Managing Change in the Postal and Delivery Industries
Editors: Crew, Michael A., Kleindorfer, Paul R. (Eds.)
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Managing Change in the Postal and Delivery Industries brings together practitioners, postal administrators, the express industry, regulators, economists and lawyers to examine the important policy and regulatory issues facing the postal and delivery industries. This volume reviews such topics as international postal policy, the universal service obligation, regulation and competition, entry and the role of scale and scope economics, cost analysis in postal services, and service standards. This book provides a unique perspective on the problems facing postal and delivery networks.
- Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Issues in Measuring Incremental Cost in a Multi-Function Enterprise
Pages 3-21
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Cost and Benefits of Universal Service Obligations in the Postal Sector
Pages 22-41
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Peak Loads and Postal Services: Some Implications of Multi-Stage Production
Pages 42-64
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Scale Economies and Natural Monopoly in the Postal Delivery: Comparison Between Parametric and Non Parametric Specifications
Pages 65-80
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A Cross Sectional Comparison and Analysis of Productivity for 21 National Postal Administrations
Pages 83-114
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Managing Change in the Postal and Delivery Industries
- Editors
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- Michael A. Crew
- Paul R. Kleindorfer
- Series Title
- Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy
- Series Volume
- 25
- Copyright
- 1997
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Copyright Holder
- Kluwer Academic Publishers
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4615-6321-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4615-6321-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-7923-9849-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4613-7902-7
- Series ISSN
- 2730-7468
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 424
- Topics
