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  • 1
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    Cheltenham, Glos, U.K : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 1849803501 , 9781849803502
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 269 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Studies in international investment
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Investing in the United States
    DDC: 332.67351073
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    Keywords: 1980-2006 ; Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Auslandsinvestition ; Chinesisch ; Internationaler Markteintritt ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; Internationales Investitionsrecht ; China ; Japan ; USA ; Investments, Foreign ; Investments, Chinese ; Electronic books ; Investments, Chinese ; United States ; Aufsatzsammlung ; China ; Direktinvestition ; USA
    Abstract: This essential book analyzes the regulatory and operational challenges that foreign direct investors face in the United States, as well as the ways in which these challenges can be overcome
    Abstract: 1. Is the United States ready for FDI from China? : overview / Karl P. Sauvant -- 2. Modes of entry by Chinese firms in the United States : economic and political issues / Steven Globerman and Daniel Shapiro -- 3. The US regulatory and institutional framework for FDI / David N. Fagan -- 4. The politics of Chinese investment in the US / Timothy Frye and Pablo M. Pinto -- 5. Revisiting liability of foreignness : socio-political costs facing Chinese multinationals in the United States / Lorraine Eden and Stewart R. Miller -- 6. International investment law protections for Chinese investment into the US / Mark Kantor -- 7. Is the US ready for FDI from China? : lessons from Japan's experience in the 1980s / Curtis J. Milhaupt
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  • 2
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    Cheltenham : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781849801928
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 310 p) , ill
    Series Statement: New horizons in management
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Research companion to corruption in organizations
    DDC: 364.168072
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    Keywords: Unternehmen ; Korruption ; Corruption Research ; Business enterprises Corrupt practices ; Research ; Electronic books ; Corruption ; Research ; Business enterprises ; Corrupt practices ; Research ; Korruption ; Organisation ; Wissenschaft ; Unternehmen ; Korruption ; Bekämpfung ; Unternehmensethik
    Abstract: Corruption in organizations is creating an increasing number of victims and causing huge costs. This timely book brings together international researchers who address the causes and consequences of corruption in organizations and the action needed to reduce levels of corruption worldwide
    Abstract: pt. 1. Causes of corruption -- pt. 2. Consequences of corruption -- pt. 3. Individual and organizational choices
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 3
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    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781849802147
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 405 p) , ill., maps
    Series Statement: New horizons in regional science
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Available in another form
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Innovation, agglomeration and regional competition
    DDC: 338.6/048
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    Keywords: Regionalökonomik ; Regionalentwicklung ; Technologiepolitik ; Wettbewerb ; Regionales Cluster ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Welt ; Regional economic disparities ; Competition ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift 2004 ; Unternehmen ; Innovation ; Agglomeration ; Regionalentwicklung
    Abstract: This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of current research on regional competition and co-operation. Developing our current understanding of the new role of regions and their behaviour, this book addresses questions such as: How and why do regions compete? How does competition between border regions operate? Which regions are successful and which regions fail? What are the implications of regional competition in terms of resource allocation, the location of economic activities and the distribution of incomes? The book illuminates a number of critical theoretical end empirical issues relating to the competitive and cooperative nature of regions, as well as highlighting a number of new case studies from a variety of countries
    Abstract: pt. 1. Innovation, agglomeration and location -- pt. 2. Regional competition
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  • 4
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    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781848447288
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 347 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Advances in regulatory economics
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Progress in the competitive agenda in the postal and delivery sector
    DDC: 383.24
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    Keywords: 1991-2008 ; Postsektor ; Universaldienst ; Wettbewerb ; Dienstleistungsqualität ; Kosten ; Theorie ; EU-Staaten ; USA ; Competition ; Delivery of goods ; Postal service ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift 2008 ; Post ; Postzustellung ; Wettbewerb
    Abstract: Regulation continues to be an important issue in the postal and delivery sector of the global economy. This latest volume of the series covers progress made in the competitive agenda in the industry. It is global in scope and addresses topics of great importance to scholars and practitioners of postal regulation and public sector economics
    Abstract: 1. Service quality, price caps and the uso under entry / Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer -- 2. Estimating the impact of price regulation on service quality in post / Gregory Swinand ... [et al.] -- 3. Price and quality of service regulation in Portugal / João Castro and Agostinho Franco -- 4. Competition through downstream access in the UK postal sector : the first four years / Paul Dudley ... [et al.] -- 5. A dynamic and endogenous approach to financing the USO in a liberalized environment / François Boldron ... [et al.] -- 6. Postal costing beyond ABC : estimating the economic cost of mails services / Richard Robinson and Jane McMurdie -- 7. Costing elements of the universal service / Richard Bradley, Phil Burns and George Houpis -- 8. Calculating the cost of the universal service obligation : the need for a global approach. / Christian Jaag, Martin Koller and Urs Trinkner -- 9. Cost analysis and pricing of innovative postal products / Louis F. O'Brien, Leon A. Pintsov and Andrei Obrea -- 10. Some welfare and pricing implications of alternative regimes for value-added taxation of postal services / Philippe De Donder ... [et al.] -- 11. Postal price elasticities and intermedia competition : a multisided market approach. / Vincenzo Visco Comandini ... [et al.] -- 12. Network externalities and the USO : a two-sided market approach. / François Boldron ... [et al.] -- 13. Mail order businesses demand : a conceptual approach. / Xavier Ambrosini ... [et al.] -- 14. Internet advertising and direct mail : trends and analysis for the UK / Soterios Soteri ... [et al.] -- 15. Using operating data to measure labor input variability and density economies in United States Postal Service mail processing operations / A. Thomas Bozzo -- 16. Do differences in facility-specific mail processing unit costs have implications for the cost of the universal service obligation? / Margaret Cigno, Diane Monaco and Matthew Robinson -- 17. The EU Postal Services and Public Procurement Law : legal and regulatory issues for the postal sector / Alessandra Fratini and Fabio Filpo -- 18. How should regulation be adjusted when universal service substitution grows? / Pekka Leskinen ... [et al.] -- 19. Market entry and competitive strategies in the German B2B parcel market / Helmut M. Dietl ... [et al.] -- 20. Bank of America, mail, and the environment / Lawrence G. Buc and Peter A. Soyka -- 21. Innovation in postal products and pricing : opportunities and obstacles in the reform era / Robert A.F. Reisner, Maynard Benjamin and Derek Osborn -- 22. The IPO as a driving force in the change process / Peter Koppe ... [et al.]
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 5
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    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781848449367
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 299 p) , ill
    Series Statement: IWR Maass-White series
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The evolution of water resource planning and decision making
    DDC: 333.9100973
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    Keywords: 1800-2007 ; Natürliche Ressourcen ; Wasserversorgung ; Wasserwirtschaft ; Umweltmanagement ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; USA ; Water utilities ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Wasserversorgung ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Projektplanung ; Geschichte ; USA ; Wasserversorgung ; Umweltökonomie ; Geschichte ; USA ; Wasserversorgung ; Management ; Geschichte
    Abstract: This broad review of the development of US water resource policy analysis and practice offers perspectives from several disciplines: law, economics, engineering, ecology and political science. The historical context provided goes back to the early 19th century, but the book concentrates on the past 60 years. A key feature is a discussion of the difficulty that has generally been encountered in bringing the disciplines of economics and ecology into collaboration in the water resource context
    Abstract: 1. Water resources planning : past, present and future / John J. Boland and Duane Baumann -- 2. A history of the United States water resources planning and development / Warren Viessman, Jr. -- Appendix 2.1 Evolution of public involvement in water planning / Jerome Delli Priscoli -- Appendix 2.2 Nebraska natural resource districts -- 3. The theory and practice of benefit-cost analysis / John J. Boland, Nicholas Flores and Charles W. Howe -- 4. Environmental issues and options in water resources planning and decision making / David H. Moreau and Daniel P. Loucks -- 5. On the collaboration of ecologists and economists / Clifford S. Russell and Mark Sagoff -- 6. Political decision making : real decisions in real political contexts / Peter Rogers, Lawrence MacDonnell and Peter Lydon -- Appendix 6.1 Overview of American law for allocation of water -- 7. Making the transition : moving water resources planning and management into the twenty-first century / Gerald E. Galloway
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Title from cover
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9781848445956
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 411 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ayres, Robert U., 1932 - The economic growth engine
    DDC: 338.9
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    Keywords: Endogenes Wachstumsmodell ; Thermodynamischer Ansatz ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Energie ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Prognoseverfahren ; Prognose ; USA ; Power resources Technological innovations ; Power resources Economic aspects ; Economic development ; Thermodynamics Economic aspects ; Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Electronic books ; Wachstumstheorie ; Thermodynamik ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Energie ; Technischer Fortschritt
    Abstract: The historic link between output (GDP) growth and employment has weakened. Since there is no quantitively verifiable economic theory to explain past growth, this unique book explores the fundamental relationship between thermodynamics (physical work) and economics
    Abstract: 1. Background -- ch. 2. Technical progress -- ch. 3. Industrial metabolism : mass/energy flows -- ch. 4. Exergy conversion to useful work -- ch. 5. Economic growth theories -- ch. 6. The production function approach. -- ch. 7. Numerical results for the US and Japan -- ch. 8. Growth forecasting -- ch. 9. Economic growth and development : towards a catch-up model (simplified REXSF model) -- ch. 10. Conclusions, implications and caveats
    Note: "Published in association with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) , Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-392) and index
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  • 7
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    Cheltenham, Glos, U.K : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781781953297
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 235 p) , ill
    Series Statement: The Cournot Centre for Economic Studies
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Does company ownership matter?
    DDC: 338.74
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    Keywords: 1991-2005 ; Unternehmenserfolg ; Eigentümerstruktur ; Corporate Governance ; Shareholder Value ; Arbeitsbeziehungen ; Personalmanagement ; OECD-Staaten ; Stock ownership Law and legislation ; Corporate governance ; Corporate governance ; Stock ownership ; Stock ownership Law and legislation ; Stock ownership Law and legislation ; Corporate governance ; Stock ownership ; Stock ownership ; Stock ownership ; Law and legislation ; Corporate governance ; Electronic books ; Unternehmen ; Eigentümer ; Struktur ; Shareholder-Value-Analyse ; Corporate Governance ; Auswirkung ; Unternehmensentwicklung ; Volkswirtschaft
    Abstract: Do modes of management depend on company ownership? Does macroeconomic performance rely on shareholder value? The contributions collected in this book explore these questions from economic, historical and legal perspectives. They examine company ownership through the study of national institutions, with particular focus on North America and Europe. The twelve economic and legal specialists of this volume seek to explain why firms organized along the shareholder model have not outperformed other forms of ownership. Answers lie in the historical and institutional background of each country
    Abstract: 1. Ownership, corporate governance, specialization and performance : interpreting recent evidence for OECD countries / Wendy Carlin -- 2. Ownership concentration, employment protection and macroeconomic performance : making a case for interdependent time-evolving institutions / Donatella Gatti -- 3. The impact of shareholding structure on large listed companies in France : time horizons and control / Jean-Louis Beffa and Xavier Ragot -- 4. Questioning the legitimacy of shareholder power / Christophe Clerc -- 5. Corporate governance, labour relations and human resource management in the UK and France : convergence or divergence? / Simon Deakin and Antoine Rebérioux -- 6. Corporate social responsibility as a contractarian model of multi-stakeholder corporate governance : normative principles and equilibrium properties / Lorenzo Sacconi -- 7. Round table discussion: Shareholder rights in European corporations : impact on economic performance / Margaret Blair ... [et al.]
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 8
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    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781849802154
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 287 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Temporary organizations
    DDC: 658.04
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    Keywords: Projektmanagement ; Unternehmen ; Zeit ; Unternehmenskooperation ; Associations, institutions, etc ; Business enterprises ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Unternehmenskooperation ; Organisation
    Abstract: This important and timely book provides a systematic treatment of temporary organizations--an increasingly prevalent organizational form in which organizations work together on a joint task--for example, a movie production, a rescue operation, development of a new product--for an ex ante limited period of time
    Abstract: pt. I. Making the case -- pt. II. Conceptual insights into temporary organizations
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  • 9
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    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781848447271
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 548 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Handbook of research on strategy and foresight
    DDC: 658.4012
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    Keywords: Strategisches Management ; Wettbewerbsstrategie ; Unternehmenserfolg ; Prognose ; Strategic planning ; Strategisches Management ; Unternehmensplanung ; Zukunftsplanung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Strategische Planung ; Unternehmen ; Strategisches Management ; Unternehmensplanung ; Unternehmensentwicklung
    Abstract: Drawing together a collection of 29 original chapters, the Handbook makes an invaluable contribution to theory and practice by stimulating disciplined, rigorous and imaginative enquiry into the relationship between strategy and foresight. Leading scholars in the field of strategic management are brought together to offer innovative and multi-disciplinary perspectives on the past, present and future of strategy formation and foresight. In so doing, they challenge research in four key areas: strategy and foresight processes; strategy innovation for the future; understanding the future; and strategically responding to the future
    Abstract: pt. I. Probing the future : cultivating strategic foresight -- pt. II. Foresight and organizational becoming : strategy process, practice and change -- pt. III. Shaping the future : strategizing and innovation-- pt. IV. Responding to the future : intuition, inertia and strategic flexibility
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9781849801942
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 301 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Evaluation and performance measurement of research and development
    DDC: 658.57
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    Keywords: Forschung ; Bewertung ; Performance-Messung ; Forschungsfinanzierung ; Finanzmarkt ; Innovationsmanagement ; EU-Staaten ; USA ; Research, Industrial Evaluation ; Unternehmen ; Forschung und Entwicklung ; Evaluation ; Messung ; Aufgabensammlung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Unternehmen ; Forschung und Entwicklung ; Evaluation ; Messung ; Messtechnik
    Abstract: This book develops and illustrates a comprehensive, multi-level framework for the evaluation of industrial R&D activities and the measurement of their performances. The framework encompasses a set of hierarchical, interrelated levels at which R&D evaluation and performance measurement could be undertaken. This enlightening book focuses on the single industrial firm to study performance measurement of R&D functions, projects and individual researchers or engineers. It also addresses the R&D evaluation from the point of view of financial markets, with a focus on the relationships between R&D investments and the value of the traded firm
    Abstract: R & D function / F. Frattini, V. Lazzarotti and R. Manzini -- R & D projects / F. Frattini and D. Chiaroni -- R & D people / A. Di Minin and A. Piccaluga -- R & D and financial investors / A. Grandi, B.H. Hall and R. Oriani -- R & D information / S. Morricone and R. Oriani -- Technology platform / M. Calderini, D. Moncalvo and G. Scellato -- R & D policy / G. Catalano and P. Landoni
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 11
    ISBN: 9781848446106
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 374 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Learning to compete in European universities
    DDC: 379.4
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    Keywords: Bildungswesen ; Hochschule ; Hochschulpolitik ; Universitäre Forschung ; Wissenstransfer ; Forschungskooperation ; Kooperation ; Wettbewerb ; USA ; EU-Staaten ; Educational change ; Universities and colleges Administration ; Education, Higher Economic aspects ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Universität ; Wettbewerb ; Europa ; Bildungssystem ; Wandel ; Europa ; Hochschulbildung ; Wirtschaftliche Betrachtungsweise ; Europa ; Bildungswesen ; Wandel
    Abstract: This book addresses the critical issue of how and why European universities are changing and learning to compete. Anglo-Saxon universities particularly in the US, the UK and Australia have long been subject to, and responded to, market-based competition in higher education. The authors argue that Continental and Nordic universities and higher education institutes are now facing similar pressures that are leading to a structural transformation of the university sector
    Abstract: pt. 1. Emergent strategy -- pt. 2. Differentiation and specialization -- pt. 3. Rethinking university-industry relations -- pt. 4. Reflections
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  • 12
    ISBN: 9781849801959
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 242 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Educating economists
    DDC: 330.071173
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    Keywords: American Economic Association ; Ökonomen ; Wirtschaftsstudium ; Wirtschaftshochschule ; Bildungsinvestition ; Wirtschaftsliberalismus ; USA ; Economics Study and teaching (Higher) ; Economics Study and teaching (Graduate) ; Electronic books ; Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium
    Abstract: The economics major is a central part of a college education. But is that economics major doing what it is meant to do? And if not, how should it be changed? This book raises a set of provocative questions that encourage readers to look at the economics major in a different light than it is typically considered and provides a series of recommendations for change
    Abstract: Teagle Foundation Repor: The Economics Major as Part of a Liberal Education / David Colander and KimMarie McGoldrick -- Teaching Students to "Think About the Economy" / Joseph Persky -- Economics Major as Illiberal Education / Stephen A. Marglin -- Moral Reasoning in Economics / Jonathan B. Wight -- Thinking for Yourself, Like an Economist / Robert F. Garnett -- 6. Teaching Economics Students as if they are Geniuses / James Wible -- Need for Depth in the Economics Major / Benjamin M. Friedman -- Using Pedagogical Change to Improve Student Learning in the Economics Major / Scott Simkins and Mark Maier -- 9. Providing Incentives for Change: Evaluating Teaching / Ann L. Owen -- Reflections on Introductory Course Structures / Paul W. Grimes -- Economics and Liberal Education: Why, Where, and How / Michael K. Salemi -- Reinvigorating Liberal Education with an Expected Proficiencies Approach. to the Academic Major / W. Lee Hansen -- Integrative Nature of the Economics Major / Jessica Holmes -- Availability of Interdisciplinary Economics Educators and the Actions of Deans: Explaining the Small Contribution of Economics to a Liberal Education / Arthur H. Goldsmith -- Economics Major at a Crossroads / David Kennett -- Crafting the Economics Major as an Exercise in Property Rights / Neil Skaggs -- Preserving Liberal Arts Education: A Futile Endeavor / Brendan O'Flaherty -- Good Researchers Make Good Teachers / Catherine Hill -- Overstating the Challenges, Underestimating the Solutions / George Daly -- How the Shifting Landscape Affects our Students / David W. Breneman -- Role of Incentives (and Culture) in Rebalancing the Economics Major / Bradley W. Bateman -- What Do Economics Majors Think of the Economics Major? / Steve Jones, Eric Hoest, Richie Fuld, Mahesh Dahal and David Colander -- Wrapping Up the Discussion / John Siegfried
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-233) and index
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  • 13
    ISBN: 9781848447325
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 161 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fleming, Peter, 1972 - Charting corporate corruption
    DDC: 364.16/8
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    Keywords: Unternehmen ; Korruption ; Business ethics History ; Corporations Corrupt practices ; History ; Electronic books ; Unternehmen ; Korruption
    Abstract: In the post-Enron era, corporate corruption is increasingly on the research agenda. This informative book provides a novel approach by charting the causes of corruption. It demonstrates how agency (decisions and choices of individuals) and structure (the contextual pressures in the business environment) can interact to result in the rapid escalation of corporate crime. By analyzing and describing the social psychological dimensions of this escalation, the book will be effective in creating preventive measures that can be designed and implemented in business organizations
    Abstract: 1. 'Bad apple' approaches to organizational corruption -- 2. Rationalization, self-deception and corruption -- 3. 'When giants stumble' : agency, rationalization and the ruin of barings bank -- 4. 'Bad barrel' perspectives on corporate corruption -- 5. Environmental pressures towards corruption -- 6. Structure and the 2002 accounting scandals -- 7. The escalation of corruption in organizations -- 9. Conclusion : individuals, organizations and the political economy of the firm
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-152) and index
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    Cheltenham [England] : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781781007792
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvii, 214 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Liberalism in crisis?
