Publisher's acknowledgements -- Business and management research, reflective diaries and the purpose of this book -- Formulating and clarifying the research topic -- Critically reviewing the literature -- Understanding research philosophy and approaches to theory development -- Formulating the...

The nature and scope of managerial economics -- Optimization techniques and new management tools -- Demand theory -- Demand estimation -- Demand forecasting -- Production theory and estimation -- Cost theory and estimation -- Market structure: perfect competition, monopoly, and monopolistic...

Reflecting the highly globalized nature of tastes, production, labour markets, and financial markets in today's world, this book presents the theory of the firm as a unifying theme to examine the managerial decision-making process. Adopting a global perspective, it synthesizes economic theory,...