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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781802203790 , 1802203796
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 182 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Understanding series
    DDC: 306.4/2
    Keywords: Knowledge, Sociology of
    Abstract: "Understanding Society and Knowledge proposes that knowledge, rather than nature, violence, or power, provides the basis of and driving force behind human action in modern society. It demonstrates how the legal containment of knowledge enables the transformation of the knowledge society into knowledge capitalism. Providing an overview of the history of knowledge societies, Nico Stehr analyses the concept of knowledge as well as the nature of post-industrial societies. Chapters examine the genealogy of social scientific theories of modern society; the role of knowledge as a capacity to act or as an intersubjective resource; and recent changes in the structure of the material economy. The book concludes by discussing the political challenges of the knowledge society, highlighting the ways in which discoveries in modern knowledge and subsequent political responses continue to generate controversies. This illuminating book will be an essential resource for students and scholars of economics, political science, sociology and sociological theory, as well as science and technology studies"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction: Theories of modern societies -- 2. The lineage of knowledge society theory -- 3. The science of knowledge -- 4. Knowledge competencies -- 5. The knowledge wars -- 6. The political economy of knowledge societies -- 7. Modern societies as knowledge societies -- 8. The political economy of knowledge monopoly capitalism -- 9. Political challenges of knowledge societies -- 10. Conclusions -- References -- Index.
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  • 2
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 1800883196 , 9781800883192
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 239 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als A research agenda for gentrification
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als A research agenda for gentrification
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    Keywords: Gentrifizierung
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781035301546
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 274 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Elgar international law and technology
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Building an international cybersecurity regime
    DDC: 343.0999
    Keywords: Computer security International cooperation ; Computer security Law and legislation ; Internationale Politik ; Computersicherheit ; Internationales Recht
    Abstract: Providing a much-needed study on cybersecurity regime building, this comprehensive book is a detailed analysis of cybersecurity norm-making processes and country positions, through the lens of multi-stakeholder diplomacy. Multi-disciplinary and multi-national scholars and practitioners use insights drawn from high-level discussion groups to provide a rigorous analysis of how major cyber powers view multi-stakeholder diplomacy. Looking at how past cybersecurity initiatives and multi-stakeholder negotiations in other fields illuminate its dynamics, this book will help put states' approaches towards multi-stakeholder cyber diplomacy into perspective, and frame the role of private actors in cybersecurity regime building. Evaluating the most promising institutional arrangements and mechanisms for implementing cybersecurity, this book combines top-down analyses relevant to the design of international cybersecurity regimes with bottom-up case studies, tracing the approaches of important states towards multi-stakeholder participation in cyber diplomacy. With a wealth of policy-relevant findings, this book will be welcomed by practitioners and scholars of international law, international organisation and international cybersecurity as well as multi-stakeholder governance and multilateral regimes. Policymakers and diplomats involved in international cybersecurity processes will also benefit from its cutting-edge comparative analysis of the approaches of key cyber powers.
    Note: Literaturangaben, Register , Introduction , Building cybersecurity through multistakeholder diplomacy : politics, processes, and prospects , Thematic issues , The geopolitics of multistakeholder cyber diplomacy : a comparative analysis , Multistakeholder characteristics of past and ongoing cybersecurity norms processes , Developing multistakeholder structures for cybersecurity norms : learning from experience , Implementing cybersecurity norms : the design of international institutions , Country perspectives , U.S. multistakeholder engagement in cyber stability issues , Russia's participation in multistakeholder diplomacy for cybersecurity norms , Rethinking Chinese multistakeholder governance of cybersecurity , India's "passive" multistakeholder cyber diplomacy , Brazil and multistakeholder diplomacy for the internet : past achievements, current challenges and the road ahead , Taking stock of Estonia's multistakeholder cyber diplomacy , Conclusion , The way ahead for multistakeholder cyber diplomacy
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  • 4
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    Book
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035325252 , 9781789900118
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 439 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    Series Statement: Research handbooks in urban studies series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Stadtplanung ; Komplexität ; City planning ; Stadtplanung ; Komplexität
    Abstract: Contents: Introduction to the handbook on cities and complexity / Juval Portugali -- Part I: Foundations -- 1. Cities, complexity and beyond / Juval Portugali -- 2. The emergence of complexity theories: An outline / Hermann Haken -- 3. City systems and complexity / Michael Batty -- 4. Major transitions in the story of urban complexity / Stephen Marshall and Nick Green -- Part II: Complexity theories of cities -- 5. Complexity: The evolution and planning of towns and cities / Peter M. Allen -- 6. Synergetic cities / Juval Portugali and Hermann Haken -- 7. Co-evolution as the secret of urban complexity / Denise Pumain -- 8. Fractal geometry for analyzing and modeling urban patterns and planning sustainable cities / Pierre Frankhauser -- 9. Scaling, fractals and the spatial complexity of cities / Yanguang Chen -- 10. Cybernetic cities: Designing and controlling adaptive and robust urban systems / Carlos Gershenson, Paolo Santi and Carlo Ratti --
    Abstract: Part III: Complexity, language and cities -- 11. New concepts in complexity theory arising from studies in the field of architecture: An overview of the four books of the nature of order with emphasis on the scientific problems which are raised / Christopher Alexander -- 12. The dialectic as driver of complexity in urban and social systems / Alan Penn -- Part IV: Modeling complex cities -- 13. Modelling car traffic in cities / Vincent Verbavatz and Marc Barthelemy -- 14. Studying the dynamics of urban traffic flows using percolation: A new methodology for real-time urban and transportation planning / Nimrod Serok, Orr Levy, Shlomo Havlin and Efrat Blumenfeld Lieberthal -- 15. The simple complex phenomenon of urban parking / Itzhak Benenson and Nir Fulman -- Part V: Complexity, planning and design -- 16. Complexity and uncertainty: Implications for urban planning / Stefano Moroni and Daniele Chiffi --
    Abstract: 17. Tailoring nudges to self-organising behavioural patterns in public space / Koen Bandsma, Ward S. Rauws and Gert de Roo -- 18. Evolutionary games in cities and urban planning / Sara Encarna.o, Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, Margarida Pereira, Jorge M. Pacheco and Juval Portugali -- 19. Homo faber, homo ludens and the city: A sirnia view on urban planning and design / Juval Portugali Epilogue: cities and complexity in the time of COVID-19. / Hermann Haken, Juval Portugali, Michael Batty, Stephen Marshall, Nick Green, Peter M. Allen, Pierre Frankhauser, Carlos Gershenson, Alan Penn, Vincent Verbavatz, Marc Barthelemy, Daniele Chiffi, Stefano Moroni, Koen Bandsma, Ward S. Rauws and Gert de Roo -- Index
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9781803923017
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (218 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Social service
    Abstract: "In the face of major global demographic change, social care policy and practice are in urgent need of radical reform and reassessment. Rising poverty, inequality and pressure on local communities internationally, are also increasing the urgent need for reform. Drawing on the crisis-ridden UK experience as a case-study, this highly original book identifies the limits of the traditional welfare state in taking forward policy for the twenty-first century. The proposals amount to a renewed approach to social care, based on the philosophy of independent living as originally developed by the international disabled people's movement and subsequently embodied in a United Nations treaty applicable to all in need of care and support. Despite wide international sign up since adoption in 2008 there is little evidence of any nation successfully delivering. For the first time, this book offers both a blueprint for an environmentally sustainable, rights-based approach to social care and a practical route to achieving it"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword / David Brindle -- Introduction to the future of social care -- Part I. Social care in the uk: How it works and how it got here -- 1. Social care: The policy progress forgot -- 2. Sowing the seeds of dysfunction: The 1948 settlement -- 3. Rising awareness and falling achievement -- 4. The modern era, Part one: The truth about eligibility -- 5. The modern era, Part two: Smoke, mirrors and elixirs -- 6. The social care funding fiasco -- Part II. An agenda for social care change -- 7. Towards person-centred practice -- 8. A paradigm for an international approach to a rights-based system -- 9. Blueprint for a person-centred system to deliver the rights-based paradigm -- 10. Resistance to change -- Part III. A changing world driving change in social care -- 11. Renewing social care -- 12. Towards sustainable social care and independent living -- Index -- References.
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  • 6
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    Online Resource
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781800376175
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (168 Seiten)
    Series Statement: How to research guides
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Fragebogen ; Befragung ; Unternehmen ; Empirische Methode ; Surveys Design ; Handbuch ; Umfrage ; Versuchsplanung ; Qualitative Methode
    Abstract: "This insightful book examines all aspects of the design process and implementation of questionnaire surveys on the activities of business, public sector, and non-profit organizations. Anthony Arundel discusses how different aspects of the survey method and planned statistical analysis can constrain question design, and how these issues can be effectively resolved. Throughout this engaging yet practical book, Arundel promotes good practices for questionnaire design, sample construction, and survey delivery systems including online, postal, and verbal methods, with a focus on obtaining high-quality data in line with ethics and confidentiality requirements. Chapters include constructive advice on questionnaire design and testing, survey implementation, and data processing, analysis, and reporting, with examples of time and financial cost budgets. Considering the recent developments in survey methods, the book explores how to use web probing as a substitute for cognitive testing and examines the use of tablets and smartphones in answering questionnaires. Combining theoretical and practical insights into survey design, implementation, and data processing and analysis, this book will be essential reading for business and management scholars and students, with a particular interest in research methods and organization studies. It will also be useful for practitioners and business managers seeking to understand how to create and use surveys"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Survey fundamentals -- 3. Questionnaire design -- 4. Questionnaire testing -- 5. Survey implementation -- 6. Data processing activities -- 7. Data analysis and reporting -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Annexes -- Index.
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9781789906981
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXVI, 413 pages)
    Series Statement: Elgar handbooks in energy, the environment and climate change
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Environmental policy ; Environmental law ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europäische Union ; Mitgliedsstaaten ; Klimaänderung ; Umweltrecht ; Umweltpolitik
    Abstract: "The Handbook on European Union Climate Change Policy and Politics provides a wide-ranging and in-depth assessment of current and emerging challenges facing the EU in committing to and delivering increasingly ambitious climate policy objectives. It traces the development of climate and energy policies since the early 1990s and examines their continued evolution in the context of the 2019 European Green Deal. With contributions from leading international scholars, it describes the key dynamics driving policy developments and the role of key actors in climate and energy-related policy processes. Covering topics that have previously been relatively neglected, or have recently gained greater significance, such as finance and investment, 'hard to abate' sectors and negative emissions, this timely Handbook offers an up-to-date and unrivalled exploration of the complexities of climate policymaking. It will be of primary interest to academics researching EU politics, and environmental politics, policy, regulation and governance more widely. It will be especially pertinent to students and researchers who require more specialized knowledge of EU climate policy and politics"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1. The global importance of EU climate policy: An Introduction / Tim Rayner, Kacper Szulecki, Andrew J. Jordan and Sebastian Oberthür -- Part I. Main actors and institutions -- 2. The European commission: A climate policy entrepreneur / Alexander Bürgin -- 3. The European council, council and member states: Jostling for influence / Rüdiger K. W. Wurzel, Maurizio Di Lullo and Duncan Liefferink -- 4. The European parliament: A strong internal actor with external ambitions / Franziska Petri, Veronika Zapletalová and Katja Biedenkopf -- 5. The European investment bank: The EU's climate bank? / Daniel Mertens and Matthias Thiemann -- 6. Business and private finance: Their role in the EU's climate transition / Sandra Eckert -- 7. Environmental and climate activism and advocacy in the eu / Louisa Parks, Donatella della Porta and Martín Portos -- 8. Cities in EU multilevel climate policy: Governance capacities, spatial approaches and upscaling of local experiments / Kristine Kern -- 9. The role of the courts in EU climate policy / Marcin Stoczkiewicz -- Part II. Core dynamics shaping EU policy -- 10. Global dimensions of EU climate, energy and transport policies / John Vogle -- 11. Climate, ecological and energy security challenges facing the eu: New and old dynamics / Richard Youngs and Olivia Lazard -- 12. Green growth and competitiveness in EU climate policy: Paradigm shift or 'plus de la même chose'? / Oscar Fitch-Roy and Ian Bailey -- 13. EU climate leadership: Domestic and global dimensions / Paul Tobin, Diarmuid Torney and Katja Biedenkopf -- Part III. Policy instruments and modes of governance -- 14. Instruments and modes of governance in EU climate and energy policy: From energy union to the European green deal / Michèle Knodt -- 15. Targets, timetables and effort sharing as governance tools: Emergence, scope and ambition / Seita Romppanen -- 16. Proactive prevention of carbon leakage? The EU carbon border adjustment mechanism / Jørgen Wettestad -- 17. Climate policy integration and climate mainstreaming in the EU budget / Katharina Rietig and Claire Dupont -- 18. Governing EU low-carbon innovation: From strategic energy technology plan to European green deal / Jon Birger Skjærseth and Per Ove Eikeland -- Part IV. Barriers to more ambitious action in particular sectors -- 19. Agricultural emissions: A case of limited potential or limited ambition? / Alan Matthews -- 20. Energy-intensive industries in the eu: Overcoming barriers to transition? / Tomas Wyns and Gauri Khandekar -- 21. Transport: Evolving EU policy towards a 'hard-to-abate' sector / Helene Dyrhauge and Tim Rayner -- Part V. New and ongoing challenges -- 22. Carbon dioxide removal: Climbing up the EU climate policy agenda / Felix Schenuit and Oliver Geden -- 23. Brexit: Weighing its implications for EU and uk climate governance / Brendan Moore -- 24. Green recovery: Catalyst for an enhanced EU role in climate and energy policy? / Rainer Quitzow, Germán Bersalli, Johan Lilliestam and Andrea Prontera -- 25. Climate protection versus trade: Dilemmas for the eu / Natalie Dobson -- Part VI. Conclusion -- 26. The eu: Towards adequate, coherent and coordinated climate action? / Tim Rayner, Kacper Szulecki, Andrew J. Jordan and Sebastian Oberthür -- Index.
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9781800376762
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (408 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Urban ecology (Sociology) ; Nature and civilization ; Sustainability ; Stadtentwicklung ; Stadtökologie ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Klimaänderung ; Anpassung
    Abstract: "Nature-based solutions (NBS) are increasingly being adopted to address climate change, health, and urban sustainability, yet ensuring they are effective and inclusive remains a challenge. Addressing these challenges through chapters by leading experts in both global south and north contexts, this forward-looking book advances the science of NBS in cities and discusses the frontiers for next-generation urban NBS. NBS are fundamentally inter- and transdisciplinary approaches that require systems thinking and multi-level governance. With a focus on the multiple challenges that cities face, from heat and air pollution to storm water and threats to human health, this book puts forward a diversity of ideas for embracing complexity in mainstreaming NBS and inspiring new approaches to create the ecological urban futures we need. Speaking to the need for cities around the world to employ ecological, nature-based design, this book will be essential reading for early career professionals, practitioners, scholars, and students across multiple disciplines engaging with nature-based solutions including urban ecology, design, architecture, landscape architecture, geography, urban planning, policy, and management"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword I / Dagmar Haase -- Foreword II / Karen C. Seto, Sonja Knapp and J. Scott MacIvor -- 1. Nature-based solutions for sustainable, resilient, and equitable cities / Timon McPhearson, Nadja Kabisch, and Niki Frantzeskaki -- Part I. Nature-based solutions for what and for whom? -- 2. Nature-based solutions and climate change resilience / Nancy B. Grimm, Yeowon Kim, Jason R. Sauer, and Stephen R. Elser -- 3. Towards just nature-based solutions for cities / Laura Tozer, Harini Nagendra, Pippin Anderson, and Jessica Kavonic -- Part II. The nature of nature-based solutions -- 4. Urban ecological resilience: Ensuring urban ecosystems can provide nature-based solutions / Timon McPhearson, Erik Andersson, Filipa Grilo, Bianca Lopez, and Nour Zein -- 5. Nature-based solutions and biodiversity: Synergies, trade-offs, and ways forward / Sonja Knapp and J. Scott MacIvor -- Part III. The multiple benefits of nature-based solutions -- 6. Just, nature-based solutions as critical urban infrastructure for cooling and cleaning airsheds / Paul Coseo and Zoe Hamstead -- 7. Nature-based solutions as critical urban infrastructure for water resilience / Lauren McPhillips, Hong Wu, Carolina Rojas Quezada, Bernice Rosenzweig, Jason R. Sauer, and Brandon Winfrey -- 8. Human physical health outcomes influenced by contact with nature / Lilah M. Besser and Gina S. Lovasi -- 9. Nature-based solutions and mental health / Nadja Kabisch, Sukanya Basu, Matilda van den Bosch, Gregory N. Bratman, and Oskar Masztalerz -- Part IV. Nature-based solutions governance, planning, and value -- 10. Planning and maintaining nature-based solutions: Lessons for foresight and sustainable care from Berlin, jakarta, melbourne, and santiago de chile / Rieke Hansen, Judy Bush, Didit Okta Pribadi, and Emanuel Giannotti -- 11. Governance of and with nature-based solutions in cities / Niki Frantzeskaki, Katinka Wijsman, Clare Adams, Nadja Kabisch, Shirin Malekpour, Melissa Pineda Pinto, and Paula Vandergert -- 12. Mapping, measuring, and valuing the benefits of nature-based solutions in cities / Anne D. Guerry, Eric V. Lonsdorf, Chris Nootenboom, Roy P. Remme, Rob Griffin, Hillary Waters, Stephen Polasky, Baolong Han, Tong Wu, Benjamin D. Janke, Megan Meacham, Perrine Hamel, and Xueman Wang -- Part V. Engaging art and design for and with nature-based solutions -- 13. Urban designs as social-natural resolutions / Brian McGrath, Danai Thaitakoo, Nithirath Chaemchuen, and Tommy Yang -- 14. Ecological art in cities: Exploring the potential for art to promote and advance nature-based solutions / Christopher Kennedy, Ellie Irons, and Patricia Lea Watts -- 15. 1 + 1 = 3: Stories of imagination and the art of nature-based solutions / Patrick M. Lydon, David Maddox, Robin Lasser, Baixo Ribeiro, and Carla Vitantonio -- 16. Towards mainstreaming nature-based solutions for achieving biodiverse, resilient, and inclusive cities / Timon McPhearson, Nadja Kabisch, and Niki Frantzeskaki -- Index.
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  • 9
    ISBN: 9781803920924
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (512 pages )
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Solidarity Encyclopedias Social aspects ; Sustainable development ; Economics Encyclopedias Sociological aspects ; Economics Sociological aspects ; Economics Political aspects
    Abstract: "Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd in partnership with United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on SSE (UNTFSSE) The Encyclopedia of the Social and Solidarity Economy is a comprehensive reference text that explores how the social and solidarity economy (SSE) plays a significant role in creating and developing economic activities in alternative ways. In contrast to processes involving commodification, commercialisation, bureaucratisation and corporatisation, the SSE reasserts the place of ethics, social well-being and democratic decision-making in economic activities and governance. Identifying and analysing a myriad of issues and topics associated with the SSE, the Encyclopedia broadens the knowledge base of diverse actors of the SSE, including practitioners, activists and policymakers. Analysing the role of SSE organisations and enterprises in enhancing wellbeing, planetary health and democracy at various levels and their contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, the Encyclopedia invaluably summarises knowledge about the key aspects of the SSE. Accomplished researchers depart from traditional nationalistic, Eurocentric and trans-Atlantic perspectives to explain the SSE from a global perspective with a focus on untold stories of its development in both developing and developed countries. A collective work of the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on SSE (UNTFSSE), this Encyclopedia will serve as an essential tool for scholars and students of comparative social policy, international economics, management studies and economic sociology. Key Features: - 57 entries - Clearly organised into thematic sections addressing histories, concepts and theories, actors and organisations, development, and environment and governance - Breaks down the complex relationship between economic, social and political dimensions in an accessible way"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I. Histories, concepts and theories -- 1. Activism and social movements / Hamish Jenkins and Yvon Poirier -- 2. Community economies / Stephen Healy, Ana Inés Heras and Peter North -- 3. Contemporary understandings / Peter Utting -- 4. Ecological economics / Drazen Šimlesa -- 5. Feminist economics / Suzanne Bergeron -- 6. Globalization and alter-globalization / Carmen Marcuello, Anjel Errasti and Ignacio Bretos -- 7. Heterodox economics / Jean-Louis Laville -- 8. Indigenous economies / Luciane Lucas dos Santos -- 9. Moral economy and human economy / Jean-Louis Laville -- 10. Origins and histories / Jean-Louis Laville -- 11. Postcolonial theories / Luciane Lucas dos Santos -- 12. The black social economy / Sharon D. Wright Austin -- 13. The commons / Anabel Rieiro -- Part II. Actors and organizations -- 14. African American and distributive justice / Jessica Gordon-Nembhard and Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo -- 15. Associations and associationalism / Bruno Frère and Laurent Gardin -- 16. Community-based organizations / Kiran Kamal Prasad -- 17. Cooperatives and mutuals / Chiyoge B. Sifa and Caroline Shenaz Hossein -- 18. Lgbt inclusion / Vincenza Priola and Saoirse C. O'Shea -- 19. Migrants and refugees / Giulia Galera and Leila Giannetto -- 20. Activism and social movements / Edith Archambault -- 21. Social enterprises / Jacques Defourny and Marthe Nyssens -- 22. Women's self-help groups / Christabell P.J. -- 23. Youth / Davorka Vidović -- Part III. Linkages to development -- 24. Care and home support services / Christian Jetté, Yves Vaillancourt and Catherine Lenzi -- 25. Culture, sports and leisure sectors / Nadine Richez-Battesti and Francesca Petrella -- 26. Education sector / Christina A. Clamp and Colleen E. Tapley -- 27. Energy, water and waste management sectors / Waltteri Katajamäki -- 28. Finance sector / Riccardo Bodini and Gianluca Salvatori -- 29. Food and agriculture sector / Judith Hitchman -- 30. Gender equality and empowerment / Bipasha Baruah -- 31. Health and care sector / Jean-Pierre Girard -- 32. Housing sector / Alice Pittini -- 33. Information and communication technology (ict) / Raymond Saner, Lichia Saner-Yiu and Samuel Bruelisauer -- 34. Local community development / Luis Razeto Migliaro -- 35. Peace and non-violence / Smita Ramnarain -- 36. Reduction of hunger and poverty / Judith Hitchman -- 37. Reduction of multidimensional inequalities / Andrea Salustri -- 38. Social services / Susanne Elsen -- 39. Sustainable investment, production and consumption / Cynthia Giagnocavo -- 40. The sustainable development goals / Denison Jayasooria and Ilcheong Yi -- 41. Tourism sector / Gilles Caire -- 42. Work integration / Kate Cooney, Marthe Nyssens and Mary O'Shaughnessy -- Part IV. Enabling environment and governance -- 43. Access to markets / Darryl Reed -- 44. Co-optation, isomorphism and instrumentalisation / Nadine Richez-Battesti and Francesca Petrella -- 45. Financing / Gianluca Salvatori and Riccardo Bodini -- 46. Legal frameworks and laws / David Hiez -- 47. Local and territorial development plans / Hamish Jenkins -- 48. Management / Sang-Youn Lee -- 49. Participation, governance, collective action and democracy / Jeová Torres Silva Junior -- 50. Partnership and co-construction / Marguerite Mendell -- 51. Public policy / Peter Utting -- 52. Resilience in the context of multiple crises / Beverley Mullings and Tinyan Otuomagie -- 53. Social policy / Ilcheong Yi -- 54. Statistical measurement / Marie J. Bouchard -- 55. Supporting organizations and intermediaries / Hamish Jenkins -- 56. The institutional ecosystem / Jean-Marc Fontan and Benoît Lévesque -- 57. Working conditions and wages / Kunle Akingbola and Carol Brunt -- Index.
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  • 10
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035300662
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Crisis management
    Abstract: "Reflecting on the depth of the experience with crises, this innovative book demonstrates what the world can learn from insights into crises from the Japanese perspective. Taking an institutionalist approach with a strong historical precedent, leading scholars in the social sciences and law explore how better to deal with both foreseeable and unforeseen crises. Illustrating their multifaceted and complex nature, the book examines a broad range of crises throughout history, including economic, fiscal and political crises; force majeure events such as pandemics and natural disasters; and military conflicts and acts of war. Chapters consider how various actors anticipate and deal with these crises, looking closely at their different perceptions of crisis and varying degrees of urgency. Analyzing institutional design and response, and the impact of psychological factors on disaster preparedness, the book considers how the decision-making capabilities of individuals can be enhanced to improve institutional capacity. Transdisciplinary, with an international reach, this topical book will prove invaluable to students and scholars across the social sciences, particularly those interested in Asian politics and environmental policy, disaster preparedness and institutional design. It also provides guidance for policymakers working in civil code reform"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Dealing with crisis: The Japanese experience and beyond / J. Babb and Takashi Iida -- Part I. How people think about crisis -- 2. How can we prepare for something we don't want to think about? Disaster readiness and negative capability / Shin Arita -- 3. Bricolage by institutions: Towards the recreation of norms and organizations / Takashi Iida -- Part II. The great east Japan earthquake and associated crises -- 4. Transforming a crisis into a turning point: The response of businesses to the great east Japan earthquake / Naofumi Nakamura -- 5. Electric power crisis and crisis response after the great east Japan earthquake / Toshihiro Matsumura -- Part III. Law and institutions in the response to crisis -- 6. Contractual crisis and the doctrine of change of circumstances: The results and contexts of the reform of contract law in Japan / Hiroyasu Ishikawa -- 7. State of emergency clauses in constitutional law / Tomonobu Hayashi -- 8. Missing the point: Facts and rhetoric about Japan's fiscal crisis / Takeshi Fujitani -- 9. The crisis of war and the relocation of key facilities: A comparative historical study of Japan and China / Tomoo Marukawa -- 10. Japan-china relations "in crisis," and sentiment toward China / Asei Itō -- Index.
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  • 11
    ISBN: 9781802205930
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (260 pages)
    Series Statement: Norrag series on international education and development
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: International education
    Abstract: "The global education crisis is a complex problem that requires change from teachers, school managers, civil society, implementers, planners, governments and donors. Addressing the issues that lie beneath this crisis requires new ways of working. Systems thinking is a suite of approaches to grappling with complex problems that is beginning to gain traction in international education. This book brings together new research in the nascent field of systems thinking in international education. Outlining the implications that systems thinking can hold for future research, practice and progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 4, a diverse range of leading scholars, policymakers and practitioners present novel research to encourage the shift from a linear view of change to a systems view. Chapters present diverse approaches to applying systems thinking in education across middle- and low-income countries, alongside research on how this has changed mindsets more widely. Questioning notions such as scaling and the universal applicability of 'what works', authors here suggest that locally relevant evidence and systemic rewards for using it are necessary to achieve SDG 4. This innovative book exemplifies how systems thinking offers the tools, frameworks and concepts to improve outcomes in education systems. With the education crisis further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, this timely book is essential reading for all those concerned with education and sustainable development goals. This thought-provoking book should be read by all those working to achieve SDG4; those whose day jobs inspire them and who look to their bookshelves for new ideas"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword / Gita Steiner-Khamsi -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction to systems thinking in international education and development / Moira V. Faul and Laura Savage -- Part I. From practice to systems thinking -- 2. Reflections on systems practice: Implementing teaching at the right level in zambia / Varja Lipovsek, Laura Poswell, Ashleigh Morrell, Devyani Pershad, Nico Vromant and Abe Grindle -- 3. Collaborative professionalism and education system change: New evidence from Kenya, India and rwanda / Charlotte Jones, John Rutayisire, Donvan Amenya, Jean-Pierre Mugiraneza and Katie Godwin -- 4. Global education funders' perspectives on the potential of systems thinking to change education practices and achieve mass learning gains / Laura Savage, Clio Dintilhac, Raphaelle Martinez, Tjip Walker and Jason Weaver -- Part II. From theories to systems thinking and practices -- 5. Understanding travelling reforms from a systems perspective / Gita Steiner-Khamsi -- 6. Using a systems approach to education and development: Insights from a multi-country research programme on access and learning / Keith M. Lewin -- 7. System coherence for learning: Applications of the rise education systems framework / Michelle Kaffenberger and Marla Spivack -- Part III. Applying systems approaches in practice -- 8. Adapting inclusive systems development (isd) to vocational education and training (vet) and skills development / Mike Klassen, Sandra Rothboeck and Ailsa Buckley -- 9. Systems, complexity and realist evaluation: Reflections from a large-scale education policy evaluation in colombia / Juan David Parra and D. Brent Edwards Jr -- 10. Can systems thinking tools help us better understand education problems and design appropriate support? Reflections on a test case / Elena Walls and Laura Savage -- Part IV. Conclusion -- 11. Conclusion: Beyond silver bullet solutions / Moira V. Faul and Laura Savage -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781800378469
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (348 pages)
    Series Statement: Elgar research agendas
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Equality Social aspects ; Equality Handbooks, manuals, etc Research ; Life skills ; Vocational qualifications
    Abstract: Skills and inequality have long been a central theme in analyses of social structure and economic development. A Research Agenda for Skills and Inequality offers an insightful cross-disciplinary framework for research on how unequal living conditions form, persist and change in interplay with human skill formation and development. Drawing on prominent new advances in the field, this incisive Research Agenda builds a forward-thinking framework for research. Spanning an extensive eighteen chapters, each examining a specific but major aspect of the general theme of skills and inequality, the book provides a comprehensive overview of links between the two. Against the backdrop of established insights from related but separate fields of inquiry, including economics, sociology, demography, human resource management, political science, philosophy and psychology, the Research Agenda presents an exciting overview of recent advances in analyses of skills and inequality. Opening vistas for future research based on extensive literature reviews and new findings, this Research Agenda offers compact, ground-breaking essays for students, policy makers, and advanced researchers in many disciplines including social policy, business management, and employment relations
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Skills and inequality - Introduction and overview / Michael Tåhlin -- 2. Skills, class and gender / Charlotta Magnusson and Michael Tåhlin -- 3. Culture, skills, job tasks and inequality / George Farkas -- 4. Skills and structural change / Johan Westerman and Edvin Syk -- 5. Skills and occupational sex segregation in Europe / Amanda Almstedt Valldor and Karin Halldén -- 6. Skills and adult educational choice: Gender (in) equality in a new form of Swedish vocational education / Margarita Chudnovskaya, Erik Nylander, and Rebecca Ye -- 7. Occupational skills and subjective social status / Anton B. Andersson and Arvid Lindh -- 8. Skill and job quality: Polarisation in a 'liberal' economy? / Duncan Gallie -- 9. Occupational skills, ethnic stratification, and labor market assimilation across immigrant generations / Are Skeie Hermansen, Jon Horgen Friberg, and Arnfinn H. Midtbøen -- 10. Can work protect against age-related decline of cognitive skills?: An empirical test of the use-it-or-lose-it hypothesis / Mark Levels and Rolf van der Velden -- 11. Reconceptualizing human capital / Paula England and Nancy Folbre -- 12. Parental education-occupation matching and offspring earnings / Dirk Witteveen -- 13. Skill and power at work: A relational inequality perspective / Dustin Avent-Holt and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey -- 14. The meaning of job-required education / Michael J. Handel -- 15. Skills and educational systems / Heike Solga and Herman G. van de Werfhorst -- 16. Skills and collective wage bargaining / Christian Kjellström and Irene Wennemo -- 17. Skills and macro-level economic inequality / Tomas Korpi, Michael Tåhlin and Johan Westerman -- 18. Skilled work and ethics: How can we expand opportunities for meaningful work? / Andrea Veltman -- Index.
