This book focuses on the relationship between the state and economy in the development of cities. It reviews and reinterprets fundamental theoretical models that explain how the operation of markets in equilibrium shapes the scale and organization of the commercial city in a mixed market economy...

The book spans a scientific research program elegantly developed by Roberto Camagni, an eminent regional scientist, who has offered ground-breaking ideas in regional and urban economics throughout his academic career. In addition to bringing together a selection of Professor Camagni’s most...

This book is a revised and expanded edition of Colin Price's seminal original publication, providing a richly comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of landscape economics. Chapters address key issues like natural resources and environmental economics, while presenting a wide and integrative view...

Corporate Shared Services – Status quo! -- Shared IT-Services im Kontinuum der Eigen- und Fremderstellung -- Transition und Transformation von Shared IT-Services – Gestalterische Prämissen zur Einführung eines standardisierten IT-Service-Portfolios im Konzern -- Corporate Shared Services...

This volume is a collection of selected papers using the framework of inframarginal analysis of the division of labour held at Monash University on 6-7 July 2001. This framework, pioneered mainly by Professor Xiaokai Yang, (with joint researches involving all the three editors and many of the...

Soziale Interaktionsprozesse bei Gründerteams -- Prototyping -- Unterstützung sozialer Interaktionsprozesse durch Prototyping -- Empirische Methodik -- Empirische Ergebnisse -- Schlussfolgerungen und Ausblick.

This textbook introduces and develops new tools to understand the recent economic crisis and how desirable economic policies can be adopted. Gilles provides new institutional concepts for wealth creation, such as network economies, which are based on the social division of labour. This volume...