    DDC: 337.142
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    Keywords: 1970-2008 ; Wirtschaftsliberalismus ; Global Governance ; Finanzkrise ; Weltwirtschaftsordnung ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; EU-Staaten ; USA ; Commercial law ; Electronic books ; European Union countries Economic conditions 21st century ; European Union countries Foreign economic relations ; European Union countries Economic policy ; European Union countries Economic policy ; Konferenzschrift ; Europäische Union ; Wirtschaftskrise ; Finanzkrise ; Wirtschaftspolitik
    Abstract: During the current economic crisis recurring questions on the validity of the liberal economic system have resurfaced concerning the role of the state and the free market, the proactive use of fiscal policies, economic nationalism, and environmental sustainability. However, due to the depth and scope of the crisis new emphasis is being placed on these issues. This book attaches great importance to the specific consequences for the European Union by addressing critical themes surrounding its role in the new era of global economic governance. These include the coherence of common monetary policy with national fiscal policies, new financial regulation and supervision, and the future sustainability of national rescue plans and their compatibility with ambitious targets, such as those addressing climate change
    Abstract: 1. Shaping a new world economic governance : a challenge for America and Europe / Jacques Mistral -- 2. Do we understand it? : forbidden questions on the financial crisis / Franco Bruni -- 3. Concrete steps towards more integrated financial oversight : the EU's policy response to the crisis / Karel Lannoo -- 4. Institutional and policy dynamics in the EMU's internal governance and external representation / Daniela Schwarzer -- 5. EU fiscal policy in the age of turbulence : will the Lisbon strategy survive it? / Carlo Altomonte, Francesco Passarelli and Carlo Secchi -- 6. Beyond the current crisis : how should Europe deal with government deficits and public debt in future? / Fabian Zuleeg and Hans Martens -- 7. Feeling the heat : towards a revised governance of climate change / Antonio Villafranca
    Note: "In association with ISPI, Instituto per gli studi di politica internazionale , Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-210) and index
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  • 15
    ISBN: 9781849801881 , 1847209726 , 9781847209726
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 210 p)
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Boons, Frank Creating ecological value
    DDC: 658.4/083
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    Keywords: Umweltmanagement ; Corporate Social Responsibility ; Social responsibility of business Environmental aspects ; Business planning ; Social responsibility of business ; Industrial management Environmental aspects ; Kaffeewirtschaft ; Kraftfahrzeugindustrie ; Strategisches Management ; Umweltschutz ; Wertschöpfung ; Electronic books ; Umweltschutz ; Unternehmen ; Wertschöpfung ; Kraftfahrzeugindustrie ; Strategisches Management ; Umweltschutz ; Kaffeewirtschaft ; Strategisches Management ; Umweltschutz
    Abstract: Firms adopt a wide variety of ecological strategies, ranging from the development of innovative products with reduced environmental impact to lobbying against governmental attempts to set standards for the way in which firms deal with the natural environment. This book explores this variety and is the first to provide a coherent evolutionary approach to the ecological strategies of firms
    Abstract: ch. 1. How do firms create ecological value? -- ch. 2. Definitions of ecological value : patches of history -- ch. 3. Technological change and strategic perspectives -- ch. 4. Elements of strategic perspectives and the internal dynamics of firms -- ch. 5. Shaping strategic perspectives through resource networks -- ch. 6. The coffee PCS -- ch. 7. The automobile PCS -- ch. 8. An evolutionary approach towards the strategic perspectives of firms -- ch. 9. The future of creating ecological value
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-206) and index
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    Cheltenham : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781848447233 , 1444328581 , 184844723X , 1282238841 , 9781847207647 , 9781444328585 , 1847207642 , 9781282238848
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 358 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Corporate social responsibility in Europe
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    Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility ; Nachhaltige Entwicklung ; Governance-Ansatz ; Industrie ; Bank ; Europa ; Industrial management ; Social responsibility of business ; Europa ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Unternehmen ; Soziale Verantwortung ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Unternehmen ; Soziale Verantwortung ; Nachhaltigkeit
    Abstract: The acid test of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is simply this: does it lead to positive impacts on society and the environment or is it just rhetoric? And if it does lead to positive impacts, how can these be enhanced? This timely book tackles this cutting-edge challenge by presenting empirical findings from a range of surveys and in-depth case studies. These build on a new methodological and theoretical framework for assessing and explaining the sustainability impact of CSR
    Abstract: pt. 1. Analytical framework -- pt. 2. Mapping CSR : survey data on selected issues in four sectors -- pt. 3. Assessing and explaining the sustainability impact of CSR : case study findings -- pt. 4. CSR and public policy
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-333) and index
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    ISBN: 9781848446083
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 404 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Europe, globalization and the Lisbon Agenda
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    Keywords: 2000-2010 ; Europäische Integration ; EU-Politik ; EU-Wirtschaftspolitik ; Sozialpolitik ; Technologiepolitik ; Global Governance ; Nachhaltige Entwicklung ; EU-Staaten ; USA ; China ; Electronic books ; European Union countries Economic conditions 21st century ; European Union countries Economic policy ; European Union countries Social policy ; European Union countries Social conditions 21st century ; Konferenzschrift ; Europäische Union ; Traité de Lisbonne : 2007
    Abstract: The Lisbon Agenda aims to prepare Europe for globalization by updating European policies for research, innovation, competition, trade, employment, education, social protection, environment and energy at both the European and national levels. Designed to inspire the new cycle of the Lisbon Agenda until 2010 and beyond, this timely and significant volume explores the intellectual elaboration of the agenda for the coming years
    Abstract: pt. I. Developing the Lisbon Agenda at the European level -- pt. II. The European Lisbon Agenda and national diversity -- pt. III. The external dimension of the Lisbon Agenda -- pt. IV. The Lisbon Agenda and European governance
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    ISBN: 9781848449350
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 301 p) , ill., maps
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Global business and the terrorist threat
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    Keywords: Internationale Wirtschaft ; Terrorismus ; Internationale Sicherheit ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; Risikomanagement ; USA ; International business enterprises Security measures ; International business enterprises Risk management ; International trade Effect of terrorism on ; Terrorism Economic aspects ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; Welthandel ; Risikomanagement ; Terrorismus ; Auswirkung ; Weltwirtschaft ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; Risikomanagement ; Terrorismus ; Weltwirtschaft ; Welthandel
    Abstract: Global business is affected by global terrorism and the two are intricately linked on many levels. This book is an eclectic and enlightening compendium of research that explores the interrelationships between the two. A companion to and expansion on the authors' previous books on the area, Global Business and the Terrorist Threat takes a closer look at practical business management, as influenced by terrorist infrastructure, networks and actions
    Abstract: 1. Introduction / Harry W. Richardson, Peter Gordon and James E. Moore II -- 2. Globalization, global business and global terrorism : the value of mutual support / Michael D. Intriligator -- 3. Business continuity : a systematic approach. / Yossi Sheffi -- 4. Assessing, managing and benefiting from global interdependent risks : the case of terrorism and national disasters / Howard C. Kunreuther and Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan -- 5. NBCR Terrorism : who should bear the risk? / Dwight Jaffee and Thomas Russell -- 6. The resilient response to economic terrorist targeting in the UK / Jon Coaffee -- 7. Terrorism, news flows and stock markets / Thomas Baumert -- 8. Dancing with wolves : avoiding transnational corporation interactions with terrorist groups / Dean C. Alexander -- 9. The impact of 9/11 on airport passenger density and regional travel / Garrett R. Beeler Asay and Jeffrey Clemens -- 10. The effect of transnational terrorism on bilateral trade / Quan Li -- 11. A global business strategy for North Korea / Harry W. Richardson and Chang-Hee Christine Bae -- 12. The Economic Impacts of International Border Closure : A State-by-State Analysis / Peter Gordon ... [et al.] -- 13. Macroeconomic impacts of shutting down the US Borders in response to a security or health threat / Adam Z. Rose ... [et al.] -- 14. Challenges of benefit-cost analyses for terrorism security regulations : observations from regulatory analysis of the western hemisphere travel initiative / Henry H. Willis and Tom LaTourrette
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    ISBN: 9781035305698
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 203 pages) , illustration
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dringoli, Angelo Creating value through innovation
    DDC: 658.4012
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    Keywords: Innovationsmanagement ; Shareholder Value ; Wettbewerbsvorteil ; Economic value added ; Strategic planning ; Technological innovations Management ; Creative ability in business ; New products Decision making ; Unternehmen ; Innovationsmanagement ; Modellierung ; Evaluation ; Economic value added ; Strategic planning ; Technological innovations Management ; Creative ability in business ; New products Decision making ; Unternehmen ; Innovationsmanagement ; Modellierung ; Evaluation
    Abstract: In open and dynamic markets, only innovation can give a firm a competitive advantage and with it the superior cash flows that generate value. This book offers a new conceptual structure and applicable analytical models for evaluating a firm's innovation strategies in highly competitive environments and for estimating firm value. Using analytical models, Angelo Dringoli examines the conditions under which innovation strategy can create and maintain value, based on different environmental dynamics. Quantitative models are used to determine the value of innovation strategies in highly dynamic and competitive industries. These clearly reveal the economic variables and relations upon which the strategy depends, and the conditions for creating sustainable value within the firm. This stimulating integrated analysis will appeal to researchers and postgraduate students with an interest in economics, finance and business administration, as well as managers and professionals involved in strategic management and firm evaluation
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. The value of the firm in highly competitive industries -- 2. Main determinants of operating cash flows -- 3. Fundamental environment trends and innovation strategies -- 4. Creating value through process innovation strategies -- 5. Creating value through product innovation strategies -- 6. Creating value through integrated innovation strategies -- 7. Designing the r&d system of innovation -- 8. The sustainability of value in highly competitive industries -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035305407
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 428 pages) , illustrations, maps
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Entrepreneurship and innovations in functional regions
    DDC: 338/.04
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    Keywords: Entrepreneurship ; Innovation ; Regionalentwicklung ; Entrepreneurship ; Technological innovations ; Industrial location ; Unternehmen ; Innovation ; Forschung und Entwicklung ; Know-how-Transfer ; Regionalentwicklung ; Kongress ; Konferenzschrift ; Unternehmen ; Innovation ; Forschung und Entwicklung ; Know-how-Transfer ; Regionalentwicklung ; Kongress
    Abstract: In recent decades, the world has witnessed the emergence of a global knowledge economy in which functional regions increasingly play a role as independent and dynamic market places. These are integrated with other functional regions by means of flows of information, knowledge, and commodities. This contemporary and illuminating book provides a state-of-the-art overview of current research on innovation and entrepreneurship in functional regions. There are numerous questions regarding entrepreneurship and innovation in functional regions that have not yet been answered - until now. Some of the issues that the expert contributors in this field question are - How do firms compete and how do they develop their competitive strategies? How important are entrepreneurial actions and innovation? How important are firm size, firm maturity and corporate structure for innovation? Entrepreneurship and Innovations in Functional Regions will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of entrepreneurship, business economics, innovation and regional science
    Note: "The contributions forming the different chapters in this book were first presented and discussed at the Eight Uddevalla Symposium 2005 ... held at and hosted by the University West, Uddevalla, Sweden"--Pref , Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction - Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Functional Regions / , Engineering Culture, Innovation, and Modern Wealth Creation / , Swedish Paradox Revisited / , Firm Location, Corporate Structure and Innovation / , Firm Size, Firm Maturity and Product and Process R&D in Swedish Manufacturing Firms / , University Educated Labour, R&D and Regional Export Performance / , Magnitude and Destination Diversity of Exports - the Role of Product Variety / , Differences in Survivor Functions according to Different Competitive Strategies / , Resource-Based Analysis of Bankruptcy Law, Entrepreneurship and Corporate Recovery / , Agglomeration Economies, Learning Processes, and Patterns of Firm Spatial Clustering / , Assiduous Firms in a 'Learning Region' - The Case of East-Wurttemberg, Germany / , Cluster Dynamics: Insights from Broadcasting in Three UK City-Regions / , Technology, Innovation and Latecomer Strategies: The Case of Mobile Handset Manufacturing Sector in China / , Enterprise Development Policy: Modelling the Policy Context / , Entrepreneurial Business Support Networks: A Leader Institution Perspective /
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    ISBN: 9781035305476
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvii, 336 pages) , illustrations
    Edition: Rev. ed
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jastram, Roy W., 1915 - The golden constant
    DDC: 332.4/2220941
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    Keywords: 1560-2007 ; Gold ; Preis ; Kaufkraftparität ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Gold History ; Prices History ; Prices History ; Großbritannien ; Goldwährung ; Geschichte 1560-1976 ; USA ; Goldpreis
    Abstract: The Golden Constant is a unique examination of how gold's purchasing power has remained consistent over the centuries. First published in 1977, this new edition has additional material to bring it up to date. The book is the only in-depth examination of how the purchasing power of gold has performed over the centuries in both England and the USA. It contains a thorough explanation of how the gold market evolved and how this is related to economic and political developments, from 1560 in England, and from 1800 in the USA, up to 2007. The book also contains detailed historical statistics on gold, wholesale and consumer prices and the real price of gold. This important book will be an essential resource for institutional and individual investors in the gold industry. Academics, economic historians and economists interested in monetary and financial history will find this book to be a fascinating read
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: About the new edition -- Preface previously written / by Roy W. Jastram -- Foreword to the new edition / by Pierre Lassonde -- Introduction -- Part I: The English experience -- 1. The price of gold -- 2. Historical fluctuations in the price of gold -- 3. Commodity prices and the construction of Indexnumbers -- 4. The purchasing power of gold -- 5. The purchasing power of gold in inflation and deflation -- Part II: The American experience -- 6. The evolution of the gold standard and historical fluctuations in gold prices -- 7. The purchasing power of gold -- 8. Reflections on the golden constant -- Part III: After the gold price was freed, 1971-2007 -- 9. The gold market and the purchasing power of gold, 1971-2007 -- 10. Further explorations into the gold price and its purchasing power -- Appendices -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781848442924 , 9781845428365
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 615 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Handbook of research on global corporate citizenship
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    Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility ; Unternehmensethik ; Global Governance ; Theorie ; Social responsibility of business ; International business enterprises Social aspects ; Corporations Public relations ; Unternehmen ; Soziale Verantwortung ; Globalisierung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Unternehmen ; Soziale Verantwortung ; Globalisierung
    Abstract: This volume provides a comprehensive overview of current research and theory about why and how corporations should play a more active role in fulfilling their global citizenship obligations and responsibilities
    Abstract: pt. 1. History and conceptual groundwork -- pt. 2. Contemporary issues and challenges -- pt. 3. Actors, institutions and global governance -- pt. 4. Disciplinary perspectives on corporate citizenship -- pt. 5. Implications for management theory building -- pt. 6. Critical perspectives -- pt. 7. The future of corporate citizenship
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    ISBN: 9781785367052
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (3 v) , cm
    Series Statement: An Elgar reference collection
    Series Statement: The international library of critical writings in economics 214
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The economics of modern business enterprise
    DDC: 338.5
    Keywords: Unternehmen ; Management ; Entrepreneurship ; Unternehmensorganisation ; Transaktionskosten ; Sachenrecht ; Corporate Governance ; Business enterprises ; Industrial organization ; Entrepreneurship ; Business enterprises ; Industrial organization ; Entrepreneurship ; Electronic books ; Unternehmen ; Organisation ; Unternehmensgründung
