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Export Performance And The Pressure Of Demand - A Study Of Firms

by C.R.M. Harvey, K. (University Of York, Uk) Hartley e R Cooper

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 This book, first published in 1970, analyses the factors affecting the export performance of selected firms from particular UK industries in the period 1958-66. The study was designed to test at the level of the firm and industry the hypothesis that, in the short run, variations in exports are a function of the pressure of domestic demand.
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The Problem Of Trust And Monopoly Control

by A.P.L. Gordon

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 This reissue (1928) was written at a time when the tendency in industry was towards the formation of large combines. It analyses relations between monopolistic combines and the State, and was the first to examine the German experience of organised monopoly, and the means used to prevent it from becoming a mere protection for inefficient producers.
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Industrial Psychology And The Production Of Wealth

by H.D. Harrison

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 During the First World War, the necessity of increased production without increased human effort led to the practical investigation of the whole question by trained psychologists. This resissue (1924) deals with the methods they employed and with the results they obtained, and examines the wide-reaching effects upon industrial organisation.
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Co-Operative Research In Industry

by D.W. Hill

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 This book, first published in 1947, describes what co-operative research is, how it is organised and in what way it contributes to a variety of problems around the globe. The need for scientific research can often be beyond a single company; co-operative research can provide the people, materials and money on a scale that is otherwise lacking.
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Competition In British Industry - Restrictive Practices Legislation In Theory And Practice

by Denis P. O'Brien, Dennis Swan, Stewart Howe e W. Peter J. Maunder

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 This reissue (1974) presents the findings of a research project into the 1956 Restrictive Trade Practices Act and its effect on British industry. The Act was a decision in favour of competition against a background of well-entrenched and widespread restrictive agreements, and this book examines in depth its impact in eighteen selected industries.
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Competition And Industrial Policy In The European Community

by Dennis Swann

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 This reissue (1983) examines the economic policies of the European Economic Community and the European Coal and Steel Community. It explains how the common market was established and maintained. Free competition cannot be created merely by removing customs duties and quotas: other non-tariff barriers which impede free movement must be removed.
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Competition In Theory And Practice - Revised And Updated

by Angela Genn-Bash, Brian Haines e Terry Burke

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 This book, published in 1991, provides a clear exposition of the major theoretical approaches to competition and an assessment of competition policy in the major economic powers. What is the role of competition in economic activity? How can it be understood? How can it be regulated? Competition is a buzz word in economic policy and in commerce.
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The Large Industrial Enterprise - Some Spatial Perspectives

by H.D. Watts

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 This study, first published in 1980, surveys a massive amount of work on large industrial firms, and features an in-depth study of the growth of large industrial enterprises in the UK brewing industry from 1951-76. This illustrates many of the themes discussed in the book.
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Firm Diversification, Mutual Forbearance Behavior And Price-Cost Margins

by Allyn D. Strickland

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 Concern over conglomerate mergers increased dramatically in the latter part of the twentieth century. This book, first published in 1984, addresses the issue by examining the mutual forbearance hypothesis. More specifically, do multi-market contacts among diversified firms affect market competition?
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Productivity Analysis - An Empirical Investigation

by Doris Yi-Hsin Wang

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 Over the past several years, productivity improvement has become an increasingly vital economic issue for economies and individual firms. This book, first published in 1996, examines empirically relationships between changes in catalyst financial commitments and productivity/profitability changes.
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Participation In Industry

by Campbell Balfour

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 This reissue (1973) analyses and sets in context one of the major issues in the growth of the European economy: workersâ€™ participation and its role in industrial relations. This book looks at the background and development of different types of participation in Britain and Europe.
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Regulation And Organizations - International Perspectives

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 During the 1980s and 1990s, organisations have undergone both regulation and deregulation. This set of papers (1999) written by a distinguished selection of international experts examines the nature of regulation, its evolution in particular sectors and its impact on social and economic equality.
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Estimation Of Economies Of Scale In Nineteenth Century United States Manufacturing

by Jeremy Atack

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 On economies of scale during the nineteenth century, much is assumed, but little is known. This study, first published in 1985, seeks to close this gap in our knowledge by providing comprehensive empirical evidence on the status of economies of scale in mid-nineteenth century manufacturing industry.
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Transformation To Agility - Manufacturing In The Marketplace Of Unanticipated Change

by Jeffrey Amos

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 This book, first published in 1998, examines the massive transition currently taking place: the decline of the system of mass manufacturing. Various global changes in American business and manufacturing have forced a review of accepted thinking, and this book is a key text in this evaluation.
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Monopolies, Cartels And Trusts In British Industry

by Hermann Levy

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 This study of monopolies and trusts in England from Tudor days to the twentieth century was first published in 1909. It is a key text in the study of early capitalism and industrial organisation.
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Industry And Innovation - Selected Essays

by W.H. Chaloner

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 This reissue (1990) commemorates one of the most notable economic historians of his age. These essays cover period from the Industrial Revolution to the inter-war years in the twentieth century. They deal with a very wide range of topics, for Professor Chaloner was an authority on business, urban, transport, social and agricultural history.
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Firms And Markets - Essays In Honour Of Basil Yamey

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 This book, first published in 1986, considers many aspects of both the theory of and the evidence on economic behaviour, and in particular the operations of firms and markets. The book was written in honour of Basil Yamey by his former research students.
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The Soviet Industrial Enterprise - Theory And Practice

by Andrew Freris

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 This reissue (1984) is the first systematic attempt in English to produce an analytical as well as a descriptive outline of the operations, management and role of the Soviet industrial enterprise. It presents an integrated view of the theory of the socialist firm.
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An Introduction To Industrial Economics

by N. Lee, P.J. Devine, R.M. Jones e W.J. Tyson

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 This updated and expanded 1985 edition of the classic 1974 work covers deindustrialisation, industrial and competition policy, the public enterprise sector, regional and urban policy, and privatisation, as well as focussing on the firm and the industrial sector in all its facets. It remains the key work on industrial economics.
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Why Are The British Bad At Manufacturing?

by Dennis Thomas, John Williams e Karel Williams

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 This reissue (1983) examines the poor performance of British manufacturing. Rather than invoke orthodox economics or social factors, the book analyses four national conditions â€" enterprise control over the labour process; market structure / composition of demand; the relation of manufacturing to banks; the relation of manufacturing to government.
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Monopolies, Trusts And Kartells

by Francis W. Hirst

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 This book, first published in 1905, examines the encroachment of monopoly upon the principle of competition in the industrialised world. It considers that competition is the life-blood of trade and commerce, and analyses the likelihood of the emergence of further monopolies and kartells.
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Problems Of Monopoly And Economic Warfare

by F. Zeuthen

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 This reissue (1930) treats a group of problems arising when competition is either precluded or limited. It examines absolute and limited monopoly; cases where few enterprises compete; cases where two or three enterprises face one another as buyer and seller. The underlying problem is the price in markets with a limited number of enterprises.
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The New Industrial System - A Study Of The Origin, Forms, Finance, And Prospects Of Concentration In Industry

by Hermann Levy

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 This reissue (1936) analyses the then-recent phenomenon of industrial combination. Industrial combination, the interlocking of finances, the industrial role of banks, the domination of financial capital over large sectors of industry was all new. The author examines the then-new system, on the cusp of new world-economic conditions.
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New Firms - An Economic Perspective

by Peter (Durham University, Uk) Johnson

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 This book, first published in 1986, is an important contribution to the economic analysis of new firms. It emphasises the importance of analysing the economic inter-relationship between new and established firms. These links are especially relevant in the assessment of the employment effects of formation activity.
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