Industrial Management category: 1113 books
by Simon C. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
Entrepreneurship is an integral part of economic change and growth. Yet until recently it has been largely neglected by economists. In The Economics of Entrepreneurship, Simon C. Parker draws on theoretical insights and recent empirical findings to show how economics can contribute to our understanding...
Scrapbooking for Profit
Cashing in on Retail, Home-Based, and Internet Opp
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
This comprehensive guide reveals 11 paths to making money in the scrapbook market, along with the tools to do it. Every career option, business situation, and topic a scrapbook artist may encounter is covered in clear, calm, step-by-step explanations and short, easy-to-grasp chapters. Quotes, advice,...
The Impact of Cartels on National Economy and Competitiveness
A Lithuanian Case Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
The book presents theoretical and empirical research on the integrated assessment of cartels’ effects on national economies. The empirical analysis is based on three cases in Lithuania, a country chosen because it corresponds to the features of a small economy with a developing culture of competition....
Cooperatives and Socialism
A View from Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
This book demonstrates that the cooperative model is based on principles essential to building a more just and democratic society. It is argued that this is the best economic reform alternative to neoliberal capitalism and authoritarian socialism in Cuba, and that this model can also radically transform other economies around the world.
Delivering High Performance
The Third Generation Organisation
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Douglas Long is the author of Third Generation Leadership and the Locus of Control which focused on the new understanding of what influences individuals’ values, world views and the behaviours needed to facilitate leadership fit for the future. Here, in Delivering High Performance, he concentrates...
by Maury Klein
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
To Americans living in the early twentieth century, E. H. Harriman was as familiar a name as J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie. Like his fellow businessmen, Harriman (1847-1909) had become the symbol for an entire industry: Morgan stood for banking, Rockefeller for oil, Carnegie...
Economic Perspectives on Craft Beer
A Revolution in the Global Beer Industry
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
This book investigates the birth and evolution of craft breweries around the world. Microbrewery, brewpub, artisanal brewery, henceforth craft brewery, are terms referred to a new kind of production in the brewing industry contraposed to the mass production of beer, which has started and diffused...
by William B. Bonvillian, Charles Weiss
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
The American economy faces two deep problems: expanding innovation and raising the rate of quality job creation. Both have roots in a neglected problem: the resistance of Legacy economic sectors to innovation. While the U.S. has focused its policies on breakthrough innovations to create new economic...
Intellectual Property Rights
National Systems and Harmonisation in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This book is the result of the PhD project I started four years ago at Europa-Kolleg Hamburg. I had the great opportunity to work on it for one year at the European University Institute in Florence and to finalise the oeuvre during my stay with the European Commission's Institute for Prospective Technological...
Industry Structure and Pricing
The New Rivalry in Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Industry Structure and Pricing: The New Rivalry in Infrastructure extends current economic models by incorporating effects of actual and potential rivalry in markets outside the markets of immediate interest. Focusing on the contestable model, the author shows how diverse patterns of actual and potential...
Trade Unionism in Australia
A History from Flood to Ebb Tide
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2008
In the late 1960s Australian unionism was on the flood tide: growing in strength, industrially confident and capable of shaping the overall political climate of the nation. Forty years on, union membership and power is ebbing away despite community support for trade unionism and the continuing need...
Fallen heroes in global capitalism
Workers and the Restructuring of the Polish Steel Industry
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Through the prism of 'Nowa Huta', a landmark of socialist industrialization, Trappmann challenges the one-sided account of Poland as a successful transition case and reveals the ambivalent role of the European Union in economic restructuring. An exemplary, suggestive case of multi-level analysis research.
Exclusionary Practices
The Economics of Monopolisation and Abuse of Dominance
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
The most controversial area in competition policy is that of exclusionary practices, where actions are taken by dominant firms to deter competitors from challenging their market positions. Economists have been struggling to explain such conduct and to guide policy-makers in designing sensible enforcement...
Labor Intermediation Services in Developing Economies
Adapting Employment Services for a Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
This book demonstrates how rethinking and adapting basic employment services into labor intermediation services can help address the many labor market disconnections of developing country economies. It addresses how scarce resources required to escape poverty – good jobs, schools, and training -...