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The Evolution of the US Airline Industry: Theory, Strategy and Policy by Eldad Ben-Yosef 9781441937018
£94.99For over three decades the airline industry has continued to maintain a high profile in the public mind and in public policy interest. This high profile is probably not surprising. There does seem to be something inherently newsworthy about airplanes and... -
Developing Performance Indicators for Managing Maintenance by Terry Wireman 9780831131845
RRP: £65.00£46.74Developing Performance Indicators for Managing Maintenance is designed to provide the key details on how to measure and improve one of the most important functions in an organization today: Equipment or Asset Maintenance Management. As one of only a... -
The Manager's Handbook for Corporate Security: Establishing and Managing a Successful Assets Protection Program by Gerald L. Kovacich 9780750674874
RRP: £61.99£55.71Kovacich and Halibozek offer you the benefit of more than 55 years of combined experience in government and corporate security. Throughout the book, the authors use a fictional global corporation as a model to provide continual real-world challenges and... -
One Political Economy, One Competitive Strategy?: Comparing Pharmaceutical Firms in Germany, Italy, and the UK by Andrea M. Herrmann 9780199543434
RRP: £117.50£17.48This book examines how firms adapt to the pressures of increasing international competition by testing the arguments on 'strategy specialization' proposed in the competitiveness literature in general, and by contributors to the 'varieties of capitalism'... -
Enterprise and Competitiveness: A Systems View of International Business by Mark Casson 9780198289579
£30.22Mark Casson demonstrates how the economic effects of culture-social values such as honesty, dedication, and loyalty-can be analysed in a rigorous fashion. He argues that gains from technology in modern society can be offset by high costs stemming from... -
Getting It Right: R&D Methods for Science and Engineering by Peter Bock 9780121088521
RRP: £80.99£73.13Over the past decade, the author has met with directors of R&D departments in large industrial firms, who are frustrated by the lack of coherent and consistent methodologies in R&D projects. As a direct result the author was asked to design and present a... -
Experiments on Energy, the Environment, and Sustainability by R. Mark Isaac 9780857247476
RRP: £90.99£75.53This volume will present experimental economics research focusing on issues of environmental quality and sustainability. Specific topics will include institutions for cap-and-trade, eco-tourism, urban sprawl, and optimal pollution control strategies. In... -
Design of Industrial Information Systems by Thomas O. Boucher 9780123704924
RRP: £87.99£79.90Design of Industrial Information Systems presents a body of knowledge applicable to many aspects of industrial and manufacturing systems. New software systems, such as Enterprise Resource Planning, and new hardware technologies, such as RFID, have made... -
International Comparisons in Implementing Pollution Laws by P.B. Downing 9789401719292
£48.58This book is the culmination of a process that started in the summer of 1979. One of the editors was invited to work with several members of the International Institute for Environment and Society. These researchers were in the early stages of a rather... -
The Waste Market: Institutional Developments in Europe by Elbert Dijkgraaf 9789048179633
£94.19E. Dijkgraaf and R. H. J. M. Gradus 1. 1 Introduction In 2004 Elbert Dijkgraaf nished a PhD-thesis 'Regulating the Dutch waste market' at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. It was interesting that not much is published about the waste market, although it... -
Industrial Retardation in the Netherlands 1830-1850 by Richard T. Griffiths 9789024721993
£45.37Much modern (Le. post-17S0) economic history is concerned with success in that a vast body of literature focuses its attention upon the experience of industrialisation and economic growth or upon relative differences in performance once the growth... -
The Economics of Natural Gas Storage: A European Perspective by Anna Creti 9783642098291
£93.84I remember that the idea of this book emerged ?rst in Toulouse, during the Third Conference on Energy Markets - 3 years ago now. Anna Cret` ? gave a talk on a model dealing with seasonal gas storage in the USA, and Christian Von Hirschausen was her... -
Collaborative Communities of Firms: Purpose, Process, and Design by Anne Bollingtoft 9781461412830
£94.77Faced with the ever-accelerating pace of technological change and the restructuring of markets, many firms have been questioning the appropriateness of their own organizational structure and effectiveness. Consequently, we have witnessed much... -
Next Generation Manufacturing: Methods and Techniques by James A. Jordan 9780471360063
