Television is the dominant entertainment medium for hundreds of millions. This chapter surveys the economic forces that determine the production and consumption of this content. It presents recent trends in television and online video markets, both in the US and internationally, and describes...

We consider a model in which a profit-maximizing organization called the monopolist faces N _ 2 different (micro) market segments while the number k of market segments is chosen the regulator, where k is an integer between 1 and N. Unless k = 1 or k = N, the monopolist's profit maximization is a...

Television is the dominant entertainment medium for hundreds of millions. This chapter surveys the economic forces that determine the production and consumption of this content. It presents recent trends in television and online video markets, both in the US and internationally, and describes...

The journal Tourism Economics was established in 1995. This article is a statistical report on the topics examined by tourism economists from the inception of the journal until now. The tables and the accompanying text are meant as a guide to research and not an overview of tourism economics as...

Ergonomics journals and journals related to the field of ergonomics were ranked according to a method developed by Dul and Karwowski (2004) to create the Ergonomics Journal List 2005 (EJL2005). The EJL2005 was compared with the EJL2004. The rankings of the best ergonomics journals in EJL2005...

This paper examines Alfred Marshall's theory of organization and business management, and explores the significance of his wisdom and foresight. Despite considerable research on Alfred Marshall’s economic theory, little attention, among economists in particular, has been given to his theory of...

In general, capitalist countries display sustained growth, dynamism and innovation, and a high adaptability in response to external shocks. Yet in the last twenty years discontent over the notorious drawbacks of capitalism – corporate frauds, corruption, abuses of market power – has grown...

This paper presents a positive theory of corporate social responsibility set in a managerial capitalism context in which managers instead of markets allocate resources, including social expenditures. The theory focuses jointly on the operational management of the firm and on its social...

The corporation is one of the most important institutions in contemporary society, yet it is an incoherent and under theorised construct. Debates about corporate models tend to ignore the important social and political implications of the various models, and among other things, the public...