    Abstract: Martin Ricketts, a leading scholar in this field, has selected the seminal papers from a variety of traditions that illustrate the evolution of thinking on 'the firm' over a considerable period of time. The firm as a vehicle for entrepreneurial initiative and the exercise of business judgement is contrasted throughout with the firm as a policing mechanism in response to known contractual hazards. The selection is in three volumes that cover respectively the general theoretical background; the ownership and scope of the firm - its degree of vertical and transnational integration; and agency issues relating to employee incentives and the control of managers. This authoritative collection will provide a valuable reference, of interest to students, postgraduates and professional economists seeking an overview of the subject and its evolution
    Abstract: Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling (1976), 'Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure', Journal of Financial Economics, 3 (4), October, 305-60 -- Michael C. Jensen and Kevin J. Murphy (1990), 'Performance Pay and Top-Management Incentives', Journal of Political Economy, 98 (2), April, 225-64 -- Joseph G. Haubrich (1994), 'Risk Aversion, Performance Pay, and the Principal-Agent Problem', Journal of Political Economy, 102 (2), April, 258-76 -- Brian J. Hall and Jeffrey B. Liebman (1998), 'Are CEOs Really Paid Like Bureaucrats?', Quarterly Journal of Economics, CXIII (3), August, 653-91 -- Eugene F. Fama (1980), 'Agency Problems and the Theory of the Firm', Journal of Political Economy, 88 (2), April, 288-307 -- Eugene F. Fama and Michael C. Jensen (1983), 'Agency Problems and Residual Claims', Journal of Law and Economics, XXVI (2), June, 327-49 -- Oliver D. Hart (1983), 'The Market Mechanism as an Incentive Scheme', Bell Journal of Economics, 14 (2), Autumn, 366-82 -- Henry G. Manne (1965), 'Mergers and the Market for Corporate Control', Journal of Political Economy, 73 (2), April, 110-20 -- Sanford J. Grossman and Oliver D. Hart (1980), 'Takeover Bids, the Free Rider Problem, and the Theory of the Corporation', Bell Journal of Economics, 11 (1), Spring, 42-64 -- Michael C. Jensen (1988), 'Takeovers: Their Causes and Consequences', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2 (1), Winter, 21-48 -- Andrei Shleifer and Lawrence H. Summers (1988), 'Breach of Trust in Hostile Takeovers', in Alan J. Auerbach (ed) (ed.), Corporate Takeovers: Causes and Consequences, Chapter 2, Chicago, IL: NBER and University of Chicago Press, 33-56 -- Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny (1986), 'Large Shareholders and Corporate Control', Journal of Political Economy, 94 (3, Part 1), June, 461-88 -- Masahiko Aoki (1990), 'Toward an Economic Model of the Japanese Firm', Journal of Economic Literature, XXVIII (1), March, 1-27 -- Jens Köke and Luc Renneboog (2005), 'Do Corporate Control and Product Market Competition Lead to Stronger Productivity Growth? Evidence from Market-Oriented and Blockholder-Based Governance Regimes', Journal of Law and Economics, XLVIII, October, 475-516
    Abstract: Recommended readings (Machine generated): Frank H. Knight (1921), 'Enterprise and Profit', in Risk, Uncertainty and Profit, Chapter IX, Boston, MA and New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 264-90 -- R.H. Coase (1937), 'The Nature of the Firm', Economica, 4 (16), New Series, November, 386-405 -- Fritz Machlup (1967), 'Theories of the Firm: Marginalist, Behavioral, Managerial', American Economic Review, LVII (1), March, 1-33 -- Armen A. Alchian and Harold Demsetz (1972), 'Production, Information Costs, and Economic Organization', American Economic Review, 62 (5), December, 777-95 -- Oliver E. Williamson (1979), 'Transaction-Cost Economics: The Governance of Contractual Relations', Journal of Law and Economics, XXII (2), October, 233-61 -- Oliver E. Williamson (1981), 'The Modern Corporation: Origins, Evolution, Attributes', Journal of Economic Literature, XIX (4), December, 1537-68 -- Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. and Robert D. Tollison (1980), 'Mercantilist Origins of the Corporation', Bell Journal of Economics, 11 (2), Autumn, 715-20 -- Armen A. Alchian and Susan Woodward (1987), 'Reflections on the Theory of the Firm', Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 143 (1), March, 110-36 -- Alfred Marshall ([1925]1953), 'Industrial Organization, Continued. Business Management', in Principles of Economics, 8th Edition, Book IV, Chapter XII, New York, NY: Macmillan Company, 291-313 -- Joseph A. Schumpeter (1950), 'Crumbling Walls', in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, Chapter XII, London: Allen & Unwin, 131-42 -- Israel M. Kirzner (1973), 'The Entrepreneur', in Competition and Entrepreneurship, Chapter 2, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 30-87 -- B.J. Loasby (1982), 'The Entrepreneur in Economic Theory', Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 29 (3), November, 235-45 -- Ulrich Witt (1987), 'How Transaction Rights Are Shaped to Channel Innovativeness', Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 143 (1), March, 180-95 -- Nicolai Juul Foss (1993), 'Theories of the Firm: Contractual and Competence Perspectives', Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 3 (2), May, 127-44 -- Mark Casson (2000), 'An Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm', in Enterprise and Leadership: Studies on Firms, Markets and Networks, Chapter 3, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 47-82 -- Kenneth J. Arrow (1985), 'The Economics of Agency', in John W. Pratt (ed) and Richard J. Zeckhauser (ed) (eds), Principals and Agents: The Structure of Business, Chapter 2, Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 37-51 -- Steven Shavell (1979), 'Risk Sharing and Incentives in the Principal and Agent Relationship', Bell Journal of Economics, 10 (1), Spring, 55-73 -- Martin Ricketts (1986), 'The Geometry of Principal and Agent: Yet Another Use for the Edgeworth Box', Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 33 (3), August, 228-48 -- Harold Demsetz (1995), 'Agency and Nonagency Explanations of the Firm's Organization', in The Economics of the Business Firm: Seven Critical Commentaries, Second Commentary, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 15-39, references
    Abstract: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Daniel F. Spulber (2000), 'The Fable of Fisher Body', Journal of Law and Economics, XLIII (1), April, 67-104 -- Ronald Coase (2006), 'The Conduct of Economics: The Example of Fisher Body and General Motors', Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 15 (2), Summer, 255-78 -- Benjamin Klein (2007), 'The Economic Lessons of Fisher Body- General Motors', International Journal of the Economics of Business, 14 (1), February, 1-36 -- John M. Vernon and Daniel A. Graham (1971), 'Profitability of Monopolization by Vertical Integration', Journal of Political Economy, 79 (4), 924-5 -- Richard Schmalensee (1973), 'A Note on the Theory of Vertical Integration', Journal of Political Economy, 81 (2, Part 1), March-April, 442-9 -- Martin K. Perry (1980), 'Forward Integration by Alcoa: 1888- 1930', Journal of Industrial Economics, XXIX (1), September, 37-53 -- John H. Dunning (1973), 'The Determinants of International Production', Oxford Economic Papers, 25 (3), New Series, November, 289-336 -- Alfred D. Chandler (1980), 'The Growth of the Transnational Industrial Firm in the United States and the United Kingdom: A Comparative Analysis', Economic History Review, 33 (3), New Series, August, 396-410 -- John Cantwell (2000), 'A Survey of Theories of International Production', in Christos N. Pitelis (ed) and Roger Sugden (ed) (eds), The Nature of the Transnational Firm, Second Edition, Chapter 2, London: Routledge, 10-56 -- Keith Cowling and Roger Sugden (1987), 'The Rise of Transnationals and the International Division of Labour', in Transnational Monopoly Capitalism, Chapter 4, Brighton: Wheatsheaf Books and New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 61-79, references -- Oliver E. Williamson, Michael L. Wachter and Jeffrey E. Harris (1975), 'Understanding the Employment Relation: The Analysis of Idiosyncratic Exchange', Bell Journal of Economics, 6 (1), Spring, 250-78 -- Joseph E. Stiglitz (1975), 'Incentives, Risk, and Information: Notes Towards a Theory of Hierarchy', Bell Journal of Economics, 6 (2), Autumn, 552-79 -- Carl Shapiro and Joseph E. Stiglitz (1984), 'Equilibrium Unemployment as a Worker Discipline Device', American Economic Review, 74 (3), June, 433-44 -- Edward P. Lazear and Sherwin Rosen (1981), 'Rank-Order Tournaments as Optimum Labor Contracts', Journal of Political Economy, 89 (5), October, 841-64 -- Edward P. Lazear (1981), 'Agency, Earnings Profiles, Productivity, and Hours Restrictions', American Economic Review, 71 (4), September, 606-20 -- Robert M. Hutchens (1989), 'Seniority, Wages and Productivity: A Turbulent Decade', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 3 (4), Fall, 49-64 -- Edward P. Lazear (2000), 'The Future of Personnel Economics', Economic Journal, 110, November, F611-F639 -- Bruno S. Frey (1993), 'Does Monitoring Increase Work Effort? The Rivalry with Trust and Loyalty', Economic Inquiry, XXXI (4), October, 663-70 -- Armen A. Alchian (1969), 'Corporate Management and Property Rights', in Henry G. Manne (ed) (ed.), Economic Policy and the Regulation of Corporate Securities, Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 337-60
    Abstract: Sanford J. Grossman and Oliver D. Hart (1986), 'The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration', Journal of Political Economy, 94 (4), August, 691-719 -- Oliver Hart and John Moore (1990), 'Property Rights and the Nature of the Firm', Journal of Political Economy, 98 (6), December, 1119-58 -- Oliver Hart (1995), 'Established Theories of the Firm' and 'The Property Rights Approach' in Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure, Chapters 1 and 2, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 15-28, 29-55, references -- Bengt Holmström and John Roberts (1998), 'The Boundaries of the Firm Revisited', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 12 (4), Fall, 73-94 -- Adam Gifford, Jr. (1991), 'A Constitutional Interpretation of the Firm', Public Choice, 68, 91-106 -- Henry Hansmann (1996), 'A Theory of Enterprise Ownership', in The Ownership of Enterprise, Part I, Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 11-49, notes -- Benjamin Ward (1958), 'The Firm in Illyria: Market Syndicalism', American Economic Review, XLVIII (4), September, 566-89 -- Eirik G. Furubotn (1988), 'Codetermination and the Modern Theory of the Firm: A Property-Rights Analysis', Journal of Business, 61 (2), April, 165-81 -- Eugene Kandel and Edward P. Lazear (1992), 'Peer Pressure and Partnerships', Journal of Political Economy, 100 (4), August, 801-17 -- Henry Hansmann (1987), 'Economic Theories of Nonprofit Organization', in Walter W. Powell (ed) (ed.), The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, Chapter 2, New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 27-42 -- Edwin G. West (1989), 'Nonprofit Organizations: Revised Theory and New Evidence', Public Choice, 63 (2), November, 165-74 -- Paul H. Rubin (1978), 'The Theory of the Firm and the Structure of the Franchise Contract', Journal of Law and Economics, XXI (1), April, 223-33 -- G. Frank Mathewson and Ralph A. Winter (1985), 'The Economics of Franchise Contracts', Journal of Law and Economics, XXVIII (3), October, 503-26 -- Robert E. Martin (1988), 'Franchising and Risk Management', American Economic Review, 78 (5), December, 954-68 -- Antony W. Dnes (1992), '"Unfair" Contractual Practices and Hostages in Franchise Contracts', Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 148 (3), September, 484-504 -- Alanson P. Minkler (1992), 'Why Firms Franchise: A Search Cost Theory', Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 148 (2), June, 240-59 -- Kenneth J. Arrow (1975), 'Vertical Integration and Communication', Bell Journal of Economics, 6 (1), Spring, 173-83 -- Benjamin Klein, Robert G. Crawford and Armen A. Alchian (1978), 'Vertical Integration, Appropriable Rents, and the Competitive Contracting Process', Journal of Law and Economics, XXI (2), October, 297-326 -- Kirk Monteverde and David J. Teece (1982), 'Appropriable Rents and Quasi-Vertical Integration', Journal of Law and Economics, XXV (2), October, 321-8
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , The recommended readings are available in the print version, or may be available via the link to your library's holdings
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    ISBN: 9781848441538
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 295 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Wilkinson, Ian F. Business relating business
    DDC: 658.044
    Keywords: Unternehmensnetzwerk ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Erfolgsfaktor ; Business networks ; Unternehmen ; Geschäftsverbindung ; Netzwerkmanagement ; Electronic books ; Business networks ; Unternehmen ; Netzwerk ; Unternehmen ; Corporate Network ; Geschäftsverbindung
    Abstract: Business Relating Business argues that business performance depends on the way a firm is connected to other firms and organisations and not just its own skill and resources. The book synthesises thinking from marketing, management, economics and international business with evolutionary biology and complexity theory, as well as integrating many years' research on interfirm relations and networks. It develops the management and policy implications of adopting relationship and network perspectives and sets out an agenda for future research
    Abstract: ch. 1. The nature and role of relations and networks in business -- ch. 2. Why business relations and networks exist I : specialisation and the economics of insourcing and outsourcing -- ch. 3. Why business relations and networks exist II : value creation and innovation -- ch. 4. Business mating : establishing and developing business relations and networks -- ch. 5. Relationship attractors : typologies of business relations -- ch. 6. Business dancing : managing and being managed in business relations and networks -- ch. 7. Strategies for firms in business relations and networks : the extended enterprise and soft-assembled strategies -- ch. 8. Strategies for policy makers in business relations and networks : evolving evolvable relations and networks -- ch. 9. Reinventing the future of business relations and networks
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-286) and index
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    ISBN: 9781848441453
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 397 p) , ill., maps
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Road congestion pricing in Europe
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    Keywords: 1999-2006 ; Straßenverkehr ; Maut ; Umweltbelastung ; Luftverschmutzung ; Großbritannien ; USA ; EU-Staaten ; London ; Paris ; Stockholm ; Congestion pricing Congresses ; Congestion pricing Congresses ; Traffic congestion Congresses ; Traffic congestion Congresses ; Electronic books ; Europa ; Straßenbenutzungsgebühr ; Stadtverkehr ; USA
    Abstract: In February 2003, the London Congestion Charging Scheme was introduced and in 2006 a similar policy was introduced in Stockholm. In both cases automobile traffic entering the cordon declined by about 20 percent. This book evaluates these and other similar programs exploring their implications for the United States. This study's value lies in the fact that it examines road pricing in the real world and not simply from a theoretical viewpoint. As a comparative study it will appeal to both policymakers and academics in transportation economics and planning, urban economics, planning and economic geography
    Abstract: pt. 1. UK applications -- pt. 2. London -- pt. 3. International examples -- pt. 3. The United States
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Trust and new technologies
    DDC: 658.84
    Keywords: Electronic Commerce ; Datensicherheit ; Online-Marketing ; Computernetz ; Vertrauen ; Business enterprises Computer networks ; Security measures ; Internet marketing Security measures ; Electronic commerce Security measures ; Electronic commerce Management ; Electronic commerce Security measures ; Internet marketing Security measures ; Business enterprises Computer networks ; Security measures ; Electronic commerce Management ; Unternehmen ; Neue Technologie ; Electronic Commerce ; Verbraucher ; Vertrauen ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic Commerce ; Verbraucher ; Vertrauen ; Neue Technologie ; Unternehmen ; Mitarbeiter ; Vertrauen
    Abstract: Trust and New Technologies presents versatile new research that illustrates the different roles that trust plays in the marketing and management of new technologies
    Abstract: pt. 1. Consumer trust in online environments -- pt. 2. Trust and mobile media -- pt. 3. New technologies and trust within and between organizations
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    ISBN: 9781781007662
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 269 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Pension fund governance
    DDC: 331.2524
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    Keywords: 1970-2003 ; Private Altersvorsorge ; Pensionskasse ; Lebensversicherung ; Finanzmarkt ; Management ; Corporate Governance ; Aufsichtsbehörde ; Welt ; USA ; Australien ; Pension trusts Management ; Pension trusts ; Pension trusts Case studies Management ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Pensionskasse ; Management
    Abstract: The academic literature on pension governance is sparse and this book will fill some important gaps by bringing together original contributions from around the world on subjects related to the area. The book initially lays out the main frameworks for pension fund governance and then goes on to examine global governance practice and experience and country studies on pension funds in the United States and Australia. The final section of this in-depth study discusses the role of government guarantees
    Abstract: pt. 1. Frameworks -- pt. 2. Global governance : practice and experience -- pt. 3. Country studies -- pt. 4. Government guarantees
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-258) and index
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    ISBN: 9781848442788
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 313 p) , ill , 24 cm
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    Series Statement: Corporations, globalisation, and the law
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als De Jonge, Alice Corporate governance and China's H-share market
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als De Jonge, Alice Corporate governance and China's H-share market
    DDC: 332.63220951
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    Keywords: Gesetzgebung ; Gesellschaftsrecht ; Aktiengesellschaft ; Aktienmarkt ; Corporate Governance ; Hongkong ; China ; Corporate governance ; Stocks ; Business enterprises Case studies ; Unternehmen ; Going Public ; Hongkong ; Corporate Governacne ; Geschichte 1993-2007 ; Electronic books ; China ; Unternehmen ; Going Public ; Hongkong ; Corporate Governance ; Geschichte 1993-2007
    Abstract: 1. Introduction : legal transplants, convergence and regionalism in Chinese corporate law reform -- 2. Birth pangs of a market : creation and development of China's cross-border share markets -- 3. Securities, regulatory authorities and H-share enterprises -- 4. Internal governance structures within the H-share firm : solving agency problems in a cross-border environment -- 5. Nine case studies : the story of nine vanguard firms in China's H-share market -- 6. Market efficiency in a Chinese context.