RRP: £100.00£87.01During the 1990s, an ambitious three-year research program identified the steps manufacturing companies must take to become globally competitive. The prestigious Next Generation Manufacturing (NGM) Project combined the insights and perspectives of... -
Political Protest and Labor Solidarity in Korea: White-Collar Labor Movements after Democratization (1987-1995) by Doowon Suh 9780415541930
RRP: £43.99£38.44East Asia has undergone an intense period of economic development and accompanying social change in recent years and among the unforeseen social phenomena that have emerged are new forms of trade unions. This book analyzes the importance of such a new... -
Strategic and Organizational Change: From Production to Retailing in UK Brewing 1950-1990 by Alistair Mutch 9780415360500
RRP: £135.00£117.28The brewing industry, through its network of public houses, has a profound impact on the lives of much of the population of United Kingdom. Exploring the shaping of this industry in the years from 1950-1990, this book shows how it has moved from being... -
Institutional Reform for Innovation and Entrepreneurship: An Agenda for Europe by Niklas Elert 9783319550916
RRP: £17.99£5.82This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. The authors of this book advise the economies of the European Union to become more entrepreneurial in promoting innovation and economic growth. The authors propose a reform strategy with respect to... -
Travel Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis by Harold L. Vogel 9783030633509
RRP: £109.99£98.73In this book Harold L. Vogel comprehensively and holistically examines the business economics and investment aspects of major components of the travel industry, including airlines, hotels, casinos, amusement and theme parks, cruise lines, and tourism... -
The Nature of the New Firm: Beyond the Boundaries of Organizations and Institutions by Killian J. McCarthy 9781849803939
£105.61The Nature of the New Firm presents a number of studies on the blurring of boundaries within and between organizations and institutions. Globalization has created new ways of doing business, new institutions to oversee them, and has introduced a... -
The Chinese Steel Industry's Transformation: Structural Change, Performance and Demand on Resources by Ligang Song 9781848446588
£95.61China today produces nearly half of the world's steel and is the world's largest importer of iron ore. This unique and informative book provides a central reference work on the Chinese steel industry and discusses China s increasing demand on metals from... -
The Technology Imperative by Gregory Tassey 9781848444690
RRP: £46.95£43.85The convergence of technology-based competitive capabilities among the world's economies has drastically altered the required economic growth strategies in industrialized nations. Based on a variety of corporate and government investment trend data and... -
Strategic Behaviour in Network Industries: A Multidisciplinary Approach by Ernst ten Heuvelhof 9781847206107
£99.61This in-depth book explains how institutional changes such as the privatization and liberalization of network industries, for example transport, energy or telecommunications, can frequently be disappointing. The expected benefits such as lower prices,... -
Innovation Networks in Industries by Franco Malerba 9781847203762
£110.61This informative book provides an extensive study in the fields of industry structure, firm strategy and public policy through the use of network concepts and indicators. It also elucidates many of the complexities and challenges involved. The... -
Innovation, Economic Growth and the Firm: Theory and Evidence of Industrial Dynamics by Jean-Luc Gaffard 9781847208323
£105.61This book addresses the foundations of economic growth at the firm level, combining both theoretical and econometric contributions by established scholars. Challenging contributions revisit Marshall's view on the management of innovation, investigate the... -
Merger and Acquisition Strategies: How to Create Value by Angelo Dringoli 9781786430670
£105.61The decision to carry out a merger or acquisition is certainly a risky one, not least because of the number of variables influencing the final outcome. It is also a decision frequently based on the wrong objectives and an incorrect evaluation process... -
Dictionary of Industrial Organization by George Norman 9781783471768
RRP: £40.95£38.64This unique and original Dictionary presents a fully inclusive compilation of foundational concepts, models, methodologies, and applications in the field of industrial organization. It encompasses myriad facets of the topics, from its early days of... -
Corporate Failure by Design: Why Organizations Are Built to Fail by Jonathan Klein 9781567202977
£83.64Based on data regarding corporate mortality, organizations are built to fail: a conclusion critical to managers, employees, stockholders, consultants, customers, vendors, competitors, and therefore all of us who transact with and depend on organizations... -
