Industry Analysis and Industry Planning: Methods and Applications

Author: Zhou Xinsheng
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features: This book aims to describe the methods of industrial analysis and industrial planning, as well as the general specifications of analytical techniques. This task is proposed based on the author's observation and understanding of real-world economic life, as well as the recognition of the existing discipline of industrial economics. Industrial analysis and industrial planning activities are increasingly becoming routine for investors, industry and project managers, officials of government development committees or economic committees, executives of large enterprises, analysts in the securities market, and strategic planners in banks. The industrial analysis reports or industrial planning reports on their desks are diverse, containing analysis but lacking basic frameworks, scientific, systematic methods, and reference benchmarks. This is not the fault of analysts and planners, because the field of industrial economics has long been revolving around the goals of industrial policy and has not yet had the time to provide support for analysts in this regard. Industrial economics is an applied economics, but it has not yet derived a set of methods similar to those of national economic analysis and corporate economic activity analysis. This book aims to fill this gap and strives to "create" a useful set of methods. In addition to the above-mentioned examination of practical needs, the research in this area has also been influenced by Michael Porter.