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  • 13
    ISBN: 9781035307173
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (322 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Education, Higher Social aspects ; Education, Higher Aims and objectives
    Abstract: "Despite the broad engagement of higher education institutions in most social sectors, limited thinking and hyper-individualistic approaches have dominated discussions of their value to society. Advocating a more rigorous and comprehensive approach, this insightful book discusses the broad range of contributions made by higher education and the many issues entailed in theorising, observing, measuring and evaluating those contributions. Prepared by a group of leading international scholars, the chapters investigate the multiple interconnections between higher education and society and the vast range of social, economic, political and cultural functions carried out by universities, colleges and institutes and their personnel. The benefits of higher education include employable graduates, new knowledge via research and scholarship, climate science and global connections, and the structuring of economic and social opportunities for whole populations, as well as work and advice for government at all levels. Higher education not only lifts earnings and augments careers, it also immerses students in knowledge, helps to shape them as people, and fosters productivity, democracy, tolerance and international understanding. The book highlights the value added by higher education for persons, organisations, communities, cities, nations, and the world. It also focuses on inequalities in the distribution of that value, and finds that the tools for assessing higher education are neither adequate nor complete as yet. International and interdisciplinary in scope, this book will prove an invaluable resource to students and scholars of higher education, educational policy and social policy. It will also prove a useful resource to both university executives and tertiary education policymakers who want to make higher education more effectively accountable to the public"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- List of contributors -- 1. Introduction: Higher education and the contributions problem / Simon Marginson, Brendan Cantwell, Daria Platonova and Anna Smolentseva -- Part I. Concepts and perspectives -- 2. Intrinsic and extrinsic outcomes of higher education / Simon Marginson, Brendan Cantwell, Daria Platonova and Anna Smolentseva -- 3. Contributions of higher education to society: Towards conceptualisation / Anna Smolentseva -- 4. Higher education as student self-formation / Simon Marginson -- Part II. Global contributions and comparisons -- 5. Higher education, science and the climate crisis / Johanna Witte -- 6. Opportunities and challenges for open higher education systems in global context / Marijk van der Wende -- 7. A comparison of Chinese and anglo-american ideas about higher education and public good / Simon Marginson and Lili Yang -- 8. Us-china collaboration in science for the global common good / John P. Haupt and Jenny J. Lee -- Part III. Contributions to economy, polity, government and culture -- 9. Graduate employability and employment / James Robson -- 10. Unesco's common good idea of higher education and democracy / Rita Locatelli and Simon Marginson -- 11. Understanding the contributions of higher education through the politics of reform / Brendan Cantwell, Daria Platonova and Isak Froumin -- 12. The professoriate and public policy / Glen A. Jones -- 13. Cultural contributions of higher education / Jussi Välimaa, Terhi Nokkala and Ksenia Romanenko -- 14. Higher education and regional elite formation in Russia / Aleksei Egorov and Sergey Malinovskiy -- Index.
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  • 14
    ISBN: 9781786434593
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (196 pages)
    Series Statement: Cities series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Public spaces Environmental aspects ; City planning Climatic factors ; Stadtentwicklung ; Stadtsanierung ; Hitzebelastung ; Wärmeinsel
    Abstract: "Shedding light on the future of urban spaces, this path-breaking book is a significant contribution to contemporary climate change scholarship. It synthesizes interdisciplinary research with practical policy, putting an emphasis on positive environmental and socially just outcomes and urban regeneration. Hot Cities offers insights from eminent academics and practitioners, providing both a practical and theoretical outlook on strategy development in a climate crisis. Chapters call for urgent responses to the urban heat problem, providing future projections to illustrate why this is important. They highlight that despite prominent issues within cities, such as maladaptive practices or unsustainable path dependency in city policy and planning, urban spaces are likely to be the safest and most protected locations from the uncompromising outcomes of global warming. This enlightening book will be incredibly useful for scholars of human geography, urban planning, climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction, environmental humanities, urban design and urban and regional studies. Due to its broad applicability, it will also benefit design practitioners and community developers"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Welcome to the pyrocene -- 2. Fire -- 3. Climate image plates / Ben Sibley -- 4. Risk -- 5. Roots -- 6. Shelter -- Image plates 2 / Pakamas Thinphanga -- 7. Community -- 8. Technology -- 9. Nature -- Image plates 3 / Jody Graham -- 10. Ethics -- 11. Futures -- 12. The endless summer -- Image plates 4 / Jesse Hales -- Bibliography -- Index.
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  • 15
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781800885325
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (306 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Elgar guides to teaching
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Federal government ; Political science Study and teaching
    Abstract: "Teaching Federalism presents innovative ideas for teaching a wide variety of key concepts of federalism and federal-country cases. Each chapter introduces a topic, explains its place in federalism research, and provides learning objectives, pedagogical tools, and questions for class discussions, student essays, and examinations. Evaluation and reading suggestions are included as well. The book covers twenty substantive facets of federalism important for understanding contemporary issues of federalism and federation, such as power distribution, second chambers, high courts, intergovernmental relations, fiscal federalism, multinational federalism, conflict resolution, indigenous peoples, gendered federalism, and secession. Also included are case-study examples for teaching about federalism in Germany, India, Nigeria, Switzerland, and the United States. Educators around the world who teach federalism or wish to do so will find this a wonderful resource for lesson plans on a wide variety of issues related to federalism. Students studying federalism will also find it invaluable as an introductory resource for important topics and readings on the subject"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword / Rupak Chattopadhyay -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to teaching federalism: Multidimensional approaches / John Kincaid and J. Wesley Leckrone -- 1. Theories of covenant and federalism: Deep roots with multiple shoots / Glenn Moots -- 2. The federalist: The world's seminal source on federalism / Troy E. Smith and Ryan D. Nelson -- 3. Comparative federalism: What is a federation and how do we study more than one? / Alan Fenna -- 4. Federalism and constitutionalism: A relation based on interdependency / Elisabeth Alber and Francesco Palermo -- 5. Distribution of powers in federal systems: Federalism's heart / John Kincaid -- 6. Second chambers in federal systems: Shared-rule guarantors or party hacks? / Anna Gamper -- 7. High courts in federations: Neutral referees or team players? / Nicholas Aroney -- 8. Intergovernmental relations: Federalism's lifeblood? / Johanne Poirier -- 9. Fiscal federalism: Federalism's nerve tissue? / Anwar Shah -- 10. Federal political culture: Federalism's glue? / David McGrane -- 11. Political parties in federal systems: Key players in the federal game / Klaus Detterbeck -- 12. Local governments in federal systems: Deepening federal democracy? / Nico Steytler -- 13. Federalism and democracy / Robert P. Inman -- 14. Multinational, multicultural, intercultural, and plurinational federalism / Arjun Tremblay and Alain-G. Gagnon -- 15. Federalism and conflict resolution: Mixed success? / Soeren Keil -- 16. Asymmetric vs. Symmetric federalism: Equity vs. Equality / Maja Sahadzić -- 17. Secession in federal systems: Voice versus exit / Eva Maria Belser and Robin Beglinger -- 18. Social policymaking in federal systems: Can equity and diversity coexist? / Andrew Karch -- 19. Applying a gender lens to federal systems / Jill Vickers -- 20. Indigenous peoples and federalism: In or out? / Martin Papillon -- 21. Germany: Cooperation and executive dominance / Nathalie Behnke -- 22. Indian federalism: Centralism amidst diversity / Louise Tillin -- 23. Nigeria: A model of federalist ethnic conflict management or federalist illusion? / Rotimi T. Suberu -- 24. Switzerland: Real federalism at work / Rahel Freiburghaus and Adrian Vatter -- 25. Federalism in the United States: Dualism with a splash of coercion / J. Wesley Leckrone -- Index.
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781800883208
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 239 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Elgar research agendas
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als A research agenda for gentrification
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    Keywords: Gentrifizierung
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  • 17
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035306275
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (172 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Elgar studies in human rights
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Perry, Michael J., 1945 - Interrogating the morality of human rights
    DDC: 323
    Keywords: Human rights Moral and ethical aspects
    Abstract: "This forward-thinking book illustrates the complexities of the morality of human rights. Emphasising the role of human rights as the only true global political morality to arise since the Second World War, chapters explore its role as applied to often controversial issues, such as capital punishment, the exclusion of same-sex couples from civil marriage and criminal abortion bans. Clarifying and cross-examining the morality of human rights, Michael J. Perry discusses their connection to moral equality and moral freedom, as well as exploring the significance of anti-poverty human rights. This illuminating book concludes with an explanation as to why the morality of human rights is acutely relevant to challenges faced by humanity in the modern era. In particular, the challenges of growing economic inequality and climate change are emphasised as having profound relevance to the morality of human rights. Interrogating the Morality of Human Rights will be of great benefit to both undergraduate and graduate students who are contemplating the idea of human rights and their morality within their studies. Professors and academics with cause to study and research human rights would also find it to be of interest, particularly those in the field of legal scholarship"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction: Interrogating the morality of human rights - introductory overview -- Part I. The morality of human rights -- 1. Preliminary questions -- 2. The most fundamental question: What justification, if any? -- Part II. Two fundamental human rights: Moral equality and moral freedom -- 3. The human right to moral equality and the constitutional right to equal protection -- 4. The human right to moral freedom and the constitutional right of privacy -- Part III. Three human-rights-based controversies: Capital punishment, abortion, and same-sex marriage -- 5. Capital punishment as a contested human rights issue -- 6. Criminalizing abortion as a contested human rights issue -- 7. Excluding same-sex couples from civil marriage as a contested human rights issue -- 8. Who decides? -- Part IV. Antipoverty rights--and vulnerability theory -- 9. Poverty as a human rights issue 10. Vulnerability theory and the morality of human rights: Complementary, not competitive -- Conclusion: Human rights inflation? Extreme economic inequality and global warming as human rights issues -- Appendix -- Index.
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  • 18
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781803925820
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (183 pages)
    Series Statement: In a turbulent era series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Home care services
    Abstract: "This thoughtful book provides a refreshing, comparative perspective on the future of care homes in our post-pandemic world. Building on more than a decade of collaborative international and interdisciplinary research in Canada, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the UK and the US, it employs a feminist political economy framework to address the key challenges facing care homes in this turbulent era. With particular attention to lessons learned in Canada, Sweden, and Norway, the contributing authors argue that publicly-funded care homes remain critical to care arrangements but require policy and practice transformations to produce equitable and supportive conditions. Attentive to the specific contexts and tensions that shape care, chapters address key questions about care home quality and labour in relation to gender, race, ethnicity, religion and class. The book analyses the physical and social boundaries that set the conditions for quality of life and care, moving beyond the minimum to explain how nursing homes can provide joy. Offering alternative approaches to the complex challenges facing this vital public service, this book will be a key reference for students and scholars of health policy, comparative social policy and social work. Its integration of statistical, policy and practice analysis with ethnographic research will prove invaluable to those concerned with long-term care policy and practice"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Care homes in crisis: Promising ways forward / Pat Armstrong and Susan Braedley -- 2. Piercing the corporate veil: Nursing home ownership in turbulent times / Hugh Armstrong -- 3. What's critical to care? / Pat Armstrong, Jacqueline Choiniere, Charlene Harrington, and Marta Szebehely -- 4. The crisis in the nursing home labour force: Where is the political will? / Pat Armstrong, Frode F. Jacobsen, Monique Lanoix, and Marta Szebehely -- 5. Negotiating internal and external boundaries of nursing homes during covid-19: A case study from norway / Gudmund Ågotnes and Frode F. Jacobsen -- 6. Are safer, welcoming care homes possible? Considering physical environments / Susan Braedley and Pat Armstrong -- 7. Family members and nursing home care: Lessons fromOntario and Sweden during covid-19 / Ruth Lowndes, Jacqueline Choiniere, and Petra Ulmanen -- 8. Equity and diversity in nursing home care: Lessons from Canada and Sweden / Prince Owusu, Susan Braedley, and Palle Storm -- 9. Regulation and accountability in the care home sector: Expert commentaries / Albert Banerjee, Hugh Armstrong, Pat Armstrong, Frode F. Jacobsen, Charlene Harrington, and James Struthers -- 10. Making joy possible in care home policies and practices / Susan Braedley, Pat Armstrong, and Janna Klostermann -- Index.
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  • 19
    ISBN: 9781803925141
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 153 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Elgar dialogues series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Moulaert, Frank, 1951 - Political change through social innovation
    DDC: 303.484
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    Keywords: Democratization ; Social change Political aspects ; Democracy ; Political participation ; Social change ; Demokratisierung ; Politische Beteiligung ; Sozialinnovation ; Sozialer Wandel
    Abstract: "This book asks why socially innovative initiatives, including attempts to rejuvenate democracy by introducing new modes of participation, are not leading to a democratization of the State or overcoming the gap between political leaders and people. It offers a vivid and thought-provoking conversation on why we are at such an impasse and explores concrete possibilities for change. Offering insights on the failures of modern democracies from three leading voices of contemporary social science, the book interrogates the possibilities of progressive socio-political agendas, strategies, and movements seeking to overcome these failures. It highlights examples of bottom-linked forms of governance that provide signs of positive change and focuses on the essential role that progressive institutions play in enabling socio-political transformation. It also analyses how processes of self-emancipation driven by social innovation and political mobilization movements represent the most promising form of political engagement today. Students and scholars of social innovation and governance will find this to be an invigorating read. It will also be helpful to politicians and government officials seeking to understand, respond to, and explore efforts towards democratizing political change"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword -- 1. Can mutual aid in a post-industrial society reforge the political? / Frank Moulaert, Bob Jessop, Erik Swyngedouw and Liana Simmons -- 2. Bottom-linked governance and socio-political transformation / Frank Moulaert -- 3. Is emancipatory politicization still possible today? / Erik Swyngedouw -- 4. Exploring the dilemma between self-emancipation and self-responsibilization / Bob Jessop -- 5. Debate: A dialogical encounter on the potentialities of social innovation for social-political transformation -- 6. Towards socially innovative political transformation / Frank Moulaert, Pieter Van Den Broeck, Liana Simmons, Bob Jessop and Erik Swyngedouw -- Index.
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  • 20
    ISBN: 9781839108068
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 239 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Social contracts and informal workers in the global south
    DDC: 331.109172/4
    Keywords: Sozialvertrag ; Informelle Wirtschaft ; Schattenwirtschaft ; Schwarzarbeit ; Selbstständige ; Erwerbsarmut ; Globaler Süden ; Social contract ; Employees ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: "Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South draws on the accounts of informal workers, who represent over 60 per cent of the global workforce, to advocate for radically new conceptualizations of state-society, capital-labour and state-capital-labour relations, illustrating how current social contracts may be considered inadequate, irrelevant or unjust. Bridging social contract theories, both mainstream and critical, and the experiences of informal workers - self-employed, wage employed and sub-contracted - this book sheds light on how many existing social contract models stigmatize informal workers and do not offer legal or social protection. Instead of ideologically driven 'top-down' calls to revitalize the social contract, it advocates for 'bottom-up' initiatives focused on the demands of the working poor in the informal economy. With a wealth of cross-national evidence, as well as promising case studies, this timely and thought-provoking book will prove vital for scholars and researchers of informal workers and of state-capital-labour relations; and for policy makers negotiating new social contracts"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction: Social contracts and informal workers in the global south / Sophie Plagerson, Laura Alfers and Martha Chen -- 1. Recognition, responsiveness and reciprocity: What informal worker leaders expect from the state, the private sector and themselves / Sally Roever and Ana Carolina Ogando -- 2. Self-employment and social contracts: From the perspective of the informal self-employed / Martha Chen -- 3. "dependent contractor": Towards the recognitions of a new labor category / Françoise Carré -- 4. Taxation and the informal sector in the global south: Strengthening the social contract without reciprocity? / Michael Rogan -- 5. Towards a more inclusive social protection: Informal workers and the struggle for a new social contract / Laura Alfers and Rachel Moussié -- 6. Extended producer responsibility: Opportunities and challenges for waste pickers / Taylor Cass Talbott -- 7. Human rights and transnational social contracts: The recognition and inclusion of homeworkers? / Marlese von Broembsen -- 8. Informal workers harnessing the power of digital platforms in India / Salonie Muralidhara Hiriyur -- 9. "essential and disposable? Or just disposable?" informal workers during covid-19 / Sarah Orleans Reed -- Conclusion: Post-pandemic epilogue - the bad old contract, an even worse contract or a better social contract for informal workers? / Laura Alfers, Martha Chen and Sophie Plagerson -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781802209433 , 1802209433
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 270 Seiten
    Series Statement: Elgar monographs in constitutional and administrative law
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Partlett, William The Post-Soviet as post-colonial
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    Keywords: Russland ; Verfassung ; Rechtsvergleich ; Transformation
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 248-259. - Index
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  • 22
    ISBN: 9781800374362
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Engaging citizens in policy making
    Keywords: Internet in public administration ; Political participation ; Political participation Technological innovations ; Policy sciences Citizen participation ; Electronic books ; Europa ; Verwaltung ; E-Partizipation ; Bürgerbeteiligung
    Abstract: "Exploring academic and policy thinking on e-participation, this book opens up the organizational and institutional 'black box' and provides new insights into how public administrations in 15 European states have facilitated its implementation. Using multiple case studies, the book offers a systematic analysis of how e-participation initiatives are actually organized and administered within the government, as well as how the political context and collaborative partnerships both within the government and with non-governmental actors affect the adoption and institutionalization of e-participation platforms. Contributors provide new empirical evidence on some of the most pressing questions related to the organization and management of e-participation, aiming to provide better understanding of citizen participation platforms. Providing comparative knowledge on the institutional, administrative and organizational aspects of e-participation, this book will be an ideal read for public policy researchers and government practitioners interested in innovation and technology in public administration"--
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  • 23
    ISBN: 9781788116145
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 460 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Series Statement: Research handbooks in urban studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Handbook on urban social policies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Handbook on urban social policies
    DDC: 307.76
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    Keywords: Urban policy ; Public welfare ; Social policy ; Public welfare ; Social policy ; Urban policy ; Stadt ; Sozialpolitik
    Note: Enthält bibliografische Angaben und Index (Seite 444-460)
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  • 24
    ISBN: 9781788976329
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (368 pages)
    Keywords: International relations and terrorism ; International relations and terrorism ; International relations and terrorism ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "This illuminating book offers a timely assessment of the development and proliferation of precursor crimes of terrorism, exploring the functions and implications of these expanding offences in different jurisdictions. In response to new modes and sources of terrorism, attempts to pre-empt potential attacks through precursor offences have emerged. This book examines not only the meanings and effectiveness of this approach, but also the challenges posed to human rights and social and economic development. Featuring contributions from leading academic and practitioner experts in counter-terrorism law, the book covers the broad scope of activities tackled by these new legal interventions, including membership, collaboration, communications, training and financing. Taking a comparative approach that relies on extensive experience in various jurisdictions, including the UK and Spain, the chapters also discuss important related issues such as international cooperation, investigations and penology, offering insights into the context of policies and practices. Scholars and advanced students of criminal and human rights law with an interest in terrorism and terrorism offences will find this book essential reading. It will also benefit legal practitioners and policy makers in fields such as international criminal law cooperation and counter-terrorism"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I: Introduction -- 1. Introduction to precursor crimes of terrorism / Mariona Llobet Anglí, Manuel Cancio Meliá, and Clive Walker -- 2. Counter terrorism through precursor crimes / Clive Walker -- Part II: Criminalisation of anticipatory risk of terrorism attacks -- 3. Law as reason vs law as will in the fight against terrorism: From a hobbesian conception of law to an orwellian society / Aniceto Masferrer and Pedro Talavera -- 4. The criminalisation of terrorism risk within the European Union: A suitable choice? / Francesca Galli -- 5. Voluntary abandonment related to the crime of membership of a terrorist group / Mertxe Landera Luri -- 6. Precursor crimes in australia's anti-terrorism legislation / Christopher Michaelsen -- Part III: Precursor communication crimes in relation to terrorism -- 7. The legitimacy of offences criminalising incitement to terrorist acts: A European perspective / Anneke Petzsche -- 8. Twitter after charlie hebdo and the paris bataclan attacks: Identifying and measuring the different types of violent speech on the internet / Fernando Miró-Llinares -- 9. Spanish writing on the wall? Glorification of terrorism under spanish law / Manuel Cancio Meliá -- 10. Terrorism as a hate crime? / Juan Alberto Díaz López -- Part IV: Expansion of precursor terrorism crimes: Organisational, evidential and international -- 11. Agency costs avoidance through 'leaderless resistance' and the criminalization of visiting internet sites: Is the cure worse than the disease? / Íñigo Ortiz de Urbina Gimeno -- 12. 'Jihadist lone wolves': Terrorists, murderers or believers? Back to an actor-based criminal law / Mariona Llobet Anglí -- 13. Intelligence expert evidence against terrorism in Spain / Gonzalo Boye Tuset -- 14. Precursor crimes of international terrorism / Ben Saul -- Part V: Process, practice and punishment -- 15. Police cooperation in counter-terrorism: Limits and suitable partners / Saskia Maria Hufnagel -- 16. The accommodation of precursor crimes within extradition / Paul Arnell -- 17. Criminal process and precursor crimes of terrorism / Mark Topping and Mark Carroll -- 18. Legal experiments in the Spanish judicial fight against jihadist terrorism / Benet Salellas i Vilar -- 19. The ends of state punishment and terrorism / Daniel Rodríguez Horcajo -- 20. The relevance of mandatory minimum penalties: An Introduction with reference to precursor crimes of terrorism in Spain / Gonzalo J. Basso -- 21. Penal policies and terrorist offenders in Spain: A matter of recidivism risk assessment or a matter of de-radicalisation? / Enara Garro Carrera -- 22. The sentencing of precursor terrorism crimes in the United Kingdom / Florence Lee and Clive Walker -- Select bibliography -- Index
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781839109256
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 pages)
    Series Statement: Elgar research agendas
    Keywords: Special events Research ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Exploring the social, economic and environmental impacts of events on people, places and communities, this timely Research Agenda highlights the links between theory and practice in event impacts research. Top scholars critically assess events, looking at who benefits from hosting them, and focusing on issues surrounding sustainability, the need to define legacies, and the need to extend regeneration efforts to secure economic and socially sustainable futures. The Research Agenda first outlines key theories and concepts in the field, addressing the three impacts recognized in triple bottom line considerations of sustainability. Chapters then move to analyse a range of types and scales of event, including: conventions and business events, sports tourism, cultural and religious events, intangible cultural heritage, and events in rural locations. This forward-looking Research Agenda further analyses event hosting in emerging economy nations, disability access and inclusion, climate change and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Covering a broad range of types, scales and settings of events, this will be a crucial read for event studies and event management scholars. The critical insights to practical impacts of events will also be beneficial for policy-makers and event practitioners"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. An Introduction to a research agenda for event impacts / Nicholas Wise -- Part I: Assessing event impacts -- 2. Economic impacts of events / Larry Dwyer -- 3. Environmental impacts of events / Kelly Maguire -- 4. Social impacts of events / Nicholas Wise, Susanne Gellweiler, and Enqing Tian -- Part II: Research themes and case examples -- 5. Convention events / Jeeyeon Jeannie Hahm -- 6. Sports tourism and event impacts / Marko Perić, Jelena Đurkin Badurina, and Nicholas Wise -- 7. Religious events and commercialization / Flávia Ulian and Angela Fileno da Silva -- 8. Events and intangible cultural heritage / Takamitsu Jimura -- 9. Transformational atmospheres of international sporting events / Jada Lindblom -- 10. Rural events and social development / Lucia Aquilino -- 11. Local authority planning, sustainability, and event governance / Kelly Maguire -- 12. The impact of events on place branding / Waldemar Cudny -- 13. Mega-event trends and impacts / Tara Fitzgerald and Brij Maharaj -- 14. Postponement of events / Alexander Bond, Daniel Parnell, and Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen -- 15. Disability, access, and inclusion / Erin Pearson and Laura Misener -- 16. Events and climate change / Judith Mair -- Part III: Going forward -- 17. Evaluating cultural legacy: From policy to engaged research / Rafaela Neiva Ganga -- 18. A research synthesis of organizational forms for events legacy delivery / Kylie Wasser, Landy Di Lu, and Laura Misener -- 19. Concluding remarks and event impacts going forward / Kelly Maguire -- Index
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781839104572
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 544 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Elgar handbooks in migration
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Handbook on migration and welfare
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    Keywords: Emigration and immigration Handbooks, manuals, etc Political aspects ; Welfare state ; Electronic books ; Migration ; Migrationspolitik ; Sozialpolitik ; Wohlfahrtsstaat
    Abstract: "Bringing together prominent scholars in the field, this Handbook provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the complex interrelationship between migration and welfare. Chapters explore the extent to which immigration policy affects - and is affected by - welfare states, from both economic and political perspectives. This Handbook also examines the effects of emigration on sending societies exploring issues such as the impact of remittances, diasporas, and skill deterioration as a result of human capital flight on capacity building and on economic and political development more generally. Contributors draw on both qualitative and quantitative research to illuminate the contours and patterns of this complex relationship. This includes the assumed tension-reducing role of multiculturalist and integration policies, the shaping of native beliefs about migrants by socio-economic constraints and the potential for the extension of social rights to migrants to influence and increase pro-redistributive attitudes. Investigating the drivers of welfare chauvinism and its effects on social trust between native and immigrant groups, the Handbook also provides insights into the latest theoretical and empirical findings regarding the progressive's dilemma, one of the most formidable policy challenges leaders of modern societies face. Breaking new theoretical and empirical ground, this cutting-edge Handbook is essential reading for academics, researchers and students in political science, economics, sociology, social policy and political philosophy, particularly those focused on global migration and changing attitudes to welfare. It will also benefit policymakers looking for new data and pioneering perspectives on immigration policy and the future of welfare states in a changing world economy"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction to the handbook on migration and welfare: The contours of contested concepts / Markus M. L. Crepaz -- Part I: Taking stock: Migration and the state of the welfare state -- 1. Managing migration in modern welfare states: One-size policy does not fit all / Pieter Bevelander and James F. Hollifield -- 2. Economics or politics? Assessing immigration as a challenge to the welfare state / Maureen A. Eger -- 3. Migration, diversity, and the welfare state: Moving beyond attitudes / Patrick R. Ireland -- Part II: Is social homogeneity a precondition for redistribution? -- 4. Why share with strangers? Reflections on a variety of perspectives / Matthew Wright -- 5. The boundaries of generosity: Membership, inclusion, and redistribution / Allison Harell, Will Kymlicka, and Keith Banting -- 6. Immigration and preferences for redistribution: Empirical evidence and political implications of the progressive's dilemma in Europe / Elie Murard -- 7. When does immigration shape support for a universal basic income? The role of education and employment status / Anthony Kevins -- 8. Welfare chauvinist or neoliberal opposition to immigrant welfare? The importance of measurement in the study of welfare chauvinism / Edward Anthony Koning -- 9. Personal and contextual foundations of welfare chauvinism in western Europe / Conrad Ziller and Romana Careja -- Part III: Political institutions and policies as shapers of the welfare-migration context -- 10. Framing matters: Pathways between policies, immigrant integration, and native attitudes / Anita Manatschal -- 11. The politics of multiculturalism and redistribution: Immigration, accommodation, and solidarity in diverse democracies / Keith Banting, Daniel Westlake, and Will Kymlicka -- 12. The politicization of immigration and welfare: The progressive's dilemma, the rise of far-right parties, and challenges for the left / Maureen A. Eger and Joakim Kulin -- 13. Inclusive solidarity? The social democratic dilemma: Between EU rules and supporters' preferences / Zoe Lefkofridi and Susanne Rhein -- 14. Institutional sources of trust resilience in diverse societies: The mitigating role of inclusive and egalitarian welfare state institutions / Elif Naz Kayran and Melanie Kolbe -- 15. Inequality, immigration, and welfare regimes: Untangling the connections / Christel Kesler -- 16. Welfare states and migration policy: The main challenges for scholarship / Frida Bor.ng, Sara Kalm, and Johannes Lindvall -- Part IV: Political culture, migration, and redistribution -- 17. What explains opposition to immigration: Economic anxiety, cultural threat, or both? / Hanna Kleider -- 18. Economic resentment or cultural malaise: What accounts for nativist sentiments in contemporary liberal democracies? / Hans-Georg Betz -- 19. Does contact with strangers matter? / Eric M. Uslaner -- 20. A world to win at work? An integrated approach to meaningful interethnic contact / Katerina Manevska, Roderick Sluiter, and Agnes Akkerman -- 21. Constructing national identity and generalized trust in diverse democracies / Patti Tamara Lenard -- 22. Critically different or similarly critical? The roots of welfare state criticism among ethnic minority and majority citizens in Belgium / Arno Van Hootegem, Koen Abts, and Bart Meuleman -- Part V: The view from the global south: the effects of migration on origin countries -- 23. The janus face of remittances: Do remittances support or undermine development in the global south? / Farid Makhlouf and Oussama Ben Atta -- 24. Tracing the links between migration and food security in Bangladesh / Mohammad Moniruzzaman and Margaret Walton-Roberts -- 25. Migration as a development strategy: Debating the role that migrants and those in diaspora can play / Elizabeth Mavroudi -- 26. The migration-development nexus under scrutiny / Ra.l Delgado Wise -- Index
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    ISBN: 9781800379732
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Urban violence, resilience and security
    DDC: 303.6091732
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    Keywords: Urban violence ; Urban policy ; Developing countries Economic conditions ; Developing countries Social conditions ; Developing countries ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Lateinamerika ; Asien ; Afrika ; Kriminalgeografie ; Stadtsoziologie ; Stadtentwicklung ; Urbanität ; Gewalttätigkeit
