Economic Systems & Structures

In Participative Transformation, Roger Klev and Morten Levin insist that participative learning and developmental processes are essential in organi...

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The author examines the productivity, profitability and welfare effects of industrial clustering and a public policy promoting industrial clusters ...

The current dynamics of world economy show remarkable changes in the socio-economics of credit provision and entrepreneurship. If the emergence of ...

First published in 1992, this volume brings together contemporary studies and reviews the research which established the study of networks as an ar...

The author analyses how finance flows can be guided towards low-carbon value generation and growth. He investigates the arrangements between actors...

Actor-systems dynamics is an innovative, multidisciplinary methodology for investigating and analyzing social struggles over economic resources and...

This is Volume II in a series of eleven on India: History, Economy and Society. Originally published in 1926, the object of the book is to describe...

South Korea underwent a dramatic change in the last one and a half decades, from being considered a «tiger in trouble» in the wake of the Asian cri...

Actor-systems dynamics is an innovative, multidisciplinary methodology for investigating and analyzing social struggles over economic resources and...

The book merges the views of regional development and innovation environments with the international migration of highly skilled labour. Globalisat...

Poverty and inequality remain extremely high for Cameroon despite improvements in poverty figures between 1996 and 2001. To understand the dynamics...

Regional disparities and spatial clustering are ubiquitous in today’s world. This study contributes with empirical findings on the distribution of ...

This book contributes to the empirical literature on households’ participation in microfinancial services in developing countries. First, it estima...

Today there is widespread recognition that capitalism is the socioeconomic system of choice. This volume, perhaps the best single-volume assessment...

This book offers historical and comparative analyses of changes in agrarian society forced by the globalization of capitalism, and the implications...

′This is an ambitious, original, and complex treatment of key aspects of contemporary capitalism. It makes a major contribution because it profound...

This book offers historical and comparative analyses of changes in agrarian society forced by the globalization of capitalism, and the implications...

What exactly is capitalism, and why do its advocates support it? What are the main objections to capitalism that have been raised by its critics? A...

Demonstrates that the origins of capitalism & modernity can be found in the Middle Ages

In the mid-1990s, at the height of academic discussion about the inevitability of capitalist globalization, J. K. Gibson-Graham presented a groundb...

During and after the breakdown of the Soviet Union, a wide range of competitors fought to build new political and economic empires by wresting cont...

Challenging standard economic models, this book shows how farmers tend to use cognitive shortcuts in their decision-making and how their profession...

In recent years, American shoppers have become more conscious of their food choices and have increasingly turned to CSAs, farmers’ markets, organic...

Few observers are unimpressed by the economic ambition of China or by the nation's remarkable rate of growth. But what does the future hold? This m...

How do we ensure that waste and inefficiency do not undermine the mission of publicly funded schools? Derek Neal writes that economists must analyz...

While colonial imposition of the Canadian legal order has undermined Indigenous law, creating gaps and sometimes distortions, Indigenous peoples ha...

Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Decent Work and Economic Growth focuses on Sustainable Development Goal number eight (SDG8): inc...

The thirteenth of a well-received and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure, Commercial Facilities Protection and Homeland Security is...

In order to understand the resilience of capitalism as a mode of production, social organization, and an intellectual system, it is necessary to ex...

The Swedish auto industry has developed a distinct production design and work organization, exploring alternatives to the assembly line and to the ...

Almost 15 years ago, in The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman popularized the latest wave of globalization as a world of giant corporate supply chains...