    Abstract: Using detailed case studies of the first nine mainland Chinese companies to be listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange (1993-94), Alice de Jonge examines the evolution of corporate governance law and culture in China's H-share market. A story emerges not of tensions between ideas of corporate governance from two different legal systems--Hong Kong vs. mainland Chinese--nor about legal convergence as China adopts concepts from Anglo-American jurisdictions. Rather, it is a story of individual firms being pragmatic in mediating the different agendas of state-agencies that own or control them. Corporate Governance and China's H-Share Market looks at corporate governance in a cross-border context, is unique in providing a detailed understanding of China's H-share market, reveals why a beer company was the first ever Chinese firm to be listed overseas. This fascinating work will appeal to postgraduate students and scholars of corporate governance, Asian law and legal systems and Asian business, as well as Chinese scholars more generally. Professionals such as law practitioners working in Chinese law will also find the book of interest
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-296) and index
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    Cheltenham : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781848443808
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 183 p) , ill
    Series Statement: New directions in modern economics
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Brown, Christopher Inequality, consumer credit and the saving puzzle
    DDC: 332.7/43
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    Keywords: Makroökonomik ; Verbraucherkredit ; Finanzprodukt ; Einkommensverteilung ; USA ; Consumer credit ; Macroeconomics ; Electronic books ; USA ; Makroökonomie ; Konsumentenkredit ; Finanzinnovation ; Einkommensverteilung
    Abstract: Providing much needed context for current events like the sub-prime mortgage crisis, this timely book presents a vision of an economy evolved to greater dependence on consumer credit and analyzes the trade-offs and risks associated with it. While synthesizing the Keynesian theory of consumption with the Institutional theory of habit selection (brought up to date with new knowledge from evolutionary biology and neuroscience), this book represents an in-depth treatment of the macroeconomic dimensions of consumer credit and implications of recent financial innovations from a non-traditional economic approach
    Abstract: 1. Consumer credit and effective demand -- 2. The household debt surge and the theory of habit selection -- 3. A brief history of innovation in the consumer credit industry -- 4. The saving puzzle : a closer examination -- 5. Macroeconomic aspects of consumer credit dependence -- 6. Balance sheet (minsky) effects : an empirical analysis -- 7. Consumerism, inequality and globalization -- 8. Final remarks
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781848445055
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 296 p)
    Series Statement: Industrial dynamics, entrepreneurship and innovation
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Innovation in low-tech firms and industries
    DDC: 338.064
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    Keywords: Low-Tech ; Hochtechnologie ; Industrieforschung ; Innovation ; Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Industrie ; Unternehmen ; Innovation ; Informationsgesellschaft
    Abstract: It is a general understanding that the advanced economies are currently undergoing a fundamental transformation into knowledge-based societies. There is a firm belief that this is based on the development of high-tech industries. Correspondingly, in this scenario low-tech sectors appear to be less important. A critique of this widely held belief is the starting point of this book. It is often overlooked that many of the current innovation activities are linked to developments inside the realm of low-tech. Thus the general objective of the book is to contribute to a discussion concerning the relevance of low-tech industries for industrial innovativeness in the emerging knowledge economy
    Abstract: pt 1. Innovations in LMT : conditions and requirements -- pt. 2. Technological diffusion and interrelationships between sectors -- pt. 3. Local versus global perspectives in innovation
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    Cheltenham : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781848445161
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (v, 163 p)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Stabile, Donald R. The living wage
    DDC: 331.2/3
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    Keywords: Mindestlohn ; Ökonomische Ideengeschichte ; USA ; Minimum wage ; Living wage movement ; Economics History ; Living wage movement ; Minimum wage ; Electronic books ; USA ; Mindestlohn ; Ideengeschichte
    Abstract: For the last decade a movement for providing workers with a living wage has been growing in the US. This book describes how great thinkers in the history of economic thought viewed the living wage and highlights how the ideas of the early economists such as Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill support the idea of a living wage and contrast with the ideas of more recent free-market economists who do not. The lessons we can learn from the contrasting ideas of both the early and recent economists will help us to think more clearly about the issues surrounding whether, how and why workers should be paid a living wage
    Abstract: Introduction : the living wage -- Sustainability : subsistence, necessities, and unions -- Capability : work and wages, virtue and skill -- Externality, community and wages -- Lessons from the history of economic thought
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-156) and index
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    Cheltenham : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781848446069
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 425 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Gurulé, Jimmy, 1951 - Unfunding terror
    DDC: 345.02
    Keywords: Terrorismus ; Finanzierung ; Kriminalität ; Rechtspolitik ; Recht ; USA ; Welt ; Terrorism Prevention ; Law and legislation ; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 ; Terrorism Finance ; Terrorism Prevention ; Law and legislation ; Electronic books ; Internationaler Terrorismus ; Finanzierung ; Gegenmaßnahme ; Rechtspolitik ; Internationaler Terrorismus ; Finanzierung ; Gegenmaßnahme
    Abstract: The book begins with a discussion of how shutting down the pipelines of funding is as important as dismantling the terrorist cells themselves. Next, the book covers the various means and methods used by terrorist groups to raise money, and examines how money is transferred globally to finance their lethal activities. The principal components of the legal strategy to disrupt the financing of terrorism are then discussed and evaluated. Unfortunately, the author concludes that the legal regime has met with mixed results, and finds that the sense of urgency to deprive terrorists of funding that existed following 9/11 has since dissipated. As a result, international efforts to freeze terrorist assets have dramatically declined. Moreover, the US Department of Justice has suffered several embarrassing and disappointing legal defeats in prosecuting major terrorist financiers. The author provides numerous recommendations to Congress, the Executive Branch, and the UN Security Council for strengthening the legal regime to deny terrorists the money needed to wage global jihad, acquire weapons of mass destruction, and launch another terrorist attack on the scale of 9/11
    Abstract: The evolution of the legal framework to deprive al Qaeda of funding -- Terrorists need money to terrorize -- Al Qaeda's call to jihad -- Al Qaeda's global presence -- State sponsors of terrorism, drug trafficking, and deep pocket donors -- Corrupt Islamic charities -- Engaging the financial sector to prevent the financing of terrorism -- Domestic asset freeze -- International asset freeze -- The law enforcement response to terrorist financing -- Private causes of action : using the civil justice system to hold terrorist financiers accountable -- Accomplishments, failures and recommendations for enhancing the Anti-Terrorist Financing Legal Regime
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-417) and index
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  • 33
    ISBN: 9781848441545
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 251 p) , ill., maps
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Innovation in public sector services
    DDC: 352.367
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    Keywords: 1996-2004 ; Öffentliche Dienstleistung ; Öffentlicher Sektor ; Institutioneller Wandel ; Innovation ; Krankenhaus ; Altenhilfe ; EU-Staaten ; USA ; Japan ; Public administration ; Technological innovations ; Organizational change ; Öffentlicher Sektor ; Verwaltung ; Krankenhaus ; Gesundheitswesen ; Innovation ; Organisationswandel ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Öffentlicher Sektor ; Verwaltung ; Innovation ; Organisationswandel ; Krankenhaus ; Altenpflege ; Gesundheitswesen ; Innovation
    Abstract: This groundbreaking book provides new key insights and opens up an important research agenda. The book develops a new taxonomy of the different types of innovation found in public sector services, and investigates the key features and drivers of public sector entrepreneurship. The book contains new statistical studies and a set of six international case studies in health and social services
    Abstract: pt. 1. Issues in public sector innovation and entrepreneurship -- pt. 2. Case studies
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    ISBN: 9781848445192
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 252 p) , ill
    Series Statement: New horizons in management
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Women on corporate boards of directors
    DDC: 658.422082
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    Keywords: Vorstand ; Weibliche Führungskräfte ; Women executives ; Directors of corporations ; Boards of directors ; Unternehmen ; Weibliche Führungskraft ; Vorstandsmitglied ; Frau ; Soziale Rolle ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Unternehmen ; Weibliche Führungskraft ; Vorstandsmitglied ; Frau ; Soziale Rolle ; Board of directors ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Weibliche Führungskraft
    Abstract: This important new book addresses the growing international interest in women on corporate boards of directors
    Abstract: pt. 1. International perspectives -- pt. 2. Research themes
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  • 35
    ISBN: 9781848445208
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 250 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als New directions in the study of work and employment
    DDC: 331.071/173
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    Keywords: 1970-2007 ; Arbeitsmarkt ; Arbeitsbeziehungen ; Erwerbstätigkeit ; Institutionelle Infrastruktur ; Sozialkapital ; Globalisierung ; Kfz-Industrie ; Damenbekleidung ; Migranten ; USA ; Industrial relations Study and teaching (Higher) ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Arbeitsbeziehungen
    Abstract: Charles Whalen's book identifies avenues leading to the revitalization of industrial relations as an academic discipline. The contributors, a stellar assemblage of the field's leading scholars, demonstrate there is much work to be done: the scope and intellectual content of industrial relations need to be reconsidered; academic and social institutions must be reshaped; and new conceptual and practical issues demand attention
    Abstract: pt. 1. Rethinking industrial relations -- pt. 2. Reconstructing institutions -- pt. 3. Reenergizing practice
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  • 36
    ISBN: 9781848442689
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 270 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Networks, governance and economic development
    DDC: 658.044
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    Keywords: Internationale Zusammenarbeit ; Globalisierung ; Corporate Governance ; Unternehmensnetzwerk ; Netzwerk ; Entwicklung ; Regionalentwicklung ; Welt ; Business networks ; Corporate governance ; Corporate Governance ; Unternehmen ; Netzwerkmanagement ; Cluster ; Globalisierung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Internationale Kooperation ; Corporate Governance ; Netzwerkmanagement ; Cluster ; Regionalentwicklung
    Abstract: This compact and authoritative book brings together the topical themes of networks and governance to advance understanding of the determinants of local economic development in the context of increasingly global relationships
    Abstract: pt. 1. Perspectives on networking, governance and economic development -- pt. 2. Networking, governance and economic development in practice
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  • 37
    ISBN: 9781848443815
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxii, 302 p)
    Series Statement: New horizons in management
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als International terrorism and threats to security
    DDC: 658.4056
    Keywords: Terrorismus ; Öffentliche Sicherheit ; Krisenmanagement ; Verhalten in Organisationen ; Personalführung ; Terrorism Prevention ; Emergency management ; Terrorism ; Business Effect of terrorism on ; Internationaler Terrorismus ; Sicherheitsmaßnahme ; Einfluss ; Unternehmen ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Internationaler Terrorismus
    Abstract: This original collection examines the managerial and organizational implications of international terrorism and threats to security. When Islamic terrorists flew hijacked airplanes into the World Trade Center on 9/11, it changed much of the world forever. The number of deaths and the financial losses resulting from the attack was unprecedented. 9/11 highlighted how risky life in organizations had become
    Abstract: pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Impact of terrorism -- pt. 3. Building individual and organizational resilience
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    ISBN: 9781848440166
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 155 p) , ill
    Series Statement: New directions in modern economics
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Orhangazi, Özgür, 1977 - Financialization and the US economy
    DDC: 332.10973
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    Keywords: Finanzsektor ; Finanzmarkt ; Finanzdienstleistung ; USA ; Finance ; Financial services industry ; Electronic books ; United States Economic conditions 2001-2009 ; United States Economic conditions ; 2001- ; USA ; Kreditmarkt
    Abstract: Özgür Orhangazi brings together a comprehensive analysis of financialization in the US economy that encompasses the historical, theoretical, and empirical sides of the issues. He explores the origins and consequences of the dramatic rise of financial markets in the US economy and focuses on the impacts of this process of 'financialization' on the operations of the non-financial corporate sector
    Abstract: Introduction -- Stylized facts -- Historical context -- Perspectives on financialization -- Financial markets and NFCs : a theoretical discussion -- Financialization and investment : aggregate analysis -- Financialization and investment : firm-level analysis -- Conclusion
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-147) and index
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    ISBN: 9781848440173
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 342 p) , ill., maps
    Series Statement: Transport economics, management and policy
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Decision-making on mega-projects
    DDC: 658.4/03
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    Keywords: Infrastrukturinvestition ; Entscheidung ; Projektmanagement ; Projektfinanzierung ; Projektcontrolling ; Europa ; USA ; Project management Decision making ; Economic development projects ; Decision making ; Großprojekt ; Projektmanagement ; Entscheidungsfindung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Großprojekt ; Projektmanagement ; Entscheidungsfindung
    Abstract: This book enlarges the understanding of decision-making on mega-projects and suggest recommendations for a more effective, efficient and democratic approach. Authors from different scientific disciplines address various aspects of the decision-making process, such as management characteristics and cost-benefit analysis, planning and innovation and competition and institutions. The subject matter is highly diverse, but certain questions remain at the forefront. For example, how do we deal with protracted preparation processes, how do we tackle risks and uncertainties, and how can we best divide the risks and responsibilities among the private and public players throughout the different phases of the project?
    Abstract: pt. 2. Management characteristics and cost-benefit analysis -- pt. 2. Planning and decision-making-- pt. 3. Innovation, competition and institutions
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    ISBN: 9781848442832
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 405 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Restructuring work and employment in Europe
    DDC: 331.12/042
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    Keywords: 1982-2010 ; Arbeitswelt ; Unternehmensorganisation ; Organisatorischer Wandel ; EU-Staaten ; Corporate reorganizations ; Corporate reorganizations Case studies ; Social responsibility of business ; Europäische Union ; Arbeitswelt ; Unternehmen ; Reorganisation ; Organisationswandel ; Geschichte 1982-2010 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europäische Union ; Arbeitswelt ; Unternehmen ; Reorganisation ; Organisationswandel ; Geschichte 1982-2010
    Abstract: This detailed, comprehensive study on downsizing in Europe is underpinned by cross-national, interdisciplinary empirical research on restructuring management in five European countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. It contains systematic national comparative overviews, and transversal analyses of more than 30 in-depth case studies, taking into account a broad range of perspectives across professional human resources managers, unions" representatives, local and national civil servants, social workers and physicians. The authors examine strategic choices and practices in national and local contexts, showing that the practice of restructuring is not as heterogeneous as many previous studies have indicated or predicted. Systematic policy proposals for better economic and social management of restructuring are also prescribed
    Abstract: 1. Comparing processes across Europe / Bernard Gazier -- 2. The restructuring process : towards a comprehensive analysis / Dominique Paucard -- 3. Innovation : from employment protection to anticipation / Frédéric Bruggeman -- 4. Belgium : a corporatist regime / Frédéric Naedenoen -- 5. France : law driven restructuring / Maxime Petrovski ... [et al.] -- 6. Germany : negotiated restructuring / Matthias Knuth and Gernot Mühge -- 7. The Swedish model of restructuring / Ola Bergström and Andreas Diedrich -- 8. United Kingdom : market driven restructuring / Sian Moore and Geof Luton -- 9. Innovative restructuring : learning from company experience / Ola Bergström and Andreas Diedrich -- 10. Trade unions : obstacles or facilitators? / Sian Moore, Greg Thomson and Geof Luton -- 11. Supporting job transitions : employers, worker representatives and agencies / Matthias Knuth -- 12. The territory : an innovation laboratory / Rachel Beaujolin-Bellet -- 13. Networking : employers' groups / Gelica Dalon and François Pichault -- 14. Health impacts and innovative approaches / Thomas Kieselbach and Debora Jeske -- 15. Does Europe have restructuring policies? / Claude Emmanuel Triomphe
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    ISBN: 9781848443822
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 256 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Competition policy and merger analysis in deregulated and newly competitive industries
    DDC: 338.60480973
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    Keywords: 1980-2004 ; Unternehmenskonzentration ; Fusion ; Wettbewerbspolitik ; Deregulierung ; USA ; EU-Staaten ; Deregulation Case studies ; Deregulation Case studies ; Consolidation and merger of corporations ; Competition ; Consolidation and merger of corporations ; Competition ; Wettbewerbspolitik ; Mergers and Acquisitions ; Branche ; Deregulierung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wettbewerbspolitik ; Mergers and Acquisitions ; Branche ; Deregulierung
    Abstract: This comprehensive book contains case studies on the evolution of competition policy, with an emphasis on merger policy, for seven major US industries that have experienced substantial deregulation in the past forty years - electricity, natural gas, telecommunications, railroads, airlines, hospitals and banking. Also included is a comparison of the EU's experience in attempting to bring about competition in the energy, finance, and airline industries
    Abstract: 1. Introduction and overview / Peter C. Carstensen and Susan Beth Farmer -- 2. Mergers in the US electric power industry / Richard J. Pierce -- 3. Natural gas pipelines : can merger enforcement preserve the gains from restructuring? / Diana L. Moss -- 4. Telecommunications mergers / Jim Chen -- 5. Merger analysis in the post-staggers railroad industry / Curtis M. Grimm -- 6. Airline mergers - second-best results in a changed environment / Peter C. Carstensen -- 7. Hospital mergers / Thomas L. Greaney -- 8. Mergers and competition policy in the banking industry / Bernard Shull -- 9. The European experience with merger and deregulation / Susan Beth Farmer -- 10. Reflections on mergers and competition in formerly regulated industries / Peter C. Carstensen
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781848442917
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 161 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Prandelli, Emanuela Collaborating with customers to innovate
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    Keywords: Innovationsmanagement ; Beziehungsmarketing ; New products ; Innovationsmanagement ; Unternehmen ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift ; Unternehmen ; Innovationsprozess ; Kundenmanagement
    Abstract: The book enriches an important debate in management and in academia on the new product development process. It encompasses marketing approaches and is sharply focused on the opportunities that digital technologies have created for involving customers in collaborative innovation, and actionable recommendations for putting collaborative innovation to work
    Abstract: ch. 1. an increasing need for innovation -- ch. 2. The promise of collaborative innovation -- ch. 3. Tools for collaborative innovation -- ch. 4. Managing an integrated portfolio of tools for collaborative innovation -- ch. 5. From collaborative to distributed innovation -- ch. 6. Virtual communities -- ch. 7. Virtual knowledge brokers -- ch. 8. Open-source systems -- ch. 9. Conclusions
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    ISBN: 9781782543992
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 167 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in regional science
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Knoben, Joris Firm mobility and organizational networks
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    Keywords: Unternehmenskooperation ; Unternehmensnetzwerk ; Betriebliche Standortwahl ; Erfolgsfaktor ; Wirtschaftsgeographie ; Organisationsforschung ; Business relocation ; Business networks ; Economic geography ; Unternehmen ; Unternehmenskooperation ; Netzwerk ; Standortverlagerung ; Unternehmenserfolg ; Wirtschaftsgeographie ; Unternehmen ; Unternehmenskooperation ; Netzwerk ; Standortverlagerung ; Unternehmenserfolg ; Wirtschaftsgeografie
    Abstract: Joris Knoben illustrates that the number of firm relocations has grown steadily and considerably over the last decade and, at the same time, relationships between organizations have become more important to firm performance. It is often argued that these relationships require geographical stability, and so the author explores how these two seemingly contradictory observations can be reconciled. Insights from economic geography and organization science are utilized to develop a multidisciplinary firm-level perspective on the causes and consequences of firm relocation. Subsequently, this framework is tested empirically. The results show that incorporating the level of embeddedness as well as the spatial mobility of firms into a single framework leads to significantly better explanations of both the spatial behavior of firms as well as of the outcomes of this behavior. All-in-all, the findings indicate that there is a tradeoff between spatial mobility and inter-organizational stability. This multidisciplinary perspective on the relations between organizational networks, spatial firm mobility, and firm performance will be of great interest to a range of scholars, including organization scientists, regional scientists and economic geographers and, managers of relocating companies as well as consultants in this field
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The effects of firm relocation on firm performance: State of the art and directions for future research -- 3. Radical changes in inter-organizational network structures: The longitudinal gap -- 4. Proximity and inter-organizational collaboration: A literature review and beyond -- 5. Research approach and data collection -- 6. A relational account of the causes of firm relocation -- 7. The effects of firm relocation on firm performance -- 8. Conclusions -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-161) and index
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    ISBN: 9781847207197
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 419 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Tipton, Frank B., 1943 - Asian firms
    DDC: 338.095
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    Keywords: Unternehmen ; Management ; Wirtschaftskultur ; Institutionelle Infrastruktur ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Asien ; Industrial management ; Business enterprises ; Industrial policy ; Asien ; Unternehmen ; Management ; Electronic books ; Asia Economic policy ; Asien ; Unternehmen ; Management
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Managing horizontal information flows in Japan -- 3. Managing with charismatic leadership in Korea -- 4. Managing the boundaries of the firm in Qing and Nationalist China -- 5. Managing the Chinese firm in Hong Kong and Taiwan -- 6. Managing relations with state agencies in the People's Republic -- 7. Managing under the guidance of a strong state in Southeast Asia -- 8. Managing cash flow in the Bamboo networks : overseas Chinese and the Singapore system -- 9. Managing cultural diversity in Southeast Asia.
