This book takes a fresh look at pricing, product differentiation and the need for decommoditisation in market sectors where products and services are standardised and interchangeable. In the first chapters the book explains what commodities are, and puts them into a historical perspective to...

This book brings together leading experts to assess how and whether the Nazis were successful in fostering collaboration to secure the resources they required during World War II. These studies of the occupation regimes in Norway and Western Europe reveal that the Nazis developed highly...

Chapter 1: Long distance commuting in Australia -- Chapter 2: The socio-economic impacts of long distance commuting on people and communities -- Chapter 3: Analysing the spatial distribution of changing labour force dynamics in the Pilbara -- Chapter 4: Reshaping rural communities “at a...

This book investigates if and how agricultural market structures and farm constraints affect the development of dynamic food and cash crop sectors and whether these sectors can contribute to economic transformation and poverty reduction in Africa. The authors map the current cash and food crops...

As part of the wave of liberalisation sweeping most parts of the world, power sectors around the globe are coming under intense scrutiny, with some being restructured. This book presents six-country-case studies to examine the process and implementation experiences of power sector reform in...

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book examines how China can increase the share of natural gas in its energy system. China’s energy strategy has global ramifications and impact, and central to this strategy is the country’s transition from coal to gas. The book...

Introduction: The Knowledge Ladder 4.0 - Value Creation in the Digitally Enabled Economy -- Part I: Digitally Enabled Enrichment of Resources to Leverage Human Performance -- Part II: Collaboration and Networking -- Part III: Leading and Learning 4.0 -- Part IV: New Forms of Knowledge-intensive...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Measuring the Performance of Knowledge Value-Added in University-Industry Collaborative Innovation -- Chapter 3: Efficiency Evaluation of Knowledge Flow in University-Industry Collaborative Innovation in China -- Chapter 4: Big Five Personality Traits and...