Industrial, Labour and business Economics
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Airline eCommerce
Online travel is big business and has become one of the most popular items purchased by consumers on the internet. In 2005, US$106 billion was spent on online travel products and services with air travel alone accounting for over US$65 billion or sisty per cent. This represents almost a...
To Be Published March 31st 2014 by Routledge
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Applied Health Economics
2nd Edition
Series: Routledge Advanced Texts in Economics and Finance
The first edition of Applied Health Economics did an expert job of showing how the availability of large scale data sets and the rapid advancement of advanced econometric techniques can help health economists and health professionals make sense of information better than ever before. This second...
Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge
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Real Estate Economics
A Point-to-Point Handbook
Series: Routledge Advanced Texts in Economics and Finance
Real Estate Economics: A point-to-point handbook introduces the main tools and concepts of real estate (RE) economics. It covers areas such as the relation between RE and the macro-economy, RE finance, investment appraisal, taxation, demand and supply, development, market dynamics and price bubbles...
Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
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Health Economics
An International Perspective, 3rd Edition
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...
To Be Published May 26th 2013 by Routledge
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Modern Labour Economics
Labour economics as a discipline has changed dramatically in recent years. Gone are the days of a "job for life". These days, firms and employees are part of a less regulated, more fluid, and more international labour market. Knowledge, training, human resource development and human capital are all...
Published February 17th 2013 by Routledge
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Spatial-Economic Metamorphosis of a Nebula City
Schiphol and the Schiphol Region During the 20th Century
Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography
This book analyses the long term spatial-economic metamorphosis of Schiphol and the Schiphol region as archetypal for a wider international phenomenon of urban development of metropolises across the world. It study the origins and course of urban development process by identifying and explaining...
Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
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Universities, Cities and Regions
Loci for Knowledge and Innovation Creation
Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition
Regions and cities are the natural loci where knowledge is created, and where it can be easily turned into a commercial product. Regions are territories where, under certain socio-economic conditions, a strong sense of belonging and mutual trust develops the ability to transform information and...
Published November 5th 2012 by Routledge
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Territorial Patterns of Innovation
An Inquiry on the Knowledge Economy in European Regions
Series: Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
This edited volume describes the spatial diffusion of knowledge and innovation using a large dataset at the regional level, and presents scientific evidence on the role of knowledge and innovation on regional development. The empirical results support a new design for innovation policies at the...
To Be Published June 18th 2013 by Routledge
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Cities, State and Globalization
City-Regional Governance in Europe and North America
Series: Regions and Cities
This book makes a new contributution to the current lively debate on city regional governance, offering a genuinely comparative approach, covering Europe (east and west) and North America, and thus different ‘cultures’ of city regionalism. Drawing on a series of case studies conducted by the...
To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Community-based Entrepreneurship and Rural Development
Creating Favourable Conditions for Small Businesses in Central Europe
Series: Regions and Cities
How can municipalities in Central Europe create favourable conditions for local business? What and how can municipalities learn from each other? How can each individual in the local area contribute? And what requirements have to be met before know-how can successfully be transferred on a communal...
Published July 19th 2012 by Routledge
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Creative Industries and Innovation in Europe
Concepts, Measures and Comparative Case Studies
Series: Regions and Cities
In recent years, the study of creativity has shifted from analysis of culture as an end in itself to one of economic enhancement, and its capability to generate wealth and promote economic development. Increasingly, European cities and regions are using the arts to fuel wellbeing and reinvigorate...
Published July 17th 2012 by Routledge
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Cultural Political Economy of Small Cities
Series: Regions and Cities
The volume highlights ongoing changes in the political economy of small cities in relation to the field of culture and leisure. Culture and leisure are focal points both to local entrepreneurship and to planning by city governments, which means that these developments are subject to market dynamics...
Published April 16th 2013 by Routledge
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The Economic Geography of the IT Industry in the Asia Pacific Region
Series: Regions and Cities
The development of the information technology (IT) industry in the Asia Pacific region faces two challenges. Firstly, can its established physical, technical, regional and governance infrastructures be adapted to meet the challenges embedded in the set of products and processes created by the IT...
To Be Published June 11th 2013 by Routledge
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Entrepreneurial Knowledge, Technology and the Transformation of Regions
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....
To Be Published June 13th 2013 by Routledge
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Europe's Changing Geography
The Impact of Inter-regional Networks
Series: Regions and Cities
European macro-regions, Euroregions and other forms of inter-regional, cross-border cooperation have helped to shape new scenarios and new relational spaces which may generate opportunities for economic development, while redefining the political and economic meaning of national borders. This...
