Econophysics and Companies

Statistical Life and Death in Complex Business Networks
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-521-19149-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 694 g

Econophysics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that takes advantage of the concepts and methods of statistical physics to analyse economic phenomena. This book expands the explanatory scope of econophysics to the real economy by using methods from statistical physics to analyse the success and failure of companies. Using large data sets of companies and income-earners in Japan and Europe, a distinguished team of researchers show how these methods allow us to analyse companies, from huge corporations to small firms, as heterogeneous agents interacting at multiple layers of complex networks. They then show how successful this approach is in explaining a wide range of recent findings relating to the dynamics of companies. With mathematics kept to a minimum, the book is not only a lively introduction to the field of econophysics but also provides fresh insights into company behaviour.
• Important new addition to the controversial emerging field of econophysics
• Shows how latest developments in econophysics can be used to study the 'real' economy, in contrast to the earlier econophysics books which are focused much more on the financial sector
• Accessible style, avoiding very technical mathematical explanations and making a lot of use of visual illustrations

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aoyama, Hideaki

Fujiwara, Yoshi

Ikeda, Yuichi

Iyetomi, Hiroshi

Souma, Wataru

Weitere Mitwirkende

Yoshikawa, Hiroshi

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Ökonometrie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftsstatistik, Demographie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Soziophysik, Wirtschaftsphysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures
List of tables
About the authors
Foreword
Preface
Prologue
1. New insights
2. Size distribution
3. Fluctuations - company growth
4. Complex business networks
5. Agent-based model for companies
6. Perspectives for practical applications
7. Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Iyetomi, Hiroshi
Hiroshi Iyetomi is Professor of Physics at Niigata University, Japan.

Souma, Wataru
Wataru Souma is Associate Professor of Physics at Nihon University, Japan.

Ikeda, Yuichi
Yuichi Ikeda is Senior Researcher in Hitachi Ltd, Hitachi Research Laboratory, Japan.

Aoyama, Hideaki
Hideaki Aoyama is Professor of Physics at Kyoto University, Japan.

Fujiwara, Yoshi
Yoshi Fujiwara is Research Fellow at Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute International (ATR).