Industrial Economics Books

New and Published Books

1. Manufacturing Enterprise in Asia

   Size Structure and Economic Growth

   By Dipak Mazumdar, Sandip Sarkar

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

   Issues relating to the size of firms in manufacturing are central to the discussion of development strategies. This book offers an interpretation of growth trajectories in selected Asian economies in terms of the size-structure of enterprises in the manufacturing sector of these economies. The book...

   Published May 22nd 2012 by Routledge
2. Managerial Economics, 4th Edition

   By Ivan Png

   Now in its fourth edition, Ivan Png's Managerial Economics has been extensively revised with : a completely new introductory chapter emphasizing decision-making and behavioral biases intensive application to current issues including the sub-prime financial crisis and global competition...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
3. Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology

   A Case Study of the Integrated Product Policy of the European Union

   By Jakub Kronenberg

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

   Holistic in approach and rooted in the real world Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology presents a new way of looking at environmental policy; exploring the relationship between ecological economics and industrial ecology. Concentrating on the conceptual background of ecological economics...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Deregulation, Innovation and Market Liberalization

   Electricity Regulation in a Continually Evolving Environment

   By L. Lynne Kiesling

   Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

   Over the past 50 years the US economy has experienced economic dynamism and technological change at a dizzying pace, driven substantially by innovation in digital communication technology. This dynamism has had limited effects in the electricity industry, and institutional change within the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Industrial Innovation in Japan

   Edited by Takuji Hara, Norio Kambayashi, Noboru Matsushima

   Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

   In this new book, Hara, Kambayashi and Matsushima gather together a collection of case studies of innovation in various industries in modern Japan, including automobile, electronics, semiconductor, component, chemical, pharmaceutical and service industries. Unlike other books in this area,...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Petroleum Taxation

   Sharing the Oil Wealth: A Study of Petroleum Taxation Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

   By Carole Nakhle

   Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

   Petroleum taxation is the universal instrument through which governments seek to determine the crucial balance between the financial interests of the oil companies and the owners of the resource. This book addresses how governments have and continue to approach this problem, the impacts of...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Privatisation and Financial Collapse in the Nuclear Industry

   The Origins and Causes of the British Energy Crisis of 2002

   By Simon Taylor

   Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

   A timely contribution and incisive analysis, this is the story of the British experiment in privatizing the nuclear power industry and its subsequent financial collapse. It tells how the UK's pioneering role in nuclear power led to bad technology choices, a badly flawed restructuring of the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Knowledge and Innovation

   A Comparative Study of the USA, the UK and Japan

   By Helen Brown

   Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

   This new book presents case studies from the US, the UK and Japan. Packed full of vignettes from cases studies and subscribing to a socio-cultural approach rather than the often tacit assumption that knowledge and ‘technology transfer’ is a logistical problem, this excellent volume illuminates the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. Mapping European Corporations

   Strategy, Structure, Ownership and Performance

   Edited by Andrea Colli, Abe De Jong, Martin Jes Iversen

   This book addresses the evolution of the strategies, structures, ownership patterns and performances of large European corporations since the early 1960s. The authors study large and small countries, in order to understand how the process of economic integration has affected the patterns of growth...

   Published April 26th 2012 by Routledge
10. Innovation Governance in an Open Economy

    Shaping Regional Nodes in a Globalized World

    Edited by Annika Rickne, Staffan Laestadius, Henry Etzkowitz

    Series: Regions and Cities

    In an increasingly globalised world, paradoxically regional innovation clusters have moved to the forefront of attention as a strategy for economic and social development. Transcending international success cases, like Silicon Valley and Route 128, as sources of lessons, successful high tech...

    Published April 23rd 2012 by Routledge