Published April 15th 2013 by Routledge
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Innovation and Regional Development in China
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
Although China is now the ‘factory of the world’, there is no reason to expect that it will always be content with manufacturing labor-intensive goods for foreign corporations. Scholars must now ask: What is the current level of innovation in China? And how can we face this challenge and renovate...
To Be Published August 5th 2013 by Routledge
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Knowledge, Networks and Policy
Regional Studies in Postwar Britain and Beyond
Series: Regions and Cities
The impact the Regional Studies Association has had on regional planning and strategy across Europe over the past half century has been considerable while it has also proved to be a blueprint for the successful running and expansion of a learned society. This book charts the history of the RSA and...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Leadership and Change in Sustainable Regional Development
Series: Regions and Cities
This book shows, first of all, that leadership plays a crucial role in reinventing regions and branching out from an old path to something new in order to create more balanced and sustainable regional development. Second, it maintains that leadership is not a solo but a multi-agent and -level...
Published July 22nd 2012 by Routledge
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Networking Regionalised Innovative Labour Markets
Series: Regions and Cities
A map which shows where innovation is clustered worldwide is also a map of the location of the highly skilled and talented labour. New technologies, their creative applications or synergy across different areas of scientific research or technology development always create opportunities for the...
Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
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Re-framing Regional Development
Evolution, Innovation and Transition
Series: Regions and Cities
Turbulence characterises the current global scene. This book uses complementary theoretical approaches to understand and help prescribe policies to ‘re-frame’ the regional development problem in turbulent times. These approaches are: evolutionary complexity; evolutionary economic geography;...
Published October 4th 2012 by Routledge
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Regional Development Agencies: The Next Generation?
Networking, Knowledge and Regional Policies
Series: Regions and Cities
Across Europe, regional development agencies (RDAs) have become a central feature of regional policy, both as innovative policy-makers and as the implementers of programmes and initiatives originating from the national or European level. By drawing on a combination of conceptual reflection, surveys...
Published July 18th 2012 by Routledge
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Shrinking Cities
A Global Perspective
Series: Regions and Cities
Much research into urban development has focused on the problems associated with rapidly expanding cities. However, in recent years and looking ahead into the future some cities in many parts of the world have been shrinking. A major objective of the book is to examine why? Strong reasons in many...
To Be Published October 30th 2013 by Routledge
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The University and the City
Series: Regions and Cities
Universities are being seen as key urban institutions by researchers and policy makers around the world. They are global players with significant local direct and indirect impacts – on employment, the built environment, business innovation and the wider society. The University and the City explores...
Published February 3rd 2013 by Routledge
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The Value of Arts and Culture for Regional Development
A Scandinavian Perspective
Series: Regions and Cities
In this new volume, 28 Scandinavian researchers and others who are active in arts and culture seek to answer the questions: What has been the effect of regional and local investment in arts and culture? And what positive and negative experiences have there been? This book describes and analyzes the...
Published April 21st 2013 by Routledge
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Working Regions
Reconnecting Innovation and Production in the Knowledge Economy
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 19th 2013 by Routledge
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The Economics of Creativity
Ideas, Firms and Markets
Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition
Understanding the economic implication of creative individuals and firms is at the heart of the new economy and of related fields such as the economics of knowledge, the economics of science and innovation management. This book brings together a panel of theoretical and empirical contributions...
Published January 27th 2013 by Routledge
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Embedded Entrepreneurship
The Institutional Dynamics of Innovation
Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition
In this book, Alexander Ebner reconstructs the theory of entrepreneurship from an institutionalist perspective. It provides a fresh account of current theorising on entrepreneurship, specifically addressing Schumpeterian thought as well as Neo-Austrian, Neo-Schumpeterian and evolutionary approaches...
To Be Published August 19th 2013 by Routledge
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Epistemic Economics and Organization
Forms of Rationality and Governance for a Wiser Economy
Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition
This book proposes a new approach to economics, management and organization that should help in making economic organization ‘wise’, ‘innovative’ and ‘robust’ in an uncertain and risky world. Although the modern economy and society is ‘knowledge intensive’, Anna Grandori argues that the dominant...