    Abstract: Frank Tipton's book is a comparative study of the management structures of Asian firms. As Asian economies continue to expand, the management of Asian firms becomes ever more important, whether they are suppliers, customers, partners, or rivals. As the author argues, Asian firms are very different from their Western counterparts, and these differences reflect the variations in national history and institutions within which they operate
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 238 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Utility regulation in competitive markets
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    Keywords: Öffentliche Dienstleistung ; Versorgungswirtschaft ; Energieversorgung ; Deregulierung ; Erdgasmarkt ; Postsektor ; Bahnpolitik ; Telekommunikation ; Rundfunk ; Großbritannien ; EU-Staaten ; USA ; Public utilities Congresses Government policy ; Competition Congresses Government policy ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Großbritannien ; Versorgungswirtschaft ; Deregulierung ; Wettbewerbspolitik
    Abstract: Introduction / Colin Robinson -- 1. Beyond regulation / Stephen Littlechild -- Comment / Colin Robinson -- 2. Ronald coase and the spectrum question / Thomas W. Hazlett -- Comment / Leonard Waverman -- 3. European energy liberalisation : progress and problems / Jorge Vasconcelos -- Comment / Philip Lowe -- 4. Supply security in competitive electricity and natural gas markets / Paul L. Joskow -- Comment / John Mogg -- 5. The end to the postal exception? / Dermot Glynn and David Stubbs -- Comment / Nigel Stapleton -- 6. Developing the framework of rail regulation / Chris Bolt -- Comment / Chris Nash -- 7. Cost of capital : some current issues / Julian Franks -- Comment / Philip Fletcher -- 8. A strategic approach to the economic regulation of spectrum, telecoms and broadcasting / Ed Richards -- Comment / Richard Feasey.
    Abstract: This significant new volume contains incisive chapters on a number of prominent concerns, including changes in the British system of utility regulation, the spectrum allocation question, liberalisation of EU energy markets, security of supply issues, reform in the European postal sector, the future of rail regulation, the cost of capital and Ofcom's strategic approach to regulation. Chapters on each topic are followed by comments from regulators, competition authority chairmen and other experts in the relevant fields. By confronting the most important international developments in utility regulation, the authors offer practical policy recommendations for an effective way forward
    Note: Papers from the 15th series of the Beesley lectures, held in 2005 , "In association with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School." , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781847207128
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 220 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Reintsma, Mary The political economy of welfare reform in the United States
    DDC: 361.6/80973
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    Keywords: Sozialreform ; Neue politische Ökonomie ; USA ; Public welfare ; Public welfare Law and legislation ; Reform ; Sozialpolitik ; USA ; Electronic books ; United States Social policy ; USA ; Sozialpolitik ; Reform ; USA ; Sozialpolitik ; Reform
    Abstract: Social welfare policy -- Comparative social welfare policy -- Traditional public interest model -- The public choice perspective -- Government and its bureaucracy -- The origins of the new welfare law -- The genesis of the new welfare law -- Institutional analysis -- An econometric analysis of the variables affecting changes in welfare caseloads.
    Abstract: The welfare system in the United States underwent profound changes as a result of the groundbreaking welfare legislation passed in 1996 entitled The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act (PRWORA). The Political Economy of Welfare Reform in the United States examines in detail the legislative process that gave rise to PRWORA and presents two alternative theories to explain this process; the traditional public interest model of government and the public choice model. On the basis of a detailed historical analysis of welfare programs and policies in the US, the author explains the two alternative theories and engages in a detailed institutional and statistical analysis to make a convincing argument for the validity of the public choice paradigm
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-210) and index
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    ISBN: 9781847205537
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 301 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rutten, Roel, 1971 - The learning region
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    Keywords: Regionalwissenschaft ; Regionalentwicklung ; Räumliche Verteilung ; Regionalpolitik ; Innovation ; Innovationsdiffusion ; Lernende Organisation ; Humankapital ; Sozialkapital ; Wettbewerbsvorteil ; Frankreich ; Italien ; USA ; EU-Staaten ; Regional economics ; Learning Economic aspects ; Social capital (Sociology) ; Space in economics ; Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Electronic books ; Lernen ; Regionale Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Innovation
    Abstract: pt. 1. Foundations -- pt. 2. State of the art -- pt. 3. Future.
    Abstract: The aim of this book is to present a much-needed conceptualization of 'the learning region'. The editors scrutinize key concepts and issues surrounding this phenomenon, which are then discussed in the context of recent literature. This unique conceptualization of the learning region presents a state of the art exploration of theories. Leading scholars from across Europe, the USA and South Africa draw upon various disciplines to explain how regional actors perform regional learning
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    ISBN: 9781847204066
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 267 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Obesity, business and public policy
    DDC: 362.196398
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    Keywords: 1960-2020 ; Ernährungsverhalten ; Gesundheitsrisiko ; Soziale Lage ; Arbeitsmarkt ; Krankenversicherung ; Gesundheitspolitik ; USA ; Obesity Economic aspects ; Obesity Government policy ; USA ; Fettsucht ; Wirtschaft ; Politik ; Electronic books
    Abstract: pt. 1. Culture, obesity and institutions -- pt. 2. Obesity and the individual -- pt. 3. Obesity and business -- pt. 4. Obesity and government -- pt. 5. Lessons from the past -- pt. 6. Policy conclusions.
    Abstract: The effects of obesity have become practically ubiquitous in the US. This book aims to provide an alternative framework through which to explore the important and controversial obesity debate that has spilled over from the medical community. This book is not about obesity as a medical condition, nor does it offer a wide-ranging discussion on the health effects of obesity or the role of the 'right' diet
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    ISBN: 9781847208835
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 292 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Pennings, Johannes M., 1941 - Human capital, inter-firm mobility and organizational evolution
    DDC: 331.11
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    Keywords: Dienstleistungssektor ; Personalmanagement ; Humankapital ; Karriereplanung ; Niederlande ; Human capital ; Personnel management ; Career development ; Corporations Valuation ; Unternehmen ; Personalpolitik ; Humanvermögen ; Berufslaufbahn ; Organisationswandel ; Electronic books ; Unternehmen ; Personalpolitik ; Humanvermögen ; Berufslaufbahn ; Organisationswandel
    Abstract: pt. 1. Theoretical and empirical foundations -- pt. 2. The intangible asset of human-intensive organizations -- pt. 3. The role of individual mobility for organizational behavior and performance.
    Abstract: The authors of this fascinating and original work contend that by analysing the conduct of organization members, a great deal can be learnt about firm behaviour and about the cooperative and competitive forces that underlie industry evolution
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-283) and index
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    ISBN: 9781847208590
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 130 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: TIAA-CREF Institute series on higher education
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Transformational change in higher education
    DDC: 378.73
    Keywords: Bildungswesen ; Bildungspolitik ; Bildungsreform ; Hochschulfinanzierung ; Studium ; Institutioneller Wandel ; Wettbewerb ; USA ; Education, Higher Aims and objectives ; Education, Higher Administration ; Universities and colleges Planning ; Educational change ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Balancing the challenges of today with the promise of tomorrow : a presidential perspective / F. King Alexander -- Strengthening the academic presidency : recommendations for presidents and governing boards / Robert M. O'Neil -- Aligning institutional vision with policymakers' and the public's interest / Patrick M. Callan -- Financing institutional operations : the entrepreneurial leader / James C. Hearn -- Changing student access through strategic pricing initiatives / Donald E. Heller -- Perspectives on transformational change from the TIAA-CREFF experience / Herbert M. Allison Jr.
    Abstract: This unique volume discusses the management of transformational change in higher education as a key element of success. With input from researchers, presidents, provosts, and other senior leaders of the higher education community, this edited volume explores transformational change in a range of institutions from small teaching and community colleges to large comprehensive research universities
    Note: "In association with TIAA-CREF." , Includes index , Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-112)
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    ISBN: 9781847204165
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 320 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Economic integration, democratization and national security in East Asia
    DDC: 327.73051
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    Keywords: 1992-2005 ; Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Internationale Wirtschaft ; Demokratisierung ; Entwicklung ; Wirtschaftsintegration ; Nationale Sicherheit ; Lieferkette ; USA ; Ostasien ; Electronic books ; United States Foreign relations ; United States Foreign relations ; Taiwan Foreign relations ; China Foreign relations ; Taiwan Economic conditions 1945- ; Taiwan Politics and government 1945- ; China Economic conditions 1949- ; China Politics and government 1949- ; Aufsatzsammlung ; China ; Taiwan ; USA ; Außenpolitik ; Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; USA ; Taiwan ; China ; Außenpolitik ; Wirtschaftsbeziehungen
    Abstract: pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Democratization in Taiwan and its impacts on the triangular relations -- pt. 3. Economic integration and security of the global supply chains -- pt. 4. US strategic and security interests in Asia -- pt. 5. Postscript.
    Abstract: The US policy of supporting a democratic Taiwan while simultaneously engaging China is a delicate and complex balance, with outcomes critical to economic, security and strategic interests in Asia. At the same time, rising Taiwanese identity amid the emerging power of China continues to change the paradigm. The contributors to this volume explore the political and economic dimensions of this complicated and pressing issue
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    ISBN: 9781847207166
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 148 p)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Stabile, Donald, 1944 - Economics, competition and academia
    DDC: 338.4/3378
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    Keywords: Bildungsökonomik ; Wettbewerb ; Hochschule ; Wirtschaftshochschule ; Ökonomische Ideengeschichte ; Philosophie ; Altertum ; USA ; Education, Higher Economic aspects ; Universities and colleges Sociological aspects ; Business and education ; Education, Greek ; Sophists (Greek philosophy) ; Electronic books ; USA ; Hochschule ; Kommerzialisierung ; Wettbewerb ; Wirtschaftsphilosophie ; Geschichte
    Abstract: 1. Introduction : markets, competition, and higher education -- 2. Sophism, academia, and Greek economics -- 3. Adam Smith and sophism : reaction to the endowment model -- 4. Virtue and early academia in the US -- 5. Academia and the rise of capitalism in the US -- 6. Corporate capitalism and the university as a business -- 7. Collegiate business schools in the US : sophism or virtue -- 8. Academia in transition : the road to sophism.
    Abstract: Donald Stabile places current concerns over the commercialization of academia in a historical context by describing the long-standing question of the extent to which market economics can and should be applied to higher education. The debate between Plato and Aristotle on one side and sophists on the other provides a foundation for the modern debate of endowment versus tuition models. The author tackles the intellectual discourse over the mission of higher education and the effect markets and competition might have on it. The discussion encompasses the ideas on higher education of leading economic thinkers such as Adam Smith, Jeremy Benthan, John Stuart Mill, Alfred Marshall, Thorstein Veblen and John K. Galbraith and identifies them as supporters of either sophism or virtue. Included, too, are the thoughts of educators and policymakers influenced by free market ideas, such as Benjamin Rush, Francis Wayland and Charles W. Eliot, as well as those opposed to them. In addition, the author explores the development of collegiate business schools in the US and how they were justified on the basis of virtue. The book concludes with a section on for-profit colleges and their relationship to sophism
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-142) and index
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    ISBN: 9781847204226
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 144 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Green, Gary Paul Workforce development networks in rural areas
    DDC: 331.12/042
    Keywords: Ländliche Entwicklung ; Landbevölkerung ; Berufsbildung ; Ländlicher Arbeitsmarkt ; Soziales Netzwerk ; USA ; Rural development ; Occupational training ; Social networks ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Rural labor markets, networks and workforce development -- 3. Employer training : individual investments in collective goods -- 4. Community colleges in rural America : new roles and challenges -- 5. Workforce development networks : the visible hand at work -- 6. Shoot the alligators or drain the swamp : can grassroots efforts make a difference?
    Abstract: Rural areas face numerous challenges in building a high-wage, high-skilled workforce. In response to these obstacles, many regions have established workforce development networks that provide stronger linkages between employers, schools, training institutions and community-based organizations. Gary Paul Green examines in this book how these networks are organized, why employers and training institutions participate in them and whether they are effective
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    ISBN: 9781847204462
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 383 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: New horizons in regional science
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Industrial agglomeration and new technologies
    DDC: 338.8/7
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    Keywords: 1950-2001 ; Neue ökonomische Geographie ; Globalisierung ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Regionalentwicklung ; Regionales Cluster ; Welt ; Economic geography Case studies Research ; Commercial geography Case studies Research ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Industriebetrieb ; Ballungsraum ; Asien ; Italien ; Mexiko ; USA ; Agglomeration ; Asien ; Agglomeration ; Italien ; USA ; Mexiko
    Abstract: Agglomeration in Asia -- The relationship between Toyota and its parts suppliers in the age of information and globalization : concentration vs. dispersion / Masatsugu Tsuji -- Iron town cluster : Yawata, its glory, decline and rebirth / Mitsuhiro Kagami -- Information technology and economic growth : discovering the informational role of density / Takuo Imagawa -- Agglomeration of exporting firms in industrial zones in Northern Vietnam : players and institutions / Akifumi Kuchiki -- Industrial agglomeration and regional growth in Korea : focusing on the software and IT service sector / Yasushi Ueki -- China's regional industrial disparity from the viewpoint of industrial agglomeration / Koichiro Kimura -- Agglomeration in Italy -- Italian comparative advantages, persistence and change in overall specialization / Luca De Benedictis -- Globalization, industrial districts and value chains / Roberta Rabellotti -- The competitive advantage of a region : industrial districts in Emilia-Romagna / Enrico Santarelli -- Where is the internet? : agglomeration in space and cyberspace / Emanuele Giovannetti, Karsten Neuhoff and Giancarlo Spagnolo -- Agglomeration in the Americas -- The software industry in North America : human capital, international migration and foreign trade / Andrew Schrank -- Mexico : the management revolution and the emergence of the software industry / Clemente Ruiz Durán.
    Abstract: This book, a collaborative effort by researchers from Japan, Italy and the USA, seeks to explore the reasons for industrial clustering in certain regions of Asia, Europe and North America. The studies presented illustrate real examples of industrial clusters, adding anecdotal evidence to the emerging theory of economic geography by exemplifying the centripetal and centrifugal forces that regulate the clustering process. The authors examine clusters in a diverse set of countries including China, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, the USA and Vietnam. Significantly, the book provides an interesting split between studies of IT and software-related industries, and more traditional sectors, such as steel and vehicle manufacturing
    Note: Contents: Part I: Agglomeration in Asia Part II: Agglomeration in Italy Part III: Agglomeration in the Americas Part IV: Conclusion Index Contributors: L. De Benedictis, E. Giovannetti, T. Imagawa, M. Kagami, K. Kimura, A. Kuchiki, K. Neuhoff, R. Rabellotti, C. Ruiz Durán, E. Santarelli, A. Schrank, G. Spagnolo, M. Tsuji, Y. Ueki , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781847208750
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 322 p) , ill
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    Uniform Title: Entrepreneuriat régional et économie de la connaissance
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Julien, Pierre-André, 1939 - A theory of local entrepreneurship in the knowledge economy
    DDC: 338/.0401
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    Keywords: Unternehmensgründung ; Entrepreneurship ; Wissensgesellschaft ; Regionalökonomik ; Entrepreneurship ; Business networks ; Regional economics ; Knowledge management ; Information technology Economic aspects ; Wissensmanagement ; Unternehmen ; Netzwerk ; Regionalwirtschaft ; Electronic books ; Wissensmanagement ; Entrepreneurship ; Unternehmen ; Netzwerk ; Regionalwirtschaft
    Abstract: pt. 1. Context : the knowledge economy and different dynamics -- pt. 2. The main actors : entrepreneurs, organizations and milieux : their capacity to develop knowledge -- pt. 3. The factors : information, networks and innovation : necessary and sufficient conditions for entrepreneurship -- pt. 4. The functioning of local entrepreneurship : dynamism through contagion.
    Abstract: This highly original book represents a departure from entrepreneurship literature that is largely limited to the study of entrepreneurs' behaviour. Its dynamic presentation of holistic theory will prove an extremely absorbing read for those with an academic or professional interest in business and management, entrepreneurship and regional development
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-309) and index
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    ISBN: 9781847208743
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 244 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Productivity in Asia
    DDC: 338.6095
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    Keywords: 1980-2002 ; Produktivität ; Industrie ; Wettbewerb ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Asien ; USA ; Industrial productivity ; Competition ; Industrial productivity ; Electronic books ; Asia Economic conditions ; Asia Economic conditions ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Ostasien ; Industrie ; Produktivität ; USA
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Investigating productivity slowdown in the 1990s by using the KLEM database in Japan -- 3. The sources of growth of US industries -- 4. Total factor productivity growth in Chinese industries, 1981-2000 -- 5. Growth accounting and productivity analysis by 33 industrial sectors in Korea (1984-2002) -- 6. Industry-wide total factor productivity and output growth in Taiwan, 1981-1999 -- 7. Purchasing power parities for international comparisons of output and productivity in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States -- 8. Assessing Japan's industrial competitiveness by international productivity level : comparison with China, Korea, Taiwan and the United States.
    Abstract: The outstanding economic performance of East Asian countries has been investigated in numerous studies. However, most comparative studies analyze macro-level productivity. In this book, the productivity performance of China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and the United States are compared at industry level. The work is a result of an international collaborative research project by RIETI (Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry), Japan. The total factor productivity growth and level amongst these five countries sheds new light on the industrial competitiveness of growing Asian economies compared to Japan and the United States. In addition, this book provides detailed information on productivity datasets for these five countries
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    ISBN: 9781847205506
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 350 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The economic costs and consequences of terrorism
    DDC: 363.325
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    Keywords: 2000-2005 ; Terrorismus ; Kosten ; Sachversicherung ; Luftverkehr ; Hafenanlagen ; Ernährungsindustrie ; Tourismus ; Elektrizitätswirtschaft ; Wasserversorgung ; USA ; Terrorism Economic aspects ; Infrastructure (Economics) ; Electric utilities ; Transportation Effect of terrorism on ; Terrorism Prevention ; USA ; Terrorismus ; Innere Sicherheit ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Electronic books ; USA ; Terrorismus ; Innere Sicherheit ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Infrastruktur
    Abstract: Terrorism : considering new policies / Bruno S. Frey and Simon Luechinger -- An empirical analysis of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) / Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan -- Airport security : time for a new model / Robert W. Poole, Jr. -- Cost-effective strategies to address urban terrorism : a risk management approach. / Richard G. Little -- Optimal inspection strategies for Coast Guard operations / Niyazi Onur Bakir -- Balancing freedom and security after 9/11 : risk management at National Park Service / Larry Parkinson -- The national economic impacts of a food terrorism event : initial estimates of indirect costs / Thomas F. Stinson -- The economic cost of disasters : permanent or ephemeral? / Matthew P. Drennan -- Analyzing catastrophic terrorist events with applications to the food industry / Hamid Mohtadi and Antu Panini Murshid -- Simulating the state-by-state effects of terrorist attacks on three major US ports : applying NIEMO (National Interstate Economic Model) / Jiyoung Park ... [et al.] -- Tourism and terrorism : the national and interregional economic impacts of attacks on major US theme parks / Harry W. Richardson... [et al.] -- Worst case electricity scenarios : the benefits and costs of prevention / Lester B. Lave, Jay Apt and Granger Morgan -- Risk and economic costs of a terrorist attack on the electric system / Rae Zimmerman ... [et al.] -- Regional economic impacts of a terrorist attack on the water system of Los Angeles : a computable general disequilibrium analysis / Adam Rose, Gbadebo Oladosu and Shu-Yi Liao -- Two-sided electricity markets : self-healing systems / Richard E. Schuler.