    Abstract: "Written in a comprehensive yet accessible style, Urban Violence, Resilience and Security investigates the diverse nature of urban violence within Latin America, Asia and Africa. It further analyzes how regular and irregular governing mechanisms can provide human security, despite the presence of chronic violence. The empirically rich and conceptually grounded contributions of established and emerging scholars evaluate the current state and future trajectory of urban development. They also question common explanations of the drivers of violence in urban areas and also provide measured recommendations for improved policy and future governance. Chapters thoroughly examine the opportunities and hazards of focusing on resilience as the only method to improve security and identify governance and policy practices that can move beyond the rhetoric of resilience to evaluate diverse approaches to attaining human security in urban areas of the Global South. This invigorating book will be an excellent resource for academic researchers interested in urban dynamics in the Global South as well as scholars embarking on geography, human security, political science and policy studies. Based on a set of original case studies, policymakers will also benefit from the questions and challenges to the conventional approaches to urban planning and governance that it raises"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword / Ariel C. Armony -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction to urban violence, resilience and security / Michael R. Glass, Taylor B. Seybolt and Phil Williams -- Part I: Conceptual approaches to urban violence, resilience and security -- 2. Urban violence in the global south: Drug traffickers, gangs, and organized crime / Phil Williams -- 3. Urban resilience for the 21st century / Savannah Cox -- 4. Urban governance in conflict zones: Contentious politics, not "resilience" / Daniel E. Esser -- 5. Building effective and acceptable security-driven urban resilience / Jon Coaffee -- 6. Fragility and pernicious resilience in urban Latin America and the Caribbean / Enrique Desmond Arias -- Part II: Dimensions of urban vulnerability and resilience in the global south -- 7. Feral cities and the normative dimension of violence: Caracas and the Latin American city / Roberto Briceño-León -- 8. Xenophobic violence, displacement, and reintegration: A case study of female migrants in isipingo, durban, South Africa / Kim Gounder and Brij Maharaj -- 9. Shoot first, ask later: Violence and anti-crime policies in Mexico's cuidad juárez and pakistan's karachi / Vanda Felbab-Brown -- 10. Strain between two worlds: A sociological approach to the rise and fall of crime and violence in guatemala city / Daniel Núñez -- 11. Criminal victimization and social resilience in Latin America / Eduardo Moncada -- Index
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    ISBN: 9781800885615
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 pages)
    Keywords: Natural resources Management ; Conservation of natural resources ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Offering insights on violence in conservation in Africa, this timely book demonstrates how and why the state pursues conservation objectives to the detriment of its citizens. It focuses on how the dehumanization of black people and indigenous groups, the insertion of global green agendas onto the continent, a lack of resource sovereignty, and neoliberal conservation account for why violence is a permanent feature of conservation in Africa. Chapters uncover various forms of violence experienced on the continent, revealing the local and global conditions that enable them, and propose pathways towards non-violent conservation. The book concludes that the ideology of conservation is also an ideology about people. Crucially, it highlights the implications of increasing investment in violent instruments and the institutionalization of militarized approaches for conservation, the state, and ordinary people. Scholars and students of political ecology and environmental policy and planning will greatly benefit from this book's drawing together of perspectives encompassing green violence and the militarization of conservation. It will also be an invigorating read for African studies researchers looking at coloniality and the re-evaluation of the African state, particularly through the lens of nature conservation
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Dimensions of violent conservation in Africa -- 1. Conservation and violence in Africa / Maano Ramutsindela, Frank Matose and Tafadzwa Mushonga -- Part II: The militarization of conservation -- 2. The state and contested natural resources in Africa / Frank Matose, Dina Dabo, Tichayana Konono and Simphiwe Tsawu -- 3. The violence of greening the state in Africa / Emmanuel Mogende and Maano Ramutsindela -- 4. The coloniality of "crisis conservation": The transnationalization and militarization of virunga national park from an historical perspective / Esther Marijnen -- 5. Violent forests, local people and the role of the state in zimbabwe / Tafadzwa Mushonga -- 6. The new turn in the militarization of conservation in cameroon, central Africa / Guy Patrice Dkamela and Samuel Nguiffo -- Part III: Local impact and agency -- 7. 'We just saw the fence': Infrastructural violence, fencing and the legacy of South Africa's bantustan / Amber Abrams -- 8. Postcolonialism, protected areas and basarwa of central kalahari game reserve / Joseph E. Mbaiwa and Olekae T. Thakadu -- 9. Green violence along the value chain of illicit trade / Shaun Cozett -- 10. Transgression and the making of local heroes in Mozambique: The conflict of contested illegality / Nelisiwe L. Vundla -- Part IV: Alternatives -- 11. Protecting (with) mount mabo: Is another form of nature conservation possible? / Anselmo Matusse -- 12. Princess vlei - a story of entangled vitality / Tania Katzschner and Bridget Pitt -- 13. Non-violent conservation: The need and possibilities / Maano Ramutsindela, Tafadzwa Mushonga and Frank Matose -- Index
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781800889316
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (216 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Research ; Universities and colleges ; Globalization
    Abstract: "Providing an in-depth and cutting-edge investigation into the rise of Asian research practices and paradigms, Mats Benner examines how this rise has been accomplished, what effects it has had, and how it has shaped universities across seven Asian countries. Broad and comprehensive, chapters analyse the research and education systems of China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Macau, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan, considering how their universities operate, their models and policy priorities. Benner studies the historical, social and political causes behind the variations between these countries, before highlighting the effects of globalization on education, research and innovation. Assessing whether we are witnessing a tectonic shift in how and where education and research are carried out, the book ultimately concludes that regional disparities will remain, but that practices and priorities are becoming increasingly similar in the process of globalization. With Asia showing an increasingly marked presence in research and in scientific and technological capability, this timely book will be invaluable to university policy makers looking to innovate their education and research models, alongside students and scholars interested in Asian development, innovation and technology"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Overture: A new academic landscape? -- 2. China: A global academic hegemon in the making? -- 3. India: The perils of institutional churn -- 4. Japan: Resilient stagnation? -- 5. 'Hospitality, not a country': The anatomy of academic prominence in singapore -- 6. South korea: Straddling tradition and modernity -- 7. Taiwan: Resilient exceptionalism -- 8. Hong kong and macau: Straddling and thriving in the shadow of hierarchy -- 9. Reprise: Universities, state-building and globalization -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781788976053
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (336 pages)
    Keywords: Work-life balance Handbooks, manuals, etc ; Quantitative research ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "This innovative and thought-provoking Research Handbook explores the theoretical debate surrounding work-life balance, and provides a reflection on the opportunity to adopt multilevel research approaches and perspectives, along gender and temporal axes. The Research Handbook is an international overview of current research on work-life balance, considered in macro, meso and micro perspectives. Offering both theoretical reflections and empirical research examples illustrating the multiple strategies through which the different articulations that characterize the work-life intersection can be analysed, this Research Handbook includes analyses of gendered labour, generational assets and technological changes. Contributors provide translation and actualization of specific research practices and methodological choices, focused on different national contexts. The empirical analysis ranges from comparative research based on quantitative methods, to qualitative approaches centered on longitudinal, discursive and narrative perspectives, and mixed-method studies. Further contributions adopt innovative research methods based on the use of digital and visual technologies. This Research Handbook will be an inspiring read for both undergraduate and postgraduate sociology and social policy students. The book is also addressed to researchers, consultants and policy makers interested in work-life balance issues"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction to the research handbook on work-life balance / Sonia Bertolini and Barbara Poggio -- Part I: Theoretical and methodological framework -- 2. Work-life balance and beyond: Premises and challenges / Anna Carreri, Annalisa Dordoni, and Barbara Poggio -- 3. Doing research on work-life balance / Sonia Bertolini and Rosy Musumeci -- Part II: Multilevel perspectives along gender and temporal axes -- 4. Research on work-life balance: A gender structure analysis / Emily Hallgren and Barbara J. Risman -- 5. Work-life balance through the life course / Jeanne Ganault and Ariane Pailhé -- 6. Work-(later) life balance: Shifting the temporal frame / Anne E. Barrett, Rachel Douglas and Jessica Noblitt -- Part III: Comparative research (approaches and studies) -- 7. The household division of labour in Europe: A multilevel perspective / Dirk Hofäcker and Simone Braun -- 8. Subjective work-family conflicts: The challenge of studying self-employed workers / Rossella Bozzon and Annalisa Murgia -- Part IV: Longitudinal, discursive and narrative analysis -- 9. Qualitative longitudinal research for studying work-family balance (before and after childbirth) / Manuela Naldini -- 10. Fathers in focus: Two discursive analyses on addressing men, work and care / Suvi Heikkinen, Marjut Jyrkinen and Emilia Kangas -- 11. Work-life balance for fathers during paternal leave in norway: A narrative approach / Kristine Warhuus Smeby and Ulla Forseth -- Part V: Mixed and multimethod research -- 12. Beyond the lines: Gender, work, and care in the new economy - a view from the u.s. / Kathleen Gerson and Mauro Migliavacca -- 13. The effect of childcare facilities on labour market participation among young adults in Estonia: A mixed-methods study / Kadri Täht, Marge Unt and Epp Reiska -- 14. Flexible work arrangements and diversity through a comparative and multilevel lens / Eleni Stavrou and Myrto Anastassiadou -- Part VI: Digital and visual methods -- 15. The gendered labour of work-life balance: Using a new method to understand an enduring dilemma / Julia Cook and Dan Woodman -- 16. 'My work is full of gossipers so i tried to keep my pregnancy secret': 'distant' netnography as a qualitative method for exploring work-life balance among pregnant and breastfeeding employees / Caroline Gatrell -- 17. The performance of oneself through visuals in interviews: Queering the work-life binary / Marjan De Coster and Patrizia Zanoni -- Index
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781802202915
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
    Series Statement: Elgar compliance guides
    Keywords: Personal information management Handbooks, manuals, etc ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Companies, lawyers, privacy officers, compliance managers, as well as human resources, marketing and IT professionals are increasingly facing privacy issues. While plenty of information is freely available, it can be difficult to grasp a problem quickly, without getting lost in details and advocacy. This is where Determann's Field Guide to Data Privacy Law comes into its own - identifying key issues and providing concise practical guidance for an increasingly complex field shaped by rapid change in international laws, technology and society. This fifth edition reflects significant changes since 2019, such as new laws in California and other jurisdictions, new EU Standard Contractual Clauses, data residency requirements, machine learning, data monetization trends, cloud adoption and the Internet of Things. Readers will benefit from an introduction to key data privacy concepts and useful practical guidance on starting, maintaining and auditing compliance programs. Step-by-step direction on drafting privacy documentation is provided, with 'how-to' suggestions for tasks and projects. Finally, the book offers an A-Z list of hot topics, organized by commonly used buzz words, as well as a rich index and checklists. This guide should be on the desk and in the briefcase of every compliance officer and corporate counsel. New to this Edition: -practical tips on deploying the new EU Standard Contractual Clauses -guidance on data maps, gap assessments, audit controls, and privacy-tech tools -updated discussion and comparison of pros and cons of cross-border transfer compliance mechanisms -new guidance based on GDPR enforcement, the California Consumer Privacy Act, the CLOUD Act and other new laws -practical considerations regarding dark patterns, anonymization, COVID-19 related challenges, "Schrems 2 assessments," arbitration clauses, competition laws and data sharing. Key Features: -clear structure facilitates quick reference -A-Z of data privacy provides snapshot of key topics -direction on geographical and topical prioritization -practical guide to starting, maintaining and auditing privacy compliance programs -glossaries of key acronyms and terms help navigation through the field -concise overview of practical requirements of data privacy law compliance worldwide -advice on drafting documentation and tools to complete an end-to-end process, including sample documentation and checklists"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Starting a compliance program -- 2. International data transfers - selecting compliance mechanisms -- 3. Drafting documentation -- 4. Maintaining and auditing compliance programs -- 5. Data privacy a to z -- Index
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    ISBN: 9781800372986
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
    Keywords: Pensions ; Pensions ; Pensions ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Presenting the evolution of supplementary pensions over the past 25 years, this comprehensive book introduces the origin of pensions as a concept and explores the role that international organisations play within the field. It draws comparisons between different welfare states, reflecting upon current research and identifying new directions and ideas. Despite observing significant differences in the approaches to pension design, the book identifies common challenges, including the need to provide for an increasingly aging population, slow economic growth following the 2008 global financial crisis, the need for effective regulation, and increased labour market flexibility. Leading scholars analyse the experiences of a broad range of countries and offer insights into their responses to the numerous challenges faced by national pension systems. The book covers significant moments in pensions history following the World Bank's 1994 report on Averting the Old Age Crisis, and subsequent responses to challenges posed by longevity and economic crises. This book will be an ideal companion for academic researchers and financial law scholars interested in pensions and looking to develop an international perspective on the issue, as well as professionals in the pensions industry who are engaging with other countries and looking to develop their knowledge of overseas pension systems"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction / James Kolaczkowski, Yves Stevens and Jakob Markus Werbrouck -- 2. On the origin of pensions / Yves Stevens -- 3. The role of international organizations in the last 25 years and their effect on pension reforms throughout the world / Paul Roels -- 4. Belgium: 25 years of occupational pension schemes for employees in belgium from a legal perspective / Emma Suzanne van Aggelen and Jakob Markus Werbrouck -- 5. Finland: Pension reforms in finland / Susan Kuivalainen and Kati Kuitto -- 6. France: A national overview / Arnauld D'Yvoire -- 7. Germany: About unpopular but necessary reforms / Heinz-Dietrich Steinmeyer -- 8. Greece: perpetual struggle against the sovereignty of public pension regimes / Gabriel Amitsis -- 9. Ireland: Talking about change - pension reform in ireland 1994-2019 / Michelle Maher -- 10. Italy: The Italian pension system - reform trajectories and open issues / Felice Roberto Pizzuti and Michele Raitano -- 11. The Netherlands: Pensions in the netherlands - from defined benefit to defined contribution / Erik Lutjens -- 12. Poland: A preliminary assessment / Marek Szczepański, Joanna Ratajczak, Kamila Bielawska, Joanna Rutecka-Góra and Sylwia Pieńkowska-Kamieniecka -- 13. The development of supplementary pensions in portugal: Influenced by ideas, the process of European integration and national idiosyncrasies / Maria Clara Murteira -- 14. Spain: The evolution of the Spanish private pension system: 1994-2019 / Inmaculada Domínguez Fabián and John A. Turner -- 15. Sweden: (supplementary) pensions 1994-2019 / Eskil Wadensjö -- 16. Switzerland: 25 years of occupational pension provision (1995-2020) / Jacques-André Schneider -- 17. The United Kingdom: Political and labour market influences / Bryn Davies and James Kolaczkowski -- 18. The United States: The evolution of the us pension system - 1994-2019 / Jonathan Barry Forman, Dana M. Muir and John A. Turner -- 19. Pensions and the paradox of trust: Developments over the past 25 years / Kamila Bielawska, Sally Shen and John A. Turner -- 20. Changes in approach to risk sharing in supplementary pension schemes / Anna Gierusz, Patrycja Kowalczyk-Rólczyńska, Agnieszka Pobłocka and Joanna Rutecka-Góra -- 21. Editors' view and conclusion / James Kolaczkowski, Yves Stevens and Jakob Markus Werbrouck -- Index
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    ISBN: 9781839105951
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
    Series Statement: Elgar intellectual property law and practice
    Keywords: Bioinformatics Law and legislation ; Medical informatics Law and legislation ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "This book covers a broad range of legal topics relating to the fields of bioinformatics and medical informatics, which relate to the intersection of biomedical information and computer programming within the contexts of scientific research, product development and healthcare delivery. A number of usually distinct bodies of legal doctrine come together in this area, sometimes overlapping, sometimes colliding in unexpected ways. Key issues discussed in the book include: -An overview of the current landscape of bioinformatics and medical informatics -A focus on the legal issues arising from the development and acquisition of informatics tools for use in a laboratory or healthcare setting -Developments in patent and innovation law that are important for informatics applications -A discussion of institutions and collaborative arrangements in which informatics applications are developed and used today -Data protection and privacy issues applicable to informatics applications in the U.S. and Europe. While no single work can cover the entire set of legal issues arising from large, dynamic and complex fields such as bioinformatics and medical informatics, this book strives to offer the reader insight into some of the major legal trends and considerations applicable to these fields today"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Introduction to bioinformatics, medical informatics and the law -- 1. Overview of bioinformatics and medical informatics technology for non-specialists / A. James Cuticchia -- 2. Medical information commons: Conceptual, legal and ethical considerations for stakeholders / Janis Geary, Mary A. Majumder, Jill Oliver Robinson, Christi Guerrini and Robert Cook-Deegan -- 3. Software agreements for bioinformatics and medical informatics applications / Brett Lockwood -- 4. Open source and bioinformatics / Michele K. Herman, Jane Eckels, Joanne Montague, Jordan J. Bowler and Nicole Orlov -- 5. Software development / Heather J. Meeker -- 6. Software patents / Gregory J. Kirsch and Charley F. Brown -- 7. Bioinformatics at the patent office / Saurabh Vishnubhakat and Arti K. Rai -- 8. University research and licensing / Jeff Carter-Johnson, Jennifer Carter-Johnson and Jorge L. Contreras -- 9. Technical standards for bioinformatics and medical informatics / Jorge L. Contreras and Adrian Thorogood -- 10. Database protection / Jon M. Garon -- 11. Us federal genomic data release and access policies / Jorge L. Contreras -- 12. Privacy and security challenges in bioinformatics / Lucy L. Thomson and Arthur E. Peabody, Jr. -- 13. Bioinformatics, medical informatics and the European general data protection regulation / Christopher Jones -- 14. Informatics and public health surveillance / Leslie P. Francis and John G. Francis -- Index
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781839107467
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 volume)
    Series Statement: Elgar research reviews in law
    Keywords: Constitutional law ; Equality ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In this research review, Rebecca E. Zietlow identifies and gives invaluable context to the most important scholarly contributions on the topic of constitutional law and equality. While much of the scholarship around constitutional equality focuses on court enforcement of the Equal Protection Clause, the story of constitutional equality is not just about legal advocacy, but political action in an increasingly diverse nation. The future of constitutional equality depends less on legal arguments before courts than on political advocacy for social and economic change
    Description / Table of Contents: Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1 R. Richard Banks (2001), 'Race-based Suspect Selection and Color blind Equal Protection and Doctrine and Discourse Smith', UCLA Law Review, 48, 1075-124 -- 2 Mario L. Barnes, Erwin Chemerinsky and TrinaJones (2010), 'A Post-Race Equal Protection?', 98, Georgetown Law Journal, 967-1004 -- 3 Derrick A. Bell, Jr. (1980), 'Brown v. Board of Education and the Interest-Convergence Dilemma', 93 (3), January, Harvard Law Review', 518-33 -- 4 Derrick A. Bell, Jr. (1985), 'The Supreme Court, 1984 Term - Forward: The Civil Rights Chronicles', 99 (3), January, Harvard Law Review' -- 5 Bethany R. Berger (1961), 'Reconciling Equal Protection and Federal Indian Law', California Law Review, 98, 1165-97 -- 6 Alexander M. Bickel (1961), 'The Supreme Court, 1960 Term - Forward: The Passive Virtues', Harvard Law Review, 70, 40-79 -- 7 Charles L. Black, Jr. (1960), 'The Lawfulness of the Segregation Decisions', Yale Law Review, 69, 421-30 -- 8 Maggie Blackhawk (2019), 'Federal Indian Law as Paradigm Within Public Law', Harvard Law Review, 132 (7), May, 1,787-877 -- 9 Paul Brest, (1976), 'Foreword: In Defense of the Antidiscrimination Principle', Harvard Law Review, 90, January, 1-55 -- 10 Archibold Cox (1966), 'The Supreme Court 1965 Term Foreword: Constitutional Adjudication and the Promotion of Human Rights', Harvard Law Review, 80 (1), November, 91-272 -- 11 John Hart Ely (1978), 'Toward a Representation-Reinforcing Model of Judicial Review', Maryland Law Review, 37 (3), 451-87 -- 12 Owen Fiss (1976), 'Groups and the Equal Protection Clause', Philosophy and Public Affairs, 5, 107-77 -- 13 Peter Gabel and Duncan Kennedy (1984), 'Roll Over Beethoven', Stanford Law Review, 1-55 -- 14 Marc Gallanter (1974), 'Why the Haves Come out Ahead: Speculations on the Limits of Legal Change', Law and Society Review, 9, 95-160 -- 15 Risa Goluboff (2001), 'The Thirteenth Amendment and the Lost Origins of Civil Rights', Duke Law Journal, 50, 1609-84 -- 16 Neil Gotanda (1991), 'A Critique of Our Constitution is Color-blind', Stanford Law Review, 44 (1), 1-68 -- 17 Gerald Gunther (1972), 'Foreword: In Search of Evolving Doctrine on a Changing Court: A Model for a Newer Equal Protection', Harvard Law Review, 86, 1-48 -- 18 Charles R. Lawrence III (1987), 'The Id, the Ego, and Equal Protection: Reckoning with Unconscious Racism', Stanford Law Review, 39, 317- -- 19 Ian F. Haney López (1994), 'The Social Construction of Race: Some Observations on Illusion, Fabrication, and Choice', Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, 29, 1-62 -- 20 Kenneth L. Karst (1977), 'Foreword: Equal Citizenship Under the Fourteenth Amendment', Harvard Law Review, 91, 1-44 -- 21 Michael Klarman (1991), 'An Interpretive History of Modern Equal Protection', Michigan Law Review, 90, 213-316
    Description / Table of Contents: 22 Corinna Barrett Lain (2012), 'Upside-down Judicial Review', The Georgetown Law Journal, 101, 113-83 -- 23 Mari J. Matsuda (1987), 'Looking to the Bottom: Critical Legal Studies and Reparations', Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, 22 (2), 323-400 -- 24 Juan F. Perea (1995), 'Ethnicity and the Constitution: Beyond the Black and White Binary Constitution', William and Mary Law Review, 36, 571-612 -- 25 Christopher Schmidt (2008), 'Brown and the Colorblind Constitution', Cornell Law Review, 94, 203-38 -- 26 Reva Siegel (2003), 'Equality Talk: Antisubordination and Anticlassification Values in Constitutional Struggles over Brown', Harvard Law Review, 117, 1470-3 -- 27 Jacobus tenBroek and Joseph Tussman (1949), 'The Equal Protection of the Laws', California Law Review, 37, 341- -- 28 Mark Tushnet (2000), 'Against Judicial Supremacy', in Taking the Constitution Away From the Courts, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, Chapter 1, 6-32 -- 29 Herbert Wechsler (1959), 'Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law', Harvard Law Review, 73 (1), November, 1-35 -- 30 J. Harvie Wilkinson III (1975), 'The Supreme Court, the Equal Protection Clause, and the Three Faces of Constitutional Equality', 61 (5), Virginia Law Review, 945-1018 -- 31 Patricia J. Williams, 'Alchemical Notes: Reconstructing Ideals from Deconstructing Rights', Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, 22 (2), Spring, 401-34 -- 32 Katharine T. Bartlett (1990), 'Feminist Legal Methods', Harvard Law Review, 103, 829-88 -- 33 Mary E. Becker (1987), 'Prince Charming: Abstract Equality', Supreme Court Review, 201-47 -- 34 Ruth Colker (1986), 'Anti-Subordination above All: Sex, Race, and Equal Protection', New York University Law Review, 61, 1003- -- 35 Kimberle Crenshaw (1989), 'Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics', The University of Chicago Legal Forum, 139-67 -- 36 Kimberle Crenshaw (1991), 'Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color', Stanford Law Review, 43, 1241-99 -- 37 David Cruz (2002), 'Disestablishing Sex and Gender', California Law Review, 90, 997-1086 -- 38 Martha Albertson Fineman (1992), 'The Neutered Mother', University of Miami Law Review, 46 (3), 653-69 -- 39 Cary Franklin (2010), 'The Anti-Stereotyping Principle in Constitutional Sex Discrimination Law', New York University Law Review, 85 (1), 83-173 -- 40 Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1975), 'Gender and the Constitution', University of Cincinnati Law Review, 44, 1-42
    Description / Table of Contents: 41 Angela P. Harris (1990), 'Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory', Stanford Law Review, 42, 581-616 -- 42 Pauli Murray (1971), 'Economic and Educational Inequality Based on Sex: An Overview', Valparaiso University Law Review, 5 (2), 237-80 -- 43 Catharine A. MacKinnon (1991), 'Reflections on Sex Equality Under Law', Yale Law Journal, 100, 1281-328 -- 44 Reva B. Siegel (2007), 'Sex Equality Arguments for Reproductive Rights: Their Critical Basis and Evolving Constitutional Expression', Emory Law Journal, 56, 815-42 -- LIBERTY AND EQUALITY - LGBTQ RIGHTS -- 45 William Araiza (2019), 'Animus and Its Discontents', Florida Law Review, 71, 155-216 -- 46 Scott L. Cummings and Douglas NeJaime (2010), 'Lawyering for Marriage Equality', UCLA Law Review, 57, 1235-331 -- 47 William N. Eskridge, Jr. (2000), 'No Promo Homo: The Sedimentation of Antigay Discourse and the Channelling Effect of Judicial Review', NYU Law Review, 75 (5), November, 1327-411 -- 48 Katie Eyer (2018), 'The Canon of Rational Basis Review', Notre Dame Law Review, 93, 1317-70 -- 49 Kenji Yoshino (2011), 'The New Equal Protection', Harvard Law Review, 124, 747-803 -- 50 Frank I. Michelman (1969), 'The Supreme Court, 1968 Term - Foreword: On Protecting the Poor Through the Fourteenth Amendment', Harvard Law Review, 83 (1), November, 7-282 -- 51 Julie A. Nice (2008), 'No Scrutiny Whatsoever; Deconstitutionalization of Poverty Law, Dual Rules of Law, and Dialogic Default', Fordham Urban Law Journal, XXXV (3), 329-35 -- 52 Michael J. Klarman (1996), 'Rethinking the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Revolutions', Virginia Law Review, 82, 1-67 -- 53 Martha Albertson Fineman (2008), 'The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition', Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, 20, 1-23 -- 54 Daryl J. Levinson (2012), 'Rights and Votes', Yale Law Journal, 121, 1286-363 -- 55 Lawrence Gene Sager (1978), 'Fair Measure: The Legal Status of Underenforced Constitutional Norms', Harvard Law Review, 91 (6), April, 1212-64 -- 56 Robert C. Post and Reva B. Siegel (2000), 'Equal Protection by Law: Federal Anti-Discrimination Legislation after Morrison and Kimel', Yale Law Journal, 110, 441-526 -- 57 Robert C. Post and Reva B. Siegel, 'Legislative Constitutionalism and Section Five Power: Policentric Interpretations of the Family and Medical Leave Act', Yale Law Journal, 112 (8), 1943-2059 -- 58 Reva Siegel and Robert Post (2004), 'Popular Constitutionalism, Departmentalism and Judicial Supremacy', California Law Review, 92, 1027-43
    Description / Table of Contents: 59 Rebecca E. Zietlow (2008), 'The Judicial Restraint of the Warren Court (and Why it Matters)', Ohio State Law Journal, 69, 255-94 -- 60 William C. Carter (2007), 'Race, Rights, and the Thirteenth Amendment: Defining the Badges and Incidents of Slavery', UC Davis Law Review, 40, 1311-79 -- 61 Jacobus tenBroek (1951), 'Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: Consummation to Abolition and Key to the Fourteenth Amendment', California Law Review, 39 (2), June, 171-203 -- 62 Rebecca E. Zietlow (2010), 'Free At Last! Anti-Subordination and the Thirteenth Amendment', Boston University Law Review, 90, 255-312 -- 63 Rebecca E. Zietlow (2016), 'A Positive Right to Free Labor', Seattle University Law Review, 39, 859-99 -- 64 Evan C. Zoldan (2017), 'The Equal Protection Component of Legislative Generality', Richmond Law Review, 51 (2), 489-551
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781789909692
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 volume)
    Series Statement: Elgar research reviews in law
    Keywords: Intellectual property ; Cultural property ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The number and variety of methodological and substantive challenges that face those working at the interface of intellectual and cultural property have generated a rich interdisciplinary literature. Responding to a myriad of questions that the juxtaposition of the concepts of intellectual property and cultural property provoke, this research review focuses on the importance of creativity and cultural production in social, political and economic terms. The text will be of value to anyone interested in this important frontier
    Description / Table of Contents: Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1. -- (2019), Natsuko Akagawa and Laurajane Smith (eds), Safeguarding Intangible Heritage: Practices and Politics, Oxford, UK and New York, NY, USA: Routledge -- 2. (2017), Jane Anderson and Haidy Geismar (eds), The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property, Oxford, UK and New York, NY, USA: Routledge -- 3. (2018), Christoph Antons and William Logan (eds), Intellectual Property, Cultural Property and Intangible Cultural Heritage, Oxford, UK and New York, NY, USA: Routledge -- 4. (1996), Ronald V. Bettig (ed.), Copyrighting Culture: The Political Economy of Intellectual Property, Oxford, UK and New York, NY, USA: Routledge -- 5. Janet Blake (2000), On Defining Cultural Heritage', International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 49, 61-85 -- 6. Michael Blakeney (2013), 'The Protection of Traditional Knowledge Under Intellectual Property Law', European Intellectual Property Law Review, 22, 251-61 -- 7. Michael Blakeney (2009), 'Protecting the Spiritual Beliefs of Indigenous Peoples: Australian Case Studies', Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal, 22, 391-427 -- 8. Kathy Bowrey and Jane Anderson (2009), 'The Politics of Global Information Sharing: Whose Cultural Agendas are Being Advanced?', Social and Legal Studies, 18, 479-504 -- 9. (2008), James Boyle (ed.), The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, New Haven, USA and London, UK: Yale University Press -- 10. (2018), Merima Bruncevic (ed.), Art and the Commons: Space, Materiality and the Normative, Oxford, UK and New York, NY, USA: Routledge -- 11. Kristen A. Carpenter, Sonya K. Katyal and Angela R. Riley (2009), 'In Defense of Property', Yale Journal of Law, 100-204 -- 12. (1998), Rosemary J. Coombe (ed.), The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation and the Law, Durham, NC, USA: Duke University Press -- 13. Rosemary J. Coombe (2009), 'The Expanding Purview of Cultural Properties and their Politics', Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 5, 393-412 -- 14. (2011), Carys J. Craig (ed.), Copyright, Communication and Culture: Towards a Relational Theory of Copyright Law, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd -- 15. (2018), Charlotte Waelde, Catherine Cummings, Mathilde Pavis and Helena Enright (eds), Research Handbook on Contemporary Intangible Cultural Heritage: Law and Heritage, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd -- 16. -- William Fisher (2018), 'Theories of Intellectual Property' in Stephen R. Munzer (ed.), New Essays in the Legal and Political Theory of Property, Chapter 6, Cambr+AI4idge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 168-200 -- 17. Peter Fitzpatrick and Richard Joyce (2007), 'Copying Right: Cultural Property and the Limits of (Occidental) Law', in Fiona Macmillan (ed.), New Directions in Copyright Law: Volume 4, Chapter 8, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 169-90
    Description / Table of Contents: 18. Tatiana Flessas (2003), 'Cultural Property Defined and Redefined as Nietzschean Aphorism', Cardozo Law Review, 1067-98 -- 19. Manlio Frigo (2004), 'Cultural Property v. Cultural Heritage: A battle of Concepts in International Law?', International Review of the Red Cross, 86 (854), 367-78 -- 20. (1991), Jane M. Gaines (ed.), Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law, Chapel Hill, NC, USA and London, UK: University of North Carolina Press -- 21.Johanna Gibson (2006), 'Community and the Exhaustion of Culture: Creative Territories in Traditional Cultural Expressions', in Fiona Macmillan and Kathy Bowrey (eds), New Directions in Copyright Law: Volume 3, Chapter 2, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd -- 22. (2008), Christoph Beat Graber and Mira Burri-Nenova (eds), Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions in a Digital Environment, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd -- 23. Martin Skrydstrup and Valdimar Tr. Hafstein (2017), 'Heritage vs. Property: Contrasting Regimes and Rationalities in the Patrimonial Field', in Jane Anderson and Haidy Geismar (eds), The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property, Oxford, UK and New York, NY, USA: Routledge, 38-53 -- 24. (2013), Rodney Harrison (ed.), Heritage: Critical Approaches, London, UK and New York, NY, USA: Routledge -- 25. (2004), Eva Hemmings Wirtén (ed.), No Trespassing: Authorship, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Boundaries of Globalization, Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press -- 26. Eva Hemmings Wirtén (2006), 'Our of Sight & Out of Mind: On the Cultural Hegemony of Intellectual Property (Critique)', Cultural Studies, 20, 282-91 -- 27. -- (2008), Eva Hemmings Wirtén (ed.), Terms of Use: Negotiating the Jungle of the Intellectual Commons, Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press -- 28. Lawrence Liang (2011), 'Beyond Representation: The Figure of the Pirate', in Mario Biagiola, Peter Jaszi and Martha Woodmansee (eds), Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property: Creative Production in Legal and Cultural Perspective, Chicago, IL, USA and London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 167-80 -- 29. Fiona Macmillan (2005), 'Commodification and Cultural Ownership', in Jonathan Griffiths and Uma Suthersanen (eds), Copyright and Free Speech: Comparative and International Analyses, Chapter 3, Oxford, UK and New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press -- 30. (2006), Fiona Macmillan and Kathy Bowrey (eds), New Directions in Copyright Law: Volume 3, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd -- 31. (2021), Fiona Macmiilan (ed.), Intellectual and Cultural Property: Between Market and Commodity, London, UK and New York, NY, USA: Routledge -- 32. (2002), Kartsen Schubert and Daniel McClean (eds), Dear Images: Art, Copyright and Culture, London, UK: Ridinghouse and Institute of Contemporary Arts -- 33. (2001), Kembrew McLeod (ed.), Owning Culture: Authorship, Ownership and Intellectual Property Law, New York, NY, USA: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. -- 34. (2018), Jani McCutcheon and Fiona McGaughey (eds), Research Handbook on Art and Law, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd -- 35. Naomi Mezey (2007), 'The Paradoxes of Cultural Property', Columbia Law Review, 107, 2004-46
    Description / Table of Contents: 36. (2014), Laura J. Murray, S. Tina Piper and Kirsty Robertson (eds), Putting Intellectual Property in its Place: Rights Discourses, Creative Labor, and the Everyday, Oxford, UK and New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press -- 37. Neil Weinstock Netanel (1996), 'Copyright and a Democratic Civil Society', Yale Law Journal, 106, 283-387 -- 38. (2008), Neil Weinstock Netanel (ed.), Copyright's Paradox, Oxford, UK and New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press -- 39. (1997), Patrick Parrinder and Warren L. Chernaik (eds), Textual Monopolies: Literary Copyright and the Public Domain, London, UK: University of London Press -- 40. Lyndel V. Prott and Patrick J. O'Keefe (1992), '"Cultural Heritage" or "Cultural Property"?', International Journal of Cultural Property, 1, 307-20 -- 41. Carol M. Rose (2003), 'Roman, Roads and Romantic Creators: Traditions of Public Property in the Information Age', Law & Contemporary Problems, 66, 89-110 -- 42. (1993), Mark Rose (ed.), Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright, Boston, MA, USA: Harvard University Press -- 43. (1992), David Saunders (ed.), Authorship and Copyright, London, UK and New York, NY, USA: Routledge -- 44. Joseph R. Slaughter (2011), 'Form and Informality: An Unliterary Look at World Literature', in Robyn Warhol (ed.), The Work of Genre: Selected Essays from the English Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA: The English Institute in collaboration with the American Council of Learned Societies, 182-226 -- 45. (2006), Laurajane Smith (ed.), Uses of Heritage, London, UK and New York, NY, USA: Routledge -- 46. (2001), Siva Vaidhyanathan (ed.), Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity, New York, NY, USA: New York University Press -- 47. Jeremy Waldron (1993), 'From Authors to Copiers: Individual Rights and Social Values in Intellectual Property', Chicago-Kent Law Review, 68, 841-87 -- 48. (1994), Martha Woodmansee and Peter Jaszi (eds), The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature, Durham, NC, USA: Duke University Press