Industrial Organisation of High-Technology Markets: The Internet and Information Technologies by Stefano Comino 9781781951989
£108.01This text rigorously blends theory with real-world applications to study the industrial organisation of the ICT sector. Each of the self-contained chapters, which can be studied in isolation, contains theoretical models that are presented in a clear and... -
New Frontiers of Democratic Participation at Work by Michael Gold 9781138710047
RRP: £84.99£74.25Title first published in 2003. Contributors from a wide range of European countries illustrate the validity of four propositions about employee participation: that different forms of employee participation mutually reinforce each other; that major shifts... -
What the New Breed of CMOs Know That You Don't by MaryLee Sachs 9781138271883
RRP: £49.99£43.50This book should be viewed as a primer for any new or aspiring CMO, C-suite peer to marketing, or marketer looking to 'up their game', and as such it provides a range of ideas, concepts, approaches and considerations from a wide range of CMOs who are... -
New Normal, Radical Shift: Changing Business and Politics for a Sustainable Future by Neela Bettridge 9781138271227
RRP: £49.99£43.50Our traditional ways of looking at economics, business and politics are not fit for purpose. The causes of the recent crisis were behavioural and international, but our measures are superficial and financial, recorded at a national or company level. This... -
Unions and Employment in a Market Economy: Strategy, Influence and Power in Contemporary Britain by Andrew Brady 9781138489875
RRP: £135.00£117.28Due to the sharp declines in trade union density and collective bargaining coverage post-1979, the shift by trade unions towards political action has had significant implications for employment relations regulation in contemporary Britain. Yet, there... -
Face to Face with Practice: Existential Forms of Research for Management Inquiry by Steven Segal 9780815392637
RRP: £49.99£43.50Coming Face to Face with your own practice is an emerging approach to management and professional research that has a significant impact on management practice. It closes the gap between theory and practice. An existential form of research means that the... -
Organizing Control: August Thyssen and the Construction of German Corporate Management by Jeffrey R. Fear 9780674014923
RRP: £125.95£100.60In a pioneering work, Jeffrey Fear overturns the dominant understanding of German management as "backward" relative to the U.S. and uncovers an autonomous and sophisticated German managerial tradition. Beginning with founder August Thyssen-the... -
Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatisation: A Gramscian Analysis by Edoardo Mollona 9781032243993
RRP: £39.99£35.06The globally spreading privatisation wave that occurred in the 1990s deeply changed the structure of economic institutions worldwide. This turmoil overturned not only economic institutions, but shared cultural and societal institutions as well. This book... -
Path Dependence and Regional Economic Renewal by Arne Isaksen 9781138576988
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book investigates the mechanisms that may stimulate or hamper the renewal of the regional industry structure. Recent years have witnessed a strong interest in, and need for, the modernization and upgrading of existing industries and the introduction... -
International Perspectives on Industrial Ecology by Pauline Deutz 9781781003565
£110.61With its high-level focus on industrial ecology-related policies such as circular economy and industrial symbiosis, this book provides a timely analysis of the industrial ecology experience worldwide. Editors Pauline Deutz, Donald I. Lyons, and Jun Bi... -
Malevolent Managers: Insights using Executive Impression Management by Terry A. Sheridan 9780367606053
RRP: £32.99£29.16Dr Terry A. Sheridan employs a new and unique theoretical perspective to examine how malevolent, tyrannical and mediocre managers commonly use violence in the workplace, not necessarily physical violence, but bullying, overt and covert emotional abuse -... -
Designing Integrated Industrial Policies Volume II: For Inclusive Development in Africa and Asia by Shigeru Thomas Otsubo 9780367896379
RRP: £135.00£117.68Very little has been written on industrialization and deindustrialization in Asia and Africa. This reference work sheds illuminating light upon the industrial development in Asia and Africa. It also provides an in-depth look into China’s engagement and... -
Capitalism and Public Policy in the UK by Tom Burden 9781032540573
RRP: £91.99£80.20First published in 1985, Capitalism and Public Policy in the UK provides a comprehensive account of the development, contemporary character and impact of public policy in the UK. It relates public policy to the distinctive features of capitalism, class...