Economics of Industrial Organisation

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...

In the twenty-first century technology has become global, and firms compete using knowledge and capital. The traditional firm has a need for innova...

This book focuses on the main challenges that cities, regions and other territories at sub-national level face when it comes to designing and imple...

In common with most other advanced capitalist economies of the Global North, the UK has experienced a decline in the manufacturing industry and an ...

Constructive Suggestions for Efficiently Implementing Technology Transfer Theory of Science and Technology Transfer and Applications presents the m...

This title was first published in 2002. Bringing together a wide range of theoretical and empirical case studies from Canada, New Zealand, South Ko...

Bengals traditional industries, once celebrated worldwide, largely decayed under the backwash effects of the British Industrial Revolution in the f...

This volume shows that in todays globalized world, clusters are an important factor in explaining the different growth rates of firms, cities and r...

This title was first published in 2002. Examining cluster development policy in Europe and outlining its distinctive features, this innovative text...

In the last few decades, urban quality of life has received increasing interest from policy makers who aim to make cities better places to live. In...

The theory of the firm did not exist, in any serious manner, until around 1970. Only then did the current theory of the firm literature begin to em...

First published in 1955, this book offers a detailed history from the past to the mid-20th century on economic control. The book examines economic ...

This title was first published in 2003. This book provides a much-needed comprehensive and up-to-date treatise on financial distress modelling. Sin...

This title was first published in 2003. Since the late 1970s there has been considerable interest in the role of small firms in economic developmen...

First published in 1999, this volume examines technology in developing countries with a focus on Vietnam. One of the worlds poorest countries, Viet...

This title was first published in 2002: This compelling text is the first major application of Michael Porter's diamond framework to identify the ...

Economic growth and socio-economic development are particuliarly important for developing countries, and the construction industry plays a central ...

Juxtaposing literatures on urbanisation and mining at a time when small-scale artisanal as well as large-scale mining operations are transforming m...

This title was first published in 2002. The concept of embeddedness refers to the social construction of inter-firm relationships and the enmeshin...

This title was first published in 2000. Providing an introduction to contemporary regional economic development issues, this book analyzes whether ...

Originally published in 1965 and written by a noted economist and leader in the field of conflict resolution, this book traces the forces which hav...

Title first publishedin 2003. This comprehensive book focuses on the prevailing conditions in Asia and Africa under various macroeconomic and secto...