    Abstract: This landmark book covers a range of issues concerning the consequences of terrorist attacks. Beginning with a discussion of new policies and strategies, it then delves into specific areas of concern, modeling a range of possible scenarios and ways to mitigate or pre-empt damages
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    ISBN: 9781847207050
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 272 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Iley, Richard A., 1970 - Untangling the US deficit
    DDC: 339.5/230973
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    Keywords: Außenwirtschaftliches Gleichgewicht ; Leistungsbilanz ; USA ; Budget deficits ; Electronic books ; USA ; Haushaltsdefizit
    Abstract: 1. The essence of the problem -- 2. The trade perspective -- 3. National accounting perspectives -- 4. The international perspective -- 5. Nature of the adjustment mechanisms -- 6. The sustainability of the deficit -- 7. The demand for US assets -- 8. China and the United States -- 9. Conclusion.
    Abstract: As the US current account deficit has expanded to a record level of $811 billion in 2006, debate about the deficit's causes and consequences has also grown. Is the deficit a product of American profligacy or a 'glut of savings' in the rest of the world? Is it a serious problem or essentially benign? Untangling the US Deficit charts a course between the competing explanations in a systematic and rigorous approach, incorporating the latest academic research and market data. Particular attention is given to the China-United States trade imbalance and to the special role of the US dollar and US capital markets in global finance
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-263) and index
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    ISBN: 9781847206893
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 205 p)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Chick, Martin, 1958 - Electricity and energy policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1945
    DDC: 333.7909045
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    Keywords: 1945-2005 ; Energiepolitik ; Elektrizitätspolitik ; Elektrizitätswirtschaft ; Großbritannien ; Frankreich ; USA ; Energy policy History 20th century ; Energy policy History 20th century ; Energy policy History 20th century ; Electric utilities History 20th century ; Electric utilities History 20th century ; Electric utilities History 20th century ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Elektrizität ; Elektrizitätswirtschaft ; Energiewirtschaft ; Energiepolitik ; Energiequelle ; Energieträger ; Electronic books ; Großbritannien ; Frankreich ; USA ; Großbritannien ; Frankreich ; USA ; Energiepolitik ; Elektrizitätswirtschaft
    Abstract: Introduction -- Shifting from coal to oil : what price security? -- The European coal and steel community -- Moving the margin to the centre : pricing electricity -- Electricity investment : rewarding the past, discounting the future -- Deregulation, privatisation and liberalisation -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: Martin Chick's book is a major economic and historical study of the development of electricity and energy policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1945. Using newly available archival material the author draws important comparisons between these countries and includes all of the fuel and power industries
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-193) and index
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    ISBN: 9781847205278
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 128 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Climate and trade policy
    DDC: 363.738/74
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    Keywords: 2000-2050 ; Klimawandel ; Umweltpolitik ; Klimaschutz ; Grenzüberschreitende Umweltbelastung ; Regionalpolitik ; Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Handelsabkommen ; EU-Staaten ; USA ; China ; Japan ; Environmental policy ; Commercial policy ; Pollution Economic aspects ; Climatic changes Economic aspects ; Klimaänderung ; Umweltpolitik ; Internationale Kooperation ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Umweltpolitik ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Anthropogene Klimaänderung ; Klimaschutz ; Internationale Kooperation
    Abstract: Bottom-up approaches towards a global climate agreement : an overview -- Carlo Carraro, Christian Egenhofer and Noriko Fujiwara -- Regional and subglobal climate blocs : a cost-benefit analysis of bottom-up climate regimes / Barbara Buchner and Carlo Carraro -- Do regional integration approaches hold lessons for climate change regime formation? : the case of differentiated integration in Europe / Noriko Fujiwara and Christian Egenhofer -- Trade, the environment and climate change : multilateral versus regional agreements / David Kernohan and Enrica De Cian -- Participation incentives and technical change : from top-down to bottom-up climate agreements / Barbara Buchner and Carlo Carraro -- Bottom-up approaches to climate change control : some policy conclusions / Carlo Carraro and Christian Egenhofer.
    Abstract: The difficulty of achieving and implementing a global climate change agreement has stimulated a wide range of policy proposals designed to favour the participation of a large number of countries in a global cooperative effort to control greenhouse gas emissions. This significant book analyses the viability of controlling climate change through a set of regional or sub-global climate agreements rather than via a global treaty.
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    ISBN: 9781847208705
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 217 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics series
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Economic valuation of river systems
    DDC: 333.91/62153
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    Keywords: Umweltschutz ; Umweltökonomik ; Fluss ; Gewässerschutz ; Umweltpolitik ; Zahlungsbereitschaftsanalyse ; Tourismusregion ; Agrochemikalie ; USA ; Stream restoration Case studies Economic aspects ; Watershed management Case studies Economic aspects ; Rivers Case studies Economic aspects ; Sustainable development Case studies ; Contingent valuation Case studies ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Fluss ; Ökologie ; Umweltökonomie
    Abstract: 1. The role of biology and ecological engineering in watershed and river restoration -- 2. Codification, case studies, and methods for economic analysis of river systems -- 3. Estimating willingness to pay for additional protection of Ohio surface waters : contingent valuation of water quality -- 4. The economics of high-head dam removal in an ecological context : a case study of the Ballville Dam, Fremont, Ohio -- 5. The economics of low-head dam removal : a case study on the Salmon River in Fort Covington, New York -- 6. Economic analysis of infrastructure and water quality improvements in the Muskingum River Corridor -- 7. Economic analysis of water quality and recreational benefits of the Hocking River Valley -- 8. Effects of pesticide use and farming practices on water treatment costs in Maumee River Basin communities -- 9. Economic efficiency and distribution evaluation of dredging of toxic sediments and selected dam removal in the Mahoning River -- 10. An economic analysis of Lower Great Miami River segment improvements -- 11. The Cuyahoga River Valley initiative : framing, codification, and preliminary economic analysis in an urban river corridor -- 12. Overview, key findings, and approaches including benefit transfer for generalization of research results.
    Abstract: The book applies benefit-cost analysis and a wide array of non-market and distribution economic valuation methods in ecologic context to determine the pay-off and distribution impacts of various infrastructure and water quality improvements to eight river systems in the Great Lakes region of the US. The generally positive results have important implications for public policy and future research
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    ISBN: 9781847204325
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 297 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: New horizons in regional science series
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Incentives, regulations, and plans
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    Keywords: Raumordnung ; Regionalplanung ; Stadtentwicklung ; Landnutzung ; Wohnungsbau ; Europa ; USA ; Land use Congresses Government policy ; Land use Congresses Planning ; Electronic books ; Regionalplanung ; Stadt ; Stadtplanung ; Verstädterung ; Wachstum ; Nachhaltigkeit
    Abstract: pt. 1. Urban containment -- pt. 2. Mixed use -- pt. 3. Affordable housing -- pt. 4. Transit-oriented development -- pt. 5. Healthy urban design -- pt. 6. Smart growth implementation.
    Abstract: This unique book allows readers to compare analyses of how North American states and European nation-states use incentives, regulations or plans to approach a core set of universal land use issues such as: containing sprawl, mixed use development, transit oriented development, affordable housing, healthy urban designs, and marketing smarter growth
    Note: Papers originally presented at an international symposium held at the University of Maryland, Annapolis, Maryland from September 29 through October 1, 2004 , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781781959954
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 330 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Business networks and strategic alliances in China
    DDC: 338.8/70951
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    Keywords: 1990-2005 ; Unternehmensnetzwerk ; Strategische Allianz ; Joint Venture ; Unternehmenskooperation ; Corporate Governance ; Vertrauen ; Risiko ; Wissenstransfer ; Sozialkapital ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; Lernende Organisation ; Humankapital ; Unternehmensethik ; China ; Business networks ; Strategic alliances (Business) ; Diffusion of innovations Economic aspects ; Aufsatzsammlung ; China ; Strategische Allianz ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; China ; Unternehmen ; Netzwerk ; Geschäftsverbindung
    Abstract: Business Networks and Strategic Alliances in China addresses how knowledge transfer and innovation are interwoven within complex networks and how social capital contributes to the acquisition of crucial resources and business success in multi-type enterprises in China. The book explains how China's remarkable global economic impact in recent years has developed from foreign investment and that the dominant vehicle for economic development has been the International Joint Venture (IJV) between Chinese manufacturers and overseas enterprises. Strict guidelines on FDI mean that foreign firms have been obliged to form relationships with Chinese organizations. The authors illustrate that as a direct result, the quality and nature of the relations, networks, and alliances forged is crucial for the success of Chinese businesses. A sophisticated empirical, theoretical, comparative and historical guide to understanding the nature of business networks in China is provided by this work. As such, it makes a distinct contribution to the furtherance of evidence-based management theory and practice and will strongly appeal to those with an interest in management, international business and Asian studies
    Description / Table of Contents: Business networks and strategic alliances in China / Stewart Clegg, Karen Wang, & Mike Berrell -- The nature of power, control, trust and risk in international joint ventures / Mike Berrell -- The role of culture in international business relations / Jan Selmer -- Social capital and knowledge transfer between subsidiaries of foreign MNCs and local organizations / Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen & Ingmar Björkman -- The adoption of agency business activity, product innovation and performance in Chinese technology ventures / Haiyang Li & Kwaku Atuahene-Gima -- Tacit knowledge and inter-firm learning in China / Richard Li-Hua & Jian Peng -- Inter-firm relations in business groups / Lisa A. Keister -- Creating social capital as a competitive (dis)advantage / Heidi Dahles -- The contextual balance of social capital within hierarchical relations in China / Karen Wang -- Human capital, social capital and firm performance in Chinese SMEs / Stephen T.T. Teo & Karen Wang -- Business networks in China / Emanuela Todeva -- Guanxi and ethical business issues in China / Jos Gamble -- Performance in international joint ventures in China / John Child.
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    ISBN: 9781035305513
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 380 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in regional science
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Entrepreneurship, industrial location and economic growth
    DDC: 338/.04094
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    Keywords: 1991-2003 ; Entrepreneurship ; Unternehmensgründung ; Unternehmenserfolg ; Unternehmenswachstum ; Betrieblicher Standort ; Investition ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; OECD-Staaten ; Entrepreneurship Congresses ; New business enterprises Congresses ; Industrial location Congresses ; Economic development Congresses ; Regional economics Congresses ; Entrepreneurship ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Standorttheorie ; Entrepreneurship ; Industrial location ; Konferenzschrift ; Unternehmen ; Unternehmenswachstum ; Standort ; Wirtschaftswachstum
    Abstract: This book examines the interrelations between entrepreneurship, industrial location and economic growth. Thus, it covers a wide range of topics, including: the economic impact of entrepreneurship; industry dynamics; growth and survival of firms; firm location and globalisation patterns; and agglomeration and growth. The chapters in the book demonstrate the need to adopt a broad perspective that combines insights from different strands of literature if we are to better understand these complex economic phenomena. In addition, the original empirical evidence from a range of different countries provides a sound foundation for developing appropriate guidance for policymakers. The contributions in this book will appeal to practitioners and policymakers interested in entrepreneurship, industrial location and industry dynamics. It will also be of interest to economic geographers, environmental scientists and local planners
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- 1. Entrepreneurship, industrial location and economic growth: An appraisal / Josep Maria Arauzo-Carod and Miguel Carlos Manjón-Antolin -- Part I: The economic impact of entrepreneurship -- 2. Entrepreneurial versus routinized regimes: Opportunity and the cost of experimentation / Michael Peneder -- 3. New firms and employment growth: Some empirical evidence / Josep Maria Arauzo-Carod, Daniel Liviano-Solís and Mónica Martín-Bofarull -- Part II: Industry dynamics -- 4. Demography of enterprises in Poland: Entry and exit rates in the manufacturing sector / Wojciech Rogowski and Jacek Socha -- 5. Creative destruction and transition: Evidence on firm demographics from Estonia / Jaan Masso, Raul Eamets and Kaia Philips -- 6. Sunk costs, industry dynamics and firm productivity / José Carlos Fariñas, Ana Martín-Marcos and Sonia Ruano -- Part III: Growth and survival of firms -- 7. Gibrat's law as a long-run regularity: Theory and evidence / Francesca Lotti, Enrico Santarelli and Marco Vivarelli -- 8. Growth, age and location in Spanish hotels / Mercedes Teruel-Carrizosa and Agustí Segarra-Blasco -- 9. A comparison of the determinants of survival of Spanish firms across economic sectors / Paloma López-García and Sergio Puente-Díaz -- 10. Product and process innovations and the likelihood of survival -- Raquel ortega-argilés and rosina moreno -- Part IV: Firm location -- 11. Cross-border business networks: The case of the basque eurocity corridor / Saioa Arando, Mikel Navarro and Iñaki Peña -- 12. Beyond the firm: Innovation and networks of high-technology smes / Rob Winters and Erik Stam -- 13. Accessibility, agglomeration and location / Ángel Alañón-Pardo, Josep Maria Arauzo-Carod and Rafael Myro-Sánchez -- Part V: Location and globalisation patterns -- 14. Individual and regional determinants of r&d location / Corinne Autant-Bernard -- 15. The impact of outward fdi on local employment and skill upgrading: Preliminary evidence from the Italian case / Ilaria Mariotti and Lucia Piscitello -- 16. A survival analysis of manufacturing firms in export markets / Silviano Esteve-Pérez, Juan A. Máñez-Castillejo, María E. Rochina-Barrachina and Juan A. Sanchis-Llopis -- Part VI: Agglomeration and growth -- 17. Innovation, co-operation, and labour mobility / Philip McCann and Jaakko Simonen -- 18. Agglomeration economies and firm survival / Jordi Jofre-Monseny -- Index.
    Note: "The papers collected in this book were presented at the "Workshop on Firm Demography and Industrial Location" held at the Rovira i Virgili University in November 2005 ... [and] hosted by the Grup de Recerca d'Industria i Territori (GRIT)"-- T.p. verso , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781782543411
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 250 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Chinese economy in the 21st century
    DDC: 330.951
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    Keywords: 1980-2004 ; Systemtransformation ; Corporate Governance ; Institutioneller Wandel ; Unternehmenserfolg ; Wettbewerb ; Auslandsinvestition ; Informationstechnik ; Steuersystem ; Unternehmensnetzwerk ; China ; Capitalism ; China Economic policy 2000- ; China ; Konferenzschrift 2006 ; China ; Unternehmen ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Unternehmerverhalten ; Wettbewerbsstrategie
    Abstract: China's long-term economic success is driven by new firms, new sectors and new business practices. This book explores the establishment of new private firms and listed companies, the development of knowledge industries, in particular the IT and banking sectors and the co-evolution of public governance and business institutions. The contributors discuss the role of local institutions in coordinating business activities and unleashing entrepreneurship, arguing that the sudden growth of new firms and industries is facilitated by changes in business behaviour and institutions. Initial private exchange and investment in an environment of ill-functioning markets are shown to depend on local networks and local business culture which, in turn, rely on local tax regimes setting incentives for inherited bureaucracies to engage in economic transformation. Finally, the book establishes local institutions and local governance as crucial dimensions of China's emerging business system. Contributing to the theory of endogenous institutional change, The Chinese Economy in the 21st Century will be of great appeal to academics and students interested in management, comparative business systems, transition economics, evolutionary economics, Chinese studies and Asian studies
    Description / Table of Contents: Going public without the public: between political governance and corporate governance / Sonja Opper -- Institutional change, diversity and competition: foreign banks in Shanghai, 1847-2004 / Jeroen Kuilman -- Foreign firms in China: success by strategic choices / Xueyuan Zhang and Patrick Reinmoeller -- The new great leap: the rise of China's ICT industry / Mark Joannes Greeven -- Enterprise ground zero in China / Barbara Krug -- China's emerging tax regime: local tax farming and central tax bureaucracy / Ze Zhu and Barbara Krug -- Narratives of change: culture and local economic development / David S.G. Goodman -- Networks as business networks / Hans Hendrischke -- Whom are we dealing with? Shifting organisational forms in China's business sector / Barbara Krug and Jeroen Kuilman.