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781785363467
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Elgar intellectual property and global development series
    Keywords: Climatic changes ; Sustainable development ; Climatic changes Law and legislation ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Cleantech envisions both global cleantech development and international cleantech transfer as crucial means to address climate change and secure sustainable development for planet earth. The book examines what it takes to attract foreign cleantech and encourage domestic cleantech innovation. The author proposes a pathway for developing countries that includes international aid, mutually beneficial international cleantech cooperation and domestic cleantech innovation. Prior to becoming an academician, the author garnered over eighteen years practical experience as a software engineer and attorney at law. The author has drawn on this experience to examine empirical analysis of factual data such as global R&D data, global patenting data, international surveys concerning cleantech transfer and domestic cleantech innovation and proposes effective solutions to address climate change and achieve sustainable development. This book's interdisciplinary and empirical-based analysis and recommendations will be most valuable to policymakers working in climate change, sustainable development, cleantech development or deployment, intellectual property and innovation policy"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction: A viable pathway for enabling developing countries to attract foreign cleantech and build domestic cleantech innovation -- 2. Concepts and linkages: Global community, climate change, sustainable development, cleantech -- Part I: International cleantech transfer -- 3. International cleantech transfer examined -- Part II: Global cleantech development -- 4. Necessity and reality of global cleantech development -- Part III: A solution -- 5. A proposal for enabling global cleantech development and international cleantech transfer -- 6. International aid for building capacities in developing countries for cleantech importation and innovation -- 7. Mutually beneficial international cleantech collaboration -- 8. Sustainable domestic cleantech innovation by developing countries -- 9. Appraisal of the proposal -- Conclusion - a pathway to global sustainable development, to our shared future -- Index
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9780857935076
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (648 Seiten)
    Edition: Second edition
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Schäfer, Hans-Bernd, 1943 - The economic analysis of civil law
    DDC: 346
    Keywords: Rechtsökonomik ; Bürgerliches Recht ; Eigentumsrechtstheorie ; Haftung ; Vertrag ; Gesellschaftsrecht ; Theorie ; Deutschland ; Law and economics Textbooks ; Civil law ; Economic aspects ; Law and economics ; Electronic books ; Deutschland ; Bürgerliches Recht ; Privatrecht ; Ökonomische Theorie des Rechts
    Abstract: "This comprehensive textbook provides a thorough guide to the economic analysis of law, with a particular focus on civil law systems. It encapsulates a structured analysis and nuanced evaluation of norms and legal policies, using the tools of economic theory. Key features include: Examples and cases that illustrate central concepts of the economic analysis of law in relation to civil law doctrines. Examination of the core areas of civil law: tort law, contract law, property law, intellectual property law as well as basic problems of insolvency law and corporate law. In-depth analysis of the legal rules of statutory law and judge-made law, demonstrating the extent to which these rules are either based on economic criteria or run parallel to them - and the extent to which such criteria facilitate the application and further development of law. This substantially revised second edition presents the latest insights into legal economic research, including important empirical and behavioural deliberations. It will be a valuable guide for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of law and economics"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction to the economic analysis of civil law -- Part I: Fundamentals -- 1. Alternative decisions, consequences, and evaluations -- 2. Normative foundations - what is social welfare? Problems of social choice -- 3. Economics, property rights and economic analysis of law -- 4. Homo economicus, behavioural economics, and paternalism -- Part II: Economic analysis of tort law -- 5. Objectives and regulatory problems of tort law, the magic triangle of tort law -- 6. Fault liability and strict liability -- 7. Reciprocal and bilateral damages -- 8. Attribution of damage, causality -- 9. The scope of protection by tort law, liberal rights, pure economic loss, and non-pecuniary damage -- 10. Special problems of tort law: Product liability, environmental liability, compensation for pain and suffering, vicarious liability, limits of civil liability -- Part III: Economic analysis of contract law -- 11. On the economic analysis of contractual freedom and contract law -- 12. The fully specified contract and its reconstruction by default rules -- 13. Complementary contract interpretation, base of the contract, reconstruction of the fully specified contract, and fair distribution of the total surplus from a contract -- 14. Economic analysis of breach of contract, impossibility and delay -- 15. Liability for defects in sales contracts and contracts for work -- 16. Ignorance, trust, opportunism and efficiency -- 17. Legal protection of legitimate expectations in the law of exchange of goods and services -- Part IV: Property rights (absolute rights) -- 18. Concept, function and design of property rights -- 19. The transfer of rights by acquisition in good faith -- 20. Involuntary transaction of property through taking and regulatory taking -- 21. Insolvency and conflicting security interests of creditors -- 22. Incompatible use of land and efficient use of an area -- 23. Intellectual property rights, the generation of innovations -- Part V: Corporate law -- 24. From contract to hierarchy -- 25. Basic structures and problems of company law -- Index
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    ISBN: 9781802201710
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 310 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Social policy in changing European societies
    Keywords: Social policy Research ; Europe Social conditions 21st century ; Europe Social policy
    Abstract: "Adopting an interdisciplinary approach this book provides a cutting-edge, in-depth account of social policy research today, how we got here, and where future research should be headed. It defines the core research agenda for the future covering multiple social policy fields, including care, family, health, and housing policy as well as gender equality, labour market policy, and welfare attitudes. The book brings together a unique combination of scholars from social policy, sociology, political science, international relations, and law, who explore how European societies have changed over the last 20 years, the future challenges which need to be addressed and the role for social policy research. The editors argue that to advance research on European social policy, we need to develop a better understanding of the interplay between multiple policies, invest more resources in theoretical development, and effectively utilize perhaps the greatest asset of European social policy research - its multidisciplinarity. Offering crucial insights into the dynamic nature of social policy research, this book will be a valuable guide for social policy scholars and students. Its discussion of a broad range of social policy areas will also be useful for practitioners and policymakers across a wide range of social policy fields"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Social policy research in changing European societies / Kenneth Nelson, Rense Nieuwenhuis, and Mara A. Yerkes -- Part I: Key themes in social policy research -- 2. Care and the analysis of welfare states / Mary Daly and Margarita León -- 3. Family policy research in Europe / Wim Van Lancker and Hannah Zagel -- 4. Comparative research on health and health care / Claus Wendt -- 5. Long-term developments in housing policy and research / Caroline Dewilde and Marietta Haffner -- 6. Studying the politics of pension reforms and their social consequences / Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Katja Möhring -- 7. Poverty, social policy and the welfare state: A research agenda / Bea Cantillon -- 8. Research on active social policy / Giuliano Bonoli -- Part II: Cross-cutting research themes -- 9. Researching social Europe on the move / Caroline De la Porte and Ilaria Madama -- 10. The evolution of social policy research in central and eastern Europe / Jolanta Aidukaite and Jekaterina Navicke -- 11. Twenty years of social policy research on gender / Trudie Knijn -- 12. European labour markets and social policy: Recent research and future directions / Jochen Clasen and Daniel Clegg -- 13. Recent advances in understanding welfare attitudes in Europe / Wim van Oorschot, Tijs Laenen, Femke Roosma, and Bart Meuleman -- 14. Methodologies for comparative social policy analysis / Emanuele Ferragina and Christopher Deeming -- Part III: Social policy research challenges -- 15. Social policy research and climate change / Bjørn Hvinden and Mi Ah Schoyen -- 16. Studying social policy in the digital age / Minna van Gerven -- 17. Migrants and social policy: Shifting research agendas / Karen N. Breidahl, Troels Fage Hedegaard, and Verena Seibel -- 18. Social policy research in times of crisis / Bent Greve and Thomas Paster -- 19. Where to from here? Social policy research in future European societies / Kenneth Nelson, Rense Nieuwenhuis, and Mara A. Yerkes -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781788970815
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 257 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Technological innovations Government policy ; Social change
    Abstract: "This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline thanks to generous funding support from The Swedish Governmental Agency For Innovation Systems, Vinnova. This timely book expertly examines ongoing pressing issues in the modern world namely, an unstable economic climate, political turmoil and the environmental crisis. It takes a unique look at how science, technology and innovation could contribute towards the creation of a smarter and more resilient society by allowing more inclusive approaches into how science is integrated. With an insightful global interdisciplinary approach, Smart Policies for Societies in Transition combines in-depth theoretical analysis whilst also providing a reflective look at broadening the scope of science and innovation policy in order to understand the critical issues and challenges. Chapters illustrate historical practices and events, and discuss how the move to smart politics and the linking of boundaries from a social, ecological and global viewpoint leads to fewer but more creative policies. With its retrospective and forward-thinking perspectives, this book will be an excellent resource for academics wanting to rethink their approach to science and innovation governance, whilst scholars will find the collaborative method for combining policy analysis with theory of policymaking and governance informative and illuminating"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Towards a smart society? Innovation policy and the challenges of social inclusion, environmental resilience and sustainable growth / Mats Benner, Sylvia Schwaag Serger and Göran Marklund -- 2. A smart green direction for innovation: The answer to unemployment and inequality? / Carlota Perez and Tamsin Murray Leach -- 3. The importance of post-modern science policy / Arie Rip -- 4. What past changes in Swedish policy tell us about developing third-generation research and innovation governance / Erik Arnold and Katharine E. Barker -- 5. Masculinity and nationhood: Cultural roots for the "head in the clouds and feet on the ground" research in China / Chadwick Wang -- 6. Funding transformative research - rationale and impacts / Terttu Luukkonen -- 7. Towards transformative policy in Finland and Sweden: Some viewpoints from practice / Sylvia Schwaag Serger and Christopher Palmberg -- 8. The integrative humanities - and the third research policy regime / Anders Ekström and Sverker Sörlin -- 9. Foundations and the new renewal of research / Pauline Mattsson and Mats Benner -- 10. Decision-making in a time of spin and unspoken values / Nils-Eric Sahlin and Sylvia Schwaag Serger -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781800880801
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 171 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hiilamo, Heikki, 1964 - Participation income
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    Keywords: Grundeinkommen ; Öffentliche Sozialleistungen ; Sozialpolitik ; Armutsbekämpfung ; Digitalisierung ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Industrieländer ; Poverty Research ; Income Research ; Bibliografie
    Abstract: "This innovative book provides the first in-depth analysis of participatory income and its potential role in countering endemic poverty and unemployment in high-income countries. Heikki Hiilamo reviews the concept of basic income and specific basic income experiments before presenting participatory income as a viable alternative in the fight against poverty. Highly topical, chapters explore pressing issues such as the effects of automation on the future of work and the links between social protection and eco-social transition. Putting forward the argument that any reform of social assistance should continue to enforce reciprocity with reduced means-testing, Hiilamo explores the practical advantages of the participation income model in reducing poverty and developing an eco-social welfare model. Tackling one of the most heated current debates in social policy, this book will be a key resource for scholars and students in this field, particularly those with a focus on welfare and labour economics, labour policy and the sociology of work. Its use of examples and case studies will also benefit practitioners and policy makers"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction to digital transformation and social policy -- 2. Machine beats man - prospects of paid work -- 3. Other existing challenges -- 4. Conditionality and unconditionality as strategies to prevent labour market exclusion -- 5. Lessons from basic income experiments -- 6. Definition of participation income -- 7. Criticisms of participation income -- 8. New models for participation income -- 9. Practical applications of participation income -- 10. Conclusions: Social policies for sustainable societies -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781800881150
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 306 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Betriebswirtschaftsstudium ; Gründungsausbildung ; Lernmethode ; Nordeuropa ; Entrepreneurship Research ; Entrepreneurship Study and teaching ; Case method ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: "This book explores how entrepreneurship can be taught through case studies, arguing that entrepreneurship education needs specific cases and case methods to teach students entrepreneurial skills and mindsets. Providing unique perspectives and examples on how case teaching can be applied in entrepreneurship education, the book draws together a wide range of real-life case studies. Informing and inspiring entrepreneurship educators, Part I employs theoretical perspectives and practical procedures related to case teaching in entrepreneurship education. Novel and innovative case methods for entrepreneurship education are explored as well as the theoretical foundations of case-based entrepreneurship education. Part II offers 15 Nordic case studies divided into three main groups relating to becoming an entrepreneur, early-phase venture creation, and acting entrepreneurially in established organisations. Supplemented by online teaching notes, this thought-provoking book will be a valuable resource for entrepreneurship educators at higher education institutions. Questions and activities included in the case studies will also be useful for students with an interest in entrepreneurship"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I: Introduction -- 1. Case-based entrepreneurship education in and for the nordic region / Lise Aaboen, Dag Håkon Haneberg, Siri Jakobsen, Thomas Lauvås, and Karin Wigger -- Part II: Reframing the case method for teaching entrepreneurship framing the case method for entrepreneurship education -- 2. Understanding cases as narratives in entrepreneurship education: a conceptual framework / Michael Breum Ramsgaard and Robert D. Austin -- 3. How to conduct live cases in entrepreneurship education / Meredith Woodwark and Karin Schnarr -- 4. Bringing environmental sustainability and the circular economy into entrepreneurship education with stakeholders: Four case methods from hackathons to role-model cases / Leena Aarikka-Stenroos, Anil Engez, Linnea Harala, Kaisa Henttonen, Hanna Lehtimäki, and Sara Malve-Ahlroth -- Applying the case method in entrepreneurship education -- 5. Experiences from live casework with nordic micro-enterprises: contextualizing learning designs in entrepreneurship education / Mette Lindahl Thomassen and Michael Breum Ramsgaard -- 6. Using self as case in teach-the-teacher courses in entrepreneurship to reflect on experiences as student and teacher / Mats Westerberg -- 7. Teaching together in entrepreneurship education: Live case method / Sanna Ilonen and Ulla Hytti -- 8. The moral perils when positioning student entrepreneurs in real-life contexts: Balancing the nature-nurture of educative live case experience / Gustav Hägg -- Methods for case teaching in entrepreneurship education -- 9. Student case development based on entrepreneurial experiences: a guide for entrepreneurship educators / Even Haug Larsen and Karoline Kaspersen -- 10. Student challenges in entrepreneurship education: Planning for uncertainty / Sølvi Solvoll and Dag Håkon Haneberg -- 11. Teaching as guiding: Live business cases / Bjørn Willy Åmo -- 12. From utopia to sustainable entrepreneurship: A novel case methodology / Karin Wigger, Ingebjørg Vestrum, Fufen Jin, and Sølvi Solvoll -- Part III: Teaching cases from the nordics the journey of becoming and being an entrepreneur -- 13. Arts student applying effectual principles and various value perspectives / Vegar Lein Ausrød and Helle Meibom Færgemann -- 14. Fishing for sustainability: A case about recreational fishing, tourism, and sustainable entrepreneurship / Ulrika Persson-Fischier, Göran Lindström, Magnus Larsson, and Patrik Rönnbäck -- 15. From university research to student-driven spin-off: The case of biodata / Katja Lahikainen, Markku Ikävalko, Noora Heino, and Terhi Virkki-Hatakka -- 16. 'Cultivating and fighting at the same time': An immigrant's innovative entrepreneurial journey in the agricultural scene in norway / Norma Wong and Marte C. W. Solheim -- 17. Zu4r bicycle-wear: From pain to world leadership / Bjørn Willy Åmo -- Early-phase centure creation -- 18. Databoard aps: Start-ups and downs / Thomas J. Howard, Carina Lomberg, Rasmus Bushøj, and Jesper Hart-Hansen -- 19. Fabricomp ab: Developing a collaboration strategy for a newly started university spin-off company in Sweden / Jens Laage-Hellman and Frida Lind -- 20. Sustainable entrepreneurship: Firm growth and the balance between saving the planet, people, and profits / Martin Senderovitz, Simon Jebsen, and Hannah Suder -- 21. Entrepreneurship on a deadline: The role of time constraints in student ventures / Jørgen Veisdal -- 22. Hydrosafe: Emma's investment issues / Torgeir Aadland and Roger Sørheim -- Acting entrepreneurially in established organizations -- 23. 'I cannot give up now!': The story of a norwegian public sector entrepreneur's endeavours to revolutionize communication between two healthcare organizations / Petter Gullmark and Ingebjørg Vestrum -- 24. Running the firm and the island: Social, economic, and environmental sustainability at kvarøy fish farm / Thomas Lauvås, Siri Jakobsen, Karin Wigger, and Morten Dahle Selfors -- 25. Steering the global value chain of an sme under uncertainty: The case of globenet / Taina Eriksson and Niina Nummela -- 26. Mobilizing resources for developing a community enterprise in a rural community: The case of a jazz music festival / Ingebjørg Vestrum -- 27. Going sustainable in a traditional industry?: Seizing opportunities in the furniture industry / Thomas Lauvås and Siri Jakobsen -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781782548287
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 179 Seiten)
    Series Statement: European security and justice critiques
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kaunert, Christian The European Union as a global counter-terrorism actor
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    Keywords: Terrorism Prevention ; Internationaler Terrorismus ; Terrorismus ; Bekämpfung ; Securitization ; Internationale Organisation ; Politik ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Staatensystem ; Politisches Mandat ; Entwicklung ; Fallstudie
    Abstract: Analysing one of the most important policy areas of European integration, authors Christian Kaunert, Alex MacKenzie and Sarah Leonard consider the key question of why the EU may have become a global actor in counter-terrorism. The authors then develop a unique theoretical approach in the form of actorness and collective securitization, which analyses the EU's evolution as a counter-terrorism actor in different case studies, such as counter-terrorism in the transatlantic relationship, North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. Overall, this book highlights that the EU is, in fact, becoming a counter-terrorism actor of growing importance and with an ever-diversifying number of policy options available.
    Note: Enthält Litaeraturangaben und Index , EU counter-terrorism, collective securitization, and global actorness , The collective securitization of terrorism in the EU , Institutions in EU counter-terrorism , Counter-terrorism in the transatlantic relationship , EU counter-terrorism and South Asia , EU counter-terrorism, Iraq, and Syria
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    ISBN: 9781789908510
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 pages)
    Series Statement: Elgar research agendas series
    Keywords: Manufacturing industries Economic aspects ; Globalization Economic aspects ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This timely Research Agenda provides a state-of-the-art review of existing research on manufacturing, as well as highlighting key areas of study to advance the field. Expert contributors from across the globe analyse the central role of manufacturing industries in the global economy, considering it as a multi-scalar process and assessing the impact of climate change in necessitating the decarbonization of production processes. Chapters identify and explore disruptive innovations in production technologies, including additive manufacturing, and their implications for future research. The book further highlights megatrends in automotive, electronics and emerging industries, including small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises, Asian electronics production networks, global production networks, and operations and supply chain management. It develops a framework for accessing corporate elites and for guiding the process of undertaking qualitative semi-structured interviews. This Research Agenda will be a critical collection for economic geography, urban studies, city and regional planning, and business and management studies scholars seeking a forward-looking approach to the topic. It will also be useful to policymakers and practitioners working in regional economic development and planning"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Dedication: Michael j. Taylor / John R. Bryson -- Preface -- 1. Reframing manufacturing research: Place, production, risk and theory / John R. Bryson, Chloe Billing, William Graves and Godfrey Yeung -- 2. Theoretical and methodological approaches to understanding emerging industries / Chloe Billing and John R. Bryson -- 3. Transforming manufacturing? An additive manufacturing research agenda / Jennifer Johns -- 4. Megatrends and new research agendas in the automotive industry / Godfrey Yeung -- 5. Getting the right skills in place for manufacturing: Challenges and opportunities / Anne Green and Abigail Taylor -- 6. Addressing the evolution of clustering strategies in manufacturing: A policy research agenda / William Graves and Harrison S. Campbell, Jr -- 7. Going global in one location: Exploring sme manufacturer internationalization motives at a trade fair / Ronald V. Kalafsky and Douglas R. Gress -- 8. The transformation of asian electronics production networks: Evidence from the participation of vietnam / David Yuen Tung Chan and Chun Yang -- 9. How to increase the usefulness and relevance of operations and supply chain management research? / Donato Masi and Jan Godsell -- 10. Corporate interviewing and manufacturing companies: A framework to guide qualitative semi-structured interviews / John R. Bryson, Chloe Billing, Chantal Hales, Rachel Mulhall and Megan Ronayne -- 11. Reading manufacturing firms and new research agendas: Scalar-plasticity, value/risk and the emergency of jenga capitalism / John R. Bryson -- Index
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781800378155
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 313 Seiten) , 1 Illustration, Diagramme
    Series Statement: Elgar research agendas
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als A research agenda for civil society
    Keywords: Civil society Research ; Globalization Research ; Zivilgesellschaft ; Politische Soziologie ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Methodologie ; Typologie ; Fallstudie ; Geschichtsschreibung
    Abstract: Mapping a wide range of civil society research perspectives, this pioneering Research Agenda offers a rich and clear insight for academics and practitioners hoping to embark on future civil society research. Kees Biekart and Alan Fowler bring together over 20 expert contributions from researchers across the globe who are actively engaged in testing the old and generating new knowledge about civil society. Beginning with a concise historical review of civil society research over the last four decades, the book provides a critical insight into the future of research, taking into account the domestic outcomes of major geopolitical changes and the increasing shift towards authoritarian and populist systems of governance. Exploring the norms and values of civil society, as well as key topics such as voluntourism, civil society mapping, democratization, and civic agency, chapters offer a unique overview of civil society research themes and agendas. Its comprehensive analysis of canonical civil society research provides a fertile basis from which novel research can be conducted.
    Note: Enthält Literaturangaben und Index , Studying civil society , Funding civil society research , Epistemologies of civil society , Civil society studies in Brazil : from third sector to uncivil society? , Civic deviance and lawlessness : the aftermath of January 6, 2021 , Measuring the values of civil society in the Middle East and North Africa regions , Mapping civil society , Civil society typologies , Human rights organizations and civil society , From humanitarian diplomacy to advocacy : a research agenda , NGOs and innovation , Emergent agency in a time of Covid , Civil society and (re‑)embedding volunteering , The value of diasporic cross-border philanthropy and voluntourism , New and fluid forms of organizing volunteering , Public administration as a site of struggle for social justice , Historiographies of civil society , Pro-social giving and reciprocity in the Global South , Connecting African civil society to its roots , Understanding diversity of South Caucasus civil society , The Polish case : from darling to endangered species? , Civil society in the Southern Cone of Latin America , The future of civil society research in China, Hong Kong and Vietnam
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    ISBN: 9781803925134 , 1803925132
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 153 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme , 22 cm
    Series Statement: Elgar dialogues
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Moulaert, Frank Political change through social innovation
    DDC: 303.484
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    Keywords: Social change ; Political participation ; Democracy ; Democracy ; Political participation ; Social change ; Demokratisierung ; Politische Beteiligung ; Sozialinnovation ; Sozialer Wandel
    Note: Enthält bibliografische Angaben und Index (Seite 148-153)
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    ISBN: 9781839108501
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (608 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Elgar intellectual property law and practice
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Schaafsma, Sierd J. Intellectual property in the conflict of laws
    Keywords: Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works ; Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property ; Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1886 September 9) ; Conflict of laws Intellectual property ; Conflict of laws ; Intellectual property ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "The world of intellectual property (patents, trade marks, copyrights, et cetera) is becoming increasingly international. More and more frequently, disputes about intellectual property have an international character. This inevitably raises questions of private international law: which national court is competent to adjudicate an international dispute of this kind? And which national law should be applied to an international case of this kind? Since the 1990s, the first question in particular has attracted attention; in recent years, the focus has shifted to the second question: which national law is applicable? Opinions differ widely on this matter today. The controversy focuses on the question whether the Berne Convention and the Paris Convention, the two most important treaties on intellectual property, contain a rule that designates the applicable law. In other words: do these treaties contain a 'conflict-of-law rule' as it is called? This question, which concerns nearly all countries in the world, is nowadays considered to be 'heftig umstritten' (fiercely contested) and 'très difficile' (very difficult). And that is where we come across something strange: today it may be fiercely contested whether these treaties contain a conflict-of-law rule, but in the past, for the nineteenth-century authors of these treaties, it was perfectly self-evident that these treaties contained a conflict-of-law rule, namely in the 'principle of national treatment' as it is called. How is that possible? These are the fundamental questions at the heart of this book: does the principle of national treatment in the Berne Convention and the Paris Convention contain a conflict-of-law rule? And if so, why do we no longer understand this conflict-of-law rule today? This book is an English translation of Sierd J. Schaafsma's ground-breaking book, which appeared in Dutch in 2009 (now updated with the most significant case law and legislation). Key features include: -provides deep insight into the current state of affairs in international intellectual property law -extensive analysis on the principle of national treatment in the Berne Convention and the Paris Convention -detailed and authoritative explanation of the applicable law at the intersection of the law of conflicts and intellectual property law"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword -- Introduction to intellectual property in the conflict of laws -- Part I: Genesis of the principle of national treatment -- 1. The birth of the principle of national treatment in copyright law -- 2. The berne principle of national treatment: The genesis of the current article 5(1) -- 3. The perfection of the berne principle of national treatment: The genesis of the current article 5(2) and (3) -- 4. The genesis of the principle of national treatment in the paris convention -- Part II: The principle of national treatment today -- 5. The conflict-of-law rule in the principle of national treatment -- 6. The aliens-law rule in the principle of national treatment -- 7. The scope of the principle of national treatment -- 8. Reformulation and reform -- Bibliography -- Index
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781800880528
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (192 pages)
    Series Statement: The ACUNS series on the UN system
    Keywords: United Nations ; Mediation, International ; Peace-building ; Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes Case studies ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "This cutting-edge book illuminates the key characteristics of inclusivity in mediation during armed conflicts and post-conflict peacebuilding. Daisaku Higashi illustrates the importance of mediators taking flexible approaches to inclusivity in arbitration during armed conflicts, highlighting the crucial balance between the need to select conflicting parties to make an agreement feasible and the need to include a multiplicity of parties to make the peace sustainable. Higashi also emphasizes the importance of inclusive processes in the phase of post-conflict peacebuilding. Higashi draws on first-hand experience as a team leader for reconciliation and reintegration in UNAMA, as well as interviews with leaders in conflicting states and UN missions, and recommends various roles for the UN, neighboring states and global powers in mediation during and after armed conflicts. Utilizing extensive field research and analysis, the book focuses on conflict regions in Afghanistan, South Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Iraq and East Timor to demonstrate the significance of addressing inclusivity in mediation and peacebuilding with different approaches. Engaging with a range of empirical sources to make key policy recommendations, this book is crucial reading for practitioners working in mediation and peacebuilding, particularly UN officials, think-tank experts, government officials and NGOs. It will also benefit scholars and students of political science and international relations in need of unique, real-world accounts of global mediation, peacebuilding and conflict management"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction: Civil wars and inclusivity -- 2. Debates on inclusivity in mediation and peacebuilding -- 3. Challenges of inclusivity in peace negotiations: The case of south sudan -- 4. Challenges of inclusivity in peace negotiations: The case of Afghanistan -- 5. The role of the un, neighboring states, and global powers in mediation: The case of Syria -- 6. The role of the un, neighboring states, and global powers in mediation: The case of yemen -- 7. Inclusivity in post-conflict peacebuilding: The cases of iraq and east timor -- 8. Conclusion: Theoretical contributions, policy implications, and remaining questions -- Index
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    ISBN: 9781800887121
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 208 pages)
    Series Statement: Elgar research agendas
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Small cities Research
    Abstract: "Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Forward-looking and innovative, Elgar Research Agendas are an essential resource for PhD students, scholars and anybody who wants to be at the forefront of research. Exploring current debates on the topic, this book maps out an agenda for theory, research and practice about the role and function of small and medium-sized towns in various contexts and at different territorial scales. Chapters highlight new insights and approaches to studying small and medium-sized towns, moving beyond the 'urban bias' to provide nuanced thought on these spaces both in terms of their relation to larger cities, and in terms of implications related to their size. Contributions from top scholars in the field across a number of disciplines cover a broad range of relevant areas of study, including: socio-spatial identities, urbanization, suburbanization, resilience, innovation, entrepreneurship, industrial and tourism development and digitalization. The book concludes with an outline of the road ahead and a call for further theorizing. Urban planning and human geography scholars will find this to be an invigorating read with contributions from scholars across urban planning, economic geography, tourism and public policy providing a holistic understanding of the topic"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction to a research agenda for small and medium-sized towns / Heike Mayer and Michela Lazzeroni -- 2. Between urban and rural: Socio-spatial identities in small and medium-sized towns / Annett Steinführer -- 3. Small and medium-sized towns: Out of the dark agglomeration shadows and into the bright city lights? / Evert Meijers and Martijn Burger -- 4. Urbanisation, suburbanisation and territorial development: Research issues for small and medium-sized towns / Christophe Demazière -- 5. The resilience of small and medium-sized towns in times of crisis and recov0ery / Michela Lazzeroni -- 6. Innovation and entrepreneurship in small and medium-sized towns / Heike Mayer -- 7. (re)discovering the small and medium-sized industrial town and its development potential / David Bole -- 8. Cultural tourism as a tool for transformation in small and medium-sized towns / Chiara Rabbiosi and Dimitri Ioannides -- 9. Digital and smart places: Ensuring a rural fit in times of urban-biased technological push / Koen Salemink -- 10. The important role of nature in planning for small cities / Timothy Beatley -- 11. Public policy and small and medium-sized towns / David Kaufmann and Stefan Wittwer -- 12. Agents of change in small and medium-sized towns / Arnault Morisson -- 13. The road ahead: Advancing our research agenda for small and medium-sized towns in a world of uneven development / Heike Mayer and Michela Lazzeroni -- Index.
