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New and Published Books

  1. Entrepreneurial Knowledge, Technology and the Transformation of Regions

    Edited by Charlie Karlsson, Börje Johansson, Roger Stough

    Series: Regions and Cities

    In recent years, policy makers have given much credence to the role of entrepreneurship in the transformation of regions. As a result, a new set of policy responses have emerged that focus on the support of new venture creation, small business growth and idea generation and commercialization....

    Published June 16th 2013 by Routledge

  2. The Corporation

    Growth, Diversification and Mergers

    By Dennis C. Mueller

    Why have modern corporations grown to such unprecedented sizes? This volume explores this crucial question, emphasising the roles of diversification and mergers....

    Published May 31st 2013 by Taylor & Francis

  3. The Impacts of Automotive Plant Closure

    A Tale of Two Cities

    Edited by Andrew Beer, Holli Evans

    Series: Regions and Cities

    Economic restructuring has been a notable feature of so-called mature industrial economies such as the UK and Australia in the last two decades, with deregulation, privatisation, technological change and globalisation combining to reshape such economies. Some industries have grown, while others...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  4. Technology Infrastructure

    Edited by Cristiano Antonelli, Albert N. Link, Stan Metcalfe

    Technology infrastructure supports the design, deployment and use of both individual technology-based components and the systems of such components that form the knowledge-based economy. As such, it plays a central role in the innovation process and in the promotion of the diffusion of technologies...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  5. Barriers to Entry and Strategic Competition

    By P. Gilbert Geroski, A. Jacquemin

    This volume discusses crucial issues in the overlap between industrial organization and strategic management....

    Published May 31st 2013 by Taylor & Francis

  6. Randstad's Polycentric Metropolis

    Edited by Wil Zonneveld, Vincent Nadin, Bas Waterhout, Dominic Stead

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

    The Randstad metropolitan region encompassing Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht in the western Netherlands is regarded worldwide as a model of a ‘successful’ polycentric metropolis. It is widely cited as an example of an effectively functioning region made up of inter-connected small...

    Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge

  7. Health Economics

    An International Perspective, 3rd Edition

    By Barbara McPake, Charles Normand, Samantha Smith

    This third edition of Barbara McPake and Charles Normand’s textbook confirms it as providing the only properly international treatment of health economics on the market. A key tenet of the book is its analysis of comparative health systems across borders, and the text has been updated and revised...

    Published May 26th 2013 by Routledge

  8. Working Regions

    Reconnecting Innovation and Production in the Knowledge Economy

    By Jennifer Clark

    Series: Regions and Cities

    Working Regions focuses on policy aimed at building sustainable and resilient regional economies in the wake of the global recession. Using examples of four ‘working regions’ — regions where research and design functions and manufacturing still coexist in the same cities — the book argues for a new...

    Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge

  9. Oligopoly, the Environment and Natural Resources

    By Luca Lambertini

    Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

    Industrial production and consumption patterns rely heavily on the intensive use of both renewable and non-renewable resources and the consequences for the environment can be serious. Following a long period of time where the profit incentives of firms have prevailed over preservation of the...

    Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge

  10. A Microeconomics Reader

    Edited by Tran Huu Dung

    This book draws together the key contributions to the major areas of microeconomic theory from the last few decades. It is intended to provide both undergraduate and graduate students with an essential guide to the current state of the discipline. The articles have been carefully selected not only...

    Published May 1st 2013 by Routledge