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    ISBN: 9781782543695
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 166 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in entrepreneurship
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kourilsky, Marilyn L. The entrepreneur in youth
    DDC: 338/.0408350973
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    Keywords: Jugendliche ; Bevölkerung ; Entrepreneurship ; Meinung ; Unternehmensgründung ; Sozialwirtschaft ; USA ; Social entrepreneurship ; Entrepreneurship ; New business enterprises ; Youth Employment ; Business education ; Entrepreneurship ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Bildung ; Jugend
    Abstract: The Entrepreneur in Youth offers one of the most comprehensive assessments to date of African American, Latino, and white high school students' aspirations, knowledge, opinions and educational views related to entrepreneurship and philanthropy. A key strength is its longitudinal approach to analysis and interpretations, made possible by extensive surveys of over 11,000 respondents from high school youth and other groups, including adults and business owners. The key findings exhibit an extraordinarily high level of interest in entrepreneurship among youth as well as a strong desire to give back to their communities. However, they lack the knowledge and experience to achieve their aspirations. The book's major recommendations and guidelines include challenges to education and other policymakers to expand and enhance opportunities to access entrepreneurship education and early entrepreneurship mentoring shadowing experiences - especially for those who demand it the most: African Americans and Latinos. Meeting these challenges not only will contribute to economic growth and social reform initiatives but also will increase economic and social mobility and access to opportunity for a still largely untapped pool of future entrepreneurs. This book will appeal to academics in entrepreneurship, economics, business and education, as well as policymakers, educators and business leaders
    Description / Table of Contents: Finding the entrepreneur in youth -- Interest in entrepreneurship -- Giving back to the community -- Entrepreneurial knowledge -- Markets and government -- Entrepreneurship education -- A longitudinal perspective and the major findings -- Implications and extrapolations.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-161) and index , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781847202840
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 276 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Carton, Robert B. Measuring organizational performance
    DDC: 658.5/036
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    Keywords: Produktivität ; Rentabilität ; Messung ; Industrial productivity Measurement ; Unternehmen ; Leistungsmessung ; Electronic books ; Unternehmen ; Leistungsmessung ; Unternehmen ; Produktivitätsmessung ; Unternehmen ; Leistungsmessung ; Unternehmen ; Produktivitätsmessung
    Abstract: There is great discussion but little consensus on the best measures of organizational performance. This book redresses this imbalance. Measuring Organizational Performance offers a framework with which to better understand the implications of selecting variables for use in both empirical studies and practice where organizational financial performance is the critical issue
    Abstract: 1. Introduction and overview -- 2. Performance measurement in management literature -- 3. Perspectives of organizational performance and effectiveness -- 4. Categories of performance measures -- 5. Performance measures used in research and practice -- 6. Measurement concepts and implications -- 7. Developing a generalizable model for measuring organizational financial performance -- 8. Tests of the information content of individual measures of organizational financial performance -- 9. Developing and testing an overall model of organizational financial performance -- 10. Summary, conclusions and implications for theory and practice
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-265) and index
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    ISBN: 9781847201614
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 405 p)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als International handbook on economic regulation
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    Keywords: Regulierung ; Deregulierung ; Wohlfahrtsanalyse ; Dienstleistungsqualität ; Umweltpolitik ; Telekommunikation ; Energiewirtschaft ; Verkehr ; Wasserwirtschaft ; Versorgungswirtschaft ; OECD-Staaten ; USA ; Großbritannien ; Business enterprises Finance ; Law and legislation ; Public utilities Finance ; Law and legislation ; Trade regulation ; Central planning ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaftslenkung ; Wirtschaft ; Regulierung
    Abstract: Michael Crew and David Parker have compiled a comprehensive, up-to-date and detailed analytical work on leading research issues in the economics of regulation. With contributions from international specialists in economic regulation, the Handbook provides a comprehensive discussion of major developments in both the theory and practice of regulatory economics. This book will be an indispensable source for both students and practitioners of regulation
    Abstract: Development in the theory and practice of regulatory economics / Michael A. Crew and David Parker -- Economic regulation : principles, history and methods / Martin Ricketts -- Regulation, pricing and social welfare / Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer -- Regulating prices and service quality / Dan Elliott -- Utility regulation and competition in developing countries / Paul Cook -- Performance benchmarking in utility regulation : principles and the UK's experience / David Parker, Thoralf Dassler and David S. Saal -- Regulation and the cost of capital / Tim Jenkinson -- Information revelation and incentives / Phil Burns, Cloda Jenkins and Thomas Weyman-Jones -- Regulatory governance and the lessons from UK practice / Peter Vass -- Regulation and consumer representation / Michael Harker, Laurence Mathieu and Catherine Waddams Price -- Regulatory impact assessment / Colin Kirkpatrick -- Economics of environmental regulation : instruments and cases / Anthony Heyes and Catherine Liston -- The economics of access and interconnection charges in telecommunications / Timothy J. Tardiff -- Regulation and the structure of the telecommunications industry / Gregory M. Duncan and Lisa J. Cameron -- The regulation of energy : issues and pitfalls / Colin Robinson and Eileen Marshall -- Economic regulation of transport : principles and experience / Ian Savage --Regulation of water and sewerage services / Ian Byatt, Tony Ballance and Scott Reid
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    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781847200280
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 220 p)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Beviglia Zampetti, Americo Fairness in the world economy
    DDC: 382/.3
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    Keywords: Internationale Wirtschaft ; Internationaler Wettbewerb ; Außenwirtschaftspolitik ; Internationale Handelspolitik ; USA ; Competition, Unfair ; International trade ; Electronic books ; United States Foreign economic relations ; USA ; Außenhandelspolitik ; Fairness ; Welthandel ; Fairness ; USA ; Außenhandelspolitik ; Fairness
    Abstract: In an international context, fairness is particularly important, since only a system which is perceived by its participants as fair can command acceptance and compliance. The main focus of this study is to investigate the development of the notion of fairness in US trade policy and law as well as the impact this notion has on international trade discussions and rule-making, and especially on the formation of the multilateral trade regime
    Abstract: 1. Analytical framework -- 2. Fairness : in search of a meaning -- 3. Fairness in the US commercial policy discourse before the advent of the multilateral trade system -- 4. The fairness idea in the development of the multilateral trade regime -- 5. Rethinking fairness in the evolution of the international trade policy and rule-making discourse -- 6. Conclusion
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    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781845428891
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 207 p) , ill
    Series Statement: The Bush School series in the economics of public policy v. 5
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    Parallel Title: Available in another form
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The new economy and beyond
    DDC: 338/.06/097309051
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    Keywords: Produktivität ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Netzwerkökonomik ; Telekommunikation ; USA ; New Economy ; IKT-Sektor ; Economic forecasting Congresses ; Production (Economic theory) Congresses ; Information technology Congresses ; Electronic books ; United States Congresses Economic conditions 2001-2009 ; United States Congresses Economic policy 2001-2009 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; USA ; New Economy ; USA ; New Economy
    Abstract: What is the New Economy, what makes it new, and what are the implications for antitrust, regulation and macroeconomic policy? Providing a non-technical and compelling analysis of the modern macro-economy, the contributors to this volume, eminent scholars all, provide their views on the New Economy from a variety of perspectives
    Abstract: 1. Introduction : what is the New Economy? / Dennis W. Jansen -- 2. Projecting productivity growth : lessons from the US growth resurgence / Dale W. Jorgenson, Mun S. Ho and Kevin J. Stiroh -- 3. "Baumol's Disease" has been cured : IT and multifactor productivity in US service industries / Jack E. Triplett and Barry P. Bosworth -- 4. The New Economy and the challenges for macroeconomic policy / Stephen G. Cecchetti -- 5. Competition policy in network industries : an introduction / Nicholas Economides -- 6. Persistent price dispersion in online markets / Michael R. Baye, John Morgan and Patrick Scholten -- 7. Network meltdown : the legacy of bad economics / Stan Liebowitz -- 8. Should we teach an old economy dog New Economy tricks? : the role of a postal service in the New Economy / Michael D. Bradley and Dennis W. Jansen
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes , Papers from a conference held at Texas A&M University in April 2002, and hosted by the George Bush School of Government and Public Service with the support of the Department of Economics
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    ISBN: 9781847204424
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 316 p)
    Series Statement: Movements in entrepreneurship 3
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Entrepreneurship as social change
    DDC: 338/.04
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    Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility ; Entrepreneurship ; Soziale Werte ; Soziale Lage ; Sozialer Wandel ; Social entrepreneurship ; Social change ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Soziale Verantwortung ; Unternehmen ; Unternehmen ; Sozialer Wandel ; Unternehmensentwicklung ; Unternehmen ; Sozialer Wandel ; Soziale Verantwortung
    Abstract: This book-- the third in the Movements in Entrepreneurship series-- examines entrepreneurship as a societal phenomenon. It provides an in-depth study of the social aspects of entrepreneurship, illustrating how entrepreneurship affects society. The need to move beyond economy to disclose entrepreneurship in its societal forms is demonstrated, as is the relevance of our understanding of entrepreneurship as a societal phenomenon
    Abstract: pt. 1. Concepts of social entrepreneurship -- pt. 2. Contexts of social change
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    Cheltenham [England] : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781781007556
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 195 p) , ill. (some col.)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Tsang, Denise, 1965 - The entrepreneurial culture
    DDC: 338.4/700509417
    Keywords: Softwareindustrie ; Unternehmensnetzwerk ; Unternehmenskultur ; China ; Irland ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Social networks Economic aspects ; Computer software industry ; Computer software industry ; Business networks ; Entrepreneurship ; Entrepreneurship ; Unternehmen ; Netzwerkmanagement ; China ; Irland ; Electronic books ; Hochschulschrift ; Chinesisch ; Irisch ; Softwarehaus ; Kommunikation ; Unternehmenskultur ; Interkulturalität
    Abstract: The Entrepreneurial Culture highlights the subtle yet powerful influence of national cultural heritage on entrepreneurship ventures, using an alternative and fresh approach to explore the entrepreneurial culture of Chinese and Irish software firms. This book presents a unique analysis of entrepreneurship theory development, along with a single industry, cross-national study of entrepreneurship illustrating the impact of values from contrasting cultures
    Abstract: 1. Entrepreneurship and business culture -- 2. Institutional environment in city software clusters -- 3. Culture of software entrepreneurship -- 4. A theory of cultural capital -- 5. Personal networks, social networks and new firms -- 6. Network advantage and successful firms -- 7. Future growth in Chinese and Irish software
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-175) and index
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    ISBN: 9781781007549
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 255 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The political economy of financial market regulation
    DDC: 332
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    Keywords: Finanzmarkt ; Globalisierung ; Regulierung ; Finanzmarktregulierung ; Führungsorganisation ; Finanzdienstleistung ; Derivat ; Pensionskasse ; EU-Staaten ; USA ; Österreich ; Basler Akkord ; Financial institutions Social aspects ; Finance Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Kapitalmarkt ; Kreditwesen ; Politische Ökonomie ; Internationale Finanzpolitik ; Regulierung ; Global Governance ; Europäische Union ; Globalisierung ; Kreditmarkt ; Regulierung ; Liberalisierung ; USA
    Abstract: This book focuses on recent financial market reforms, and their implications for social, economic and political exclusion. In particular it considers the hitherto under-researched question of whose interests govern the design of regulatory mechanisms and who influences the decision-making process. This process is set out as contested terrain, in which there are winners and losers, and in which there are inevitably circles of exclusion. The authors, comprising financial authority experts and academic specialists, expand the concept of exclusion beyond its typical social dimension to incorporate all actors, be they individuals or institutions not permitted to contribute to financial market regulation as a public good. As they point out, this may take the form of political, economic or indeed cultural exclusion. The book examines the conflicts that arise between various interests and how these are managed within the process of regulation
    Abstract: pt. 1. The theory of financial market governance and the problem of inclusion and exclusion -- pt. 2. Case studies
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    ISBN: 9781847201829
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 261 p) , ill
    Series Statement: New horizons in entrepreneurship
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Smith-Hunter, Andrea, 1969 - Women entrepreneurs across racial lines
    DDC: 338.6/420820973
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    Keywords: Frauen ; Entrepreneurship ; Ethnische Gruppe ; USA ; Women-owned business enterprises ; Businesswomen ; Minority business enterprises ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Women entrepreneurs command an increasingly large presence at the international and national levels. A significant part of this impact is due to growing numbers of minority women becoming entrepreneurs. This volume provides some of the most comprehensive data to date on the topic of women entrepreneurs across racial lines. It offers a systematic and conceptual framework for understanding issues of network structures and human and financial capital, analyzed through a comparative analysis of minority and white women entrepreneurs
    Abstract: The rise of women entrepreneurs -- Review of literature on women entrepreneurs -- Research design and methods -- Overview of results -- Human capital issues -- Network structure issues -- Financial capital issues -- The state of women entrepreneurs in the United States -- The state of women entrepreneurs in the global marketplace -- Conclusion
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    ISBN: 9781847200150
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 304 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Handbook on the economics of discrimination
    DDC: 331.13/3/0973
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    Keywords: Diskriminierung ; Arbeitsmarktdiskriminierung ; Behinderte Arbeitskräfte ; Ältere Arbeitskräfte ; USA ; Geschlechterdiskriminierung ; Discrimination Economic aspects ; Discrimination in employment Research ; Discrimination in employment ; Discrimination Economic aspects ; Research ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Arbeitswelt ; Diskriminierung
    Abstract: Discrimination's dynamic nature means that no single theory, method, data or study should be relied upon to assess its magnitude, causes, or remedies. Despite some gains in our understanding, these remain active areas of debate among researchers, practitioners and policymakers. The specially commissioned papers in this volume, all by distinguished contributors, present the full range of issues related to this complex and challenging problem
    Abstract: Pt. 1. New methods -- pt. 2. Beyond race and gender -- pt. 3. Policy impacts
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    ISBN: 9781847204356
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 302 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Competitive electricity markets and sustainability
    DDC: 333.793/23
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    Keywords: 1990-2003 ; Elektrizitätswirtschaft ; Elektrizitätsversorgung ; Deregulierung ; Investition ; Nachhaltige Entwicklung ; EU-Staaten ; USA ; Electric utilities ; Electric utilities Finance ; Demand-side management (Electric utilities) ; Competition ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Elektrizitätswirtschaft ; Wettbewerb ; Nachhaltigkeit
    Abstract: This book responds to the opening up of electricity markets to competition, which has completely changed the nature of power generation. The building of new generation and transmission capacity and the setting of the energy mix between nuclear, gas and renewable resources are mainly left to private initiative and investors
    Abstract: Investments in competitive electricity markets : an overview / François Lévêque -- Investment and generation capacity / Richard Green -- Generation technology mix in competitive electricity markets / Jean-Michel Glachant -- Problems of transmission investment in a deregulated power / Steven Stoft -- Patterns of transmission investments / Paul Joskow -- Long-term locational prices and investment incentives in the transmission of electricity / Yves Smeers -- Compatibility of investment signals in distribution, transmission and generation / Ignacio Pérez-Arriaga and Luis Olmos
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  • 77
    ISBN: 9781781950500
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 409 p)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Long-run growth and short-run stabilization
    DDC: 338.9
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    Keywords: Ando, Albert ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Finanzpolitik ; Geldpolitik ; Phillips-Kurve ; Europa ; USA ; Japan ; Alternde Bevölkerung ; Economic development ; Economic stabilization ; Electronic books ; Bibliografie ; Festschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Geldpolitik
    Abstract: There is much confusion in the economics literature on wage determination and the employment-inflation trade-off. Few model builders pay as much careful attention to the definition and meaning of long-run concepts as did Albert Ando. Expanding on years of painstaking work by Ando, the contributors elaborate on the main issues of economic analysis and policies that concerned him
    Abstract: The economics legacy of Albert Ando -- The age-saving profile and the life-cycle hypothesis -- Do capital gains affect consumption? Estimates of wealth effects from Italian households' behavior -- Demographic changes, reforms to the social security system and private savings in Italy -- Do the elderly dissave in Japan? -- On robust monetary policy -- The euro and the transmission of monetary policy -- Monetary and fiscal policy in a liquidity trap -- A three-factor yield curve model : non-affine structure, systematic risk sources and generalized duration -- The over-investment hypothesis -- Designing indexed units of account -- Land prices and business fixed investment in Japan -- Rationality, behavior and switching idiosyncracies in the euro-dollar exchange rate
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    ISBN: 9781035305285
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 238 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in regional science
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Entrepreneurship, investment, and spatial dynamics
    DDC: 330.94
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    Keywords: Entrepreneurship ; Investitionspolitik ; Auslandsinvestition ; Räumliche Verteilung ; EU-Mitgliedschaft ; EU-Staaten ; Entrepreneurship ; Investments ; Entrepreneurship European Union countries ; Investments European Union countries ; European Union countries Economic conditions ; Regional disparities ; European Union countries Economic integration ; European Union countries Economic conditions ; Regional disparities ; Europäische Union ; Mitgliedsstaaten ; Wirtschaft ; Regionale Disparität ; Unternehmen ; Investition ; Direktinvestition ; Wissen ; Spill-over-Effekt
    Abstract: Enlargement of the EU increases economic diversity and inequality between countries and regions, making cohesion difficult. This book attempts to provide a deeper understanding of the interaction between investment, knowledge spillovers and entrepreneurship; a crucial factor in reducing the economic disparity caused by the geographic expansion of the EU. The book offers new empirical evidence regarding the spatial dimension of investment, entrepreneurship and knowledge spillovers, and features both individual and cross-country analyses. FDI in accession countries is examined, as is the effect of EU integration on own-country investment. Innovative methodologies and unique new models are then used to provide lessons and policy implications for economic growth prospects in the recently enlarged EU. Researchers and policy makers working in the fields of entrepreneurship, innovation, economic growth, economic integration and regional development will find this book to be of great interest. It will also be warmly welcomed by students and academics with an interest in European studies, international economics and regional and urban economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Overview -- 1. Spatial patterns of entrepreneurship and investment: Lessons and implications for the enlarged European Union / Peter Nijkamp, Ronald L. Moomaw and Iulia Traistaru-Siedschlag -- Part II: Investment -- 2. Foreign direct investments in EU accession countries: A case study on Hungary / Peter Nijkamp and Balint Toth -- 3. European integration and Japanese direct investment in the central and east european countries / Andrzej Cieslik and Michael Ryan -- 4. Foreign direct investment profitability: EU firms in Romania / Fazia Pusterla -- 5. Financial integration of investment performance in the European Union / Hasan Vergil -- Part III: Entrepreneurship -- 6. The determinants of regional differences in new firm formation in western Germany / Udo Brixy and Michael Niese -- 7. Rural entrepreneurship success determinants / Maira Lescevica -- 8. The role of socioeconomic factors in entrepreneurship development: A country level analysis / Eric A. Scorsone, Ronald A. Fleming, Margarita Somov and Victoria Burke -- Part IV: Regional spillovers -- 9. Smes and territorial networks: The emerging framework in Romania / Daniela Luminita Constantin -- 10. Research and development, knowledge spillovers and regional growth in Europe / Seyit Köse and Ronald L. Moomaw -- 11. Foreign direct investment and learning regions in central and eastern Europe / Marina van Geenhuizen and Peter Nijkamp -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781781956779
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 260 pages) , illustrations, maps
    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Choice modelling and the transfer of environmental values
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Choice modelling and the transfer of environmental values
    DDC: 333.33/2
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    Keywords: Umweltpolitik ; Umweltmanagement ; Umweltschutz ; Wasserversorgung ; Finanzmathematik ; Australien ; Finnland ; Neuseeland ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Environmental economics ; Environmental policy Costs ; Environmental policy Evaluation ; Environmental economics Mathematical models ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Umweltpolitik
    Abstract: Benefit transfer is the practice of estimating economic values at a target site by utilising the results of existing studies for different sites. It is commonly used to estimate values for changes in environmental conditions where time and cost factors constrain the direct application of non-market valuation techniques at the target site. The focus of this unique collection of case studies is the validity and accuracy of benefit transfer using choice modelling, rather than the traditional focus of transferring results from contingent valuation and travel cost models. The book includes a simple guide to using choice modelling results in a benefit transfer process, an overview of the theoretical issues involved, and a number of case studies from Australia, Finland, New Zealand, the UK and the US. The conclusion is that the benefit transfer process is not straightforward, but that use of the choice modelling technique allows for more 'automatic' adjustment of values by the factors that frame the case study of interest. This book will strongly appeal to a wide ranging readership, including academics, students and researchers involved in non-market valuation and benefit transfer research, policymakers requiring the use of benefit transfer in valuation studies, and consultants and researchers performing benefit transfer studies
    Description / Table of Contents: Choice modelling and the transfer of environmental values / Jeff Bennett -- A simple guide to choice modelling and benefit transfer / John Rolfe -- Theoretical issues in using choice modelling data for benefit transfer / John Rolfe -- Stated preference benefit transfer approaches for estimating passive use value of wild salmon / John Loomis -- Valuing New South Wales rivers for use in benefit transfer / Mark Morrison and Jeff Bennett -- Testing for benefit transfer over water quality benefits / Nick Hanley ... [et al.] -- Testing benefit transfer with water resources in central Queensland, Australia / John Rolfe, Adam Loch and Jeff Bennett -- Transferring mitigation values for small streams / Geoffrey N. Kerr and Basil M.H. Sharp -- Transferring the environmental values of wetlands / Stuart M. Whitten and Jeff Bennett -- Generalising environmental values / Martin van Bueren and Jeff Bennett -- Valuing aboriginal cultural heritage across different population groups / John Rolfe and Jill Windle -- The significance of policy instruments in benfit transfer / Paula Horne and Jeff Bennett.