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781789907407
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (352 pages)
    Series Statement: Elgar research agendas series
    Keywords: Urban tourism ; Environmental impact analysis ; Economic impact analysis ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This timely Research Agenda explores and proposes critical lines of research to support understanding of the conditions under which urban tourism contributes to the development of urban systems, and what can be done to create and conserve these conditions. Chapters highlight conceptual discussions, concrete case studies and policy reviews to address the issues surrounding the economic, environmental and social impacts of tourism on cities. Analysing the trends that have characterized urban tourism in the past, the Research Agenda looks ahead to those that may influence it in the future, including the impact of Covid-19. Chapters further offer a thorough conceptualization and innovative definitions of the phenomenon of urban tourism. The critical issue of the sustainability of tourism development in cities is also discussed in depth. The Research Agenda provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the urban tourism debate, making it a critical read for urban studies and tourism scholars. The detailed case studies from across four continents will also be beneficial to policymakers and urban planners dealing with tourism development"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction to a research agenda for urban tourism / Jan van der Borg -- Part I: Urban tourism development -- 2. Urban tourism: Major trends / Bozana Zekan and Karl Wöber -- 3. Urban tourism as a special type of cultural tourism / Greg Richards -- Part II: Urban tourism in an international, comparative perspective -- 4. Smart governance in historic urban destinations - evidence from croatia / Lidija Petrić and Ante Mandić -- 5. Understanding community perception through resident attitude studies: A segmentation analysis in flemish art cities / Bart Neuts and Vincent Nijs -- 6. Tourism in venice: Mapping overtourism and exploring solutions / Nicola Camatti and Dario Bertocchi -- 7. The rotterdam way: A new take on urban tourism management / Shirley Nieuwland, Ewout Versloot and Egbert van der Zee -- 8. New urban developments in a heritage area. A case study of skeppsholmsviken 6 in stockholm, Sweden / Anna-Paula Jonsson and Tigran Haas -- 9. Urban tourism development in Africa: Evidence from addis ababa, Ethiopia / Getaneh Addis Tessema and Ephrem Assefa Haile -- 10. Municipal advancement and tourism policy in the United States: Economic development and urban restructuring / Costas Spirou -- 11. Comparative study on Chinese cities as international tourism destinations / Xiang Feng, Ben Derudder and Hai Xia Zhou -- Part III: Sustainable tourism development policies in cities -- 12. Overtourism - identifying the underlying causes and tensions in European tourism destinations / Ko Koens and Jeroen Klijs -- 13. Is another tourism possible? Shifting discourses in barcelona's tourism politics / Antonio Paolo Russo, Elsa Soro and Alessandro Scarnato -- 14. Post-covid-19 urban tourism research / Sebastian Zenker -- 15. Towards a research agenda for urban tourism. A synthesis / Jan van der Borg -- Index
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781839100307
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 pages)
    Keywords: Disasters Research ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "This timely book unpacks the idea of 'disaster' from a variety of approaches, broadening understanding and improving the usability of this complex and often contested concept. Including multidisciplinary perspectives from leading and emerging scholars, it offers reflections on how the concept of disaster has been shaped by and within various fields of research, providing complementary and thought-provoking comparisons across many domains. Functioning as an important point of reference between and across disciplines, chapters explore the forces and building blocks of disaster and how these are interpreted, providing opportunities for dialogue between multiple points of view. The book concludes with a broader, integrated discussion of the aspects of disaster research covered, putting forward suggestions for further cooperation between disciplines and a future research agenda. Defining Disaster will be a fascinating read for disaster researchers in disciplines including law, sociology, and social and public policy who wish to improve their understanding of how their work maps onto the wider field. It will also be beneficial for policy makers and practitioners in this area looking for a rounded view of contemporary cross-disciplinary research on the subject"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. On disaster: Disciplines, domains and definitions / Marie Aronsson-Storrier and Rasmus Dahlberg -- 2. Prologue: The sociology of disaster - a us perspective on the transformational conceptualization embedded in a discipline / Tricia Wachtendorf -- Part I: Disciplines -- 3. Disaster anthropology: Vulnerability, process and meaning / Kristoffer Albris -- 4. Keep the curtains drawn! Event, process and disaster in international law / Marie Aronsson-Storrier -- 5. Positioning social work in relation to disasters: A social notion running along a continuum / Carin Björngren Cuadra -- 6. Defining the role of public health in disasters and emergency management / Kevin Blanchard -- 7. Disaster in engineering and earthquake science / Sólveig Thorvaldsdóttir -- 8. Defining disaster in volcanology / Jazmin P. Scarlett, Ailsa Naismith and Ashleigh Rushton -- Part II: Domains -- 9. Whose views matter? Navigating insiders' and outsiders' understanding of disasters / Loïc Le Dé and J.C. Gaillard -- 10. Drought, famine and disasters / Olivier Rubin -- 11. Defining disasters through international space governance / Nathan Clark -- 12. Disaster definitions from an arctic perspective / Natalia Andreassen and Rebecca Pincus -- 13. Disaster movies: Definitions, filmography and three analyses / Rasmus Dahlberg and Uta Reichardt -- 14. Systemic disasters: Considering the whole and not constituent parts / Livhuwani Nemakonde -- 15. Epilogue: What are disasters not? / Ilan Kelman -- Index
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    ISBN: 9781788116152
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 460 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Research handbooks in urban studies series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Handbook on urban social policies
    DDC: 307.76
    RVK:
    Keywords: Urban policy ; Public welfare ; Public welfare ; Social policy ; Urban policy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Stadt ; Sozialpolitik
    Abstract: "The importance of subnational welfare measures, and their complex embeddedness in wider multilevel governance systems, has often been underplayed in both urban studies and social policy analysis. This Handbook gives readers the analytical tools to understand urban social policies in context and bridges the gap in research. It provides a novel perspective of social policy analysis, answering the common debates such as: what is the role of local institutions in welfare provisions? Do they exert an influence beyond their jurisdiction? What difference can we trace among different types of locales (e.g. urban vs. rural)? How does the role of cities change in different national regulatory systems? Chapters disentangle the interplay between jurisdictions, politics, policy instruments and contexts in the spatial construction of social policies. Thanks to the impressive selection of contributors, the volume discusses urban social policies with broad geographical coverage including cases from Europe, North America, South America and Asia, and provides cursory references to the COVID-19 pandemic in different policy fields. This book will be of interest to a broad range of students in different fields from welfare to urban studies, as well as those interested in multilevel governance and policy analysis. Scholars interested in comparative social policy, but also in social innovation, public administration and political science, will also find this book a good companion"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction to urban social policies: International perspectives on multilevel governance and local welfare / Yuri Kazepov, Eduardo Barberis, Roberta Cucca and Elisabetta Mocca -- Part I: Localizing risk and vulnerability -- 2. Localizing new social risks / Costanzo Ranci and Lara Maestripieri -- 3. Territorial welfare governance changes: Concepts and explanatory factors / Eloísa del Pino, Luis Moreno and Jorge Hernández-Moreno -- 4. The territorial dimension of social investment in Europe / Yuri Kazepov and Ruggero Cefalo -- 5. Urban social innovation and the European city: Assessing the changing urban welfare mix and its scalar articulation / Stijn Oosterlynck and Tatiana Saruis -- 6. Citizenship practices and co-production of local social policies in southern Europe / Ana Belén Cano-Hila, Marc Pradel-Miquel and Marisol García -- 7. The transformation of the local welfare system in European cities / Alberta Andreotti, Enzo Mingione and Emanuele Polizzi -- Part II: The local dimension of targeted social policies -- 8. Care as multi-scalar policy: Ecec and ltc services across Europe / Marco Arlotti and Stefania Sabatinelli -- 9. Poverty and multi-layered social assistance in Europe / Sarah Marchal and Bea Cantillon -- 10. Institutional logics of service provision: The national and urban governance of activation policies in three European countries / Vanesa Fuertes, Martin Heidenreich and Ronald McQuaid -- 11. The local dimension of housing policies / Christoph Reinprecht -- 12. Migration policies at the local level: Constraints and windows of opportunities in a contentious field / Eduardo Barberis and Alba Angelucci -- 13. Segregation, neighbourhood effects and social mix policies / Sako Musterd -- 14. Local segregation patterns and multilevel education policies / Willem Boterman and Isabel Ramos Lobato -- Part III: The instruments of local social policies -- 15. Local governance and street-level bureaucracy: The ground floor of social policy / Peter Hupe and Trui Steen -- 16. National-regional-local shifting games in multi-tiered welfare states / Giuliano Bonoli and Philipp Trein -- 17. Social work and community work / Stefan Köngeter and Christian Reutlinger -- 18. New public management-inspired public sector reforms and evaluation: Long-term care provisions in European countries / Hellmut Wollmann -- 19. Public participation and social policies in contemporary cities / Roberta Cucca -- 20. Territorial effects of EU policies: Which social outcomes at the local level? / Iván Tosics and Laura Colini -- Part IV: Examples of urban social policies around the world -- 21. Soziale stadt (social city) / Simon Güntner -- 22. The rescaling of social policies in the post-yugoslav space: Welfare parallelism and local state capture / Paul Stubbs and Sinisa Zrinščak -- 23. States of welfare: Decentralization and its consequences in us social policy / Sarah K. Bruch and Colin Gordon -- 24. Urban social protection in southern Africa / Jeremy Seekings -- 25. Social policies and security in favelas and urban peripheries of brazilian cities / Eduardo Marques and Marta Arretche -- 26. Innovative (local) social policies in China / Daniel R. Hammond -- 27. Urban and local social policies in the nordic countries / Håkan Johansson -- 28. The challenges of activation policies in Japan and their local dimension / Miki Tsutsui and Shuhei Naka -- Index.
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781788977272
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (352 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Research handbooks in business and management series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Innovation ; Innovationsmanagement ; Kreativität ; Theorie ; Welt ; Creative ability in business ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Contents: Introduction: Shared foundations and diverse inquiries for advancing creativity and innovation research / Jing Zhou and Elizabeth D. Rouse -- Part I: Foundations of creativity and innovation research -- 1. Conducting rigorous research on individual creativity / Christina E. Shalley and Amy P. Breidenthal -- 2. The dual pathway to creativity model: Implications for workplace creativity / Bernard A. Nijstad, Eric F. Rietzschel, Matthijs Baas, and Carsten K.W. De Dreu -- 3. Team creativity and innovation / Daan van Knippenberg and Inga J. Hoever -- 4. Creativity and standardization: Tension, complementarity, and paradox / Robert C. Litchfield, Yuna S.H. Lee, and Lucy L. Gilson -- Part II: The role of social influences, interactions, and processes in creativity and innovation -- 5. Social network and creativity / Ronald S. Burt -- 6. Creative leadership across contexts / Charalampos Mainemelis, Olga Epitropaki, and Ronit Kark -- 7. Leading groups and teams towards successful innovation / Eric F. Rietzschel, Diana Rus, and Barbara Wisse -- 8. Teams as synthesizers: The role of constraints in the process of creative synthesis / Sarah Harvey and Poornika Ananth -- 9. Family and its influences on work creativity / Nora Madjar -- 10. Creativity connects: How the creative process fosters social connection and combats loneliness at work / Jack A. Goncalo, Joshua H. Katz, Lynne C. Vincent, Verena Krause, and Shiyu Yang -- Part III: Stretching how we make sense of and study creativity and innovation -- 11. Creative spirals: When ideas beget ideas / Andrew Hargadon -- 12. Creativity over the career / Pier Vittorio Mannucci -- 13. Unraveling the bias against novelty: Guiding the study of our tendency to desire but reject the new / Jennifer Mueller and Yidan Yin -- 14. Who is the creator? How uncertainty, threat and implicit models create paradoxical evaluations of creativity / Kerrie L. Unsworth and Aleksandra Luksyte -- 15. Using qualitative methods to generate divergence in creativity theory / Elizabeth D. Rouse and Michael G. Pratt -- Index.
    Abstract: "This cutting-edge Handbook takes stock of a diverse set of theoretical and methodological perspectives that address creativity, innovation, and the ways in which they intersect. Considering the development of the field, the Handbook examines current trends to chart a path forward for promising future research. Leading international contributors showcase some of the most advanced and interesting work in the creativity and innovation field, providing a platform for idea exchange and cross-fertilization. Reviewing the foundations for conducting rigorous creativity research, chapters elaborate on theoretical models that explain both individual and team creativity and innovation, and discuss the relationship between creativity and standardization. The Handbook also analyzes the role of social influences in the processes of creativity and innovation, as well as how to make sense of and study creativity and innovation. In doing so, the Handbook highlights both quantitative and qualitative research methods for conducting creativity-innovation research. Presenting an expert analysis of research on creativity and innovation, this Handbook will be a vital reference point for scholars and students in these fields, in addition to the areas of organizational innovation and organizational behavior. It will also be useful for practicing managers interested in understanding creativity and innovation"--
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  • 53
    ISBN: 1788117239 , 9781788117234
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 426 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Elgar handbooks in migration
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Handbook on the governance and politics of migration
    DDC: 325.1
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    Keywords: Emigration and immigration Handbooks, manuals, etc Political aspects ; Emigration and immigration ; Political aspects ; Handbooks and manuals ; Emigration and immigration - Political aspects ; Handbooks and manuals ; Handbooks and manuals ; Guides et manuels ; Electronic books ; Handbook ; Electronic books ; Handbook ; Internationale Migration ; Migrationspolitik
    Abstract: "This innovative Handbook sets out a conceptual and analytical framework for the critical appraisal of migration governance. Global and interdisciplinary in scope, the chapters are organised across six key themes: conceptual debates; categorisations of migration; governance regimes; processes; spaces of migration governance; and mobilisations around it. Leading international contributors critically assess categorisations and conceptualisations of migration to address theoretical concerns including transnationalism and de-colonisation, climate change, development, humanitarianism, bordering, technologies and the role of time. They closely examine practices of migration governance and politics, and their effects, across diverse spaces, processes and forms of mobilisation. They draw on up-to-date examples from across the globe in order to examine how migrants, whether forced or voluntary, are governed. Reviewing the latest developments in migration governance research through empirically rich and conceptually concise appraisals, the Handbook problematises orthodox perspectives and discusses how a critical reading can add to our understanding of the governance and politics of migration. This Handbook is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of migration, human rights and public policy. Its interdisciplinary approach and wide range of empirical examples will also be useful for policy makers in these fields"--
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. The governance and politics of migration: a conceptual-analytical map / Emma Carmel, Katharina Lenner and Regine Paul -- Part I: Conceptualising the politics and governance of migration -- 2. Postcolonial perspectives on migration governance / Lucy Mayblin -- 3. Nationhood and citizenship: From producing states to enacting rights / Flávia Rodrigues de Castro and Carolina Moulin -- 4. Transnationalism and diaspora as epistemology and practice / Carolin Fischer -- 5. The politics of conceptualizing border/security / Karolina Follis -- 6. Rethinking migration and development as a hegemonic project / Lama Kabbanji -- 7. Climate migration between conflictive discourses and empirical realities / Ingrid Boas and Hanne Wiegel -- 8. Humanitarianism in principle and practice / Jason Hart -- 9. Beyond the dichotomy of liberal and illiberal migration governance / Katharina Natter -- Part II: The politics of categorising migration -- 10. Unsettling the boundaries between forced and voluntary migration / Oliver Bakewell -- 11. The construction and contestation of illegality / Vicki Squire -- 12. Trafficking as the moral filter of migration control / Cameron Thibos and Neil Howard -- 13. Co-constructions of family and belonging in the politics of family migration / Saskia Bonjour and Laura Cleton -- 14. Deconstructing skills in the stratification of migration governance / Huw Vasey -- Part III: Institutions and regimes of migration governance -- 15. Towards a relational perspective on border regimes / Prem Kumar Rajaram -- 16. The limits of the 'global refugee regime' / Heaven Crawley and Mary Setrana -- 17. Pitfalls, ambivalences and contestations of 'migration management' / Antoine Pécoud -- 18. Global value chains, production regimes and the governance of migrant workers / Shamel Azmeh -- 19 national states in the governance of mobilities / Nora El Qadim -- Part IV: Spaces of migration governance -- 20. The migration route as governance / William Walters -- 21. Migration, governance, and the co-production of urban spaces / An Van Raemdonck and Fran Meissner -- 22. Reconsidering migration dynamics within diverse rural spaces / Lydia Medland -- 23. Governing, experiencing and contesting camps and encampment / Lewis Turner -- 24. Political economy, law and the regulation of migrants' workplaces / Tesseltje de Lange, Lisa Berntsen and Pedro de Sena -- 25. Homes as workplaces at the intersection of migration, care and gender regimes / Sabrina Marchetti and Anna di Bartolomeo -- Part V: Processes and practices of migration governance -- 26. Interrogating time and temporality in migration governance / Melanie Griffiths -- 27. Technology, knowledge and the governing of migration / Julien Jeandesboz -- 28. Governing migration by other means: Criminalization, crimmigration, or legal pluralism? / David Moffette -- 29. Situating deportation and expulsion in migration governance / Annika Lindberg and Shahram Khosravi -- Part VI: Contesting migration governance -- 30. Reconceptualizing and de-nationalizing repertoires of migrant political activism / Ilker Ataç and Helen Schwenken -- 31. Contesting migration governance through legal mobilization / Leila Kawar -- 32. Solidarities and disjunctures in the (global) mobilization of migrant workers / Nicola Piper -- 33. Nativist politics and the mobilization of anti-immigrant discourses / Aitana Guia -- Index.
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  • 54
    ISBN: 9781800887671
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (160 Seiten)
    Series Statement: New horizons in business analytics series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Künstliche Intelligenz ; Organisatorischer Wandel ; Artificial intelligence ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Contents: 1. Introduction to managing AI wisely -- 2. What is ai? -- 3. Perspectives on AI and work -- 4. Methods and Introduction to cases -- 5. Organizing for data -- 6. Testing and validating -- 7. Algorithmic brokers -- 8. Changing work -- 9. How can AI systems be managed wisely? -- Index.
    Abstract: "Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being rapidly introduced into the workplace, creating debate around what AI means for our work and organizations. This book gives grounded counterweight to provocative newspaper headlines by using in-depth case studies of eight organizations' experiences of implementing and using AI, providing readers with a solid understanding of what is actually happening in practice. Critical yet constructive, the authors address the challenges of implementing AI: organizing for data, testing and validating, algorithmic brokering, and changing work. Using a combination of existing literature and thorough practical examples, they provide answers to questions such as: What data do I need? When is a system good enough to actually take over tasks? And how can my employees be prepared for working with AI? The book presents four recommendations for WISE management of AI, requiring work-related insights, interdisciplinary knowledge, sociotechnical change processes, and ethical awareness. Offering insight into the unique characteristics of AI in organizations, this book will be essential reading for scholars of business and management, data analytics and information systems, technology and innovation, and computer science. With practical recommendations for managing the challenges of AI, it will also provide business managers with reflections to improve their own AI development and implementation processes"--
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  • 55
    ISBN: 9781789906295
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (246 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Unternehmer ; Sozialwirtschaft ; Friedensbewegung ; Israel ; Palästina ; Social entrepreneurship ; Social entrepreneurship ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Contents: Introduction: Peace entrepreneurship, life narratives, and the Israeli-palestinian conflict / Amalya Oliver-Lumerman, Yosepha Tabib-Calif, Tammar B. Zilber, Tammy Rubel-Lifschitz, and Haneen Sameer Magadlah -- 1. Jewish-arabic collaboration through education / Amin Khalaf -- 2. No one can conquer you because when you are free inside, you live in peace / Bassam Aramin -- 3. Peace, a mission for generations / Eliaz Cohen -- 4. A jewish radical / Gershon Baskin -- 5. Small initiatives with great impact / Ghadeer Hani -- 6. The freedom to choose / Hadassah Froman -- 7. No one can occupy my heart, my mind, and my identity / Huda Abu Arqoub -- 8. To solve the puzzle / Khaled Abu Awwad -- 9. To make a change, we must be willing to change / Shiri Levinas -- 10. A life of peace is not whole: Peace is not whole - it is broken / Yakir Englander -- 11. I am me because arik was arik / Yitzhak Frankenthal -- 12. Discussion: Peace entrepreneurship - insights and reflections / Haneen Sameer Magadlah, Tammy Rubel-Lifschitz, Yosepha Tabib-Calif, Amalya Oliver-Lumerman, and Tammar B. Zilber Glossary -- References.
    Abstract: "This timely book comprises detailed personal narratives of entrepreneurs who have worked towards peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It begins by offering an innovative framework of analysis based on scientific knowledge about social entrepreneurs, defining 'peace entrepreneurship' and mapping its unique characteristics. It also explains the narrative methodology used, and provides a short history of the conflict in the region. The book focuses on 11 life stories of Israeli and Palestinian entrepreneurs who have strived for peace through social ventures. Chapters discuss the various forms of social activism that peace entrepreneurs have pursued, the challenges that they have faced and the motivations behind their ventures. The editors conclude by considering the similarities and differences across the stories, offering insights into what drives people to act as peace entrepreneurs and what sustains their activities in the face of ongoing conflict. Documenting rousing and inspirational life narratives, this book is crucial for scholars and researchers of social entrepreneurship who are searching for new avenues of inquiry into ventures in a conflict context. It will also provide motivational reading for other practitioners of peace entrepreneurship, as well as policymakers working with social entrepreneurs in conflict zones"--
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781789906530
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 363 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Elgar modern guides series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Sportökonomik ; Sport ; Profisport ; Welt ; Europa ; Sports Economic aspects ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: "This timely Modern Guide offers critical insights into developments in both professional and recreational sports through the lens of the economic forces that determine them. It explores the benefits of the relationship between sports and economics, highlighting ways that economic research can help to understand sports better and the ways that sport provides opportunities to test economic theories. With both theoretical and empirical chapters, the book looks at the development of European sports economics over the last 20 years, the relationship between competitive balance and attendance, and the potential economic impact of sports events. Chapters further examine specific issues in sports from an economic perspective, including labour market restrictions on professional leagues, refereeing, team dynamics, the importance of good players versus good results and the sports analytics revolution due to big data. The use of state-of-the-art empirical methods makes this Modern Guide a crucial read for economists and sports science researchers looking to better understand both the relationship between the two fields and their own area of research. Sports policymakers will also appreciate the in-depth discussion on a range of different recreational and professional sports"--
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  • 57
    ISBN: 9781800376380
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (352 Seiten)
    Series Statement: New horizons in money and finance series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Financial exclusion ; Economic development ; Finance ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Contents: Preface xvi ahmad hassan ahmad, david t. Llewellyn and victor murinde -- 1. Introduction: Financial inclusion - an overview of key issues / David T. Llewellyn -- 2. Public policy for financial inclusion / David T. Llewellyn -- 3. Financial sector development and financial inclusion in Africa: Gaps, challenges and policy options / Njuguna Ndung'u and Alex Oguso -- 4. Mobile money and financial inclusion: An analytical survey / Ahmad Hassan Ahmad, Christopher J. Green and Fei Jiang -- 5. The impact of financial inclusion on sectoral economic growth / Ayse Demir, Joseph Ajefu, Kalim Bukhari and Victor Murinde -- 6. Does financial liberalization accentuate financial instability? / Dirk Bezemer, Silke Bumann and Robert Lensink -- 7. The rise of cross-border pan-african banks in the waemu / Issouf Soumaré, Kouamé Désiré Kanga and Victor Murinde -- 8. Kenya's interbank market liquidity access: An insight from network topology / Ye Bai, Pia Weiss, Victor Murinde and Christopher J. Green -- 9. The coexistence of formal and informal finance: New evidence from the use of trade finance by farmers in chile / Alvaro Reyes, Robert Lensink and Niels Hermes -- 10. Mobile money, financial inclusion and poverty: Key results from two new surveys in Ghana / Fei Jiang, Carlos Sakyi-Nyarko, Ahmad Hassan Ahmad and Christopher J. Green -- 11. Does bank efficiency enhance industry growth in developing countries? / Ali Mirzaei and Tomoe Moore -- 12. Threshold effects of financial access on income inequality in Africa: Empirics and policy implications / Imhotep Paul Alagidede and Muazu Ibrahim -- 13. Government policy and financial inclusion: Analyzing the impact of the Indian national mission for financial inclusion / Rachel Hadar and Ronny Manos -- 14. Inclusive finance, financial literacy and livelihood activities of households in Ghana / Mohammed Amidu, Joshua Yindenaba Abor and Haruna Issahaku -- 15. Concluding remarks and implications for future research / Ahmad Hassan Ahmad, David T. Llewellyn and Victor Murinde -- Index.
    Abstract: "Inclusive Financial Development provides theoretical and empirical analyses of the nature of financial inclusion. The contributing authors explore the impediments to inclusion that exist around the world, the macro and stability implications, and the regulation dimension. With contributions from distinguished researchers, this book covers the main analytical and empirical issues in financial inclusion and its role in economic development. Chapters present a wide range of case studies illustrating topics such as mobile money, financial liberalization and bank efficiency, as well as highlighting the costs associated with financial exclusion and the various policy and regulatory measures that have been applied to lower the barriers to inclusion. Offering a comprehensive exploration of financial inclusion and its impediments, this important book will be welcomed by students, researchers and policy makers interested in economic development and financial regulation"--
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  • 58
    ISBN: 9781839107375
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (392 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Standortmarketing ; Stadtmarketing ; Markenimage ; Herkunftsbezeichnung ; Theorie ; Welt ; Place marketing ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Contents: Introduction: The 'country' vs. 'Place' and 'marketing' vs. 'Branding' conundrum / Nicolas Papadopoulos and Mark Cleveland -- Part I: 'birds of a feather, all over the place': My neighbourhood, my town, my country -- 1. Conceptions of place: From streets and neighbourhoods to towns, cities, nations, and beyond / Gary Warnaby and Dominic Medway -- 2. Place brands: Why, who, what, when, where, and how? / Mihalis Kavaratzis and Magdalena Florek -- 3. Will the twain ever meet? 'place' vs. 'Country' in research and practice / Nicolas Papadopoulos and Mark Cleveland -- 4. Six propositions for place marketing: A critical discussion of the current state of our field / Sebastian Zenker -- Part II: 'a case of mistaken identity?': Residents and identity politics in place and space -- 5. In search of a place brand identity model / Magdalena Florek -- 6. From participation to transformation: The multiple roles of residents in the place brand creation process / Alia El Banna and Ioana S. Stoica -- 7. Peoplescapes and placemaking in a multicultural world: Residents' identity, attachment, and belonging / Andrea Insch -- 8. The fabric of person-place-time: What metaphors from outer space can teach us in place branding / Mark Cleveland and Nicolas Papadopoulos -- Part III: 'a place is worth a thousand words': A smorgasbord of country images and effects -- 9. 'New perspectives welcome': A case for alternative approaches to country of origin effect research / Mikael Andéhn and Jean-Noël Patrick L'Espoir Decosta -- 10. The effects of stereotyping on place/country image perceptions / Peter Magnusson and Stanford A. Westjohn -- 11. Consumer dispositions and product connections to places: From parochialism to cosmopolitanism and beyond / Mark Cleveland, Nicolas Papadopoulos, and Boris Bartikowski -- 12. Country of origin cues in advertising: Theoretical insights and practical implications / Fabian Bartsch and Katharina Petra Zeugner-Roth -- 13. Cross-border acquisitions and offshoring strategies: The effects on country/place image and reputation / Michela Matarazzo -- Part IV: 'here, there, and everywhere': Advances, adversities, applications, and associations in 'country' and 'place' marketing -- 14. The role of advertising in place branding / Rick T. Wilson -- 15. Place branding as an instrument in strategic spatial planning: Insights from urban regions in western Europe and North America / Eduardo Oliveira and Anna M. Hersperger -- 16. Popular culture and place-associated products in country image / Candace L. White.
    Abstract: "This book integrates new thinking on the image, marketing, and branding of places at all levels, from town squares to cities and countries, and of the products and peoples associated with them, thereby bridging the 'country' and 'place' silos in place-related research and practice. Insightful contributions from top scholars reflect fresh theorizing and provide a critical appraisal of conventional wisdom by juxtaposing intriguing contexts, questioning commonplace practices, and challenging methodologies and theoretical assumptions. Chapters explore interdependencies among residents, visitors, brand managers, and consumers; image effects of place and social identity, cross-border acquisitions, popular culture exports, and sporting mega-events; country-of-origin research, cross-cultural consumer behaviour, international marketing, destination branding, and brand modelling; and cutting-edge methodological approaches and managerial best practices in place marketing. The book's interdisciplinary know-how and approach makes it an invaluable and comprehensive reference for researchers, managers, consultants, and students alike, in areas from marketing, place management, international business, and tourism to communications, social psychology, urban geography, and regional economics"--
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  • 59
    ISBN: 9781839100161
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Big Data ; Künstliche Intelligenz ; KMU ; Small business ; Technology ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Contents: Introduction / Carsten Lund Pedersen, Adam Lindgreen, Thomas Ritter and Torsten Ringberg -- Part I: Foundations: Getting the basics right -- 1. Building small business utopia: How artificial intelligence and big data can increase small business success / Karen G. Mills and Annie V. Dang -- 2. Gdpr compliant processing of big data in small business.
    Abstract: "This important book considers the ways in which small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can thrive in the age of big data. To address this central issue from multiple viewpoints, the editors introduce a collection of experiences, insights, and guidelines from a variety of expert researchers, each of whom provides a piece to solve this puzzle. Contributions address the limitations faced by SMEs in their access to data and demonstrate that the key to overcoming this issue is to be aware of these limitations, to work within them, and to use them to think creatively about how to overcome obstacles in new ways. They discuss Artificial Intelligence, revenue blueprinting, GDPR compliance and other key topics related to the relationships between SMEs and data. Offering ideas to inspire big data-driven success by SMEs making smaller investments, the book argues that there must be a place for "ordinary" data-driven journeys that are available to firms of any size. Stimulating further thought and action, Big Data in Small Business will be of great interest to academics, researchers and practitioners in areas such as strategic management, organizational and innovation studies, marketing and sales. The ideas and information in this book will help fill knowledge gaps related to important aspects of capabilities, functions, and transformations of big data that drive business growth"--
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781789905021
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (246 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Elgar research agendas series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Stress ; Arbeitsbedingungen ; Coping-Strategie ; Arbeitszufriedenheit ; Theorie ; Welt ; Job stress Research ; Work environment Research ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Contents: Part I: Setting the scene -- 1. Introduction to a research agenda for workplace stress and wellbeing / E. Kevin Kelloway and Cary L. Cooper -- 2. Workplace stress and wellbeing: Pathways for future research advances / James Campbell Quick -- 3. The cost of stress to uk employers and employees / Christian van Stolk -- Part II: Specific influences -- 4. Leadership and well-being / Shani Pupco and Julian Barling -- 5. Observer interventions in workplace aggression: The state of the art and future directions / Ivana Vranjes, Zhanna Lyubykh and M. Sandy Hershcovis -- 6. Are your smart technologies 'killing it' or killing you? Developing a research agenda for workplace ict and worker wellbeing / Arla Day, Ryan Cook, Rachael Jones-Chick and Vanessa Myers -- 7. Work-family research: Questioning assumptions and looking forward for true impact / Winny Shen and Kristen M. Shockley -- Part III: Interventions -- 8. Mental health in the workplace: Where we've been and where we're going / Jennifer K. Dimoff, Whitney E.S. Vogel and Olivia Yoder -- 9. Managing work stress: The research agenda / Sheena Johnson and Elinor O'Connor -- 10. Cautions for mindfulness research in organisations: Taking stock and moving forward / Maree Roche, Michelle R. Tuckey and Ute R. Hülsheger -- 11. Organizational interventions - fitting the intervention to the context to ensure the participatory process / Karina Nielsen, Carolyn Axtell and Glorian Sorensen -- 12. Covid-19: Short- and long-term impacts on work and well-being / Gary W. Ivey, Jennifer E.C. Lee, Deniz Fikretoglu, Eva Guérin, Christine Frank, Stacey Silins, Donna I. Pickering, Megan M. Thompson and Madeleine T. D'Agata -- Index.
