of the masses it...

Smart Evaluation and Integrated Design in Regional Development puts forward an alternative approach to evaluation in spatial planning - one that fo...

Knowledge management has been widely applied to various industries as a good strategy to help improve firms performance. As globalisation accelerat...

The onset of the global crisis has emphasised the persistence of substantial differences in development and social progress within the euro area. T...

Against the backdrop of growing anti-globalisation sentiments and increasing fragmentation of the production process across countries, this book ad...

Originally published in 2005. Countries at different stages of social, cultural and economic development approach the process of skill formation in...

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of the changes and development of the civil international aircraft/aviation industry. It offers a fu...