Published February 24th 2013 by Routledge
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Knowledge, Innovation and Internationalisation
Essays in Honour of Cesare Imbriani
Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition
As firms increasingly rely on knowledge as a key factor for innovation, the ability to innovate is increasingly perceived as a key asset for being competitive in international markets. This new volume argues that innovation, knowledge and internationalisation should be viewed as tightly related...
Published April 16th 2013 by Routledge
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Regional Development
Diversities and Disparities
Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition
In identifying the key elements of regional culture that impact upon socio-economic development, this informative text concentrates on three main factors: the Socio-Industrial Culture that is concerned with the knowledge, beliefs and values associated with production. A particular contrast is...
To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge
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Multinational Business and Labour (RLE International Business)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: International Business
Aimed at senior undergraduate and post-graduate students following courses in International Business and Industrial Relations this book examines the labour market effects of multinational business. In reflecting the complexity and dynamism of developments in this area, the book makes clear the need...
Published November 26th 2012 by Routledge
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Multinationals and Economic Development (RLE International Business)
An Integration of Competing Theories
Series: Routledge Library Editions: International Business
What are the options open to policy-makers in developing countries when dealing with multinationals? How can they maximize the contribution of multinational enterprises towards their economic growth? Multinationals dominate world trade and direct investment. However, less developed countries have...
Published November 26th 2012 by Routledge
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Accounting and Business Economics
Insights from National Traditions
Series: Routledge Studies in Accounting
The recent financial crisis has sparked debates surrounding the nature and role of accounting in informing capital markets and regulatory bodies about the financial performance and position of a firm. These debates have drawn attention to the broader implications of accounting for the economy and...
Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
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Air Contaminants, Ventilation, and Industrial Hygiene Economics
The Practitioner's Toolbox and Desktop Handbook
There is nothing more devastating to baseless opinions than good numbers. Air Contaminants, Ventilation, and Industrial Hygiene Economics: The Practitioner's Toolbox and Desktop Handbook helps you obtain "good numbers" on your quest to squash shabby opinions with sound advice. It details real-world...
Published April 14th 2013 by CRC Press
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Business Economics
Series: 360 Degree Business
The Eurozone crisis and the age of austerity, as well as challenges to the environment as a result of economic growth have highlighted the need for a greater understanding of those facets of economics that are of most use to businesses and their decision makers. This book introduces all of the...
To Be Published August 1st 2013 by Routledge
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Corporate Financial Strategy
4th Edition
The field of Corporate Finance has developed into a fairly complex one from its origins focussed on a company's business and financial needs (financing, risk management, capitalization and budgeting). Corporate Financial Strategy provides a critical introduction to the field and in doing so shows...
To Be Published October 28th 2013 by Routledge
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Sport Brands
Series: Routledge Sports Marketing Series
Sport brands are a central element of modern sport business and a ubiquitous component of contemporary global culture. This groundbreaking book offers a complete analysis of the topic of sport brands from both a marketing management approach (strategy and implementation) and a psycho-sociological...
Published February 24th 2013 by Routledge
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Qualitative Research in Gambling
Exploring the Production and Consumption of Risk
Gambling is both a multi-billion dollar international industry and a ubiquitous social and cultural phenomenon. It is also undergoing significant change, with new products and technologies, regulatory models, changing public attitudes and the sheer scale of the gambling enterprise necessitating...
To Be Published October 23rd 2013 by Routledge
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De-Convergence of Global Media Industries
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Convergence has become a buzzword, referring on the one hand to the integration between computers, television, and mobile devices or between print, broadcast, and online media and on the other hand, the ownership of multiple content or distribution channels in media and communications. Yet while...
Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge
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The Fantasy Sport Industry
Games within Games
Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Fantasy sport has become big business. Recent estimates suggest that there as many as 27 million fantasy sport participants in the US alone, spending $1.5bn annually, with many millions more around the world. This is the first in-depth study of fantasy sport as a cultural and social phenomenon and...
To Be Published August 13th 2013 by Routledge
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Transnational Companies and Security Governance
Hybrid Practices in a Postcolonial World
Series: PRIO New Security Studies
This book examines non-state governance in areas of limited statehood by looking at the security practices of multinational companies. It investigates the everyday security practices of mining companies in Subsaharan Africa to illustrate a much broader and highly relevant phenomenon: hybrid...
Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge
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Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
The Olympic Games have become the world’s greatest media and marketing event—a global celebration of exceptional athletics gilded with corporate cash. Huge corporations vie for association with the "Olympic Image" in the hope of gaining a worldwide marketing audience of billions. In this...
To Be Published July 11th 2013 by Routledge