Industry & Industrial Studies

Suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses in industrial organization, applied game theory, and management strategy. This book incorporates game theory into industry analysis by studying the behavior of successful and failing firms as well as the structure-conduct-performance of particular indu..

Japan's New Imperialism..

Lifelong Learning in Paid and Unpaid Work provides a new paradigm for understanding work and learning, documenting the active contribution of workers to their development and their adaptation to paid and unpaid work...

Lifelong Learning in Paid and Unpaid Work provides a new paradigm for understanding work and learning, documenting the active contribution of workers to their development and their adaptation to paid and unpaid work...

This book demonstrates how to organize and manage change, so that improvements become the new way of life. Fundamental organizational performance techniques are introduced, and the book has a decidedly human focus that supplements the familiar diagnostic tools associated with six-sigma and process i..

This book demonstrates how to organize and manage change, so that improvements become the new way of life. Fundamental organizational performance techniques are introduced, and the book has a decidedly human focus that supplements the familiar diagnostic tools associated with six-sigma and process i..

Paradigms in Economic Development: Classic Perspectives, Critiques and Reflections..

This is a third edition of a successful textbook that gives an up-to-date account of how social services in the UK are paid for. The new edition brings the textbook up-to-date with its fast-moving subject area, explaining the finance of human services-health care, education, housing, social security..

This book analyzes the importance of the Korean white collar worker trade unions and how they have attained many social reforms both by promoting their own demands and by checking the government’s peremptory initiatives. ..

This reader encourages students to appreciate the power of the market, including specific examples and addressing questions on whether markets actually work well and offering evidence that market failures are not as serious or as common as claimed...

This book examines countries that have tried, with varying degrees of success, to use legislative strategies to encourage and support collective bargaining, including Australia’s Fair Work Act. It is the first major study of the operation and impact of the new collective bargaining framework introdu..

This book examines countries that have tried, with varying degrees of success, to use legislative strategies to encourage and support collective bargaining, including Australia’s Fair Work Act. It is the first major study of the operation and impact of the new collective bargaining framework introdu..