Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 458 g
Statistical Life and Death in Complex Business Networks
Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 458 g
ISBN: 978-1-107-40348-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Econophysics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that takes advantage of the concepts and methods of statistical physics to analyse economic phenomena. This book, first published in 2010, 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.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
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.