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    ISBN: 9781782542230
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 399 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Advances in regulatory economics
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics (14 : 2006 : Bern) Liberalization of the postal and delivery sector
    DDC: 383
    Keywords: Postsektor ; Deregulierung ; EU-Staaten ; USA ; Postal service Congresses ; Delivery of goods Congresses ; Postal service Congresses ; Delivery of goods Congresses ; Konferenzschrift ; USA ; Europäische Union ; Post ; Deregulierung
    Abstract: Worldwide, postal and delivery economics has attracted considerable interest as the delivery sector undergoes rapid change and the debate on liberalization rages. This compendium of original essays has been selected from papers presented at the Rutgers University CRRI 14th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics, May 31-June 3 2006. It explores the important new trends and issues in this rapidly changing field. The European Union's plan to open postal markets completely in 2009 has raised questions about t he role of regulation, funding for the Universal Service Obligation, the future of national Postal Operators and the principles that should govern the introduction of competition. The contributors - researchers, practitioners, lawyers and senior managers from around the world - address these questions in chapters that cover postal markets, pricing, efficiency and cost analysis, labor relations, and demand drivers. Examples are drawn from around the world. This timely book will be illuminating to practitioners and managers in the postal, express and delivery industry, as well as economists, regulators, competition lawyers, and marketers
    Description / Table of Contents: Information revolutions and modern postal service / James I. Campbell Jr -- Approaches to the USO under entry / Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer -- Partitioning the mailstream : analysis of an innovative approach to USO / Leon A. Pintsov, Andrei Obrea and Theresa Biasi -- From the size of the box to the costs of universal service obligation : a cross country comparison / Franois Boldron, Denis Joram, Lise Martin and Bernard Roy -- A welfare analysis of price controls with end-to-end mail and access services / Philippe de Donder, Helmuth Cremer, Paul Dudley nad Frank Rodriquez -- Dynamics of downstream entry in postal markets / Axel Gautier -- Economies of scale, density and scope in Swiss Post's mail delivery / Mehdi Farsi, Massimo Filippini and Urs Trinkner -- Measuring scale and scope economies with a structural model of postal delivery / Michael D. Bradley, Jeff Colvin, and Mary K. Perkins -- Efficient work-sharing discounts with mail heterogeneity / John C. Panzar -- Nonlinear pricing and worksharing in the postal market / Etienne Billette de Villemeur, Helmuth Cremer, François Boldron and Bernard Roy -- Efficiency analysis of delivery offices in the postal sector using stochastic frontier and data envelopment analyses / Alan Horncastle, David Jevons, Paul Dudley and Emmanuel Thanassoulis -- Economic analysis of the efficiency of Royal Mail units and the implications for regulatory policy / Richard Moriarty, Sophie Yorke, Greg Harman, John Cubbin, Meloria Meschi and Paul Smith -- From theory to practice : vertical relations in the French postal market / Xavier Ambrosini and Olaf Klargaard -- Postal deregulation and its impact on postal workers : a Canadian union perspective / Geoff Bickerton -- First steps towards new postal economics models for developing countries : learning from the Latin American experience / José; Ansón, Rudy Cuadra, Altamir Linhares, Guillermo Ronderos and Joélle Toledano -- The postal technology market and effects on purchasing strategy / William J. Dowling, Rpbert J. Curry, Robert A. F. Reisner and Bill Worth -- Economics of the U.S. postal service alternate access retail channels / Janet L. Webster, Dennis E. Stoker, Saadia Bukhari, Stephen Deering and Andrea M. Otis -- USO public financing at the crossroad between the "Monti package" and the forthcoming reform of the postal directive / Alessandra Fratini and Fabio Filpo -- Scenarios of mail receipt patterns across generations / Luis Jimenez, Anna Owsiany and Chrystal Szeto -- Microanalyses of mail demand drivers for large business customers / Peter Koppe and Christian Bosch -- Measuring the impact of direct mail on the brand / Joanne McNeish -- Consumer preferences and last mile pricing in the postal sector / Beat Friedli, Christian Jaag, Daniel Kráshenbúhl, Ole Bach Nielsen, Sóren-Michael Pihl and Urs Trinkner -- Microeconomic demand modelling for price elasticities / Frédérique Féve, Jean-Pierre Florens and Sophie Richard -- U.S. postal services as composite goods with hedonic properties / Lawrence Fenster, Diane Monaco, Edward S. Pearsall, Charles Robinson and Spyros Xenakis.
    Note: "Compendium of original essays ... selected from papers presented at the ... 14th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics, May 31-June 3, 2006"--CIP data view , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781845425685
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 328 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sanidas, Elias Organizational innovations and economic growth
    DDC: 338/.064
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    Keywords: Innovation ; Innovationsmanagement ; Organisatorischer Wandel ; Unternehmenswachstum ; Branchenentwicklung ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; USA ; Japan ; Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Economic development ; Technology transfer Economic aspects ; Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Corporations Growth ; Organizational change ; Electronic books ; Technische Innovation ; Technologietransfer ; Organisationswandel
    Abstract: Analysing the USA and Japan from the late 19th century to the present day, the book provides an accessible synthesis of economics, management and econometrics to calculate the impact of various organizational innovations on economic growth. The author concludes that organizational innovations make essential contributions to sustained economic growth and that this should be reflected in economic policy both at the firm and the national level
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Organizational innovations from the 1860s in the USA and Japan -- 3. The role of OIs in the theory of economic growth -- 4. Contribution of specific OIs to economic growth and the three axes of OIs -- 5. The process of firm operations : core of the atomic/systemic model of economic growth -- 6. OIs and manufacturing sectors' growth in the USA and Japan -- 7. Empirical evidence on the links between industrial sectoral growth and the Lean Production System (JIT/QC) in the USA -- 8. Conclusions, limitations, implications
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    ISBN: 9781845425548
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 293 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Recruitment, retention and retirement in higher education
    DDC: 378.1/22
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    Keywords: 1960-2002 ; Hochschule ; Humankapital ; Hochschullehrer ; Personalauswahl ; Altersgrenze ; USA ; College teachers Recruiting ; College teachers Supply and demand ; College teachers Retirement ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift ; USA ; Personalpolitik ; Höheres Bildungswesen ; Finanzierung ; Personalkosten ; USA ; Höheres Bildungswesen ; Personalpolitik ; USA ; Höheres Bildungswesen ; Finanzierung ; Personalkosten
    Abstract: This volume examines some of the most pressing employment and compensation issues confronting academic administrators. Contributors discuss topics such as: ageing of faculty, changing economic conditions and shifts in faculty employment patterns, rapid increases in health care costs and trends in retiree health insurance, and adoption of phased and early retirement programs
    Abstract: 1. Changing faculty demographics and the need for new policies -- 2. Filling the gap : finding and keeping faculty for the university of the future -- 3. The changing nature of faculty employment -- 4. The growing postdoctorate population at US research universities -- 5. Planning for the generational turnover of the faculty : faculty perceptions and institutional practices -- 6. The future of retiree health benefits in higher education in the United States -- 7. Impact of retiree health plans on faculty retirement decisions -- 8. Faculty recruitment, retention and retirement : a case study of human resources policymaking at Syracuse University -- 9. The value of phased retirement -- 10. Faculty retirement inventives by colleges and universities -- 11. To phase or not to phase : the dynamics of choosing phased retirement in academe -- 12. Phasing out of full-time work at the University of California -- 13. The costs and benefits of early retirement plans -- 14. Recruitment, retention and retirement : institutional research and the need for data -- 15. Developing new employment and compensation policies in higher education
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    ISBN: 9781845424602
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 450 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Finance and development
    DDC: 339.4/6/091724
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    Keywords: Entwicklung ; Entwicklungsfinanzierung ; Finanzmarkt ; Ländliches Finanzsystem ; Unternehmen ; Unternehmensfinanzierung ; Entwicklungsländer ; Finance ; Poverty ; Electronic books ; Developing countries Economic policy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Entwicklungsländer ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Kreditmarkt ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Entwicklungsländer ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Entwicklungsfinanzierung ; Kreditmarkt ; Wirtschaftspolitik
    Abstract: In this valuable new book, a distinguished group of authors takes stock of the existing state of knowledge in the field of finance and the development process. Each chapter offers a comprehensive survey and synthesis of current issues. These include such critical subjects as savings, financial markets and the macroeconomy, stock market development, financial regulation, foreign investment and aid, financing livelihoods, microfinance, rural financial markets, small and medium enterprises, corporate finance and banking
    Abstract: pt. 1. Financial markets and the macroeconomy -- pt. 2. Households, firms and financial institutions
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    ISBN: 9781845428150
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 315 p) , ill., maps
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The economic impacts of terrorist attacks
    DDC: 338.4/336332/0973
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    Keywords: Terrorismus ; Nationale Sicherheit ; Wirtschaftslage ; Infrastruktur ; USA ; Infrastructure (Economics) Congresses ; Harbors Congresses Security measures ; Terrorism Congresses Prevention ; Transportation Congresses Effect of terrorism on ; Terrorism Congresses Economic aspects ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift ; USA ; Terrorismus ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Innere Sicherheit ; USA ; Terrorismus ; Innere Sicherheit ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Infrastruktur
    Abstract: Focussing on the economics of terrorism in the post 9/11 world, this book brings together original research based on the collaborative efforts of leading economists and planners. The authoritative and expert contributors use a variety of methodological approaches and apply them to different types of terrorist attacks (on airports, highways, seaports, electric power infrastructure, for example)
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Transnational terrorism : an economic analysis -- 3. You can only die once : interdependent security in an uncertain world -- 4. Increasing the security and reliability of the US electricity system -- 5. Mitigation of extreme event risks : electric power outrage and infrastructure failure interactions -- 6. Float together/sink together? : the effect of connectivity on power systems -- 7. Current and improved biodefense cost-benefit assessment -- 8. Improving the Homeland Security Advisory System : an experimental analysis of threat communication for national security -- 9. Land markets and terrorism : uncovering perceptions of risk by examining land price changes following 9/11 -- 10. Designing benefit-cost analyses for homeland security policies -- 11. Analyzing terrorist threats to the economy : a computable general equilibrium approach -- 12. Evaluating the viability of 100 per cent container inspection at America's ports -- 13. An overview of US port security programs -- 14. The economic impact of a terrorist attack on the twin ports of Los Angeles-Long Beach -- 15. The transportation implications of a terrorist attack on Seattle's highway network
    Note: Based on a conference held in Aug. 2004 at the Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events, University of Southern California , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781845425470
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 306 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Saint-Gobain Centre for Economic Studies series
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Aglietta, Michel, 1938 - Corporate governance adrift
    DDC: 658.4
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    Keywords: Corporate Governance ; Shareholder Value ; Unternehmensbewertung ; Corporate governance ; Corporations Valuation ; Electronic books ; Europa ; USA ; Corporate Governance ; Wirtschaftsdemokratie ; Unternehmensbewertung ; Unternehmenstheorie ; Shareholder-Value-Analyse ; Corporate Governance
    Abstract: Recent corporate governance scandals have brought to the fore the inherent contradictions of a capitalism dominated by financial markets. This challenging book by Michel Aglietta and Antoine Rebérioux argues that capitalism's basic premise--that companies must be managed in the sole interest of their shareholders--is incongruent with the current environment of liquid markets, profit-hungry investors and chronic financial instability. The authors advocate rather that a company should be managed as an institution where common objectives are developed for all stakeholders, and that this democratic principle should be extended to the management of collective savings to reduce macro-financial instability. These two conditions, they contend, could make contemporary capitalism a vehicle for social progress
    Abstract: 1. Finance-led capitalism : an inventory -- 2. A critique of the foundations of shareholder value -- 3. The convergence of the European model in question -- 4. Corporate governance regimes -- 5. Accounting, finance and the firm -- 6. The logics of finance -- 7. Financial crises and the economic cycle -- 8. Reinterpreting the financial scandals of the Enron era -- 9. In favour of economic democracy
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Translated from the French
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    ISBN: 9781845424664
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 255 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The public financing of pharmaceuticals
    DDC: 338.4/7615/0973
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    Keywords: Pharmaindustrie ; Forschungsfinanzierung ; Industriepolitik ; USA ; Europa ; Pharmakologie ; Drugs Research ; Finance ; Pharmaceutical industry Finance ; Pharmaceutical industry Government policy ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Arzneimittelwirtschaft ; Öffentlicher Sektor ; Gesundheitspolitik ; Pharmazeutische Industrie
    Abstract: This book provides a complete approach to the economics of financing medicines and policy implications for the efficiency and equity of health systems. In all health systems with majority public financing, pharmaceutical reimbursement is one of the key factors in policies of change and transformation of health services in order to face the future with guarantees of financial sustainability
    Abstract: 1. Introduction : public pharmaceutical expenditure -- 2. Incentives for innovation in the pharmaceutical market -- 3. Price regulation systems in the pharmaceutical market -- 4. Regulation and competition in pharmaceutical markets -- 5. Mechanisms to encourage price competition in the pharmaceutical market and their effects on efficiency and welfare -- 6. Reference pricing as a pharmaceutical reimbursement mechanism -- 7. Insurance in public financing of pharmaceuticals -- 8. Economic evaluation and pharmaceutical policy -- 9. Prescriber incentives -- 10. Economic considerations regarding pharmaceutical expenditure in Spain and its financing -- 11. Review of economic studies of the pharmaceutical industry published over the last 20 years
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index -- "List of economic studies of the pharmaceutical industry and pharmaceuticals published over the last 20 years by Spanish economists": p. 235-244
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    ISBN: 9781845426699
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 252 p) , ill
    Series Statement: New horizons in international business series
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als European-American trade and financial alliances
    DDC: 337.4073
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    Keywords: Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Internationaler Finanzmarkt ; Marktintegration ; Auslandsinvestition ; Internationale Wirtschaft ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; Wettbewerbspolitik ; Nordamerika ; Europa ; Electronic books ; United States Foreign economic relations ; United States Commerce ; Europe Commerce ; Europe Foreign economic relations ; Konferenzschrift Nova Scotia, 2003 ; Europa ; Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; USA
    Abstract: In this, his final book, Gavin Boyd has brought together a distinguished group of experts on the nature and extent of transatlantic policy coordination and its implication for corporate strategy. This remarkably relevant set of papers offers a discussion on the economic and financial linkage between Europe and North America, as well as the trade and investment rules governing this interaction
    Abstract: 1. The role of financial markets in economic performance : the EU and the USA -- 2. Atlantic interdependent knowledge-based economies -- 3. Atlantic commerce -- 4. Structural potentials in Atlantic trade : measuring the impact of a US-Europe free trade agreement -- 5. The regional dimension of multinational enterprises and antitrust policy -- 6. Interregional integration : collective management tasks -- 7. Concerting entrepreneurship : an international public good -- 8. Institutionalizing Atlantic structural partnering -- 9. The development and structure of financial markets in the European-American economy
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    ISBN: 9781781958339
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 236 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hanson, David, 1939 - CE marking, product standards and world trade
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    Keywords: Warenkennzeichnung ; EU-Politik ; Nichttarifäre Handelshemmnisse ; Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; EU-Staaten ; USA ; Produktsicherheit ; Standardization ; Technology International cooperation ; Europäische Union ; Gütezeichen ; Internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit ; Welthandel ; CE-Zeichen ; Produktgestaltung ; Standardisierung ; Warenkennzeichnung ; Nichttarifäres Handelshemmnis ; Außenhandel ; USA
    Abstract: CE Marking, the European system of mandatory product safety standards, has created major obstacles for US exporters to the European Union (EU). CE Marking, Product Standards and World Trade is one of the first books to analyze the nature and dynamics of this major non-tariff trade barrier. David Hanson looks at the patterns of EU decision-making through a functional comparative analysis with the US, and in the context of the institutional alliances and rivalries that shape outcomes. An increasingly important but little understood issue, CE Marking is also an example of a growing problem in international commerce - the impact of inconsistent domestic product requirements on international trade. The author examines the way in which the EU has implemented the CE Marking system, its impact on US exporters, the dynamic of US-EU trade and negotiations, and the political and administrative arrangements that support them. This comprehensive study will be of great interest to students and scholars of industrial economics and international business. Business people and policymakers will also find much of interest in this timely volume
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Background to ce marking -- 3. A new approach to product regulation -- 4. From directives to standards -- 5. From notified bodies to surveillance authorities -- 6. The American system -- 7. Dueling standards -- 8. Building bridges -- 9. New directions -- 10. What can we learn from ce marking? -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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