Industrial Economics Books

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1. Cost-Benefit Analysis Cases and Materials

   By Euston Quah, Raymond Toh

   Cost-Benefit Analysis is the systematic and analytical comparing of benefits and costs when assessing the desirability of a project or programme. It is therefore a cornerstone of public finance and government decision-making. This book highlights the key concepts and principles of cost-benefit...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-56226-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. New Models of Regional Innovation: Transversality

   By Philip Cooke

   Leading up to the financial crisis of 2008 and onwards, the shortcomings of traditional models of regional economic and environmental development had become increasingly evident. Rooted in the idea that ‘policy’ is an encumbrance to free markets, the stress on supply-side smoothing measures such as...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-60375-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Location Behaviour and Relationship Stability in International Business Networks: Evidence from the Automotive Industry

   By Bart Kamp

   This new book investigates how the relationships of international business networks (one buyer-multiple buyers) develop over time, looking at the geographical angle as well as an actor composition point of view. Bart Kamp presents a framework that reveals what business-to-business (b2b)...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-59828-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Airline eCommerce

   By Michael Hanke

   Online travel is big business and has become one of the most popular items purchased by consumers on the internet. In 2005, US$106 billion was spent on online travel products and services with air travel alone accounting for over US$65 billion or sisty per cent. This represents almost a...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-77580-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Industrial Innovation in China: Emerging Challenges and New Issues

   Edited by Denis Fred Simon

   This book provides an in-depth analysis of industrial innovation in China, assessing the progress China has made in re-structuring and re-configuring its innovation systems in the context of the massive and multifaceted program of economic reform. Each chapter tackles a different aspect of...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-77610-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. The Communications Industries in the Era of Convergence

   By Catherine E. A. Mulligan

   Since 2005, the communications industries have entered a new era – where converged technologies combining mobile, fixed and Internet technologies together are part of an end-user’s everyday experience. This has created a dynamic, rapidly changing market place for the companies that are working...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-58484-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Embedded Entrepreneurship: The Institutional Dynamics of Innovation

   By Alexander Ebner

   In this book, Alexander Ebner reconstructs the theory of entrepreneurship from an institutionalist perspective. It provides a fresh account of current theorising on entrepreneurship, specifically addressing Schumpeterian thought as well as Neo-Austrian, Neo-Schumpeterian and evolutionary approaches...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-45976-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. An Economic History of Ireland Since Independence

   By Andy Bielenberg, Raymond Ryan

   The recent dramatic decline in the economic fortunes of the Republic of Ireland have been all the more painful, because it followed the most rapid period of economic development ever witnessed in Irish economic history, when growth rates since the early-1990s surpassed those in the rest of Western...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-56694-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Freight Transport and the Modern Economy

   By Michel Savy, June Burnham

   Freight transport is in itself one of the main activities of the modern economy and is also necessary to any other economic activity, whether it concerns supply, production, distribution, consumption and finally waste collection and recycling. This book presents the transport of freight as a system...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-57750-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Serials Collection Management in Recessionary Times

    Edited by Karen Lawson

    Strategic planning, collaboration, continual stewardship, best practices, and re-engineering can provide librarians with a toolkit of innovative strategies that meets the worst of economic times with bold, persistent experimentation. This collection is devoted to the topic of "Serials Collection...

    February 2011 | 978-0-415-58961-1 | Hardback (Routledge)