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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874514513Author James M. AchesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 205Imprint University Press of New EnglandPublisher University Press of New England

The book focuses on the historical evolution of firms, and industry leaders and their strategies. Sheffield's experience is then related to current historical and economic debates about industrial structure, entrepreneurship and UK decline. Sheffield is...

The place: The steep mountains outside Salt Lake City. The time: The first decade of the twentieth century. The man: Daniel Jackling, a young metallurgical engineer. The goal: A bold new technology that could provide billions of pounds of cheap copper...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640550100Author Paul FeldsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 708Imprint Health Administration PressPublisher Health Administration PressWeight(grams) 1456g

Using the field of material culture as its methodological departure point, this Palgrave Pivot explains the strategic advantages that brands can set in place when their executives are fully in command of how to move from strategy to tactics...

"Oil," writes Ruth Sheldon Knowles, "is the most hazardous, expensive, heartbreaking gambling game in the world." And, as this book dramatically proves, the men who have been the gamblers of the American oil business have been some of...

Industrial Organization: A European Perspective presents a clearly explained and stimulating introduction to the basic theoretical models of industrial economics (including perfect competition, monopoly, Bertrand and Cournot competition) and to the most...

Twenty-first century capitalism has been marked by an increasing international economic independence, and considerable differences between dominant economic systems of coordination and control. In this context, national competition and coordination...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972622622Author Lionel YoustFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Golden Falls PublishingPublisher Golden Falls PublishingWeight(grams)...

Despite the pressure for local councils to follow the lead of the private sector and develop shared service and partnership arrangements, the barriers in terms of culture, differences in priorities across councils and lack of experience are formidable -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780911298Author Michael E. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984826244Author Heather CabotFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

The complete guide to the fashion industry, featuring interviews with top designers who explain the intricacies of the world of fashion design Anyone who has ever tried to launch a fashion design career knows how grueling it can be. The fashion industry...

The complete guide to the fashion industry, featuring interviews with top designers who explain the intricacies of the world of fashion design Anyone who has ever tried to launch a fashion design career knows how grueling it can be. The fashion industry...

This is a unique, in-depth discussion of the uses and conduct of cost-effectiveness analyses (CEA) as decision-making aids in the health and medical fields. The product of over two years of deiberation by a multi-disciplinary Public Health Service...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513657028Author Paul PriorFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Gry MttrPublisher Gry MttrWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 8mm

Technological change is central in explaining industrial leadership, but the relationships and interactions between scientific research, industrial innovation, and competitiveness are neither clear nor straightforward. Public research funding and...

This book describes technological change in an industry that played a central role in the Indsutrial Revolution. While earlier scholars have examined isolated aspects of ironmaking in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, Charles Hyde surveys...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954120979Author Tim KidsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Word4WordPublisher Word4Word

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060541637Author Michael GrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 562Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 671g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140220018Author Susan GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 247g

We should be grateful to Ostry and Nelson for giving clarity and balance to interrelated subjects too often dominated by passion and muddle. Keith Pavitt, University of Sussex Sylvia Ostry is chair of the Centre for International Studies, University of...

The business of baseball stands in sharp contrast to the game's wholesome image as America's favorite pastime. Major league baseball is a deeply troubled industry, facing chronic problems that threaten its future: persistent labor tensions, competitive...

The growing use of the internet by businesses and consumers is rapidly changing the structure, conduct, and performance of different sectors of the global economy. This ten chapter volume on organizing the 'new economy' documents some of these changes,...

The main purpose of this book is to enhance the understanding of differences in productivity performance between countries and sectors and to improve our insight in the drivers of productivity levels and its growth. Due to demographics the speed-up of...

This book examines sequential coalition formation in oligopolies. Coalitions refer to mergers and acquisitions, cartels, and associations. The principal aim is the prediction and explanation of the coalition structure - whether an industry will emerge as...

Dedicated to the measurement and definition of market power across a broad array of industries, this text should provide economists and lawyers with an insight into how anti-trust economists actually go about measuring market power in a given industry...

This latest volume of "Advances" contains a series of original and innovative empirical and survey papers that investigate theoretical and contemporary issues facing participatory organizations. The first four papers explore the growing area of...

The aim of this book is to contribute to the understanding of product innovation - how it takes place and how it affects firms and the economy. It links product innovation to interactive learning and to the performance of firms. It studies the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780894992162Author Raymond C RietzFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Books for BusinessPublisher Books for BusinessWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780582301412Author W.F. LeverFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint LongmanPublisher Pearson Education LimitedWeight(grams) 533g

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This book describes the results of a ten-year research project by a joint US/Japanese study team focusing on Japanese automotive and electronics firms engaged in local production in the US. The project is concerned with the potential for effective...

This Element offers a review and synthesis of the theoretical analysis of mixed oligopoly, that is a hybrid market structure in which public (state-owned) and private firms interact, using a variety of strategic variables. A distinguishing feature of a...

In both the for-profit and the not-for-profit sectors, there is increasing focus on bottom-line results. As organizational goals become ever more quantified, the role of the professional has changed. In almost every profession, a growing conflict of...