    Abstract: "Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This insightful Research Agenda considers the current state of research into workplace stress and wellbeing and maps an innovative programme for future investigation that can advance understanding of the interrelationships between work and wellbeing. Bringing together international contributors to outline the field, the book examines the various costs and impacts of workplace stress on employers and employees. Chapters address key features of the workplace that influence employee wellbeing, including technology use, leadership, work-family relationships and aggression, as well as the unique contemporary effects of Covid-19 on wellbeing. Identifying both substantive and methodological questions that remain unanswered, the book considers the benefits of intervention strategies that are designed to enhance individual wellbeing in the workplace. Offering a unique picture of the field, this timely book is crucial reading for researchers and graduate students focused on work and wellbeing who are looking for new and innovative avenues for research. Managers and other practitioners will also benefit from its practical insights into the challenges posed by workplace stress and the potential strategies for managing stress"--
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  • 61
    ISBN: 9781788977937
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (352 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Geschlechterforschung ; Management ; Weibliche Führungskräfte ; Unternehmerinnen ; Wissenschaftliche Methode ; Management ; Gender identity ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Contents: Introduction to the handbook of research methods on gender and management / Valerie Stead, Carole Elliott and Sharon Mavin -- Part I: Autoethnographic methods -- 1. A scholarly journey to autoethnography: A way to understand, survive and resist / Juanita Johnson-Bailey -- 2. Autoethnography in qualitative studies of gender and management / Saoirse O'Shea -- 3. Autoethnography in qualitative studies of gender and organization: A focus on women successors in family businesses / Allan Discua Cruz, Eleanor Hamilton and Sarah L. Jack -- Part II: Practical approaches -- 4. Focus group use in gender research aimed at program innovation / Maylon Hanold -- 5. Using oral history and archival research to advance gender studies in management and organisational studies / Hannah Dean and Lorna Stevenson -- 6. Translating gender policies into practice: Mapping ruling relations through institutional ethnography / Rita A. Gardiner, Jennifer Chisholm and Hayley Finn -- 7. Participant observation in gender and management research / Farooq Mughal, Valerie Stead and Caroline Gatrell -- 8. Gendered encounters in a postfeminist context: Researcher identity work in interviews with men and women leaders in the city of London / Patricia Lewis -- 9. Being 'native': Insider research in qualitative studies of gender and management / Jouharah M. Abalkhail -- 10. Data with a (feminist) purpose: Quantitative methods in the context of gender, diversity and management / Anne Laure Humbert and Elisabeth Anna Guenther -- 11. Topic modelling: A method for analysing corporate gender diversity statements / Aaron Page and Ruth Sealy -- Part III: Critical approaches -- 12. Exposing interpellation with dystopian fiction: A critical discourse analysis technique to disrupt hegemonic masculinity / Mark Gatto and Jamie L. Callahan -- 13. Media semiotics: Analysing the myth of the corporate superwoman / Anita Biressi -- 14. Intersectional reflexivity: Using intersectional reflexivity as a means to strengthen critical autoethnography / Mayra Ruiz Castro -- Part IV: Methodological developments -- 15. Visual research as a method of inquiry for gender and organizations / Alexia Panayiotou -- 16. Understanding the underrepresentation of women in union leadership roles: The contribution of a 'career' methodology / Cécile Guillaume and Sophie Pochic -- 17. Phenomenology and autoethnography as potential methodologies for exploring masculinity in organizations, communities and society / Joshua C. Collins and Jeremy W. Bohonos -- 18. Concept as method: Ethnography in a posthumanist world / Lara Pecis -- 19. Using the listening guide to analyse stories of female entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia: A diffractive methodology / Natasha S. Mauthner and Sophie Alkhaled -- Index.
    Abstract: "This timely Handbook of Research Methods on Gender and Management exemplifies the multiplicity of gender and management research and provides effective guidance for putting methods into practice. Through a range of international perspectives, contributors present an essential resource of diverse research methods, including illustrative examples from corporate, public and entrepreneurial sectors. Chapters offer clear guidance, considering opportunities and challenges of differing approaches to research and exploring their ethical implications in practice. Outlining critical, practical, methodological and autoethnographical approaches to research, the Handbook illustrates a broad base from which to build a research project in gender and management. This cutting-edge Handbook is crucial reading for scholars of gender and management, highlighting useful methods and practices for accessing key scholarly insights. It will also benefit graduate students in need of a guided entry into the field of gender and management"--
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    ISBN: 9781800882157
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (192 Seiten)
    Series Statement: New horizons in international business series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Globale Wertschöpfungskette ; Bekleidungsindustrie ; Globalisierung ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Welt ; Business logistics ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Contents: 1. Introduction: Setting up the stage -- 2. The conceptual framework -- 3. The empirical context: The global apparel value chain -- 4. The contest for value capture: Manufacturers and global brands -- 5. The contest for value capture: Labor as a claimant of value -- 6. The contest for value capture: Consumers as external claimants of value -- 7. The contest for value capture: The apparel industry in perspective -- 8. Towards a balanced distribution of value in global value chains: Creating markets for social justice -- 9. Implications of the study for value distribution in global value chains -- References -- Index.
    Abstract: "Who captures the value created in global supply chains? How should gaps in value capture among participants be amended and by whom? Focusing on the global apparel supply chain and employing value creation as a yardstick for evaluation of value capture, this book documents disturbing misalignments between value creation and value capture among global brands, manufacturers, labor, and consumers. The authors posit that the failure of both markets and governments to adequately distribute the value created by global value chains calls for different mechanisms to address this challenge. They develop a novel approach based on the logic of the interdependencies germane to the co-specialized nature of value chains. These interdependencies afford participants power to create markets for social justice in which behavior that drives outcomes towards adequate value distribution is economically and socially rewarded. These dynamics turn GVCs into their own de-facto 'regulators' with the power to self-correct for distributional distortions. The contributions of the book are at the center of current debates in policy milieu, academic circles and corporate boards regarding human rights, social inequality, and the role of the private sector in advancing social goals. They received renewed importance in contemporary discussions regarding the future of global value chains as the predominant mode of organizing value creation and the governance challenges they raise in a complex global world"--
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  • 63
    ISBN: 9781839104107
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 Seiten)
    Series Statement: New horizons in leadership studies series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Führungskräfte ; Führungspersönlichkeit ; Führungskräfteentwicklung ; Führungsstil ; Leadership ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Contents: 1. Introduction to judgment and leadership / Anna B. Kayes and D. Christopher Kayes -- Part I: Conceptualization and processes of leadership judgment -- 2. Cognition counts: Cognitive skills contributing to leader judgment / E. Michelle Todd, Tanner Newbold and Michael D. Mumford -- 3. Character-infused judgment and decision making / Brenda Nguyen and Mary Crossan -- 4. The judgment of arendt / Rita A. Gardiner and Katy Fulfer -- 5. Judgments and justifications / Markus Kornprobst -- 6. How leaders judge creativity: A look into the idea evaluation process / Vignesh R. Murugavel and Roni Reiter-Palmon -- 7. Judgment and decision making: A "brain-first" perspective / John P. Sullivan -- Part II: Leadership judgment barriers, blind spots, and bad judgment -- 8. Hubris, bad judgement and practical wisdom in politics and business / Eugene Sadler-Smith -- 9. Feeling and dirty hands: The role of regret experienced by responsible agents / Terry L. Price -- 10. Context corrupts: What makes leaders fail to see their (mis)behaviors / Andrea Pittarello and Roseanne J. Foti -- 11. Resilience leadership judgment: Findings from a cosmology episode study of the shootdown of flight mh / Kari A. O'Grady, Matthijs Moorkamp, René Torenvlied and J. Douglas Orton -- Part III: Developing and learning leadership judgment -- 12. Cultural intelligence and leadership judgment & decision making: Ethnology and capabilities / Soon Ang, Thomas Rockstuhl and Georgios Christopoulos -- 13. Disjuncture and development: A learning theory approach to leadership judgement / Chris Saunders -- 14. On facilitating the development of leaders' ability to exercise good judgment / Matthew Eriksen -- 15. Improving leader judgment through experiential learning / Anna B. Kayes and D. Christopher Kayes -- 16. Conclusion: What the Chapters tell us about leadership and judgment / Anna B. Kayes and D. Christopher Kayes -- Index.
    Abstract: "Judgment and Leadership presents original thinking and addresses age-old concerns regarding the relationship between judgment and leadership. These two concepts are inseparable. Judgment guides every action that a leader takes and underlies every thought, emotion, or justification that leaders form. This volume extends the study of judgment and leadership across disciplinary and conceptual boundaries. For the first time, the most original and influential thinkers on judgment and leadership are brought together in a single volume and they represent a diverse set of disciplines, including critical studies, psychology, political theory, international policy, adult learning theory, management and organizational studies, philosophy, cross-cultural studies, and neuroscience. The result is an engaging look at one of the most important issues facing organizations, politics, and society: leaders and their judgment. The book describes the challenges and opportunities that leaders face when confronted with political, social, and business challenges and offers an insightful and comprehensive review of leadership and its role in crisis. The authors explore how a leader's actions and judgments are shaped by their experiences. It is a highly accessible account of how leaders learn and practice judgment and a guide for leaders faced with intense and challenging problems Scholars studying leadership, judgment, decision making, critical thinking, or problem solving seeking the latest original thinking on the topic of leadership and judgment as well as educators seeking to develop their students' knowledge about judgment from a multi-disciplinary perspective will find this volume an invaluable resource as will leadership trainers, educators, coaches, and human resource professionals seeking to improve and develop leaders"--
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  • 64
    ISBN: 9781788119405
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (200 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Forschung ; Universitäre Forschung ; Industrieforschung ; Theorie ; Research Handbooks, manuals, etc Methodology ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Contents: Preface and acknowledgements -- Part I: What and why -- 1. Theory-driven, practice-driven, and "sweet spot" management research -- 2. Developing your research philosophy -- 3. Creating value in organizational research: A relational view -- 4. Relevant research: Yesterday and today -- Part II: How -- 5. Theorizing and practice -- 6. Research and practice -- 7. Communicating research to scholars and practitioners -- 8. Managing research relationships in the field -- 9. Being a sweet spot researcher -- Index.
    Abstract: "Amidst rapid and fundamental shifts in the economic, geo-political, technological, and societal landscape, this cutting-edge book makes the timeless case that research can be informed by problems in the 'real world' and make important contributions to theory and practice. Throughout the book, the authors argue that there is a 'sweet spot' where both scholarly and practical research can be done simultaneously. It offers readers insightful and rich examples of how this can be achieved, including frameworks, examples, ideas, and tools which will guide researchers in the lifelong task of defining themselves as researchers and crafting their own unique research practice. It also features critical insights into careers oriented toward having impact on practice, reflective questions that make the principles personal and relevant, and a framework to help develop the network of connections required for research to impact practice. Speaking to the graduate student in all of us, How to Do Relevant Research will greatly benefit Ph.D. students and early career academics who gravitate towards this kind of research but worry about its feasibility and instrumentality, mid-to-late career scholars who do research for practice and teach young scholars how to do it, and to researchers in a think-tank or consultancy who want their work to be scientifically sound and practically useful"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 1788111753 , 9781788111751
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 216 pages)
    Uniform Title: Elgaronline: Social and Political Science Collection 2019
    DDC: 306.2
    Keywords: Political culture ; Political sociology ; Sociologie politique ; Political culture ; Political sociology
    Abstract: "This insightful book develops a new theoretical account of governance as regimes of governing practices that shape the political ordering of social relations. This account develops insights from sociology, politics and political economy and is 'post'-poststructuralist in scope. Chapters explore and synthesise three key features of governing that are often treated as contradictory: the historical contingency of statehood, the structured and unequal distribution of power and authority in governing, and the transformative possibilities of political action. This book proposes an innovative approach to governance analysis as a critical mode of empirical enquiry that is systematic, contextualised and holistic. In doing so, it also provides a new analytical framework to facilitate empirical investigation. Featuring tools of situated critique and analytical contextualisation, and with case study chapters that apply this framework in a range of empirical settings, this book is vital reading for all researchers of public policy and governance. Furthermore, researchers applying state theories to empirical investigation, and postgraduate students scrutinising complex governance settings, will also benefit from this book's theoretical account, analytical framework and case examples".
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Ontology, theory, epistemology -- 1. Introduction to governance analysis: critical enquiry at the intersection of politics, policy and society / Emma Carmel -- 2. Regimes of governing practices, socio-political order and contestation / Emma Carmel -- 3. Governance analysis: epistemological orientations and analytical framework / Emma Carmel -- Part II: Governing practices, statehoods and social inequalities -- 4. Governing skills, governing workplaces: explaining the new labour skills strategy for England / Hannah Durrant -- 5. The political ordering of migrant workers through labour admission policies / Regine Paul -- 6. Understanding the complexity and implications of the English care policy system / Fiona Morgan -- 7. Understanding the state-third sector relationship in public services delivery / Jenny Harlock -- Part III: Governing practices, social politics and contestation -- 8. Participatory governing through co-production and co-design / Michelle Farr -- 9. Participatory governing at the margins of the state / Sarah Morgan-Trimmer -- 10. Governing, politics and policy contestation within European networks / Hester Kan -- Index.
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781788119788
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: The international library of critical writings in economics series 367
    Series Statement: [Edward Elgar books]
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Series Statement: [Elgaronline]
    Series Statement: The international library of critical writings in economics series
    Series Statement: The international library of critical writings in economics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The economics of agglomeration
    Keywords: Agglomerationseffekt ; Ballungsraum ; Mikrofundierung ; Innovation ; Wissenstransfer ; Arbeitsmarkt ; Wirtschaftsgeographie ; Agglomerationseffekt ; Ballungsraum ; Mikrofundierung ; Innovation ; Wissenstransfer ; Arbeitsmarkt ; Wirtschaftsgeographie ; Urban economics ; Megacities Economic aspects ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1. Gilles Duranton and Henry G. Overman (2005), 'Testing for localization using micro-geographic data', Review of economic studies, 72 (4), December, 1077-106 -- 2. J. Vernon Henderson (2003), 'Marshall's scale economies', Journal of urban economics, 53 (1), January, 1-28 -- 3. Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, and Laurent Gobillon (2008), 'Spatial wage disparities: sorting matters!', Journal of urban economics, 63 (2), March, 723-42 -- 4. Michael Greenstone, Richard Hornbeck and Enrico Moretti (2010), 'Identifying agglomeration spillovers: evidence from winners and losers of large plant openings', Journal of political economy, 118 (3), June, 536-98 -- 5. Pierre-Philippe Combes (2012), 'The productivity advantages of large cities: distinguishing agglomeration from firm selection', Econometrica, 80 (6), November, 2543-94 -- 6. Stuart S. Rosenthal and William C. Strange (2003), 'Geography, industrial organization, and agglomeration', Review of economics and statistics, 85 (2), May, 377-93 -- 7. Mohammad Arzaghi and J. Vernon Henderson (2008), 'Networking off Madison Avenue', Review of economic studies, 75 (4), October, 1011-38 -- 8. Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Stephen J. Redding, Daniel M. Strum and Nikolas Wolf (2015), 'The economics of density: evidence from the Berlin Wall', Econometrica, 86 (6), November, 2127-89 -- 9. Glenn Ellison, Edward L. Glaeser and William R. Kerr (2010), 'What causes industry agglomeration? Evidence from coagglomeration patterns', American economic review, 100 (3), June, 1195-213 -- 10. Stuart S. Rosenthal and William C. Strange (2001), 'The Determinants of Agglomeration', Journal of Urban Economics, 50 (2), September, 191-229 -- 11. Jordi Jofre-Monseny, Raquel Marín-López and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal (2011), 'The mechanisms of agglomeration: evidence from the effect of inter-industry relations on the location of new firms', Journal of urban economics, 70 (2-3), September-November, 61-74 -- 12. Stephen B. Billings and Erik B. Johnson (2016), 'Agglomeration within an urban area', Journal of urban economics, 91, January, 13-25 -- 13. Giulia Faggio, Olmo Silva and William C. Strange (2017), 'Heterogeneous agglomeration', Review of economics and statistics, 99 (1), February, 80-94 -- 14. Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga (2001), 'Nursery cities: urban diversity, process innovation, and the life cycle of products', American economic review, 91 (5), December, 1454-77 -- 15. Jeffrey Lin (2011), 'Technological adaptation, cities, and new work', Review of economics and statistics, 93 (2), May, 554-74 -- 16. Donald R. Davis and David E. Weinstein (2002), 'Bones, bombs, and break points: the geography of economic activity', American economic review, 92 (5), December, 1269-89 -- 17. Ajay Agrawal, Devesh Kapur and John McHale (2008), 'How do spatial and social proximity influence knowledge flows? Evidence from patent data', Journal of urban economics, 64 (2), September, 258-69 -- 18. Edward L. Glaeser, Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr (2015), 'Entrepreneurship and urban growth: an empirical assessment with historical mines', Review of economics and statistics, 97 (2), April, 498-520 -- 19. Bruce Fallick, Charles A. Fleischman and James B. Rebitzer (2006), 'Job-Hopping in Silicon Valley: some evidence concerning the microfoundations of a high-technology cluster', Review of economics and statistics, 88 (3), October, 472-81.
    Abstract: 20. Hoyt Bleakley and Jeffrey Lin (2012), 'Thick-market effects and churning in the labor market: evidence from US cities', Journal of urban economics, 72 (2-3), September-November, 87-103 -- 21. Jorge De La Roca and Diego Puga (2017), 'Learning by working in big cities', Review of economic studies, 84 (1), January, 106-42 -- 22. Nathaniel Baum-Snow and Ronni Pavan (2011), 'Understanding the city size wage gap', Review of economic studies, 79 (1), August, 88-127 -- 23. Rebecca Diamond (2016), 'The determinants and welfare implications of US workers' diverging location choices by skill: 1980-2000', American economic review, 106 (3), March, 479-524 -- 24. Marigee Bacolod, Bernardo S. Blum and William C. Strange (2016), 'Skills in the city', Journal of urban economics, 65 (2), March, 136-53 -- 25. Joseph Gyourko, Christopher Mayer, and Todd Sinai (2013), 'Superstar cities', American economic journal: economic policy, 5 (4), November, 167-99 -- 26. Gianmarco Ottaviano, Takatoshi Tabuchi and Jacques-François Thisse (2002), 'Agglomeration and trade revisited', International economic review, 43 (2), May, 409-35 -- 27. Treb Allen and Costas Arkolakis (2014), 'Trade and the topography of the spatial economy', Quarterly journal of economics, 129 (3), June, 1085-140 -- 28. Thomas J. Holmes (2011), 'The diffusion of Wal-Mart and economies of density', Econometrica, 79 (1), January, 253-302.
    Abstract: "This inspiring collection compiles the most essential papers encompassing agglomeration economies. Agglomeration economies are manifested in cities and industry clusters shaping the neighborhoods and the regions that contain them. The literature is unified around several themes: Improvements in econometric methods and data, geographic scales at which agglomeration economies operate, micro-neighborhoods and mega-regions. The volume also uncovers the forces driving the field including labor markets, input markets and dynamic phenomena such as innovation, technology change and growth. Prefaced by an original introduction from the editor, this collection promises to be a useful tool for scholars as well as a fascinating read to those interested in the subject area"--
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781783476299
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (496 pages)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Freeman, Gary P Handbook on migration and social policy
    DDC: 304.8
    Keywords: Social policy ; Emigration and immigration
    Abstract: In this comprehensive Handbook, an interdisciplinary team of distinguished scholars from the social sciences explores the connections between migration and social policy. They test conflicting claims as to the positive and negative effects of different types of migration against the experience of countries in Europe, North America, Australasia, the Middle East and South Asia, assessing arguments as to migration's impact on the financial, social and political stability and sustainability of social programs. The volume reflects the authors' curiosity about the controversy over the connection between social and cultural diversity and popular support for the welfare state. Providing timely and original chapters which both critique the existing literature as well as build on and advance theoretical understanding, the authors focus on the formal settlement and integration polices created for migrants as well as corollary state policies affecting migrants and migration. A clutch of chapters investigates the linkage between migration and trade theory, foreign direct investment, globalization, public opinion, public education and welfare programs. Chapters then deal with leading receiving states as well as India and the authors examine the regulation of migration at the subnational, national, regional and global levels. The topic of migration and security is also covered. This compelling and exhaustive review of existing scholarship and state-of -the-art original empirical analysis is essential reading for graduates and academics researching the field. In this comprehensive Handbook, an interdisciplinary team of distinguished scholars from the social sciences explores the connections between migration and social policy. They test conflicting claims as to the positive and negative effects of different types of migration against the experience of countries in Europe, North America, Australasia, the Middle East and South Asia, assessing arguments as to migration's impact on the financial, social and political stability and sustainability of social programs. The volume reflects the authors' curiosity about the controversy over the connection between social and cultural diversity and popular support for the welfare state. Providing timely and original chapters which both critique the existing literature as well as build on and advance theoretical understanding, the authors focus on the formal settlement and integration polices created for migrants as well as corollary s ...
    Abstract: Pt. I. New analytical perspectives -- pt. II. The political economy of migration -- pt. III. Trade offs between immigration and social policy -- pt. IV. Opposition to immigration, security and the limits to free movement in the European union -- pt. V. Diversity, social cohesion and support for the welfare state -- pt. VI. Migrant integration and social policy -- pt. VII. Immigrant rights vs. immigration politics
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    ISBN: 9781035305612
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 349 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Goodhart, Charles A. E., 1936 - The challenge of financial stability
    Keywords: Monetary policy ; Finance, Public
    Abstract: The achievement of financial stability is one of the most pressing issues today. This timely and innovative book provides an analytical framework to assess financial (in)stability as an equilibrium phenomenon compatible with the orderly functioning of a modern market economy. The authors expertly show how good regulatory policy can be implemented and that its effects on the real as well as the nominal side of the economy can be properly analysed. The core of their approach is to take realistic account of the interaction between endogenous default, agent heterogeneity and money and liquidity, and suggest how a quantifiable metric of financial fragility could be developed. This insightful book will serve as a basis for future work on financial stability management for both academics and policy-makers and provide guidance on how to undertake crisis prevention and resolution
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction / Charles A.E. Goodhart and Dimitrios P. Tsomocos -- Part I: Overview -- 2. 'Analysis of financial stability', / Charles A.E. Goodhart and Dimitrios P. Tsomocos in Pierre L. Siklos, Martin T. Bohl and Mark E. Bohar (eds), Challenges in Central Banking: The Current Institutional Environment and Forces Affecting Monetary Policy, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp.121-45 -- 3. 'Evaluation of macroeconomic models for financial stability analysis', / Gunnar Bårdsen, Kjersti-Gro Lindquist and Dimitrios P. Tsomocos, Journal of World Economic Review, 3 (1), January-June 2008, 7-32 -- Part II: Theory -- 4. 'Equilibrium analysis, banking and financial instability', / Dimitrios P. Tsomocos, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 39, 2003, 619-55 -- 5. 'A model to analyse financial fragility', / with Pojanart Sunirand, Economic Theory, 27, 2006, 107-42 -- 6. 'On modelling endogenous default', / Dimitrios P. Tsomocos and Lea Zicchino, OFRC-fe, 2005, 1-19 -- 7. 'Banks, relative performance, and sequential contagion', / with Sudipto Bhattacharya and Pojanart Sunirand, Economic Theory, 32, 2007, 381-98 -- Part III: Applications -- 8. 'A model to analysis financial fragility: Applications', / with Pojanart Sunirand, Journal of Financial Stability, 1, 2004, 1-30 -- 9. 'A risk assessment model for banks', / with Pojanart Sunirand, Annals of Finance, 2, 2006, 1-21 -- 10. 'A time series analysis of financial fragility in the UK banking system', / with Pojanart Sunirand, Annals of Finance, 2, 2006, 1-21 -- 11. 'An equilibrium approach to financial stability analysis: The colombian case', / Agustín Saade, Daniel Osorio and Dairo Estrada, Annals of Finance, 3, 2007, 75-105 -- 12. 'A model of financial fragility', / Kevin James, CCBS, 2006, 1-8 -- Part IV: Liquidity and collateral -- 13. 'Modeling a housing and mortgage crisis', / with Alexandros P. Vardoulakis, Financial Stability, Monetary Policy, and Central Banking, 2010, 215-53 -- 14. State prices, liquidity, and default', / with Raphaël A. Espinoza, Economic Theory, 39, 2009, 177-94 -- Part V: Conclusion -- 15. Conclusion / Charles A.E. Goodhart and Dimitrios P. Tsomocos.
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    ISBN: 9781035305605
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 531 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Goodhart, Charles A. E., 1936 - Financial stability in practice
    Keywords: Bank management ; Monetary policy ; Financial risk management ; Financial security
    Abstract: The maintenance of financial stability is a key objective of monetary policy, but the record of regulators in achieving this has been lamentable in recent years. This failure has been matched by an equivalent inability to establish an appropriate theoretical basis for financial regulation. In this book, the authors demonstrate how to enhance the theory, modelling and practice of such regulation. The main determinant of financial instability is the default of financial institutions. The authors highlight the importance of the appropriate incorporation of default into macro-financial models and its interaction with liquidity. Besides covering the historical development and current stance of financial regulation, the book includes a number of policy-oriented chapters revealing how the authors' modelling approach can improve the process. This authoritative book will serve as a basis for future work on financial stability management for both academics and policy-makers and provide guidance on how to undertake crisis prevention and resolution
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction / Charles A.E. Goodhart and Dimitrios P. Tsomocos -- Part I: The development of financial regulation -- 2. 'Financial supervision from an historical perspective: Was the development of such supervision designed, or largely accidental?' / Charles A.E. Goodhart, in David Mayes and Geoffrey E. Wood (eds), The Structure of Financial Regulation, London, Routledge, 2007, pp.43-64 -- 3. 'The rationale for regulation' -- / charles goodhart, philipp hartmann, david llewellyn, liliana rojas-suárez and steven weisbrod, financial regulation: Why, how and where now?, London: Routledge, 1998, pp.1-15 -- 4. 'Some new directions for financial stability?' / C.A.E. Goodhart, in D. Mayes, R. Pringle and M. Taylor (eds), Towards a New Framework for Financial Stability, London: Central Banking, 2009, pp.5-24 -- 5. 'The role of macro-prudential supervision' / paper presented by C.A.E. Goodhart at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Conference on 'Up from the Ashes: The Financial System after the Crisis', May 11/12, 2010, Atlanta, Georgia -- 6. 'How should we regulate the financial sector?', / Charles Goodhart, in Adair Turner, Andrew Haldane, Paul Woolley, Sushil Wadhwani, Charles Goodhart, Andrew Smithers, Andrew Large, John Kay, Martin Wolf, Peter Boone, Simon Johnson and Richard Layard (eds), The Future of Finance: The LSE Report, London: School of Economics & Political Science, 2010, pp.153-76 -- Part II: Modelling -- 7. 'A model to analyse financial fragility', / Charles A.E. Goodhart and Lea Zicchino, Financial Stability Review, June 2005, 106-15 -- 8. 'Equilibrium analysis, banking, contagion and financial fragility' / Dimitrios P. Tsomocos, Working Paper 175, Bank of England, 2003, 1,3,5,7-59 -- 9. 'The optimal monetary instrument for prudential purposes', / with P. Sunirand, Journal of Financial Stability, 7, 2011, 70-77 -- 10. 'On dividend restrictions and the collapse of the interbank market' / with M.U. Peiris and A.P. Vardoulakis, Annals of Finance, 6 (4), 2010, 455-73 -- Part III: Measurement -- 11. 'Towards a measure of financial fragility' / with Oriol Aspachs and Lea Zicchino, Annals of Finance, 3 (1), 2007, 37-74 -- 12. 'Searching for a metric for financial stability' / with O. Aspachs, M. Segoviano and L. Zicchino, Financial Markets Group Special Paper 167, London School of Economics, 2006 -- 13. 'Banking stability measures' / Miguel A. Segoviano and Charles Goodhart, IMF Working Paper, WP/09/4, January 2009, 1-54 -- 14. 'Default, credit growth and asset prices' / C.A.E. Goodhart, Boris Hofmann and M. Segoviano, in Charles Goodhart and Boris Hofmann (eds), House Prices and the Macroeconomy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp.145-72 -- Part IV: Capital requirements and procyclicality -- 15. 'Procyclicality and the new basel accord - banks' choice of loan rating system' / Eva Catarineu-Rabell, Patricia Jackson and Dimitrios P. Tsomocos, Economic Theory, 26 (3), 2005, 537-57 -- 16. 'Basel and procyclicality: A comparison of the standardised and irb approaches to an improved credit risk method' / C.A.E. Goodhart and M. Segoviano, Financial Markets Group Discussion Paper 524, London School of Economics, 2004 -- 17. 'procyclicality and volatility in the financial system: The implementation of basel ii and ias 39' / Ashley Taylor and Charles Goodhart, in Stefan Gerlach and Paul Gruenwald (eds), Procyclicality of Financial Systems in Asia, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp.9-37 -- 18. 'Is a less pro-cyclical financial system an achievable goal?', / Charles Goodhart, National Institute Economic Review, 211 (1), 2010, R17-R26 -- Part V: The structural organisation of supervision -- 19. 'The organizational structure of banking supervision' / C.A.E. Goodhart, Economic Notes, 31 (1), 2002, 1-41, 43, 45-6 -- 20. 'The skill profile of central bankers and supervisors' / Charles Goodhart, Dirk Schoenmaker and Paolo Dasgupta, European Finance Review, 6, 2002, 397-427 -- 21. 'The changing role of central banks' / C.A.E. Goodhart, BIS Working Paper 326, 2010, 1-16 -- Part VI: Conclusion -- 22. Conclusion / Charles A.E. Goodhart and Dimitrios P. Tsomocos.
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    ISBN: 9781035305742
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Governance by evaluation for sustainable development
    Keywords: Sustainable development ; Environmental education ; Decision making
    Abstract: This path-breaking book provides balanced and comprehensive coverage of current research and practice on the role of evaluation in supporting governance for sustainable development and learning. This accessible study draws lessons from how evaluation studies and evaluation systems advance the agendas of sustainable development and good governance. Such studies open up decision-making processes to stakeholders, supporting evidence-based, coherent and transparent decision-making, integrating concerns of the three domains of sustainable development into decision-making and supporting learning and capacity building. It assesses how political-administrative realities affect the design and use of evaluation studies as well as the institutionalization of monitoring and evaluation systems. The contributors expertly review recent European experience with evaluation at the EU, national, regional and local levels which will appeal to researchers specializing in regional, political and sustainability sciences and practitioners in the area of policy/program evaluation and sustainable development
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Governance for sustainable development, evaluation and learning: An Introduction / Michal Sedlacko and André Martinuzzi -- Part I: Learning through evaluation -- 2. The politics of sustainability evaluation: Analysis of three austrian strategies for sustainable development / Michael Pregernig, Karl Hogl and Ralf Nordbeck -- 3. Tools for learning-oriented environmental appraisal / Måns Nilsson -- Part II: Institutionalising sd concerns in European policy making -- 4. Integrating sustainable development into impact assessment: How effective is the European commission? / Jennifer Franz and Colin Kirkpatrick -- 5. Monitoring the expected impacts of the 7th EU framework programme on sustainable development - a case study on governance by evaluation / André -- Martinuzzi -- 6. From a European court of auditors' report to a learning process? The challenge to integrate the environment into the european community's development assistance / Axel Johannes Olearius, Iola Leal Riesco and Sally Nicholson -- Part III: Dealing with multi-stakeholder contexts -- 7. Evaluation of public participation towards sustainable water management: An institutional perspective / Gül Özerol -- 8. Dynamic decision analysis for monitoring and facilitating the dutch costa due stakeholder dialogue on sustainable energy / Kirsten Hollaender and Frans Stokman -- 9. Participatory livelihoods system appraisal: A learning-oriented methodology for impact assessment / Martin Strele -- 10. Towards a process for eliciting criteria weights and enhancing capacity of stakeholders in ex ante evaluation of climate policies / Stelios Grafakos, Dimitrios Zevgolis and Vlasis Oikonomou -- Part IV: Developing learning capacity in organisations -- 11. Assessment of outcome mapping as a tool for evaluating and monitoring support to civil society organisations / Steve Powell, Joakim Molander and Ivona Čelebičić -- 12. Development of a learning-oriented monitoring system for sustainable agriculture chain development in eastern indonesia / Steff Deprez -- 13. Process monitoring of impacts and its application in structural fund programmes / Richard Hummelbrunner -- 14. Participatory ex ante evaluation of long-term infrastructure plans as a policy-learning process / Eckhard Störmer and Bernhard Truffer -- Part V: Reflecting evaluation tools: Perspectives and pitfalls -- 15. The role of visualisation within sustainability evaluation processes / Harald Wilfing and Ulrike Bechtold -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035305773
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (400 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Organizational change Economic aspects ; Technological innovations Environmental aspects ; Organizational change Environmental aspects
    Abstract: In today's globalised world, modern society is characterized by rapid transitions in space that are in part the result of technological developments of previous decades. This unique book deals with the complex issues raised by these transformations, focusing particularly on the impacts on regional development, technological innovation, and the flows and mobility of ideas, knowledge, people and firms. Societies in Motion examines the dynamic forces of technological and institutional change that are affecting the design of society, the economy and the environment, and provides a base for policy-makers to develop new systems for a better, more sustainable future. The leading contributors adopt a systems approach to mobility exploring knowledge, ideas, flows of information and creativity, human capital and transportation. Authoritative and detailed, this book is an ideal source of analysis and debate for research scholars and students of regional science, economics and geography. Policymakers will also find plenty of invaluable information in this original volume
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Introduction / Amnon Frenkel, Peter Nijkamp and Philip McCann -- Part I: Regional development -- 1. The spatial consequences of autarky in land-use regulation: Strategic interaction or simply parallelism? / Paavo Monkkonen and John M. Quigley -- 2. Intra-urban mobility and changing density functions in tel aviv, 1995-2006 / Daniel Felsenstein and Shlomie Hazam -- 3. The role of monetary and financial factors in regional development: An overview / Masagus M. Ridhwan, Peter Nijkamp, Piet Rietveld and Henri L.F. de Groot -- Part II: Industrial innovation -- 4. Spatial mobility of firms / Piet H. Pellenbarg and Joris Knoben -- 5. The location of knowledge economy and high-tech in Israel / Dafna Schwartz, Gil Avnimelech and Raphael Bar-El -- 6. University-industry technology transfer: Fostering and hindering factors and programmes / Amnon Frenkel and Daniel Shefer -- Part III: Human capital, migration and labour force -- 7. The effect of asset and credit constraint on interregional labour migration / Patricio Aroca, Geoffrey J.D. Hewings and Michael Sonis -- 8. Circular statistics, migration models and the directionality of job search processes / Alessandra Faggian, Jonathan Corcoran and Philip McCann -- 9. Commuting and migration: Can they be complementary? / Raphael Bar-El and Miki Malul -- 10. Globalisation, the ceecs and European policy / Daniela Constantin, Zizi Goschin and Philip McCann -- 11. Spatial filtering methods for tracing space-time developments in an open regional system: Experiments with German unemployment data / Roberto Patuelli, Daniel A. Griffith, Michael Tiefelsdorf and Peter Nijkamp -- Part IV: Spatial mobility -- 12. The role of computing in urban travel forecasting: How transportation planning practice shaped software, and software impacted transportation planning practice / David Boyce and Hillel Bar-Gera -- 13. Sustainable transportation development and travel behavior / Yoram Shiftan and Daniel Shefer -- 14. Reinventing the wheel: Planning the rail network to meet the mobility needs of the 21st century / Moshe Givoni and David Banister -- 15. Are urban transportation benefits absorbed fully by land values? / Haim Aviram and Daniel Shefer -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035305759
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 595 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Aldrich, Howard E., 1943 - An evolutionary approach to entrepreneurship
    DDC: 338/.04
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship
    Abstract: This much-needed book draws together Howard Aldrich's key contribution to entrepreneurship research over recent decades. In an original introduction, the author first lays out the evolutionary approach, examining the assumptions and principles of 'selection logic' that drive evolutionary explanations. The book then expands on evolutionary theory as applied to entrepreneurship, emphasizing the role of historical and comparative analysis before focusing on the importance of social networks, particularly as they affect the genesis of entrepreneurial teams. Professor Aldrich takes a strategic approach to the creation of new organizational populations and communities, using examples from the commercialization of the Internet and the collapse of the Internet bubble. The book then presents his contributions to gender and family, offering a 'family embeddedness' perspective before focusing on the implications of entrepreneurship for stratification and inequality in modern societies, combining an evolutionary with a life course perspective. Finally, he concludes the book with another original essay, reflecting on future directions for entrepreneurship research. This mix of groundbreaking papers that introduced new concepts into the entrepreneurship literature will prove invaluable to scholars - graduate students and faculty members - interested in research on entrepreneurship. Professors of entrepreneurship and strategy as well as academics teaching organizational sociology courses will also find plenty of invaluable information in this important resource
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. 'Who wants to be an evolutionary theorist?, journal of management inquiry, 10 (2), 2001, 115-27 -- Part II: Theory -- 2. 'Ethnicity and entrepreneurship', annual review of sociology, 16, 1990, 111-35 / (with R. Waldinger) -- 3. 'The accidental entrepreneur: Campbellian antinomies and organizational foundings', in joel a.c. Baum and bill mckelvey (eds), variations in organization science: Essays in honor of donald t. Campbell, 1999, 19-33 / (with A.L. Kenworthy) -- 4. 'Lost in space, out of time: Why and how we should study organizations comparatively', in brayden king, teppo felin and david whetten (eds), studying differences between organizations: Comparative approaches to organizational research, research in the sociology of organizations, 26, 2009, 21-44 -- 5. 'Beam me up, scott(ie)! Institutional theorists' struggles with the emergent nature of entrepreneurship', in wesley d. Sine and robert j. David (eds), institutions and entrepreneurship, research in the sociology of work, 21, 2010, 329-64 -- Part III: Social networks -- 6. 'Entrepreneurship through social networks', in donald sexton and raymond smilor (eds), the art and science of entrepreneurship, 1986, 3-23 / (with C. Zimmer) -- 7. 'Personal and extended networks are central to the entrepreneurial process', journal of business venturing, 6 (5), 1991, 305-13 / (with P. Dubini) -- 8. 'Strong ties, weak ties, and strangers: Do women owners differ from men in their use of networking to obtain assistance?', in sue birley and ian macmillan (eds), entrepreneurship in a global context, 1997, 1-25 / (with A.B. Elam and P.R. Reese) -- 9. 'The structure of founding teams: Homophily, strong ties, and isolation among u.s. Entrepreneurs', American sociological review, 68 (2), 2003, 195-222 / (with M. Ruef and N.M. Carter) -- 10. 'Mixing or matching? The influence of voluntary associations on the occupational diversity and density of small business owners' networks', work & occupations, 33 (1), 2006, 42-72 / (with A.E. Davis and L.A. Renzulli) -- 11. 'Small worlds, infinite possibilities? How social networks affect entrepreneurial team formation and search', strategic entrepreneurship journal, 1 (1), 2007, 147-65 / (with P.H. Kim) -- Part IV: Strategy -- 12. 'Even dwarfs started small: Liabilities of age and size and their strategic implications' in barry staw and l.l. Cummings (eds), research in organizational behavior, 8, 1986, 165-98 / (with E.R. Auster) -- 13. 'Resources, environmental change, and survival: Asymmetric paths of young independent and subsidiary organizations', strategic management journal, 32 (5), 2011, 486-509 / (with S.W. Bradley, D.A. Shepherd and J. Wiklund) -- 14. 'Fools rush in? The institutional context of industry creation', academy of management review, 19 (4), 1994, 645-70 / (with C.M. Fiol) -- 15. 'The second ecology: Creation and evolution of organizational communities', in barry staw and l.l. Cummings (eds), research in organizational behavior, 20, 1998, 267-301 / (with C.S. Hunt) -- 16. 'Acquiring competence at a distance: Application service providers as a hybrid organizational form', the journal of international entrepreneurship, 1 (1), 2003, 103-19 / (with A. Fortune) -- Part V: Gender and family -- 17. 'Invisible entrepreneurs: The neglect of women business owners by mass media and scholarly journals in the usa', entrepreneurship & regional development, 9 (3), 1997, 221-38 / (with T. Baker and N. Liou) -- 18. 'Family matters: Gender, networks, and entrepreneurial outcomes', social forces, 79 (2), 2000, 523-46 / (with L.A. Renzulli and J. Moody) -- 19. 'The pervasive effects of family on entrepreneurship: Toward a family embeddedness perspective', journal of business venturing, 18 (5), 2003, 573-96 / (with J.E. Cliff) -- Part VI: Stratification and inequality -- 20. 'Passing on privilege: Resources provided by self-employed parents to their self-employed children', in kevin leicht (ed), research in social stratification and mobility, 16, 1998, 291-318 / (with L.A. Renzulli and N. Langton) -- 21. 'A life course perspective on occupational inheritance: Self-employed parents and their children', in martin ruef and michael lounsbury (eds), the sociology of entrepreneurship, research in the sociology of organizations, 25, 2007, 33-82 / (with P.H. Kim) -- 22. 'Access (not) denied: The impact of financial, human, and cultural capital on entrepreneurial entry in the United States', small business economics, 27, 2006, 5-22 / (with P.H. Kim and L.A. Keister) -- 23. 'Entrepreneurship and inequality', in lisa a. Keister (ed), entrepreneurship: Research in the sociology of work, 15, 2005, 3-31 / (with S. Lippmann and A. Davis) -- Part VII: Conclusion -- 24. Conclusions and further reflections.
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    ISBN: 9781035305704
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (v, 177 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Organizing in the face of risk and threat
    DDC: 658.4056
    Keywords: Organizational behavior ; Industrial organization ; Risk management ; Crisis management
    Abstract: Barbara Czarniawska is a distinguished scholar and author in the field of organization. Drawing on her extensive knowledge she has gathered together other leading experts to apply organization theory to yet another relevant field of practice - risk management. There are no prescriptions for organizing in the face of risk and threat, but the accumulating experience shows that a well-rehearsed improvisation brings much better results than planning and construction of formal organizations. This timely book contains cases of risk and threat where the former strategy succeeds and the latter fails. The wealth of cases presented includes the Marburg virus outbreak in Angola, bird flu, health insurance after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and the Tjörn bridge catastrophe in Sweden. Graduate and postgraduate students in business and management schools, as well as academics teaching courses in risk management across disciplines should not be without this book. Risk management specialists will also find this book invaluable
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction: Action nets / Barbara Czarniawska -- 2. Risk and organizing - the growth of a research field / Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist -- 3. Marburg virus, or a story of preparedness / Andreas Diedrich -- 4. Bird flu - threat or opportunity? / Kajsa Lindberg -- 5. Welfare services - an area for risk management? / Lars Norén -- 6. Adventure tourism: Making risk safe / Eva Gustavsson -- 7. A net of actions in the tracks of storm gudrun / David Renemark -- 8. The tjörn bridge catastrophe - on building a new bridge out of an old one / Lars Walter -- 9. Small time breaks / Tobias Engberg -- 10. The aesthetic threat / Peter Zackariasson -- 11. Conclusions: Plans or well-practiced improvisations? / Barbara Czarniawska -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-175) and index , Translated from the Swedish
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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
    Keywords: Economic value added ; Strategic planning ; Technological innovations Management ; Creative ability in business ; New products Decision making
    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: 9781035305681
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 482 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Salzberger, Thomas Measurement in marketing research
    DDC: 658.83
    Keywords: Marketing research Methodology ; Rasch models
    Abstract: Measurement in Marketing Research investigates latent variables in marketing, focusing on current paradigms as well as recently suggested alternative concepts. The book proposes a unified scientific definition of measurement that allows for testing the hypothesis of the real existence of a latent variable. Thomas Salzberger analyses current measurement approaches in terms of their compliance with the scientific requirements of measurement. He reaches the conclusion that the predominantly applied practices, to a varying extent, suffer from substantial shortcomings, and suggests an alternative framework of measurement based on the philosophy of Rasch modelling. In the Rasch model great importance is attached to the mathematical principles of measurements, which take precedence over 'flexibility' in terms of accommodating idiosyncrasies of the data. The Rasch model promises to narrow the gap between the quality of measurement in the natural sciences and in the social sciences. The future of measurement in marketing is about to be set. This book aims to raise researchers' awareness of measurement issues and to contribute to a transfer of knowledge from psychometrics into marketing research. Marketing researchers and postgraduate students will find this book invaluable
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Quantitative research in marketing -- 2. Contemporary measurement in marketing research -- 3. New contributions on measurement in marketing -- 4. The requirements of measurement -- 5. A new agenda of measurement in marketing -- 6. Scientific and practical marketing research -- 7. Empirical examples -- 8. Conclusions and discussion -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035305599
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxi, 354 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The economics of digital markets
    DDC: 338.761004
    Keywords: Information technology Economic aspects ; Computer software industry
    Abstract: This innovative book provides state-of-the-art analyses of the current condition of the economics of digital markets. The most recent developments in web technology are evolving, creating an increasingly deregulated environment. Much of the impetus for liberalisation is in response to multimedia convergence and the globalisation of markets, leading to uncertainties in the sector. Gary Madden and Russel Cooper examine the microeconomics of platform structure and firm competition within and between digital markets, modern theoretical treatments of regulatory intervention in digital markets and the consideration of forward-looking experimental analysis of demand for yet-to-be provided services. Bringing together a highly focused group of eminent scholars, this book will appeal to academics, postgraduate students, and both international treaty and national government agencies as well as market analysts
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Policy towards standardisation in wireless telecommunications / Luís M.B. Cabral and David Salant -- 2. Assembling platforms: Strategy and competition / Eric Brousseau and Thierry Pénard -- 3. Fines, damages and the technological protection of information goods / Claude Crampes, Abraham Hollander and Charbel Macdissi -- 4. Vertical relationships and horizontal mergers in the internet / Edmond Baranes and Thomas Cortade -- 5. Strategic commitments and the principle of reciprocity in interconnection pricing / Nicholas Economides, Giuseppe Lopomo and Glenn Woroch -- 6. International sourcing in European telecommunications: Capability development and resource interactions / Carsten Zimmermann, Philipp Zimmermann and Dieter Lange -- 7. Network economic externalities in the media and telecommunications industries / Armando Calabrese, Massimo Gastaldi and Nathan Levialdi Ghiron -- 8. Forecasting ict business markets: A simultaneous equation modelling approach / Moshen Hamoudia and Miriam Scaglione -- 9. A demand system approach to network technology expenditure forecasting with short time-series / Russel Cooper and Gary Madden -- 10. Estimating wireless-only household penetration: A local perspective / Paul Rappoport, James Alleman and Lester Taylor -- 11. Korean mobile number policy and provider switching behaviour / Moon-Koo Kim, Jong-Hyun Park and Kyoung-Yong Jee -- 12. The economic impact of alternative interconnection arrangements among network operators / Livio Cricelli, Michele Grimaldi and Nathan Levialdi Ghiron -- 13. Access-usage complementarity, the waterbed effect and mobile termination charges regulation / Aniruddha Banerjee -- 14. Network neutrality and its potential impact on digital content platforms / Rob Frieden -- 15. Technological advance and the changing structure of transnational standards organisations / D. Linda Garcia and Madhura K. Kale -- 16. Municipal broadband internet initiatives: Lessons from us history / Carol Ting -- 17. Network neutrality: Theory and practice / Gerald R. Faulhaber -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035306152
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (304 pages)
    Series Statement: New horizons in regional science series
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Migration and human capital
    Keywords: Migration, Internal ; Emigration and immigration Economics aspects ; Emigration and immigration Political aspects
    Abstract: Throughout the world, migration is an increasingly important and diverse component of population change, both at national and sub-national levels. Migration impacts on the distribution of knowledge and generates externalities and spillover effects. This book focuses on recent models and methods for analysing and forecasting migration, as well as on the basic trends, driving factors and institutional settings behind migration processes. Migration and Human Capital also looks at many current policy issues regarding migration, such as the creative class in metropolitan areas, the brain drain, regional diversity, population ageing, illegal immigration, ethnic networks and immigrant assimilation. With specific reference to Europe and North America, the book reviews and applies models of internal migration; analyses the spatial concentration of human capital; considers migration in a family context; and addresses the political economy of international migration. This book will be invaluable for researchers and policy makers in the fields of internal and international migration. It provides up-to-date readings for advanced courses that focus on migration and population change in a global context
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Introduction and overview -- 1. Migration in a globalised world: A new paradigm / Jacques Poot, Brigitte Waldorf and Leo van Wissen -- Part II: Internal migration -- 2. Inter-regional migration modelling: A review / John Stillwell -- 3. In search of a modelling strategy for projecting internal migration in European countries / Leo van Wissen, Nicole van der Gaag, Phil Rees and John Stilwell -- 4. Internal migration between us states: A social network analysis / Gunther Maier and Michael Vyborny -- Part III: Human capital -- 5. Regional concentration of highly educated couples / Signe Jauhiainen -- 6. The emergence of a knowledge agglomeration: A spatial-temporal analysis of intellectual capital in Indiana / Brigitte Waldorf -- 7. Knowledge spillovers: Mobility of highly educated workers within the high technology sector in Finland / Kirsi Mukkala -- 8. Rural-urban income disparities among the highly educated / Audrey Muhlenkamp and Brigitte Waldorf -- Part IV: International migration -- 9. The impact of immigration on the employment of natives in regional labour markets: A meta-analysis / Simonetta Longhi, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot -- 10. Ethnic network externalities and labour market integration / Thomas de Graaff, Cees Gorter, Henri L.F. de Groot and Peter Nijkamp -- 11. International economic integration and migration: The case of Romania / Daniela L. Constantin, Valentina Vasile, Diana Preda and Luminita Nicolescu -- 12. Migration policies, illegal immigration and the underground economy / Jesús Clemente, Gemma Larramona and Fernando Pueyo -- 13. Brain drains, brain gains and migration policies / Natasha T. Duncan -- Index.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 384 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Mazzarol, Tim, 1957 - The strategy of small firms
    Keywords: Small business Management ; Strategic planning ; Business planning ; Organizational effectiveness
    Abstract: Throughout the book, the authors offer a conceptual framework supported by original case study data to explain how and why a small firm should approach strategic planning, the forces influencing the planning process, and the nexus between innovation and planning. The majority of all businesses throughout the world are small firms, which play a crucial role in the growth of the world's economies. Tim Mazzarol and Sophie Reboud address questions such as: what is the value of planning for small firms, and how should these firms approach strategic planning? This book provides an in-depth analysis of the theory and conceptual frameworks associated with planning and strategy in small firms. It also explores key issues linked with why and how small firms should plan and the benefits they gain. This timely book will be invaluable to academics, postgraduate research students and professional advisors working in the field of small business management and entrepreneurship. Supported by original research and comprehensive key theories, entrepreneurs and practicing managers with an interest in understanding the foundations of planning and strategy will find this book of great importance to them
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The conceptual structure of the book -- 3. A review of the literature Part 1 -- 4. A review of the literature Part 2 -- 5. Entrepreneur versus owner-manager -- 6. The strategic myopia of small firms -- 7. The strategic management process -- 8. Strategic options for small firms -- 9. Innovation as competitive advantage -- 10. Applying the innovation framework -- 11. Strategic networks and outsiders -- 12. Managing the strategic triangle -- References -- Index.
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035305247
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 400 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Purchasing power parities of currencies
    Keywords: Purchasing power parity
    Abstract: This up-to-date book demonstrates how the purchasing power parities (PPPs) of currencies are being increasingly used in place of exchange rates for a variety of purposes. These include: comparisons of real income, measurements of global inequality and poverty, calculation of the human development index and assessment of nations economic performance. Despite the increasing popularity of PPPs, many users have very little appreciation of the data and methods used in their derivation. This timely monograph brings together a number of significant contributions from leading researchers in the field, offering a comprehensive review of the latest methods used in the construction and application of PPPs. The authors provide a broad overview of the current state-of-the-art both in terms of techniques as well as current practice with various international organisations. Given the increasing application of PPPs in this truly globalised world, this book will be a stimulating read for researchers and academics involved in international comparisons and development economics, general economists and economist statisticians
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- / d.s. Prasada rao -- 2. The compilation of purchasing power parities: The eurostat-oecd purchasing power parity programme -- / david roberts -- Part II: System methods for ppp computation -- 3. Aggregation methods in international comparisons: An evaluation / Bert Balk -- 4. Generalised eltetö-köves-szulc and country-product-dummy methods for international comparisons / D.S. Prasada Rao -- 5. True international income comparisons correcting for substitution bias / Steve Dowrick -- 6. Additivity, matrix consistency and a new method for international comparisons of real income and purchasing power parities / Itsuo Sakuma, D.S. Prasada Rao and Yoshimasa Kurabayashi -- 7. Implicit data structures and properties of selected additive indices / James Cuthbert -- Part III: Methods for spatial linking and analysis of price structures -- 8. Similarity Indexes and criteria for spatial linking / Erwin Diewert -- 9. Comparing per capita income levels across countries using spanning trees: Robustness, prior restrictions, hybrids and hierarchies / Robert Hill -- 10. Chaining methods for international real product and purchasing power comparisons: Issues and alternatives / Bettina Aten and Alan Heston -- 11. Aggregation methods based on structural international prices -- / sergey sergeev -- Part IV: Applications -- 12. Purchasing power parities and their policy relevance / Michael Ward -- 13. Purchasing power parity adjustments for productivity level comparisons / Bart van Ark and Marcel Timmer -- 14. Ppps and the price competitiveness of international tourism destinations / Larry Dwyer, Peter Forsyth and D.S. Prasada Rao -- Index.
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  • 80
    ISBN: 9781035305629
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 332 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Twenty-first century macroeconomics
    Keywords: Economic development Environmental aspects ; Macroeconomics ; Global warming
    Abstract: The authors and editors of this book challenge traditional assumptions about economic growth, and develop the elements of a reoriented macroeconomics that takes account both of environmental impacts and social equity. Policies including carbon trading, revenue recycling, and reorientation of private and social investment are analyzed, providing insight into new paths for economic development with flat or negative carbon emissions. These issues will be crucial to macroeconomic and development policies in the twenty-first century. What are the likely economic effects of climate change? What are the costs of substantial action to avert climate change? What economic policies can be effective in responding to climate change? The debate has broad implications for public policy. However, it also raises fundamental questions about economic analysis itself, and moves issues of environmental policy from the microeconomic to the macroeconomic level. Taking global climate change seriously requires a re-examination of macroeconomic goals. Economic growth has been closely linked to expanded use of energy, primarily fossil fuels. The assumption of continuing economic growth, in turn, leads economists to discount future costs, including the generational impacts of climate change. Challenging conventional concepts of growth implies different development paths both for rich and poor nations. This volume brings together contributions from scholars around the world to address these issues. Scholars, researchers and students of economics and development studies along with policymakers and non-governmental organizations will find this insightful book of great interest
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction / Jonathan M. Harris and Neva R. Goodwin -- Part I: The scope of the challenge -- 1. Understanding the challenge of global warming / Lloyd J. Dumas -- 2. The new climate economics: The stern review versus its critics / Frank Ackerman -- 3. Economics and climate change: Resilience, equity, and sustainability / Neva R. Goodwin -- 4. The right to development in a climate-constrained world / Paul Baer, Tom Athanasiou and Sivan Kartha -- Part II: Macroeconomic theory perspectives -- 5. The economic fundamentals of global warming / Duncan K. Foley -- 6. Energy productivity, labor productivity, and global warming / Lance Taylor -- 7. Macroeconomics and sustainable development: Applying the sustainomics framework / Mohan Munasinghe -- 8. Ecological macroeconomics: Consumption, investment and climate change / Jonathan M. Harris -- Part III: Policy options for responding to climate change -- 9. Cap and dividend: How to curb global warming while promoting income equity / James K. Boyce and Matthew Riddle -- 10. Policies for funding a response to climate change / Brian Roach -- 11. The new EU emissions trading scheme: A blueprint for the global carbon market? / Christian Egenhofer -- 12. Implementation of sustainable development in Poland / Andrzej Kassenberg -- 13. Climate change from the investor's perspective / Adam Seitchik -- Index.
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  • 81
    ISBN: 9781035305414
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (400 pages)
    Series Statement: New horizons in regional science series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Technological change and mature industrial regions
    Keywords: Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Technological innovations Political aspects
    Abstract: Technological Change and Mature Industrial Regions explicitly adopts an inter-disciplinary approach to analysing the structural transformation of mature regions. The major focus of the book is from an economics perspective, but it also employs sociological analyses, business history approaches and technological analyses. It critically considers the identification and development of regional capabilities and regional policy initiatives for mature industrial areas in the context of globalisation and technological change. Specific cases from a range of different countries help to distinguish which aspects of mature regions' technology, knowledge or structure are region-specific, and which are more generally applicable to mature industrial regions throughout the world. The book will prove to be invaluable for academic researchers as well as government and policy communities
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I: Mature regions: Technology, society and industrial structure -- 1. The problems of mature regions: An Introduction and overview / Mahtab Akhavan Farshchi, Odile E.M. Janne and Philip McCann -- 2. Regional capabilities and industrial regeneration / Nick von Tunzelmann -- 3. Multinational firms and technological innovation: The 'global versus local' challenge / Simona Iammarino, Odile E.M. Janne and Philip McCann -- 4. Interdependence among the Brazilian states: An input-output approach / Fernando Salgueiro Perobelli, Eduardo Amaral Haddad and Edson Paulo Domingues -- 5. The changing structure of trade and interdependence in a mature economy: The us midwest / Geoffrey J.D. Hewings and John B. Parr -- 6. Mature industries and declining regions: An analysis of the Spanish case / Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal -- Part II: Mature region-industry case studies -- 7. Birmingham's marshallian knowledge: A constraining geo-historical context for domestic saloon manufacturers? / Peter Clark -- 8. Life after longbridge? Crisis and restructuring in the west midlands auto cluster / David Bailey and Seiji Kobayashi -- 9. Massachusetts medical devices: Leveraging the region's capabilities / Michael H. Best -- 10. Economic restructuring, regional 'visioning' and the role of universities: The outcomes of an automobile plant closure in southern adelaide, australia / Andrew Beer and Holli Thomas -- 11. Maturity or decline of Italian industrial districts / Ivana Paniccia -- 12. Knowledge spillovers and industrial transformation: The west midlands and saxony automotive clusters / Odile E.M. Janne and Mahtab Akhavan Farshchi -- Part III: Regional policy and mature industrial regions -- 13. A cost-benefit approach to the assessment of regional policy / J. Kim Swales -- 14. Regional policies in Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom: A shift in paradigm? / Ilaria Mariotti -- 15. Innovation policy after the 'celtic tiger' / Declan Jordan and Eoin O'Leary -- 16. Grants and the location of foreign direct investment: Evidence from the UK regions / Colin Wren and Jonathan Jones -- 17. Cluster policy implementation and evaluation in Slovenia: Lessons from a transition economy / Anja Cotič Svetina, Marko Jaklič and Hugo Zagorsek -- 18. Lagging regions and policy options: The case of greece in the European context / Yannis Psycharis and George Petrakos -- Index.
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  • 82
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    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
    Keywords: Gold History ; Prices History ; Prices History
    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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  • 83
    ISBN: 9781035305483
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 320 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Doi, Takerō, 1970 - The public sector in Japan
    DDC: 351.52
    Keywords: Public administration
    Abstract: This book provides the reader with the basis for a theoretical understanding of public-sector finance in general - and more specifically, a comprehensive, policy-oriented application of that understanding to Japanese public finance. Particular emphasis is placed upon developing tools which can be used both theoretically and empirically to clarify essential economic concerns in Japan's public sector. These include the macroeconomic incidence of fiscal decentralization, dependence on government bonds for covering fiscal deficits, and social security reform. In analyzing Japan's underperforming public sector, the authors develop and recommend policy solutions aimed at achieving Japan's growth potential, improving the quality of the public sector, and strengthening the sector's contribution to the Japanese economy. Guiding the reader toward an overall understanding of public-sector reforms, decentralization and fiscal policy in Japan, this book will strongly appeal to academics, students and researchers with an interest in modern public finance theory and macroeconomic analysis
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. History of postwar public finance -- 3. The central government budget and fiscal policy -- 4. Aging and intergenerational conflict: Social security benefits and burdens -- 5. Restoring fiscal balance in an aging Japan -- 6. The tax system and its reform -- 7. Local public finance and the soft-budget problem -- 8. Decentralization reform -- 9. The management and sustainability of government debt -- 10. Reform of the public sector -- References -- Index.
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  • 84
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035305636
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 310 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Microfoundations of economic success
    DDC: 338.94798
    Keywords: Estonia Economic conditions 1991- ; Estonia Economic policy 1991-
    Abstract: This book explores the nature of the flexibility of Estonia's rapid growth, that enables it to swiftly seize opportunities and weather crises without undue cost. The distinguished cast of contributors draws upon detailed data on individual firms and households to explore the basis for Estonia's record as the most successful of all the EU accession countries over the last decade. They conclude that much of this accomplishment can be attributed to the greater flexibility of the Estonian economy, both in price setting in employment and wages, and in consumption. The book also reveals that Estonia is able to adjust to shocks more rapidly and with less real impact than other countries. Coupled with a favourable macroeconomic policy and a good institutional structure and legal framework, this indicates that Estonia will be an excellent example to other countries despite the recent downturn. This unique book will be of great interest to researchers and students of the economics of transition, and will prove invaluable to policy-makers and their advisors in both transition countries and the rest of the EU, as well as graduate students studying microeconomics and monetary policy
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword -- 1. The path of transition in Estonia / David G. Mayes and Martti Randveer -- 2. Comparison of pricing behaviour of firms in the euro area and Estonia / Aurelijus Dabusinskas and Martti Randveer -- 3. The principles of wage formation in Estonian companies / Tairi Rõõm and Lenno Uusküla -- 4. Productivity in Estonian enterprises: The role of innovation and competition / Priit Vahter -- 5. Liquidity and productivity shocks: A look at sectoral firm creation / Lenno Uusküla -- 6. A microeconometric analysis of household saving in Estonia: Income, wealth and financial exposure / Dmitry Kulikov, Annika Paabut and Karsten Staehr -- 7. Estimates of employment and welfare effects of personal labour income taxation in a flat-tax country / Karsten Staehr -- 8. Outlook / David G. Mayes and Martti Randveer -- Index.
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  • 85
    ISBN: 9781035305711
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xlii, 209 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Taxation and the promotion of human happiness
    DDC: 336.2001
    Keywords: Taxation
    Abstract: George Warde Norman was a Director of the Bank of England from 1821 to 1872, a key figure behind the Bank Charter Act of 1844, and one of the founders of the Political Economy Club. In 1821 G.W. Norman began an essay on taxation as part of the utilitarian programme. His vision was for increased human happiness through a wholesale reform of the revenue system founded upon direct taxation in the form of a comprehensive property tax. He continued to work on the essay over many years, never losing his faith in the utilitarian ideal or his belief in the property tax solution as the key to fiscal happiness. This book represents G.W. Norman's final thoughts, themselves a manifestation of a significant element in the development of 19th century policy and institutions. This edition of a hitherto unknown work demonstrates the importance of utilitarianism to liberal thinking on taxation. As such, this unique book will appeal to specialists in the history of economic thought and to historians, especially those with an interest in the history of public finance, an area in which G.W. Norman's contribution has been almost entirely overlooked. Providing a new and previously unexploited source, it should also prove to be a fascinating read for postgraduates working in these fields
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Political economy and taxation -- 2. Advantages of taxation -- Part II: Qualities of taxation -- 3. Taxes and other sources of revenue -- 4. Computability -- 5. Simplicity -- 6. Frugality in collection -- 7. Constancy -- 8. Divisibility -- 9. Popularity -- 10. Noninterference -- 11. Equality -- 12. Uncorruptiveness -- 13. Unvexatiousness -- 14. Unevasibility -- Part III: Review of existing or supposed taxes -- 15. Motive influencing the framers of taxes -- 16. General observations on indirect taxes -- 17. Custom house duties -- 18. The excise monopolies -- 19. Taxes on particular classes or persons -- 20. Direct taxes on objects of luxury -- 21. Taxes on travelling and the conveyance of intelligence -- 22. Taxes on justice -- 23. Taxes on the transfer of property, on knowledge, on prudence, on ingenuity, and on health -- 24. Taxes on rent, tythe, land tax -- 25. Continuation of taxes on rent, poor rate, house and window tax -- 26. The poll-tax -- 27. Legacy duty and stamp duty on probates of wills -- 28. The assessed taxes and stamp duties -- 29. Turnpike and bridge tolls, barrières and harbour and light dues -- 30. Taxes on vices -- 31. The income tax in England -- 32. An improved property tax -- 33. Proposals for reform -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages xli-xlii) and index
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  • 86
    ISBN: 9781035305650
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 271 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New directions in modern economics series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Monetary policy and financial stability
    DDC: 332.46
    Keywords: Monetary policy ; Keynesian economics ; Economic policy ; Banks and banking, Central ; Kaleckian Model of Growth and Distribution
    Abstract: This book provides an enlightening glimpse into the deep theoretical traditions of post-Keynesian theory whilst also illuminating the richness and uniqueness of post-Keynesian economic policy. The editors have gathered together leading scholars and researchers to push the boundaries of post-Keynesian thinking. They address a number of important issues dealing with wage determination, income distribution and central bank governance. Many of these chapters share a common theme including a criticism of the usefulness of monetary policy in fighting or targeting inflation and the questions this raises for central bank governance. The book also focuses on open economy issues such as capital flows, globalization, FDI and the Washington Consensus. Monetary Policy and Financial Stability is required reading for students, scholars and researchers of economics, and for policymakers seeking rational alternatives to the current neo-classical orthodoxy
    Description / Table of Contents: Wage bargaining and monetary policy in a Kaleckian monetary distribution and growth model : making sense of the NAIRU / Eckhard Hein -- Price and wage determination and the inflation barrier : moving beyond the Phillips curve / Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer -- Central bank governance, the euthanasia of the rentier and interest rate policy : a note on post-Keynesian monetary policy after Taylor / Louis-Philippe Rochon -- The macroeconomic governance of the European Monetary Union : a Keynesian perspective / Angel Asensio -- Inflation targeting and monetary policy governance : the case of the European Central Bank / Sergio Rossi -- Enforcing the IMF in the global economy : an institutional analysis / Jean-Pierre Allegret and Philippe Dulbecco -- Too much consensus could be harmful : assessing the degree of implementation of stabilization and structural policies and their impact on growth / Eric Berr, François Combarnous and Eric Rougier -- The political economy of global economic disgovernance / Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira -- Tobin, globalization and capital flows / Robert W. Dimand -- The impact of FDI on capital formation : the case of Mexico / Claudia Maya -- Financial liberalization, economic growth and rents / Domenica Tropeano -- The Argentine Jefes program : from a post-financial crisis emergency safety net to a long-run policy promoting development / Corinne Pastoret.
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  • 87
    ISBN: 9781035305674
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 599 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rose, Adam Economics of climate change policy
    DDC: 363738/74
    Keywords: Environmental economics ; Climatic changes Economic aspects ; Global warming Economic aspects ; Carbon dioxide mitigation Economic aspects ; Greenhouse gas mitigation Economic aspects ; Energy policy Economic aspects
    Abstract: This important collection embodies the author's pioneering and on-going efforts to incorporate equity and efficiency principles into the economics of climate change policy. It represents a valuable compendium of work, both previously published and original, the range of which is not otherwise readily accessible. Adam Rose was one of the first both to identify the central role of equity among nations and regions in addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation and to quantify many equity principles so that they could be incorporated into formal models. Comprising classic explorations into GHG emission trading design with respect to burden-sharing, borrowing and banking, and political constraints, the papers contained in this volume provide guidance on coalition choices for individual states of the US and partnership choices for developing countries involved in the Clean Development Mechanism today and in emission allowance trading in the future. The impacts of mitigation policy across industries and socioeconomic groups are also analysed, using computable general equilibrium models to examine the economic implications of carbon taxes, fuel taxes, tradable emission permits, and strict regulation. In addition, the book establishes a firm grounding for policy analysis by providing a basic understanding of the carbon cycle, drivers of GHG emissions, and some economic impacts of climate change. The Economics of Climate Change Policy will be of great interest and value to academics and students of environmental economics and policy and will be welcomed by environmental policy-makers involved in climate change issues at the local, regional, national and international level
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Introduction: A personal, professional and policy odyssey -- Part I: Introduction and overview -- 1. 'Introduction: Nature of the issue and policy options' -- 2. 'What are the options that could significantly affect the North American carbon cycle?' -- 3. 'An international system of tradeable co2 entitlements: Implications for economic development' -- 4. 'Global warming policy: Who decides what is fair?' -- 5. 'Greenhouse gas mitigation action planning: An overview' -- Part II: Greenhouse gas emissions and climate impacts -- 6. 'A greenhouse gas emissions inventory for pennsylvania' -- 7. 'Carbon dioxide emissions in the us economy: A structural decomposition analysis' -- 8. 'Characterizing regional economic impacts and responses to climate change' -- 9. 'Simulating the economic impacts of climate change in the mid-atlantic region' -- 10. 'Global climate change and the value of solar energy in us agriculture' -- Part III: Efficiency considerations in policy design -- 11. 'The efficiency and equity of marketable permits for co2 emissions' -- 12. 'Regrets or no regrets - that is the question: Is conservation a costless co2 mitigation strategy?' -- 13. 'The changing role of transaction costs in the evolution of joint implementation' -- 14. 'An economic analysis of flexible permit trading in the kyoto protocol' -- 15. 'A dynamic analysis of the marketable permits approach to global warming policy: A comparison of spatial and temporal flexibility' -- Part IV: International equity and global cooperation -- 16. 'Reducing conflict in global warming policy: The potential of equity as a unifying principle' -- 17. 'Equity in environmental policy with an application to global warming' -- 18. 'Long-run implications for developing countries of joint implementation of greenhouse gas mitigation' -- 19. 'International equity and differentiation in global warming policy' -- 20. 'Greenhouse gas emissions trading among Pacific rim countries: An analysis of policies to bring developing countries to the bargaining table' -- Part V: National impacts of mitigation policy -- 21. 'Motor-fuel taxes and household welfare: An applied general equilibrium analysis' -- 22. 'Global warming policy, energy, and the Chinese economy' -- 23. 'Greenhouse gas reduction policy in the United States: Identifying winners and losers in an expanded permit trading system' -- 24. 'Interregional burden-sharing of greenhouse gas mitigation in the United States' -- 25. 'Regional carbon dioxide permit trading in the United States: Coalition choices for pennsylvania' -- Part VI: Regional impacts of mitigation policy -- 26. 'Global warming policy and the pennsylvania economy: A computable general equilibrium analysis' -- 27. 'The impact of a carbon tax on the susquehanna river basin economy' -- 28. 'Assessing the impacts of carbon emission reduction policies on the mid-atlantic regional economy: A dynamic computable general equilibrium analysis' -- 29. 'Income distribution impacts of climate change mitigation policy in the susquehanna river basin economy' -- 30. 'Climate change policy formation in minnesota: The case for a regional approach' -- Index.
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  • 88
    ISBN: 9781035305728
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 299 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Creedy, John, 1949 - Population ageing, pensions and growth
    DDC: 331.252
    Keywords: Age distribution (Demography) Economic aspects ; Older people Government policy ; Economic aspects ; Pensions ; Expenditures, Public ; Social policy ; Economic development
    Abstract: This highly topical book explores key issues in evaluating the long-run implications of population ageing for pensions, taxation, intergenerational equity and social welfare. Societies face long-term phenomena, such as demographic change and climate change that impose costs and benefits far into the future. These present challenges for policymakers in planning intertemporal consumption paths that balance the goals of efficiency and equity. An exploration of these issues, with respect to population ageing in particular, is the primary motivation for this book. John Creedy and Ross Guest evaluate these problems with a particular focus on the role of concepts, assumptions and value judgements. This book will be a fascinating read for researchers interested in the social evaluation of population ageing and climate change. Public policy makers and advisers will find the analysis of practical policy questions such as alternative regimes for taxing public pensions of special interest. Graduate students of macroeconomics and public economics will also find helpful discussions of social discounting, the efficiency and equity effects of tax smoothing, and potential new effects of population ageing on labour productivity
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I: Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- Part II: Discounting and time preference -- 2. Discounting and time preference -- 3. The elasticity of marginal valuation -- 4. Sustainable pReferences -- 5. Representative agent and social planner -- Part III: Pensions and taxation -- 6. Pension tax, savings and labour supply -- 7. Private pensions and savings -- Part IV: Population ageing -- 8. Tax smoothing and population ageing -- 9. Demographic change in oecd countries -- 10. Capital intensity and productivity -- 11. Extensions and sensitivity analyses -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-288) and index
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  • 89
    ISBN: 9781035306183
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 310 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kodama, Mitsuru, 1957 - Innovation networks in knowledge-based firms
    DDC: 658.4/063
    Keywords: Knowledge management ; Strategic planning ; Technological innovations
    Abstract: Innovation Networks in Knowledge-based Firms explores corporate strategic management in an information and communication technology (ICT) environment, and illustrates the significance of new business models based on 'boundary innovation' management through broadband networks as fixed and mobile wireless infrastructures. The author bridges theory and practice and provides international scope; he seeks to make transparent the mechanisms behind the processes that generate product and service innovation in ICT industries, such as search and advertising (Yahoo, Google), music distribution (Apple iPod) and gaming (Sony Playstation, Nintendo DS). He develops new business models based on 'boundary innovation' management and explains the innovation networks formed via three types of knowledge innovator - platform, process, and content. These knowledge innovators play an important role in merging different technologies (including ICT) and business models to develop new business value chains and new industries that span various industrial fields. Highlighting new theoretical and managerial insights and implications in the realm of ICT, this book will be invaluable to academics, students and practitioners with an interest in business, management, ICT and high-tech industries
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Network innovation in the knowledge-based society -- 1. Network innovation for knowledge-based firms -- 2. Network innovation through real and virtual space: Theoretical frameworks -- Part II: Platform innovators -- 3. Ict innovation through co-creation and co-evolution -- 4. Boundaries innovation through ict development -- Part III: Process innovators -- 5. Dynamic collaboration through broadband innovation -- 6. Ict-based integrative competences through the balance of process, practice and ict -- Part VI: Content innovators -- 7. Mobile phone business innovation for business ecosystems through co-creation and co-evolution -- 8. Virtual service through collaboration between innovative customers and platform innovators -- Part V: Network innovation through co-creation and co-evolution -- 9. Process view of the knowledge-based firm -- 10. Conclusion: The network innovation-based firm in the knowledge-based society -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-303) and index
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  • 90
    ISBN: 9781035305407
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 428 pages) , illustrations, maps
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Entrepreneurship and innovations in functional regions
    DDC: 338/.04
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship ; Technological innovations ; Industrial location ; 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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  • 91
    ISBN: 9781035305735
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 184 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: INFER advances in economic research
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Integration and globalization
    Keywords: International economic integration Congresses ; Globalization Congresses Economic aspects ; Europe Congresses Economic integration ; Developing countries Congresses Economic integration
    Abstract: The main challenges the European Single Market is facing in the 21st century result from the enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe, the EMU, and the globalization of trade and investment that has aided the rise of competitive emerging markets. This state-of-the-art book provides fresh theoretical and empirical evidence on the challenges presented by integration and globalization for both developed and developing countries. The authors demonstrate how the European Single Market remains a work in progress with many critical issues still to be addressed. These include the rigidities in product and labor markets, the need for innovation and quality upgrading, and the rapid catch-up of new member countries. They go on to show how firms use the opportunities provided by integration and globalization to fragment their production processes internationally, which brings gains but also requires structural adjustment. The book also argues that global environmental coordination may be less detrimental to the growth prospects of developing countries than is commonly believed. Illustrating a number of methodologies, this book will be a great resource tool for postgraduates and undergraduates in the fields of international economics and business, as well as researchers and policy-makers
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Overview -- 1. Integration and globalization: An overview / Helena Marques, Elias Soukiazis and Pedro Cerqueira -- Part II: European economies and integration -- 2. Challenges for the internal market in the 21st century / Fabienne Ilzkovitz, Adriaan Dierx, Viktoria Kovacs and Nuno Sousa -- 3. Testing nominal rigidities in an integrated economy: An application to Spain / Maria Ángeles Caraballo and Carlos Usabiaga -- 4. Innovation, competitiveness and growth: The case of central and eastern European countries / Eleonora Cavallaro and Marcella Mulino -- 5. Price convergence in the new EU member states: Selected aspects and implications / Václav Zd'árek -- Part III: Developing economies and globalization -- 6. Outsourcing: A story of metamorphosis / Soumodip Sarkar -- 7. International spillovers and learning by doing in a regionalized model of climate change: A post-kyoto analysis / Nicola Cantore -- 8. Assessing exchange rate pass-through in India during recent globalization / Sushanta Mallick and Helena Marques -- 9. A dynamic cge analysis of the eu-jordan fta: Welfare and policy implications / Omar Feraboli -- Index.
    Note: "The contributions in this volume result from the 6th Workshop in International Economics of the International Network for Economic Research (INFER), held at the University of Coimbra in June 2007."--Preface , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781782543992
    Language: English
    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
    Keywords: Business relocation ; Business networks ; Economic geography
    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: 9781781959275
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Management and innovation in the media industry
    Keywords: Mass media Technological innovations ; Management ; Organizational change
    Abstract: This comprehensive book covers relevant issues on how media companies are currently embracing innovation, the levels at which they are doing so, and how innovation can help media companies to meet their development needs in the future. The primary focus of this study is the relationship between management and innovation in the media industry. The book evaluates the importance and the role of innovation within the media industry and helps identify and evaluate the drivers of innovation. The contributors demonstrate and build upon an understanding of the issues and strategies that bind media firms to new processes and technologies and offer clear guidelines on how media companies can accelerate growth through effective internal and external collaboration. Management and Innovation in the Media Industry highlights those issues that influence strategies, organizational structures, media content management and public interest within media firms. This unique study offers both new theoretical and empirical insights on decision making aspects of innovation relevant for those executives and policy makers operating within the media or related industries. It will be of great interest to academics and students in the fields of communication and journalism as well as innovation management
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- Part I: Innovation perspectives -- 1. Innovation and creativity in the media industry: What? Where? How? / Lucy Küng -- 2. Understanding innovation in new and young media firms / Alexander McKelvie and Johan Wiklund -- 3. Applying intellectual property rights theory to the analysis of innovation competition in mass media content markets - a general framework and a theoretical application to media formats / Frank Lobigs and Gabriele Siegert -- Part II: Innovation research -- 4. Towards a methodological foundation of media innovation research / Frank Habann -- 5. Promises and challenges of innovation surveys: The German record industry / Christian Handke -- Part III: Strategy and innovation performance -- 6. Transformations in the media industry: Customization and branding as strategic choices for media firms / Ana Andjelic -- 7. Strategies to exploit the advantages of new targeting technologies: Realizing the advertising revenue potential of media audiences / Steven S. Wildman -- 8. Media organizational culture and innovative performance / Richard van der Wurff and Mark Leenders -- 9. Innovation through external sourcing activities: An overview of major trends and patterns of the telecommunications service provider industry / Hans van Kranenburg, Jaqueline Pennings, Cinzia Dal Zotto and John Hagedoorn -- Part IV: Innovation management -- 10. Diffusion of innovation in news organizations: Action research of middle managers in danish mass media / Anker Brink Lund -- 11. Decision making by newspaper editors: Understanding values and change / George Sylvie and J. Sonia Huang -- 12. Social piloting as testing methodology for media innovations / Andreas E. Tasch and Tobias Fredberg -- 13. Managing innovation in audience measurement: The us case studies of bookscan and the local people meter / Philip M. Napoli and Kurt Andrews -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781035305124
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 490 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Local public finance in Central and Eastern Europe
    DDC: 336.01443
    Keywords: Local finance ; Local finance
    Abstract: This book explores the system of financing local governments in selected countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Using evidence from the last two decades, the authors, experts on their particular countries, describe the development of the current local government finance system in each nation, and the major challenges and policy options they face. The contributions in this book provide comprehensive coverage of a transitional Europe that encompasses both modern local public finance theory and specific applications in the target countries. The book is a recommended read not only for students of local government and local public finance, but also practitioners and all those who have to deal with the accountability and financial issues at local government level in Central and Eastern Europe
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Local government finance in central and eastern Europe: Whither way? / Zeljko Šević -- 2. Albania: Decentralisation and local government finance - key successes and future challenges / Juliana H. Pigey, Artan Hoxha and Sabina Ymeri -- 3. Local government finance in belarus / Yuri Krivorotko -- 4. Local government finance in bosnia and herzegovina / Jean Tesche -- 5. Strengthening local government finance: The case of Bulgaria -- / svetlana alexandrova -- 6. Local government finance in croatia / Anto Bajo and Ivana Jakir-Bajo -- 7. Fiscal decentralisation in the Czech Republic: Problems and prospects / Phillip J. Bryson and Gary C. Cornia -- 8. Local government finance in Estonia / Kenneth A. Kriz -- 9. Decentralisation under fiscal pressure: Local government finances in Hungary / Gábor Péteri -- 10. Local government finance in Latvia / Mudite Priede and Solvita Klapare -- 11. Local government finance in lithuania / Gerda Zigiene, Jadvyga Ciburiene and Mark W. Chandler -- 12. Financing local self-government in the republic of macedonia / Borce Davitkovski and Ana Pavlovska-Daneva -- 13. Local government finance in moldova / Clare T. Romanik, Eugeniu Hristev and Maria Salabuga -- 14. Local government finance in montenegro / Djordjije Blazic -- 15. Local government finance in Poland / Piotr Bury and Pawel Swianiewicz -- 16. Local government finance in Romania / Claudiu Doltu -- 17. Local government finance in serbia / Thomas Meekel -- 18. Local government finance in Slovakia / Juraj Nemec -- 19. Financing local communities in Slovenia / Davor Savin -- 20. Funding local government in ukraine / Sergii Slukhai -- Index.
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  • 95
    ISBN: 9781035305520
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 358 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New dimensions in networks
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Cooperative networks
    DDC: 003
    Keywords: System analysis ; Information networks ; Mathematical optimization
    Abstract: Cooperative networks have gained a tremendous amount of attention over the last several years because of their existence not only in biological, social and economic arenas, but because of direct applications in many more areas such as communications, robotics and military sciences. This volume reflects a cross-fertilization of ideas from a broad set of disciplines and creativity from a diverse array of scientific and engineering research. While the benefits of networks in general have been recognized for quite some time, the idea of cooperative networks has several novel implications. Because distributed processing by heterogeneous nodes promises significant increases in system capability, performance and efficiency, research has intensified with a breadth of promising applications. Topics in this volume include networks of unmanned vehicles in uncertain environments, networks subject to eavesdropping and jamming, optimal node task-allocation, network complexity analysis, cooperative search involving multiple unmanned vehicles, and cooperative communications in ad-hoc networks, optimal control and optimization in man-in-the-loop scenarios. A broad array of readers, including faculty, graduate students and researchers interested in optimization, computer science, engineering, the social and behavioral sciences and related applications in cooperative systems will find this volume of great value
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Token-based approach for scalable team coordination / Yang Xu, Paul Scerri, Michael Lewis and Katia Sycara -- 2. Consensus controllability for coordinated multi-agent systems / Zhipu Jin and Richard M. Murray -- 3. Decentralized cooperative optimization for systems coupled through the constraints / Yoshiaki Kuwata and Jonathan P. How -- 4. Consensus building in cooperative control with information feedback / Wei Ren -- 5. Levy flights in robot swarm control and optimization / Yechiel J. Crispin -- 6. Eavesdropping and jamming communication networks / Clayton W. Commander, Panos M. Pardalos, Valeriy Ryabchenko, Oleg Shylo, Stan Uryasev, Grigoriy Zrazhevsky -- 7. Network algorithms for the dual of the constrained shortest path problem / Bogdan Grechuk, Anton Molyboha, Michael Zabarankin -- 8. Towards an irreducible theory of complex systems / Victor Korotkikh -- 9. Complexity of a system as a key to its optimization / Victor Korotkikh and Galina Korotkikh -- 10. Grasp with path-relinking for the cooperative communication problem on ad hoc networks / Clayton W. Commander, Paola Festa, Carlos A.S. Oliveira, Panos M. Pardalos, Mauricio G.C. Resende and Marco Tsitselis -- 11. Optimal control of an atr module - equipped mav/human operator team / Meir Pachter, Philip R. Chandler and Dharba Swaroop -- 12. An investigation of a dynamic sensor motion strategy / Nathan P. Yerrick, Abhishek Tiwari and David E. Jeffcoat -- 13. Market based adaptive task allocations for autonomous agents / Jared W. Patterson and Kendall E. Nygard -- 14. Cooperative persistent surveillance search algorithms using multiple unmanned aerial vehicles / Daniel J. Pack and George W.P. York -- 15. Social networks for effective teams / Paul Scerri and Katia Sycara -- 16. Optimization approaches for vision-based path planning for autonomous micro-air vehicles in urban environments / Michael Zabarankin, Andrew Kurdila, Oleg A. Prokopyev, Ryan Causey, Anukul Goel and Panos M. Pardalos -- 17. Cooperative stabilization and tracking for linear dynamic systems / Yi Guo -- Index.
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  • 96
    ISBN: 9781782542575
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 378 pages)
    Series Statement: Advances in ecological economics series
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sustainable welfare in the Asia-Pacific
    DDC: 338.95
    Keywords: Economic development ; Economic development ; Sustainable development ; Sustainable development ; Public welfare ; Public welfare
    Abstract: Frequent references are made to the 'Asian economic miracle' as a means of describing the wave of GDP growth experienced across the Asia-Pacific region over the past twenty years. Implicit in this description is the assumption that the Asia-Pacific region has progressed at the same rate that GDP has risen over the same period. But is this truly the case? Employing a Genuine Progress Indicator as an alternative measure of sustainable welfare, the contributors to this book aim to answer this question by presenting case studies of seven Asia-Pacific nations. The results reveal that all is not as positive as conventional indicators might suggest. The book shows that the three wealthy nations - Australia, New Zealand, and Japan - have long reached a level of GDP beyond which further growth is detrimental to their sustainable welfare while the four poorer nations - China, India, Thailand, and Vietnam - are fast approaching a similar situation, but at much lower per capita levels of sustainable welfare. In view of these results, it is argued that genuine progress in the Asia-Pacific region requires the wealthy nations to focus on qualitative improvement (development) rather than GDP growth. As for the poorer nations, it is argued that population stabilisation demands urgent attention while the GDP growth required over the next two to three decades must be as clean, efficient, and equitable as possible. Sustainable Welfare in the Asia-Pacific will appeal to a wide audience of academics and researchers in the areas of ecological, environmental and natural resource economics, development, green national accounting, and environmental management. It will also find a readership in policymakers, environmental managers and NGOs, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface / Herman Daly -- Part I: Introduction to the Asia-Pacific region and the genuine progress indicator -- 1. An Introduction to the Asia-Pacific region / Philip Lawn and Matthew Clarke -- 2. Why is gross domestic product an inadequate indicator of sustainable welfare? / Philip Lawn and Matthew Clarke -- 3. What is the genuine progress indicator and how is it typically calculated? / Philip Lawn and Matthew Clarke -- 4. In defence of the genuine progress indicator / Philip Lawn and Matthew Clarke -- Part II: Measuring the genuine progress of Asia-Pacific nations -- 5. Genuine progress in australia: Time to rethink the growth objective / Philip Lawn -- 6. Calculating the new zealand genuine progress indicator / Vicky Forgie, Garry McDonald, Yanjiao Zhang, Murray Patterson and Derrylea Hardy -- 7. Genuine progress in Japan and the need for an open economy GPI / Matsuyo Makino -- 8. Genuine progress in India: Some further growth needed in the immediate future but population stabilisation needed immediately / Philip Lawn -- 9. From GDP to the GPI: Quantifying thirty-five years of development in China / Zonggou Wen, Yan Yang and Philip Lawn -- 10. Genuine progress in Thailand: A systems-analysis approach / Matthew Clarke and Judith Shaw -- 11. Genuine progress in Vietnam: The impact of the doi moi reforms / Vu Xuan Nguyet Hong, Matthew Clarke and Philip Lawn -- Part III: Genuine progress across the Asia-Pacific region -- 12. Genuine progress across the Asia-Pacific region: Comparisons, trends, and policy implications / Philip Lawn and Matthew Clarke -- Index.
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  • 97
    ISBN: 9781035305438
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 504 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Vermeend, Willem Taxes and the economy
    DDC: 330.9
    Keywords: Taxation ; OECD countries Economic policy
    Abstract: This book discusses the impact of taxation on economic growth, employment, investment, consumption and the environment. The public finance literature commonly distinguishes between three major functions of taxation: the traditional function of raising revenue to finance government expenditure; the distributional function as an instrument to alter the distribution of income and wealth amongst households; and the regulatory function that uses taxation at the benefit of stabilization and other economic policies. Especially after the Second World War, OECD countries have increasingly used taxation to achieve a variety of economic and social objectives. Today many governments use the tax system to stimulate economic growth and employment. Fiscal measures also play a role in creating a favourable climate for business investment and to promote a long-term sustainable environmental policy. Currently, in the debate on global warming, the use of tax instruments to tackle climate change is on the top of the international agenda. The authors aim to provide the reader with the necessary empirical information, while at the same time presenting an overview of the latest theory and best practices. In doing so, many relevant policy issues are touched upon. Based on theoretical and empirical studies and practical experiences in OECD countries, the book establishes guidelines for effective tax policy. The book offers tools for tax design in a globalising economy and the world of the internet with increasing tax competition and a growing battle for companies and brains between countries. The book also presents a 'carrot and stick' model to promote clean technologies, reduce pollution and combat climate change. The message from the authors is straightforward: broad, low, simple, and a shift from income to consumption taxation. These principles are illustrated in a concept proposal for a so-called Second Life Tax system
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Principles of taxation -- 1. Taxation and economic policy -- 2. The design of tax systems -- Part II: Key macroeconomic variables -- 3. Taxes, benefits and labour market performance -- 4. Capital markets, investment and taxation -- 5. Taxes on consumption -- Part III: Knowledge-based society and economic growth -- 6. Tax incentives for research and development -- 7. Taxes and human capital accumulation -- Part IV: Sustainable development -- 8. Tax competition -- 9. Greening tax systems -- Part V: Lessons for tax policy -- 10. Summary of findings and recommendations -- Appendices: A1. Economic growth -- A2. Keynesian economics -- A3. Microeconomic topics in commodity taxation -- A4. The oecd classification of taxes -- A5. Revenue statistics -- A6. Relevant web links -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 452-478) and index
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    ISBN: 9781035304530
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 268 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge, 1948 - Tax reform in Russia
    DDC: 336.2/050947
    Keywords: Taxation
    Abstract: The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 brought enormous political, economic, and social challenges. Since 1991 fiscal reform has been a pillar of Russia's reform agenda. This book analyzes the effort to adopt a modern tax code where previously there were few recognizable taxes, establish an efficient tax administration where taxpayers had never paid taxes directly, and decentralize the system of governance where power had been centralized and dictatorial. Despite the remarkable achievements, many old and new challenges remain. The authors bring an analytical approach to fiscal reform in Russia, providing a detailed analysis of the tax system and estimates of tax compliance and evasion. The book offers a careful examination of the fiscal architecture of Russia and concludes with a presentation of remaining reform needs and options for Russia. Based on Russia's reform experience, the authors also draw lessons for fiscal reform in other developing and transitional countries. Given the dynamic nature of Russia's economic development, this book will prove a timely and informative resource for academics in economics, public finance, political science and public administration as well as for policy makers. Its lessons will also be useful for officials involved with finance in transition and developing countries
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Achievements and failures during the Yeltsin years -- Tax reform under Putin -- Performance of the tax system before and after the reform -- The structure of taxes -- The evolution of tax administration and tax morale -- Tax policy development and intergovernmental fiscal relations -- The next decades of reform.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-262) and index
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    ISBN: 9781035306114
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 442 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Studies of small and medium sized enterprises in East Asia 4
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Small and medium sized enterprises in East Asia
    DDC: 338.6/42095
    Keywords: Small business ; East Asia Economic conditions
    Abstract: This fourth volume in the Studies of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in East Asia series focuses on regional and sectoral dimensions in a number of regional economies and economic sectors. The contributors place special emphasis on the importance of SME networking and clustering initiatives and activities. They argue that these initiatives support and nurture the global competitiveness of local SMEs in various economic sectors across the East Asian region. The book goes on to illustrate the increasing recognition that important local, regional and sectoral dimensions of SMEs, activities require their own specific micro policy measures. This is significant as the vitality of many local regional economies depends upon the activities of these local SMEs. The importance and inherent potential of SMEs as small but significant players in national economies and industries is increasingly recognised by policymakers and scholars around the world. Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in East Asia will therefore strongly appeal to both academics and practitioners involved with business and management, Asian studies, industrial organization and entrepreneurship
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I. General issues -- 1. Introduction and overview - small and medium sized enterprises: Sectoral and regional dimensions / Charles Harvie and Boon-Chye Lee -- 2. The SME Policy Framework in ASEAN and APEC: Benchmarks, Comparison and Analysis / Chris Hall -- PART II. INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES AND LINKAGES -- 3. SME Export Competitiveness in Developing Countriesthrough Foreign Investment and Business Linkages / Philippe Régnier -- 4. The Internationalization of SMEs in European Transformation Economies: Lessons for East Asia? / David J. Pollard -- 5. Trust, Dependency and Reciprocity: Interconnections of Key Dimensions of Guanxi / Susan Freeman and Chandler Lim PART III: REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES -- 6. Export Performance in Small and Medium Enterprises: Sectoral and Regional Dimensions in NSW Australia / Ann Hodgkinson and Paul McPhee -- 7. Exploring the Consequences of Delayed Adoption of Electronic Commerce by Regional SMEs in Australia / Lin Crase, Peter Lamb and Evan Patullock -- 8. Reforming China's Cooperative Economy: Issues and Experiences / Jenny Clegg -- 9. SME Development Strategy in Vietnam / Charles Harvie -- 10. Innovation in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: A Study of Businesses in New South Wales Australia / Jane Olsen, Boon-Chye Lee and Ann Hodgkinson -- 11. SME Development in Malaysia: Domestic and Global Challenges / Ali Salman Saleh and Nelson Oly Ndubisi -- PART IV. INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES -- 12. Support Mechanisms for SME Development in Indonesia: A Firm Level Survey in the Metalworking and Machinery Industry / Mitsuhiro Hayashi -- 13. Trade Reforms and the Survival of the Textiles, Clothing and Footwear Industries in Australia / Kankesu Jayanthakumaran -- 14. SME Market Entry: Barriers, Positioning and Performance in the Asia-Pacific Oil and Gas Industry / Brian Kenny and Paul Tobin -- 15. Strategic Competitiveness, Human Resource Strategy and Organizational Performance Linkage Amongst SMEs in the Malaysian Manufacturing Sector / Za'faran Hassan -- 16. The Role of Government in Fostering Sectoral SME Development: An Analysis of the Tourism Industry in Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore / Michael T. Schaper, Jack Carlsen and Ruth Taylor -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781781956380
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 236 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in international business
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kafouros, Mario I. Industrial innovation and firm performance
    DDC: 338/.064
    Keywords: Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Research, Industrial ; International business enterprises
    Abstract: It has long been recognized that R&D plays a key role in the global battle for technological leadership. However, due to intense competition and rivals' imitations, firms are not always able to reap rewards from their innovations. Mario Kafouros theoretically and empirically examines the impacts of innovation and scientific knowledge on the productivity performance of multinational corporations, and the conditions under which companies benefit from their technological discoveries. The book also investigates the extent to which the research efforts of other companies can contribute to a firm's productivity, and how multinationals build on external inventions, ideas and knowledge. The results confirm that not all firms can benefit from innovation, and indicate that whilst some companies can turn technological advances into a powerful competitive weapon, innovation for others is merely a defense mechanism. To provide a clearer understanding of the relationship between innovation and firm productivity performance, the book also investigates a number of additional issues including the costs of R&D, the association between the Internet and R&D efficiency, and the role of competition, internationalization, firm size and technological opportunities. This book will appeal to academics and researchers in the fields of international business, innovation and R&D, productivity and firm performance, the economics of technological change, and knowledge management. As the author examines the conditions under which firms benefit from innovation, managers, R&D directors, economists and government agents may also use the research findings in order to develop strategies and policies to maximize the impacts of innovation
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- Part I: The value of innovation -- 2. The process and types of r&d and the role of scientific knowledge -- 3. Innovation: A competitive weapon or a defense mechanism? -- 4. Evaluating the economic payoff of industrial research: A review of past findings -- Part II: Conceptual and methodological issues -- 5. The cost of industrial research and development -- 6. Modeling the effects of research and development -- 7. The data: Measuring innovation and other firm inputs and outputs -- Part III: Empirical findings -- 8. The impact of scientific knowledge on the performance of multinational corporations -- 9. The effects of innovation over time -- 10. The role of knowledge spillovers -- 11. The role of the internet in explaining innovation performance -- 12. Conclusion -- References -- Index.
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